Miyo’s Tsubuyaki

Humans have unlimited wants. Recently, Nature Sustainability posted a research article about if the fundamental economic principal was true or not. Researchers conducted a survey of 8,000 people…

Can robots be sentient? Some of you may remember, about three years ago, I wrote “I and It: Where Are We Heading?” In my article, I talked about my concerns about Artificial Intelligence (AI), explaining how Generative Pre-trained Transformer 2 (GPT-2)…

The past six months have been a constant race with obstacles, challenges, twists and turns, but the race wasn’t stressful or chaotic. It was all fun because I wasn’t running alone. My team ran with me all the way.

In 2019, I declared that I was going to to do a solo show in 2020. I found a venue, signed a contract with the Hollywood Fringe and the theater, and started creating promotional materials. Then, as you might guess already, everything was cancelled in 2020. I was...

One of my pet peeves is those who hit the brake before indicating a turn signal. Clearly, they don’t understand the whole picture.Driving is art. It’s also science...like storytelling. You cannot go too fast or too slow. You need to be attentive to details, but you...

Not everybody has the skill set.Said a senior technician at a dental lab. I was taken back by his statement. It sounded harsh and arrogant, contrary to his benign demeanor. Without consideration for my wince, he smiled and continued,Everybody has a different skill...

Maybe it needs to be closer to the window. Maybe the cardinal direction is not quite right. Does my apartment have the right place for it?After I moved my electric piano to a different location, I played a little bit. Nah, I’m still not feeling it. It needs to find a...

On New Year’s Day, I dusted off the ink-stone and ink stick that I hadn’t touched for years, poured water on the stone, and started grinding the ink stick. After grinding for a while, I dipped the brush in the ink and wrote one stroke on a piece of paper. I thought I...

This story is not working. I thought recycling was a good topic, but I was wrong. It doesn’t excite me at all.When I was about to toss it out, I had second thoughts.Maybe I need to see it from another angle, like my back pain?Six months ago, back pain attacked me...