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The devil is in the details

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I spent a few days in Kyoto and have enough photos to flood the blog. But there were only 3-4 things that truly shocked me and they were not the ancient temples, the kimono, or the alphabet.

First was the rotating seats in the train. Simple and clever. Why do we not have that?

Second was the smart toilet and shower. Waking up at 2am personal time was only possible because of the steamy waterfall in the bathroom that I could unleash with a button.

Third was the cleanliness everywhere. It is not an easy task to not have a single piece of garbage anywhere. Requires a society that can do it.

I hope to come back with more time to explore.

The Three Wise Monkeys

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Hear No Evil, See No Evil, and Speak No Evil (Kikazaru, Mizaru, and Iwazaru)

I particularly like this popular Japanese pictorial maxim because it visually represents some of my beliefs.

  • Hear No Evil would be “Listen to understand, not to interrupt”
  • See No Evil would be “Assume positive intent”
  • Speak No Evil – “Do not criticize, condemn, and complain”

Cinemax

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Cinemax Blagoevgrad is a place where I watched many blockbusters. It lost its computer club a decade or two ago, and now lost its A.

I hope it gets the A back.

Sofia-B

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This beast is one of the few surviving Sofia-B cars. An engineer wanted to build a home-made sports car, followed his dream, and made it, although the car was eventually produced after the communism was over. I’m not sure what kind of enthusiasm is needed to want to build that thing in the latest years of the communism, when we had shortages of anything imaginable.

Spotted in The Mall, Sofia

What will your life be like in three years?

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Daily writing prompt
What will your life be like in three years?
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I believe we can plan the future and forecast the impact of our changes without committing to a prognosis how the future will look like. Any negative prediction would be fortune telling, and any positive prediction would be wishful thinking.

So, given that I don’t want to predict my own future, here’s some educated guesses about the future.

  • Everyone will be pretty pissed by how much AI we added everywhere but the AI bubble would still be inflating. There will be AI washing machines, AI refrigerators, and AI toilets in Japan, and they’ll not work better than the regular ones
  • Most Silent/Boomer political leaders who dominate the current scene will be out or on a painful way out and no longer taken seriously
  • Electric cars will become more mainstream