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When I told her I wasn't founding a startup but that I worked in the media, a pitiful look came across her face. "That's okay," she said in a comforting tone.

Viola Zhou
3d ago

There's a sense that if it's not hard, it's not real—and I think that's a much more sinister force in society than a move towards optimization.

4w ago
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The Digital Omotenashi Edition

The dominant paradigm for digital "personalization," the word the industry settled on, is the opposite of omotenashi in almost every important way. For one thing, it announces itself ("Because you watched..."). It benefits the platform first, and the user second. It mistakes behavioral data for understanding, and it arrives with a kind of transactional visibility that Omotenashi specifically refuses: The ryokan host doesn't tell you she noticed you looked cold.

1mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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