So this is Twixmas, that strange limbo between Christmas and New Year. Here in Japan, we are on the verge of everything except convenience stores shutting down for about three days and I will be eating nothing but junk food during this time.

But I thought I would take this time to look back at the year so far. 2023 was an odd year for my productivity. This was one of the least productive years for me in terms of output. Not that I wasn’t busy, but it was a lot of setting things up for the...