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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.

Colin
4w ago

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