ShuHaRi: More Advice On How To Take Advice (Including Mine)
“Are the people I’m following going where I want to go?” Earl Nightingale “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard...
View Article(Advance Notice) AJATT Server Upgrade / Scheduled Downtime
Hey gang, How are those mothers of yours? Great, great. Good times. So guess what? AJATT has grown too big for her britches! Or…breeches? I don’t even really know what britches are, but there’s...
View ArticleAJATT Twitter Tweets for Week of 2013-03-23
Big choices can be scary. Make many small choices instead. #immersion 20:57:09 If there's no law against it, you're old enough. If you're alive, you're young enough. #getusedtoalanguage 21:52:46...
View ArticleMore Details On AJATT Server Upgrade / Scheduled Downtime
Hey kids, So yeah, server upgrade, downtime, read the previous post to get up to speed. The big question is when? The answer: Start time: March 30, 2013 @ 0630~1230 Japan Standard Time Beginning in...
View ArticlePossible Shorter Downtime for Surusu
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series The Great AJATT Server Upgrade Of the 2010sGood news: It’s looking like Surusu may be able to benefit from an attenuated version of the Neutrino arrangement,...
View ArticleThe Clicking Point: Maybe You Do Need to Do Less and Read More
“To know and not to do is not yet to know.” Zen Proverb…supposedly… The typical advice you’re gonna get from me, and from the world at large is: just shut up and do something. And this advice is good....
View ArticleNew AJATT Facebook Page
So…I’m still not sure whether this Internet thing is going to catch on or not, but…yeah…there’s a new AJATT Facebook page. Feel free to drop by and say hi.
View ArticleGet Nutshell: The Entire AJATT Method Condensed Into 1 Page
Hey, what’s up? What exactly is the AJATT (“All Japanese All The Time”) method? That question doesn’t have a short — or permanent — answer. Nor, in my opinion, should it. Why? Because it’s always...
View ArticleWhy Organized Ideas Are Bad: The Power of Rambling and the Tragedy of...
Organized ideas are nice but the real gems are dropped in the disorder, in the stream of consciousness. Organizing always kills those gems. So, I buy and consume a lot of learning programs and stuff....
View ArticleAJATT Twitter Tweets for Week of 2013-03-30
【腑甲斐無い・不甲斐無い】ふがいない (形)[文]ク ふがひな・し 情けないくらいだらしない。意気地がない。「連敗するとは—・い」「われながら—・い」 [派生]━ さ(名) #daijirin 22:33:17 「アニメコンテンツエキスポ2013」開幕、ステージも通路も人がギッシリ – GIGAZINE t.co/HXvJP0o1QF 13:08:44 RTHK 1 – 香港電台 第一台 92.6...
View ArticleMethod Over Morality: Don’t Improve Yourself. Stop Trying to Become a Better...
“Much mischief results from our taking a moral position on matters which are not basically moral matters at all.” ~ Maxwell Maltz “More defeats and failures are due to mental blindness than to moral...
View ArticleAJATT Twitter Tweets for Week of 2013-04-06
"…what *works* is significantly more important than what's *new*" ~ Seth Godin 21:06:21 Chinese Classics, original text + English translation: Dao De Jing – Chinese Text Project t.co/oyv1yUtqf0 #MCD...
View Article[SilverSpoon] Join Neutrino Now (Spaces Permitting)
Thank you for your interest in SilverSpoon/Neutrino. Neutrino is now temporarily opening up for new enrollment into the program. However, right of entry is restricted to people on the VIP waiting list...
View ArticleSRS-less Learning
“Your only principle…should be to have no principles.” ~ Robert Greene SRS changed my life. I love SRS. Read Nutshell, and you’ll find that a third of the material (at this writing) is about SRSing....
View ArticleNo Humans Necessary: Why You Don’t Need People to Learn a Language
Loners, “introverts” and card-carrying Libertarians, get out a change of panties, because the words that follow are going to make you wet yourselves with pleasure. Live, direct human contact is not...
View ArticleAJATT Twitter Tweets for Week of 2013-03-02
Enjoy first. Understand later. #L2 #reading 16:02:45 RT @_aashi: 寝ます。止めても無駄です。 t.co/dgGkzbk9Bw 02:33:21 RT @elijahjoelsmith: @ajatt ipod shuffle my best investment towards 10,000 hours japanese...
View ArticleWhose Team Are You On?
This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series Social Resistance“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.” African Proverb 1 There you are. Immersing. Shadowing. Japanese books...
View ArticleHear Secret Recordings of Khatzumoto Speaking Japanese!
Remember that one time when I put up a video of me speaking Japanese on YouTube and how much you enjoyed that? Yeah? Well, in case you hadn’t noticed, a good number of my friends, acquaintances...
View ArticleAJATT Twitter Tweets for Week of 2013-04-13
Japanese anime, Spanish subs: Another Ep1 Sub. Español (1/2) – YouTube t.co/MNXWNMLOXr via #ajattplus 16:26:37 "Perfection does not exist — you can always do better and you can always grow." ~ Les...
View ArticleDon’t Fight Your Parents: Parasitic Learning Over Antagonistic Competition
…we may be the sons of whomsoever we will. Households there are of noblest intellects; choose the one into which you wish to be adopted; you will inherit not merely their name, but even their property…...
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