Passenger is a record of life in Japan.

It's simultaneously a corpus of lived experiences in Japan

And a series of things i wish i knew beforehand

And a gateway to what i found interesting that you might not know of, but might want to.

And other things, sometimes.

If i had a hundred million dollars tomorrow i'd open a coffee store. My store will aspire to the contradictory ideas of slow living and production line efficiency. I will let people sit for 6 hours with 1 drink, and also pump out 4 espressos a minute during lunchtime slams. I will likely fail to marry the two, and leave behind a mess of incorrect orders and disgruntled customers. Tomorrow is a new day, i'll try again tomorrow.

I'd spend a million dollars buying and roasting coffee beans, with apologies to the farmers because i know to get good at something you need to be bad at it first. I make no guarantees i'll get good at it.

I will open at 10 in the morning, or 11, and open irregularly. Sometimes my coffee store will serve wine.

This is not a barista FIRE dream, or some misguided romanticising of coffee stores. My coffee store will lose money. I will do it because i can. Sometimes thats a good enough a reason for anything.