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Oct 21, 2026
Conversations with a Former MLB Trainer, Mizuguchi-san, and What I Learned
Oct 13, 2026
Body Control for a Good Swing
Oct 9, 2026
Is 10X Still a Startup?
Oct 1, 2026
I Turned My Blog Into a Bookcase
Sep 18, 2026
Body Control Through Extension and Rotation
Aug 20, 2026
Don't Build a Business on Supply-Side Logic
Jul 29, 2026
Why Couldn't the Sherpas Stop the Summit Push?
Jul 13, 2026
In Praise of Yasu Mikoto
Jul 2, 2026
How Operating Companies Turn Into Investment Funds
Jun 29, 2026
What Happens to Supermarkets When the Food Tax Is Cut
Jun 27, 2026
The Middle Is Tough
Jun 22, 2026
I Really Can't Stand the Em Dash and "Honestly"
Jun 16, 2026
Going All-In on the Growth Chart for My Kids
Jun 9, 2026
Turning Claude Code into Your Ultimate Data Analyst
Jun 5, 2026
Getting Serious About Sleep
Jun 3, 2026
The Hidden Tax of Being a Platform
May 30, 2026
500 kcal/day
May 29, 2026
What Actually Goes Wrong If the US Leaves NATO
May 26, 2026
Between Community Ties and Isolation
May 22, 2026
Writing That Sounds Like You
May 18, 2026
A Typical Weekend These Days
May 15, 2026
Wearing Clothes That Carry Culture
May 11, 2026
Solo Podcasting Doesn't Last
May 4, 2026
AI and Dividualism
Apr 23, 2026
What's Really Happening in Global SaaS for Supermarkets
Apr 14, 2026
"Aesthetics" and "The Way"
Apr 10, 2026
Codatum — A BI Tool That Reduces the Friction of Data Analysis
Apr 1, 2026
Instacart Two and a Half Years After IPO: A Verification
Mar 27, 2026
AI and War
Mar 19, 2026
Use AI to Write Better, Not Less
Mar 13, 2026
Coaching Philosophy
Mar 10, 2026
The Role of Specs in the Claude Code Era
Mar 2, 2026
AI Agents Are Competing on "Where" They Live
Feb 17, 2026
The Future Where E-Commerce Gets AI-Aggregated
Feb 12, 2026
Developing Children's Physical Capacity
Feb 6, 2026
It's Okay to Feel Anxious
Feb 3, 2026
Vanguard and Rearguard
Jan 28, 2026
Building a Newsletter Feature with Cursor Subagents
Jan 6, 2026
Compound Management — The B-Side
Dec 21, 2025
Best Purchases of 2025
Dec 10, 2025
The Paradigm Shift of Nations That Built a Thick Middle Class
Sep 12, 2025
I Implemented RSS Feeds
Sep 1, 2025
I Rebuilt the Site with Vibe Coding
May 12, 2025
AI Doesn't Increase Your Input
Apr 5, 2025
I Built a Tool to Convert Notion DBs to Google Docs
Feb 20, 2025
My AI Use Cases
Feb 16, 2025
If I Had to Pick One Issue for This Country
Jan 5, 2025
Best Purchases of 2024
Dec 29, 2023
Best Purchases of 2023
Dec 28, 2023
Technical Debt
Dec 25, 2023
The Journey Toward Becoming a Platform
Sep 18, 2023
My Grandmother and Me
Sep 1, 2023
Reading Instacart's S-1
Jun 26, 2023
May 5, 2023
Apr 19, 2023
Sending Data to Slack in 2023
Jan 4, 2023
2023 Is the Year of PMF
Dec 31, 2022
Taking Autonomy Seriously
Dec 29, 2022
Best Purchases of 2022
Dec 3, 2022
Thoughts on Compound Startups From a Founder's Perspective
Nov 6, 2022
The Enterprise Platform
Oct 30, 2022
What Is Integrity?
Oct 3, 2022
12 Months of a CEO Wrestling with People and Organization
Aug 11, 2022
Whole Product and Platform
Jul 30, 2022
How 10X Operates Its Product Roadmap
Jul 3, 2022
What Features Should Stailer Build?
Jun 5, 2022
What Kind of "Platform" Will Stailer Become?
Feb 14, 2022
We Updated the 10X Values
Jan 17, 2022
yamotty Moves to Osaka
Dec 29, 2021
10X and Me — 2021
Dec 24, 2021
10 Things Worth Paying For in 2021
Dec 16, 2021
Three Chips to Enrich Your Life
Oct 26, 2021
Parenting and Starting a Startup
Oct 5, 2021
The Art of Staying for the Long Haul
Aug 31, 2021
We Temporarily Relocated Our Family to the Countryside
Aug 24, 2021
A Model for Delegation — How to Delegate
Jul 27, 2021
The COO Person Is Here
Jul 20, 2021
[Translation] Why We Prefer Founding CEOs
Jul 15, 2021
[Translation] Why Founders Fail: The Product CEO Paradox
Jul 8, 2021
How I Met Autify CEO Chikasawa-san
Jun 29, 2021
Why e-Grocery Matters
Jun 24, 2021
Failures After Starting Up — What I Learned
Jun 20, 2021
Grab's Investor Presentation
Jun 17, 2021
What Does It Mean to "Handle Complexity Without Simplifying It"?
Jun 13, 2021
My Current Thinking on Moats
Apr 25, 2021
CEO/Org 360° Review #2 (March 2021)
Mar 28, 2021
Individuals and Companies — Building a Truly Long-Term Relationship
Feb 13, 2021
How I Think About Daily Performance
Jan 29, 2021
Looking Into Paul Davison — Clubhouse's Founder
Jan 25, 2021
My First Impressions of Clubhouse
Jan 2, 2021
Aiming Only at Discontinuity
Dec 26, 2020
Building a Document System with Notion
Dec 24, 2020
10 Things Worth Buying in 2020
Nov 12, 2020
How We Handle Customization Requests
Sep 13, 2020
I Got a CEO 360° Review #1 (September 2020)
Aug 28, 2020
10X's Next Stage
Jun 15, 2020
From Tabery to Stailer
May 4, 2020
Finding and Betting on the Assumptions That Are About to Change
Apr 21, 2020
Consumer Co-ops in Japan and the State of Their EC Transition
Mar 24, 2020
Partnering with Enterprises for Innovation (Translation)
Mar 2, 2020
The Inequality We Create: A Book Review
Jan 29, 2020
Co-Founders
Dec 19, 2019
Why OMO Happened
Dec 12, 2019
Unpacking the History of Online Retail
Dec 7, 2019
Alignment of Strategy and Implementation
Nov 12, 2019
The Technology That Drove Offline Retail
Jul 19, 2019
The Founder Who Doesn't Give Up
Jul 7, 2019
What Does True Openness Mean?
May 14, 2019
Building a 10X Product
Feb 28, 2019
Risk Segmentation and a Culture of Testing
Jan 26, 2019
On Loving
Jan 9, 2019
The Real Product-Market Fit (Translation)
Dec 13, 2018
Censoring is Day One
Nov 21, 2018
Designing Evaluation for Maximum Throughput
Sep 12, 2018
Constraints and Vows
Sep 3, 2018
Live in the Future, Build What's Missing
Aug 7, 2018
Three Books That Represent 10X's Values
Jul 6, 2018
The Roots of Product Management
Jun 24, 2018
The Space Values Need
Jun 9, 2018
Leadership With Obsession
Jun 7, 2018
Using Dropbox Paper
May 29, 2018
Short-Time Startup
May 21, 2018
What Is "Zero-Thought"?
May 5, 2018
The Story Behind Building "Sukusho Keshi"
Mar 24, 2018
Tools for Building Relationships with Customers
Mar 15, 2018
Times Car Share's Competitive Advantage
Jan 30, 2018
Tabery "Group Sharing" Feature Spec
Dec 30, 2017
Day One
Nov 25, 2017
Thinking About Competitive Moats
Nov 23, 2017
How to Get Startup Ideas (Translation)
Aug 18, 2017
Sketching an Organization Design
Apr 17, 2017
Summary of "A Guide to MARKETPLACES"
Jan 20, 2017
What a Good Team Is Not
Dec 28, 2016
The Plateau Problem in Management
Dec 13, 2016
Enjoy the Journey — Wholeheartedly
Nov 26, 2016
How My Career in Product Management Began
Nov 16, 2016
My Own Agile Development Flow
Nov 11, 2016
Building a Serverless Dashboard with Slack and Google Apps Script
Oct 20, 2016
Why I Write
Sep 20, 2016
The Five Types of Virality (Translation)
Sep 14, 2016
What Working With Elon Musk Taught Me About Success
Oct 28, 2012
Six Months at a General Trading Company
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