Less than a used car. Sometimes less than a very used car. I bought my house in Otaru for under $30,000. That number is real, not a hook. It’s a three-bedroom wood-frame house on its own lot in a residential neighborhood thirty-five minutes by train from Sapporo, the fifth-largest city in Japan. The median home …
Yes. That’s the short answer, and unlike most countries in Asia, it really is that simple. Japan is one of the most open real estate markets in the world for foreign buyers. No citizenship requirement. No residency requirement. No reciprocity clause. No foreign ownership caps. No special permits. An American, a Nigerian, a Brazilian, a …
The Price of Paradise: One Family’s Nine-Year Fight to Stay Afloat in Honolulu
There’s a conversation happening in creative communities right now that I find exhausting. It goes like this: AI is going to replace writers. AI is cheating. AI output is soulless. Real artists don’t use AI. If you use AI you’re not really creating.
I spent years telling anyone who would listen that Amazon was the problem. Not a problem — the problem. The monopolist eating indie publishing alive, the algorithm overlord that made serfs of writers, the company that could delist your life’s work on a Tuesday afternoon with no explanation and no appeal. I believed all of that. I still believe most of it.
This year my focus is on creating, family, and health. Actually in the order of health, family, and creation. And on making Xcrol work.