Not Bad Edition
Well, we had the conference last week. Did you go? Apparently it was pretty good!
It was a long day for me, but when I got home this was waiting so all was good with the world ^-^
If you completely missed the conference you can see the content here, and there are links for the recordings of the sessions.
The Forum
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This week’s books
I read Gwendy’s Button Box, a novella by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar. It was good! Just what I needed standing between carriages on the shinkansen watching my granddaughter sleep in her pushchair.
This week’s links
- The Year Compass is one way to do yearly planning/assessment (free)
- Can someone get Rakuten to read this please: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names
- RetireJapan blog post from the past: How much money do I need to retire in Japan?
- Sean’s latest (I’m also reading 4,000 weeks at the moment): Some Distant Memory – A Trip to Morocco
- Stoicism seems to universal and popular recently that it is refreshing to read the argments against it: Stoicism is Not Enough
- I love the parable of the scorpion and the frog, so really enjoyed reading these variations of it
- Let’s switch to non-polluting vehicles, not just because of global warming, but to save our health and the economy: Air Pollution Reduces Health and Wealth
- This seems like a bad idea: The Pentagon Inches Toward Letting AI Control Weapons
What do you think? Anything good in there?
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Otsukaresama on the retire japan conference, it was fantastic.
Hope to see double the audience next year.
Thanks! I was really pleased with how it went, and I think we’ll definitely be doing this regularly from now on.