Weeknotes: Commando — Week 36, 2026

  • Many meetings and events at work this week, including an interesting leadership training day where I learned how personal values manifest in decision-making. I wish I saw this years ago.
  • I put up the fans I picked up from this & last years’ Azabu festival in my entrance hall and it’s a nice little touch that I absolutely love, as well as a reminder of two very different summers.
  • Pizza dinner plus a walk to Osaki was a real highlight. Probably the best pizza I have had in Japan, and the first that I was super impressed by.
  • Finally attempted a run to work. It’s possible, just about. Running outside is highlighting just how ineffective treadmill running is, because where my recovery is great on a treadmill, it’s much harder outside. I’m also worse at regulating my speed. Tackling my inner sprinter is going to be important if I want to do distance seriously.
  • Kuro Sushi is cute, and absurdly cheap. More dinners like these, please?
  • For a little while now I’ve been building a timer app, and I’m really happy with it. Swift is great fun.
  • With newfound downtime I’ve finally begun tackling a task that has daunted me since arriving in Japan: What to do with the mountain of papers and paperwork. The answer is to scan the important stuff, and to then send it directly to a paper plant via ecobox. You’re welcome.
  • To spare the sands, the seas, the skies.

Collage of week 36, 2026

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