Placebo
Placebos are real, and we can use them to our advantage.
Matcha Reading Room
Pause
Short pauses, extended pauses ... both feel really good, and both are necessary.
Listen
Listening is magic. It's amazing what happens when you fully do it, and stop doing other things.
Eyes Open
When your eyes first open in the morning, what do you do?
Rapt
If we could just stay focused on the right things, our lives would stop feeling like a reaction to stuff that happens to us.
Using Matcha to "Predecide" Outcomes
There's a whole body of research on something called "implementation intention" -- a snoozer of a phrase if there ever was one. But it's relevant to us, bigtime.
Matcha, Andy Goldsworthy, and Ephemerality
Goldsworthy's work is the embodiment of a Japanese aethetic ideal known as mono no aware, the awareness of impermanence and how nothing, ultimately, lasts very long.
Is Matcha Safe to Drink Daily?
In sum, the answer for most people is an unequivocal "yes" -- green tea is one of the safest substances on the planet.
Matcha and Vitamin C: The Sum is Much Greater Than the Parts
I often drink a small glass of water with the juice of a whole lemon squeezed into it as I sip my matcha. Or, if I'm feeling lazy, I'll just pop a 1g vitamin C pill. Why? I've done this since reading about a