Luza

Semi-retired gaijin raising family in Japan, Baja California Sur, and Lake Tahoe.

🌊🏔️🏴‍☠️

[Luza @philluza]

The Code

[Luza @philluza]

Living in a resort town is great if you’re not working or on a budget. Basically on vacation

[Luza @philluza]

Bit of June gloom in Cabo this last week helped shake off the jet lag. Now instead of feeling tired I just feel lazy.

[Gain of Fauci @DschlopesIsBack]

"TEXAS IS GOOD EVERYTHING IS BIG!”

This is an all-time quote from Japan 😂

[Quinten | 048.eth @QuintenFrancois]

Congrats to @elonmusk for becoming earth’s first trillionaire

[george @StokeyyG2]

Have I just seen a patriotic goose 😭😭😭

This Mexico content has been insane 👏🤣

[Lindarixon @lindarcrusader]

Voters in Peru for some reason:

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.

In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.

https://t.co/pLMD0krc69

[Squirrel Matador @BudLightSadness]

“You can’t solve problems with violence”

*opens history book.

Well well well

[Luza @philluza]

Living in one of our Cabo houses for the summer. We are fixing it and listing it on the market to cash out. It was my first home purchase will be my first home sale

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

"Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors."

~ Ernest Hemingway

[Nationalist @euronationalizt]

Summer on the West Coast 🌞

[Elle Lookbook @EvaLovesDesign]

California residential styles

[Luza @philluza]

This is amazing

[Carver @carverfomo]

A Japanese TV crew filmed the CEO of a 7 billion yen fast food chain for a feature on Japan's humble corporate culture. His head office in Shinagawa had 3 desks and cost 103,000 yen a month in rent. The office was that small because a Claude agent did the procurement, pricing, and contract work that normally fills three floors.

The crew showed the office. Two desks. One printer. Three employees. A rice cooker in the corner. The TV banner introduced him as the entrepreneur whose chain of snack shops sources rice directly from 312 farmers across Japan.

At 0:43 he says the word fleet. He says it once. He says it without looking at the camera. The crew kept the line because they thought he meant his delivery vans.

He did not mean delivery vans. He meant the fleet of Claude agents that runs every part of his company that does not require a human signature. The two desks at headquarters are for him and the CFO. The third employee is there to answer the phone.

One agent reads daily yield data from 312 rice farmers and sets the next morning's wholesale price for each variety. A second agent routes 47 stores worth of inventory based on the previous day's POS data. A third agent drafts every franchise contract and every supplier renewal. He signs every morning before the office opens. Japanese commercial law is satisfied.

Someone pulled the company's filings on the Tokyo commercial registry. Every contract filed in the last 14 months had been timestamped between 5:47 AM and 6:03 AM. Every supplier renewal used the same boilerplate clauses, written in slightly different prose each time. The morning shots in the TV segment showed an empty office because the agent had already done the work of 40 employees overnight.

Six months ago a 14 year old in Shenzhen pushed an AI agent to GitHub. Judges said no real world application. 3,100 forks later. The CEO had been one of them.

He still flies to rice paddies every spring. He still personally tastes every new variety before it gets a code in the system. He still tells investors the head office rent is 103,000 yen because it builds trust. He still has not told the farmers that the agent decided who got the new orders last quarter.

The TV crew thought the rundown head office was a story about a humble entrepreneur. It was actually a story about how many employees a 7 billion yen company does not need when one CEO signs what one Claude agent writes.

[Luza @philluza]

🥂

[ol’ stocky ⛳️ @oldstocky]

Maybe the secret to having a good life is realizing how good it already is

[Luza @philluza]

@ModernCeasar Love Sulla

[Joseph 🕊️ @CaudilloXIV]

Trust the plan

[Luza @philluza]

I need one for my home

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Sauna 4+ times per week can cut your risk of dying from a cardiovascular event by about 50%.

Andrew Huberman explained this on Lex Fridman’s podcast. Using traditional saunas (80–100°C for ~30 minutes), the benefits increase with frequency: twice a week gives a solid reduction, but four or more times per week is where the data gets really impressive.

A large 2015 Finnish study (Laukkanen et al., JAMA Internal Medicine) following 2,315 middle-aged men for ~21 years found that, compared to sauna once per week:

- 2–3 times/week → 27% lower cardiovascular mortality

- 4–7 times/week → 50% lower cardiovascular mortality (and 40% lower all-cause mortality)

These associations held after adjusting for multiple confounders.

It’s one of the most compelling lifestyle habits with strong observational data behind it.

Have you incorporated sauna use into your routine? How often, and have you noticed any benefits?