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Tokyo Weeks 3 & 4: Reflections and Recommendations

Why would you want to skip the privilege of being a beginner?

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Ayah Sophia
Mar 27, 2026
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2/9/26—2/22/26

I’m going to talk about writing, because these two weeks are when I actually started doing it in earnest. Looking back on my journal from this period, I kept writing some refrain of “it feels weak – but I just need to publish it.” I was trying to follow the mantra I’d been repeating for the past year: it doesn’t need to be good, it just ne…

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