Ideas worth thinking about.
Nadeesh Subasinghe writes across science, technology, history, politics, Japan, career, and business — always distinguishing fact from analysis from opinion.
Why Moving to Japan Changed the Way I See Life
Arriving in Tokyo without speaking the language, or a plan, taught me more about how I think than a decade in a comfortable routine ever did.
What Starting Over in Japan Taught Me About Reinventing Yourself
Retraining from chemistry into software engineering in a language I barely spoke, and what that process actually requires of you.
AI Will Change Jobs — But Probably Not in the Way You Think
The automation panic is aimed at the wrong layer of the stack. A look at what actually shifts when AI enters a workplace.
Why We Need to Separate Facts From Opinions
Most disagreements aren't about facts at all — they're about which opinions are being mistaken for them.
What History Teaches Us About Repeating Mistakes
Societies rarely repeat history exactly — they repeat the reasoning that got them there. A look at why that pattern is so hard to break.
From a Confused Young Man to a Husband, Father and IT Engineer
On the version of me that landed in Japan with no plan, and what actually changed between then and now.