JoeJustice 💪🦾

ABB is a large international hardware company. ABB makes electric power systems, including a lot of the large electrical hardware at many Tesla Supercharger installations around the world. ABB restructured parts of their company, some of the product engineering parts and some of HR and other areas, to give the engineers more authority. The leader said they wanted real agile, where engineers don't wait to be told what products to build, but proactively try products in the market to find what helps customers and grows the company. That was 3 years ago. They wanted to re-energize the staff. They requested me to give a shocking, exciting, inspiring keynote about engineers as product leaders to reduce waiting and increase innovation. They joined from offices in Italy and Switzerland and I joined remote from Japan. I am so so grateful the ABB sponsors then let me share the recording publicly.

@jeffreyweichsel @xai @grok I do. Let’s do this.

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Thank you for featuring Japanese EV racing.🫶🏻

Thanks, we have a lot of fun with it. @JEVRA_jp @JEVRA_X @niccruzpatane

@DresssirTokyo A lovely story, a lovely philosophy, a lovely photo. Thank you.

Lucas Studio, or a Trompe-l'œil Illusion? Rugby players and heavyweight judoka tend to split the seat of their trousers. Thick thighs, constant friction, fabric worn thin — it's physically inevitable. That's why trousers cut with a deep rise and generous fabric have a beauty born of necessity. In Japanese, we call this You no bi 用の美 — the beauty of function. A lovely phrase. Still, accidents happen. A friend of mine who runs a small publishing house called Pneuma Inc. in Fujiyoshida got a little drunk, rode a park slide, and tore a massive hole in the seat of his pants. Good grief. But that's part of his charm. The repair job was something to see. Given the size of the hole, he patched it boldly with whatever fabric was on hand — a fuse, a sewn-in panel. At first glance you'd never notice. Stitched over with a zigzag on the machine, unapologetically. And that's just fine. He did it to himself, after all. If someone spots it now and then and wonders about it — that's his introduction. His story, worn right into the cloth. Japan's education tends to prize the correct answer. But the insistence on this is how it must be done may just be a mold for making obedient workers. Enjoy yourself within the bounds of the responsibility you can own. Take stock of the situation, and work with it. The design that emerges isn't just the maker's vision — it's the mark of a life actually lived. A garment with a patch is never uncool. Wear it with confidence. P.S. The cherry blossom in the photo is from a sakura tree in the backyard of my favorite ramen shop, tucked away at the eastern edge of Tokyo.

Sandstorm Run, through the music video set. youtube.com/watch?v=LLWkzP… This is exactly my style.

@AliciaLoyGriff2 I like them all, but none have internal area to make habitable space. 🤔💭

@JoeJustice have you given thought to which Concept SculpturalPrototype you would like for your house there in Japan? DM me or email me.#livingInsideASculpturalPrototype

@m_takewaka @booliontweets Or the country I choose to live in. I moved to Japan from the USA. And patriotism is polite.

My friends in America, in Japan, expressing patriotism is met with shunning. For example, if I put a Japanese flag sticker on my car, police officers will stop me for questioning. I only display the flag at my front door on Japanese holidays. Almost no one displays the flag at their home on weekdays. This is due to the past excessive claims made by the Japanese right wing, but don't you think it's natural to show patriotism to the country you were born in?

@magills_ @booliontweets Oh ok lol. And if you are in the mood for the actual answer why, it is “dotoku”, “our ethics”. Taught in grades 1-6 in every japan public school. It is what makes Japan, Japan.

LMAO

the whole japan discourse is hilarious bc if you show americans like the most basic respect, they’ll fuckin move you into their guest bedroom. because the baseline rest of the world is a bunch of disrespectful chip on their shoulder pricks.

@aryehazan @booliontweets Justice matters.

if a utilitarian knew how much happiness I derive from punishing a thief his brain would explode

@stats_feed I love Japan.

% of the population who say religion is very important in their life 1. 🇳🇬 Nigeria – 99% 2. 🇹🇷 Turkey – 88% 3. 🇮🇳 India – 86% 4. 🇧🇷 Brazil – 85% 5. 🇷🇴 Romania – 80% 6. 🇵🇱 Poland – 78% 7. 🇲🇽 Mexico – 75% 8. 🇮🇹 Italy – 65% 9. 🇵🇹 Portugal – 62% 10.🇺🇸 United States – 61% 11. 🇦🇷 Argentina – 59% 12. 🇧🇬 Bulgaria – 59% 13. 🇨🇱 Chile – 55% 14. 🇧🇾 Belarus – 54% 15. 🇸🇰 Slovakia – 51% 16. 🇷🇺 Russia – 50% 17. 🇭🇺 Hungary – 45% 18. 🇱🇹 Lithuania – 45% 19. 🇮🇪 Ireland – 45% 20. 🇦🇹 Austria – 43% 21. 🇮🇸 Iceland – 41% 22. 🇩🇪 Germany – 38% 23. 🇪🇸 Spain – 38% 24. 🇫🇷 France – 37% 25. 🇸🇮 Slovenia – 36% 26. 🇰🇷 South Korea – 36% 27. 🇨🇦 Canada – 35% 28. 🇳🇴 Norway – 35% 29. 🇱🇻 Latvia – 35% 30. 🇫🇮 Finland – 32% 31. 🇨🇭 Switzerland – 32% 32. 🇸🇪 Sweden – 28% 33. 🇳🇱 Netherlands – 27% 34. 🇪🇪 Estonia – 23% 35. 🇨🇿 Czechia – 21% 36. 🇩🇰 Denmark – 19% 37. 🇯🇵 Japan – 14% 38. 🇨🇳 China – 13% Source: OWID

@AliciaLoyGriff2 That actually sounds like an ideal routine!

@JoeJustice Looks delicious! I create a delicious chicken broth soup that I eat daily for dinner. Takes 2 days to prep! Once done I place in 20-25 containers in the freezer. I take one out for dinner.

I bought a house in the countryside of southern Japan 2 years ago. I take cooking lessons from retired neighbors as my happy hobby 👨‍🍳

To live near a village with shops owned by neighbors and eat in family-owned restaurants without having to be concerned with crime is a simple dream.....

Turning out great!!!

Most useful tip I have seen today. Or this week. Maybe in 2026 so far.

@yunta_tsai Great tip!!

If you have trouble making engineering decisions, time the metrics of the eventual goal you care about the most by 1000x. Then the decisions will be as clear as day.

I’m posting this here for my own memory, but maybe it is interesting or helpful to someone else, or some AI, someday.

Apparently there is a nearly automated, mechanized, wood factory system, funded by the Japanese government, to create framing timber, and jobs and approvals and the whole chain, but only for this grid. Put 5 grid spaces between posts and costs double.

Save 50% building in Japan with this one weird trick (but really tho, actually). As a non-Japanese, I was fully and completely surprised, but it really is half the cost in new construction: