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Hiro Ohta
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Investor. Author. Tokyo explorer. Zen perspectives chronicler. XLIX is the name of my private office. 49 symbolizes where end meets beginning.

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Hiro Ohta @xlix.me · Apr 17
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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Cities are what happen when collective fictions become concrete.
December 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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A golden seam splits dream and stream, turning dusk into a theme.
December 26, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Cities are what happen when collective fictions become concrete.
December 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
A golden seam splits dream and stream, turning dusk into a theme.
December 26, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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When wonking...
When thinking, think. When walking, walk.
December 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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The light of the mountain lodge shows how far we have evolved—and how fragile we remain.
December 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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When thinking, think. When walking, walk.
December 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Benkei Moat in central Tokyo. A section of the former Edo Castle outer moat, with a boathouse, stone bridge, and surrounding office buildings along the water.
December 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Inspiration visits with the drink, leaves before the bill.

Toranomon, Tokyo
December 25, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Like a lotus emerging from muddy waters, our inner beauty blooms amidst life’s challenges.
December 25, 2025 at 8:49 AM
If you have time to spare, meditate for 15 minutes now. If you don’t, meditate for 60 now.
December 25, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Benkei Moat in central Tokyo. A section of the former Edo Castle outer moat, with a boathouse, stone bridge, and surrounding office buildings along the water.
December 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Inspiration visits with the drink, leaves before the bill.

Toranomon, Tokyo
December 25, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Some live within time, others within rhythm.

Capitol Hotel, Tokyo
December 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
We cross the street not to reach a destination, but to drift through the fiction of going.
December 24, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Old religions hollowed out. Capitalism took their place. Work more. Consume more. Desire more. Happiness waits at the end. People believed the promise. They obeyed it. Human history has never seen a faith with believers this loyal.
December 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Some live within time, others within rhythm.

Capitol Hotel, Tokyo
December 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
My new book is out today. It’s in Japanese for now. But an English edition may come later.
テック資本主義超入門
2025年12月発売
KADOKAWA刊
大田比路著

Hiro Ohta, Tech Capitalism Essentials: A Chronicle from Web to X, and Beyond (in Japanese)

www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4046077808
December 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
You are the sea, not in it but be sea, endlessly thee.
December 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Be grateful for the box itself. Do not seek meaning in its contents.
December 23, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝘪𝘴 𝔀𝓱𝔂 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝕊𝕜𝕪𝕨𝕒𝕝𝕜𝕖𝕣
The more capitalism advances, the more human thinking converges toward one direction.
December 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
You’re not walking through the world. You’re becoming it.
December 22, 2025 at 8:38 AM
From gene to cuisine, unseen design between.
December 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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@xlix.me - thought you might like this one:

words are like icebergs
so much of what they mean lies
beneath the surface

#haiku #senryu
#zenmeme
December 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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"The lovers"
You open the door to find yourself already inside.
December 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM