About a week ago I did a little “language exchange” with a friend of mine at a cafe in Shimokitazawa. Actually it was the same exact cafe where I met my podcast friend for coffee a few weeks before that. I don’t know why I keep returning to this one cafe out of the many dozens that shimokita has. It’s a really tiny cafe too, … Continue reading 出鱈目なwriting
Maybe I should re-listen to the first season of the Start Up podcast if I’m supposedly emulating this meta-narrative idea of Alex Blumberg’s here. Not that I’m trying to put this on a level with that series, and not that Alex Blumberg invented the idea of publicly recording your endeavors to start a new project as a way of furthering the progress of said project. … Continue reading First Stories
This week’s mission is to finally lay down at once the concept of my Japan podcast. My podcast friend’s advice from last week, while sitting across a tiny table in a tiny cafe in Shimokitazawa, was to start here– with a clearly defined mission statement. She told me that even now she often refers back to this document to check it against her ideas and … Continue reading The Podcast Manifesto
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