Wednesday, September 9, 2026

"I Think Appearance Is 100% of It. Here's Why..." "The Meaning of the Next World's Existence"

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Today

I'm getting my past life read〜

 

Amalia-san, from Dubai.

Looking forward to it!

 

Past lives and all that —

do you believe in them?

 

Me,

I'm in the camp that believes.

 

When you die there's a next world,

and there's a life being lived in that world,

and though the concepts are different from over here,

 

you become one part of that whole

and come over to this side.

 

The droplets of learning you gathered on Earth,

you return them to the lake on the other side.

 

That's the feeling I have.

 

The things that made you happy.
The things that didn't work out.
Falling for someone.
The things you simply couldn't forgive.

 

Everything experienced here
becomes a single drop,
and dissolves into a great lake.

 

When I think of it that way,
even the events that never gave me an answer
start to look a little different.

 

Ah — I'm still only partway through the learning.

 

How it really is, I don't know.

But I,
for my part, imagine it this way.

 

If I hear the story of my past life,
will something about who I am now
come into view as well, I wonder.

 

What kind of droplet do I want to carry back?
 

I'll write about today's experience on the blog again!

 

 

Yesterday was a 13-hour location scout.

Partway through we had the PLAYFULLY shoot in Shibuya, and

 

what a long haul it was〜〜〜

 

PLAYFULLY is

 

 

Masao-chan,

thank you so much!

 

The secrets of sales —

we learned them!

 

↓↓↓

 

I'll write up the secrets of sales in tomorrow's blog!

 

 

Talking about the changes coming to our times...

 

 

Discovering new stars...

 

 

Partway through I got hungry,

so I grabbed a gap and hit Matsuya (lol)

 

 

Great work, everyone!

 

 

In Hamamatsu too,

thank you so much!

 

 

Yamamoto-san from Hiroshima University

is doing great things〜〜〜

 

 

Come on over here〜〜〜

 

https://utage-system.com/p/tCjlOYNnUD3Q

 

I think appearance is 100% of it.

 

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Appearance is 100% of it

 

“Appearance is 100% of it.”

A bit of an overstatement?!

 

But
when you're thinking about how you come across,
it feels fine to hold it that strongly.

 

And “appearance”
isn't only about your features.

 

With what expression,
in what posture,
are you listening to the person in front of you?

 

“I'm so glad to see you.”

Even if that's what you feel,
if you reply while looking at your phone,
how is it going to land?

 

“I really value this work.”

You say that,
but what if the documents you hand over are a mess?

What's inside your heart
won't necessarily reach the other person just as it is.

 

And that
is a bit of a shame, isn't it.

 

For me,
tidying up your appearance

is “making sure what you feel gets through”

— that's what I think it is.

 

Before buying expensive clothes,
smooth out the wrinkles in what you're already wearing.

 

Before saying something clever,
turn your body toward the person you're with.

 

Ahh〜〜〜

writing this, it's nothing but self-reflection...

 

If you're glad to see them,
try letting that feeling show on your face.

 

Leaning on “they'll surely understand” —
that's something
we may do more often than we realize.

 

Of course,
you can't know the whole of a person from looks alone.

 

There are brusque people who are kind,
and smiling people who don't keep their promises.

 

So
I want to take my time getting to know people.

 

And on top of that,
how do I look to others?
Worth taking another look, just once.

 

Today, before you meet someone,
try asking the you in the mirror:

 

“That I'm looking forward to seeing you —
does this face get that across?”

 

Nana-san's “power to change your impression” is

off the charts!

 

Won't you come to the party?!

 

 

The locations, the casting, the costume-fitting scenes — all of it is under confidentiality, so I can't write a single thing about it here.

 

But

it's coming along nicely〜〜〜

 

 

Say out loud the thing you want to happen.

 

However big it is,

and, surprisingly, however small it is too,

the difficulty is actually the same?!

 

↓↓↓

 

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSqkqbGKs/

 

 

The famous princess of investing

There's so much to learn

from her articles, isn't there.

 

↓↓↓

 

 

 

“Keep working, build a system for growing your money, and become able to choose how you live.”

 

① What you want is less “quitting your job” than “being able to choose”

It isn't that the author disliked her company.
What she wanted was the freedom of “work if you want to work; quit when you want to quit.”

In other words, the purpose of growing your money is to increase the options in your own life.

 

② To become able to choose, you need room in your finances

If you can't live once the salary stops, then even when you want to quit, you can't easily do it.

The author writes that because she had investment income on top of her salary, she could think “I can quit if I hate it,” and she felt the stress of work less keenly.

 

③ So there's no need to quit your company right away

Being an employee has its strength: a more or less fixed salary arriving every month.

When your income is predictable, it's easier to separate living expenses from money for the future. The author kept this stable income while continuing to invest.

 

④ Change what you do with the money you earn

If you spend all of your salary, nothing is left for the future.

So the author set things up so that when her salary or bonus came in, it was automatically sent to a securities account — an account for buying investment products such as stocks.

That is, rather than “invest whatever's left over,” she built a system that invests first.

 

⑤ Combine the income you earn by working with returns from investment

At your job, you work and receive a salary.
With investment, you put money into companies and aim to receive a share of their growth and profit.

That's what the author means by “having your money work too.” That said, investments can produce a profit, and they can also produce a loss.

 

⑥ Observe the people who are doing well, and learn their thinking and their actions

The author didn't dismiss the high earners she met at work as “people from a different world” — she observed the differences.

The argument is: before deciding “I could never do that,” look for the behavior you can take as a reference. That said, it isn't proven that copying someone produces the same result.

 

“There's a correct order to investing”

 

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The concrete steps

There's an invitation to a workshop that explains them

 

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The Magic 8-Figure Investment Method, Starting From 100,000 Yen

[Asuka Izumi's Whimsical Letter]

http://asuka88.xsrv.jp/merumaga/touroku01.html

 

 

Shisha

Source: Al Fakher CROWN BAR | Official Japan Store

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Nicotine-free

shisha —

nice〜〜〜

 

 

The latest work produced by Shimada

A period drama

 

“Honoo Kagayohe”

 

Following its April 3 release, by popular demand

screenings are still continuing

 

Takumi's directorial debut film

“Yaruki no Switch (The Motivation Switch)”

is currently shooting, but

there will be a talk show as well, so

if you have the time,

please do come!

 

September 21 (Mon., national holiday)

From 15:30

@ Akihabara UDX

Talk show after the screening

 

Guests

Tobi Araki (lead)

Apollo (live performance of the theme song)

Keima Horie (original author)

Go Shimada (producer)

 

We'll be waiting for you at the theater!

 

As for tickets,

there are no same-day tickets;

please purchase in advance via Dreampass (the film re-screening site)

There are no tickets at the door!

 

https://www.dreampass.jp/e6403

 

Cast

Tobi Araki

Gennosuke

Hina Higuchi

Yutaro

Metal Yoshida

Koya Matsuo

Taishi Sugie

Sho

 

Konatsu Kato

So Yoshihisa

Diamond☆Yukai

 

Yoshitaka Hara

Shota Totsuka

 

Masaki Kyomoto (special appearance)

Baijaku Nakamura

 

Narration

Shota Aoi

 

Original story: Keima Horie

Screenplay: Atsuhiro Tomioka

Screenplay collaboration: Mika Sawada

Director: Keita Matsuda

 

Theme song: Apollo

Character design: Yoshitaka Amano

Title calligraphy: Kofu Sakamoto

 

IS Field

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"Doing It at 0.75x Speed Is Actually the Fastest?!" The Art of "Slowing Down," Worked Into Everyday Life

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Takurabu?!

Huh?!

Aimyon!!!

 

 

I'm just too happy!!!

 

 

I love “Hadaka no Kokoro”!

 

 

〜〜〜

 

 

It was the Chrysanthemum Festival, wasn't it.

 

Today, Ayaka Mononobe Official Site's live show was

at EX Theater in Roppongi Hills!

 

 

It was truly wonderful!

 

 

 

 

The energy in that room was unreal!

 

 

With Mononobe-san's husband, and with Oishi-san!

School of Thought — Yuki Miyamasu [Subconscious · Law of Attraction] Yoko Oishi

 

 

 

Yuri-chan's family!

 

 

 

Ran into An-chan by chance!

 

 

The 5th-term Yarutchi Coaches' gathering

Chairman, looking forward to working with you!

 

 

Doing It at 0.75x Speed Is Actually the Fastest?!

A surprising approach that overturns the conventional wisdom about efficiency

 

When you want to get work or studying over with quickly, do you find yourself racing through at double speed, or multitasking to keep things moving briskly?

 

That approach looks efficient at first glance, but there are cases where it's actually the long way around. This time, let's unpack the paradoxical reason why deliberately working at “0.75x speed” produces the fastest results, along with a concrete way to approach it.

 

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And that includes the actual work!

Move slowly and you'll finish sooner!

 

Let's take typing as an example.

Aren't you retyping the same thing over and over?

Type slowly and you make no mistakes,

and it actually takes less time! (lol)

 

Slowing down makes the “do-overs” disappear 

 

When you work at high speed, small mistakes and oversights inevitably creep in. You end up chasing corrections afterward, or starting over from the beginning, and your total time balloons. By being careful from the very start — deliberately working at a calm pace (that 0.75x feeling) — you prevent errors before they happen, and end up taking the shortest route, with no backtracking.

 

Deeper understanding and better quality 

Whether you're taking information in or carrying a task out, slowing down lets your brain keep up, shifting you from surface-level understanding to “deep understanding.”

  • High-quality output: Because you create time to think things through, it leads to flashes of insight and more precise results.

  • Memory and skills that stick: Compared with rushing through, the knowledge and the movements settle firmly into your body.

The art of “slowing down,” worked into everyday life 

You don't need to do everything slowly. What matters is deliberately taking plenty of time over “the opening stretch” and “the high-difficulty tasks”. By moving through the groundwork and the early design stage with 0.75x care, the speed of the second half accelerates dramatically.

 

The essence of efficiency isn't “moving fast” — it's “eliminating waste.” Why not bring in this reversal of thinking, deliberately slowing down, and take a fresh look at your daily productivity?

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gapefKsISvI

 

The Last Hope

Japan's turning point is “now”

 

 

1. The rapid evolution of AI and the transformation of society

  • Scale of use: ChatGPT and Google's Gemini each have monthly users of over one billion, and taking the major AIs together, roughly one in four people on the planet now converses with them daily — that's the era we've entered.

     

  • Impact on the labor market:

    • In a UK survey of 10,000 people, roughly 30% of illustrators and roughly 60% of photographers said they had lost work because of AI.

    • In the engineering world too, at Google AI now generates 75% of new programs, and at Microsoft roughly 30% of the code is AI-made.

       

  • Robots advancing into physical space: In 2026, mass-production lines for humanoid robots went live in China and elsewhere, and work without breaks has begun in auto plants, warehouses, and the like. AI interviewers are being introduced for first-round new-graduate interviews at major companies — the whole framework of society is being rewritten at high speed.

     

    Japan's unique potential, and “the last hope”

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  • A stock of history that cannot be replicated: Japan is home to Kongo Gumi, the temple-carpentry firm founded in 578, and to more than half of all the companies in the world that have been in business for over 200 years.

     

  • Retranslating the story and the future: Myths compiled in the 8th century, festivals in every region, traditional crafts (the revival of Imabari towels, for example) — Japan holds a whole parade of things that cannot be replicated. By retranslating the history we've accumulated into a story that fits the present age, it becomes one-of-a-kind value that can reach the world.

     

  • In closing: Precisely because the outer environment and its systems are being rapidly filled in by AI, we're taught that the turning point of the coming era lies in looking not far away but right at our feet — at the local shrine, at the old folktales handed down in our own communities, and other things close at hand.

     

    The “real value” that remains at the far end of the AI era

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  • Efficiency, and the devaluing of production: A future is arriving in which writing, pictures, blueprints, ideas, and even physical labor can be had endlessly and almost for free.

     

  • The migration of value (inward, and toward experience): In a world where everything is automated, value is shifting toward experiences that can't be replicated and toward consciousness turned inward, and the wellness market has grown to the 7-trillion-yen scale, while the meditation market is growing rapidly at an annual rate of over 20%.

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    Uncovering the true nature of “value” in human history

     

  • The power to believe in fiction: The most powerful invention humanity acquired 70,000 years ago is, as the historian Harari points out, “the power to believe in things that don't actually exist (a shared story).”

  • The essence of money: The manufacturing cost of a 10,000-yen note, for instance, is said to be about 20 yen, and yet the whole thing holds together precisely because we believe it to be worth 10,000 yen of labor and value. Nations, laws, and companies are the same — all held up by a grand fiction (a shared illusion) produced by human consciousness.

 

 

 

There's a seminar like this!

 

 

 

A meeting about the film!

Aoyagi-san,

thank you so much!

 

 

This one is a meeting with the wardrobe department!

 

 

Totti,

thank you so much!

 

The open chat

once it reaches 300 people

I'll drop in〜〜〜

 

 

 

 

The Celebrity Aura class!

Looking forward to it!

 

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Monday, September 7, 2026

OpenAI's New Model Has Surpassed Humans!? This Is the Birth of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)...!

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Yokohama Arena was a time when everyone connected all at once, like Wi-Fi, and downloaded something extraordinary.

 

 

 

Ten thousand people in a frenzy.

 

 

 

 

So many friends gathered from all over the country!

 

 

With no reasons, no maneuvering, no reservations, everyone became one, hands wide open!

 

 

Congratulations on the award~~

 

 

 

 

Fion, what a guy!

 

 

It was a time when the mechanism for becoming free landed not as words, but deep in the gut.

 

 

 

Afterward, at Kaoru Nakajima's place.

 

 

One delicious dish after another...

 

 

The conversation, the drinks, the energy — all of it was incredible!

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you so much!

 

 

Tomorrow is the costume fitting and the cast meeting!

 

The movie is moving forward, closer and closer to the start of shooting~~~

 

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Open Chat “The Society Supporting Director Takumi Yamazaki”

 

 

GPT‑6 Astra was unbelievable! Overwhelming at PC operation and programming tasks

 

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First, watch this!

 

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IVSpKxbPPYQ

 

And then...

 

 

1. Introduction: Where AI Stands “Now,” and Its Use in Politics

  • Background: AI holds power great enough to change not only education and the economy, but a nation's security and diplomacy as well [00:46]。

  • Practical Use (AI as a Private Tutor): What matters is not simply having it read textbooks, but having AI and simulators actually used and experienced in the political arena — in briefings for the Prime Minister, for example [01:10]。

2. Differences in AI Development Between the U.S. and China

Here is what Anno-san saw for himself on the ground in each country, the U.S. and China.

  • The U.S. (Software — the Brain Side):

    • They have entered the final sprint toward realizing “AGI (Artificial General Intelligence),” an intelligence that surpasses human beings [02:45]。

    • The pace of development is extremely fast, and there's an end-game atmosphere in the air [02:55]。

  • China (Hardware — the Body Side):

    • In AI's brain itself (LLMs), they are chasing the U.S. at a furious pace [03:06]。

    • On the other hand, in the technology of actually putting “physical AI” (humanoid robots) — AI with bodies — to work in society, China leads the world [03:21]。

3. The Future Economy and Social Structure AI Will Bring

As AI evolves further, how will our lives and our economy change?

  • A New Economic Sphere Called “AI to AI”:

    • Until now, the basis of the economy has been “humans buying and consuming things” [04:45]。

    • Going forward, however, a new kind of economic exchange that never passes through humans — “AI selling services to, and buying them from, other AI (AI to AI)” — may grow very large [02:00]。

  • Growth and Abundance for the Whole World:

    • A world may be coming in which AI's power produces goods and services in vast quantities and prices fall [05:37]。

    • Even if human purchasing power declines, the economy between AIs will grow so much that society as a whole is expected to keep developing [52:17]。

Video → [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJH1-7ymNC4]。

 

Programming and 3D design, which used to demand “difficult study only specialists could do,”have entered an era where anyone can do them easily, just by telling the AI in words what they want to make

 

① What Is “GPT-6 Astra”?

  • How It Differs From Previous AI: The AI's performance has been powered up further, and it is now newly available in ChatGPT and compatible apps (such as Cursor) [01:16]。

  • What's Amazing About It: Even without difficult specialized knowledge, it will carry out complex computer work for you from instructions given in plain words [00:35]。

② Integration With the Specialized Software “Blender”

  • Background: “Blender” is specialized software for creating 3D (three-dimensional) models [00:22]. Normally, mastering it takes years of study and a high level of skill.

  • What Changed: But by combining it with this new capability (GPT-6 Astra),simply asking, in natural language, “Make me a near-future motorcycle”is now enough for the AI to automatically build a realistic 3D model [00:30]。

③ Taking It Further: Turning What You Made Into a Game

  • What Else It Can Do: Not just building a 3D model — you can then tell the AI, “Make a game where I can drive the motorcycle you just made” [03:36]。

  • The Result: The AI writes the program automatically, and a game where you can actually drive the motorcycle you made is finished [03:48]. It even reproduces the physics of what happens when the motorcycles collide [04:11]。

④ Other Examples of Use

  • Beyond 3D modeling and games, you can easily create things like a “manga-making app and viewer” just by giving instructions [33:22]。

In Summary (What Makes This So Amazing?)

Programming and 3D design, which until now demanded “difficult study only specialists could do,”have entered an era where anyone can do them easily, just by telling the AI in words what they want to make — that is what this video explains, demonstrations included [00:54]。

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLyMK4MwmWA

 

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AI has come to handle external tools and OS operations as deftly as a human, and cleared unknown, rule-free problems with high accuracy — which means thata de facto AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) has finally become reality. That's what this is.

 

Sam Altman and the others at OpenAI claim that with this achievement, humanity has attained AGI

 

 

The video “OpenAI's New Model Has Surpassed Humans!? This Is the Birth of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)...”

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC1jN2gWFyU) — here is a theoretical, step-by-step summary of its contents.

  • OpenAI's New Model Release and Its High Scores

    • OpenAI's new model “GPT-6 ASTRA” has been released, and it recorded a very high score on a test that has it solve games it has never seen (the ARC-AGI 3 test) [00:02]。

    • The results differ by mode: 62.7% in standard mode, and an accuracy of 99.9% in provider-adapter mode [00:26]。

  • How the Test Modes Work, and How They Differ

    • Standard Mode: A mode in which the problems are solved by the AI model alone, using no external tools or notes whatsoever [00:43]. It's equivalent to a flesh-and-blood human solving hard problems purely from memory, inside their own head [01:18], and the score was 62.7% [00:38]。

    • Provider-Adapter Mode: A mode in which results are reached using external tools (calculation via Python programs and the like) and notes alongside — just as a human would when solving a difficult math problem [00:54]. In this mode it achieved a score of 99.9% [00:32]。

  • Views on Whether AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) Has Been Achieved

    • Sam Altman and the others at OpenAI claim that with this achievement, humanity has attained AGI [01:38]。

    • Since humans themselves don't memorize every step of a calculation in their heads either, the analysis goes, a model that can produce results by making appropriate use of external tools can be said to have effectively achieved AGI [01:54]。

  • The Leap Beyond Conventional Generative AI, and Why It Matters

    • This test is extraordinarily difficult: with no rulebook and no advance explanation, the model has to work out the definition of the rules and the solution through trial and error [02:17]。

    • Generative AI has been criticized as nothing more than “a fill-in-the-blank drill that statistically predicts the next word,” but this model can now understand and judge for itself problems it knows nothing about, a computer's UI/UX, and even operations at the OS level [02:41]。

    • Security limits aside, you could say a powerful agent has been born — one that can handle anything autonomously on an OS, just as a human would [03:25]。

 
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  1. Doubts About AI's Evolution, and the Conventional View [00:00]

    • Among general users, AI up to now has only been put to work on things like drafting emails or looking up particular information, and a doubt lingers: “even if a new model comes out, won't it be much the same?”

  2. How Fundamentally Different the New Model Is [00:05]

    • In response: the new model is “something else entirely” from what came before, and has reached a level where its value is dramatically different even for ordinary people with no specialized knowledge.

  3. The Biggest Change for Ordinary People, and Its Use Cases [00:19]

    • Even an ordinary, non-engineer, humanities-background user can, if they have an idea for something they want to make, use this model to achievethe creation of complex, highly polished software.

  4. A Transformation of the Old Process [00:45]

    • Until now, when making a game, doing DIY electronics work, or running a scientific research simulation, users had to sit glued to a desk building prototypes, compiling documentation, writing code, and checking that it ran — work demanding an enormous amount of effort [00:49]. With the arrival of the new model, there is hope of breaking free from that inefficient old workflow [00:56]。

Video URL:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdsuPjuLW1c

 
 
 
Sammy's 60th birthday party
 
 
Congratulations!
Add the two of us together and it came to 121 years old
 
Sammy!
 
 
 

 

 
 

Link to Takumi Yamazaki’s ENGLISH Book “SHIFT”
https://amzn.to/2DYcFkG

Source: originally published in Japanese at https://ameblo.jp/takumi-yamazaki/entry-12977981287.html