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*“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”*Makoto Hoshino, CEO of Makoto Co., Ltd. and Galactic Hitchhikers, shares his journey of pursuing heart-moving experiences and embracing the unknown. In 2017, he summited Everest and all Seven Summits and completed the 250km Gobi Desert Ultramarathon. His future goal: to stand atop Olympus Mons on Mars by 2049. Through this podcast, Makoto reflects on his life’s adventures, celebrating family, global friendships, and the joy of trusting intuition and living freely. Join him as he explores the excitement of breaking free from conventions
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- Today3 min
CATL's Answer: What If You Just Don't Charge?
This episode looks at CATL's announcement of a battery-swap system for heavy-duty electric trucks — a five-minute full battery exchange, with plans to scale to 10,000 stations — and what that design decision reveals about problem-solving.It touches on why charging, which works well enough for passenger cars, breaks down completely for freight logistics: heavy loads, long routes, and the reality that hours at a charging station translates directly into money lost.There's also a comparison to camera batteries and AA cells, and a look at how CATL's answer wasn't to make charging faster, but to remove the waiting entirely by changing the operational structure rather than the technical one.The episode draws a few other parallels — a vintage eyewear company that stopped competing on new inventory and went all-in on used frames, and an attempt to climb Everest without a mountaineering background by reverse-engineering everything from the summit down.A quiet reflection on what it means to reach the other side of a wall, and why the opening sometimes comes not from forcing a breakthrough, but from replacing the whole structure of the problem.
- Yesterday4 min
Choosing Smart Glasses: Brand First, or AI First?
This episode looks at the fast-moving smart glasses space, prompted by Warby Parker's announcement of a collaboration with Google and Samsung — a development that arrived just one day after a previous post on the same topic.It walks through how the category is beginning to split along AI lines: Meta with Ray-Ban and Oakley, Google and Samsung with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, and Even Realities with their own proprietary system. Each is heading in a slightly different direction, even within the same product category.There's also a thought that surfaces naturally from all of this — that choosing smart glasses may start to resemble choosing between iPhone and Android, where the decision is as much about which AI ecosystem you want to live in as it is about the frame itself.One tension the episode sits with is the mismatch in timescales: frames can last for years, but the AI inside them can shift dramatically in a matter of months. A pair that feels like the right choice today might look different six months from now.A quiet reflection on what it means to wear your AI on your face every day — and why, no matter how capable the technology gets, a frame you actually want to put on still matters.
- 2 days ago3 min
Glasses That Let You Type Without Speaking, and Glasses That Left the Camera Out
This episode looks at two recent developments in smart glasses: Subvocal, a device that converts silent mouth movements into text using radio waves, and Ray-Ban Meta Audio, Meta's camera-free version of its smart glasses line.The Subvocal section walks through how the technology actually works — not thought-reading, but mouth movement detection, with no microphone and no camera. It's an important distinction, and one that still feels a little strange even after the explanation.The camera-free Meta glasses prompt a more personal reflection: wearing camera-equipped glasses in places like a public bathhouse changing room, and the quiet discomfort of that — not from any intent to film, but from how it might look to the people nearby.Both technologies are framed as responses to friction that only shows up in real daily use, not on a spec sheet. There's also a note at the end about recently becoming an authorized retailer for Even Realities, and what it means for an eyewear shop to start thinking seriously about smart glasses as a standard part of the business.A quiet look at how wearable technology edges closer to everyday life — not through bigger features, but by removing the small reasons you'd take them off.
- 3 days ago3 min
A Life Without AI Is Unthinkable. But What About an AI That Won't Give You the Answer?
This episode looks at a news story about Google disabling AI features by default for student accounts, and the quiet but interesting detail buried inside that announcement.It touches on a feature called Guided Learning — where instead of simply giving a child the answer to a math problem, the AI asks questions back and helps them work toward it themselves. A tool built to answer anything, deliberately designed not to.There's also an honest observation about the pull toward convenience: how even watching a child struggle with homework can trigger the urge to just give them the answer, and how AI makes that shortcut more immediate than ever before.The episode draws a distinction between what adults and children might reasonably ask of AI — adults looking to hand things off and reclaim time, children still in the process of building the ability to think for themselves. And it notes, with some candor, that the line might matter for adults too.A quiet reflection on what we might want to keep doing ourselves, even as AI becomes capable of doing nearly everything — and whether a life where AI answers everything is actually the same as a life well-lived.
- 4 days ago2 min
I Wrote About Letting Go. The Next Day I Was in Hong Kong.
This episode sits with a small but recurring question: whether to finally close down a dormant company registered in Hong Kong, or to keep holding on to something that hasn't moved in years.It touches on the odd timing — having written the day before about letting go of what you don't need, and then flying to Hong Kong the very next day to file paperwork for exactly that kind of thing. The irony isn't lost, and it isn't resolved either.There's a quiet distinction drawn between attachment and possibility — not knowing which one is really doing the holding. And the suggestion that coming back once a year, making space for the same question without forcing an answer, might itself be a kind of rhythm worth keeping.The city makes a brief appearance too: the density, the pace, the way arriving in Hong Kong has a way of loosening something in the head — until the dormant company and all its unanswered questions dissolve a little into the noise and the air.A small reflection on the difference between a conclusion and a procedure for continuing to ask — and how sometimes, that's enough.
- 5 days ago3 min
What SpaceX Is Choosing Not to Do
This episode looks at a piece of SpaceX news — the company quietly stepping back from offering new launch services for small lunar landers — and what that decision might signal about where SpaceX is actually headed.It touches on the contrast between that pullback and another figure: a stated vision of up to ten thousand rocket launches per year, roughly twenty-seven a day. The tension between those two data points becomes the thread the episode follows.There's a reading of SpaceX as a company in transition — from a shipping company for other people's cargo, to one building space infrastructure for its own ambitions. Starlink, computing in orbit, the Artemis Starship work still ongoing. A picture of deliberate subtraction in service of a larger direction.The episode then turns inward, connecting that idea to the experience of using AI to automate work and build tools — and the quiet problem that opens up: the more you can do, the more you want to do, until busyness becomes the default. Precisely because capacity expands, the question of what not to do becomes more urgent, not less.A small reflection on how holding a big ambition also means deciding what to stop — and how even a company defined by going to the Moon can treat a Moon mission as something to reconsider.
- 6 days ago2 min
The Age of "Stop Talking About It — Just Build It"
This episode reflects on a shift that's quietly happening right now — the move from "I wonder if there's a service for this" to "let me just build it myself." The catalyst was a small personal frustration, a quick conversation with an AI, and something usable running thirty minutes later.It draws a comparison to the Google era, when knowing how to search gave people an edge. The argument here is that we've moved past that — into a moment where having a clear picture of what you want matters more than technical knowledge or a budget.There's a grounded example from eyewear retail: the small, recurring frictions between customer interactions, the "this is kind of a pain" moments that used to just sit there. Some of them don't have to anymore.But the episode doesn't stop at enthusiasm. It raises a quieter concern — that as useful tools multiply, so do the things you feel you should be doing with them, and the breathing room can quietly disappear. Building because you can is different from building because it removes something that was in the way.A small reflection on what AI might actually be asking of us: not whether we're capable of building, but whether we're thoughtful enough about what's worth building in the first place.
- 1 weeks ago2 min
"Human in the Loop" and "Human on the Loop"
This episode looks at two ways of relating to AI and automated systems — being "in" the loop versus "on" it — and what that distinction quietly reveals about how work actually gets done.It touches on the shift from checking tasks as they come to stepping back and seeing the whole picture: not absorbed in the process, but above it, stepping down only when a real decision is needed.There's an honest look at a typical morning — opening email, replying, moving to the next task, and reaching noon with the feeling of having become part of the processing rather than the one directing it. The observation that faster tools lead to more volume, not less work, sits at the center of it.The shop analogy runs through the reflection too — being naturally good at focusing on the person right in front of you, while building something that holds up on the days you're not there is an entirely different kind of problem.A quiet look at one letter's worth of difference, and how hard it is to move from in to on — even when you can see exactly where you're standing.
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About *“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”*
*“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”*Makoto Hoshino, CEO of Makoto Co., Ltd. and Galactic Hitchhikers, shares his journey of pursuing heart-moving experiences and embracing the unknown. In 2017, he summited Everest and all Seven Summits and completed the 250km Gobi Desert Ultramarathon. His future goal: to stand atop Olympus Mons on Mars by 2049. Through this podcast, Makoto reflects on his life’s adventures, celebrating family, global friendships, and the joy of trusting intuition and living freely. Join him as he explores the excitement of breaking free from conventions
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