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Cover story · The Maker

Apps that
actually ship.

Flua is the lead: the fastest honest path to a new language — one expertly-ordered deck, real native audio, and spaced repetition that does the thinking for you. He taught himself Japanese to A1 in about twenty focused hours with the method, then spent a year building the app that strips out every ounce of the friction that makes people quit.

Around a hundred and sixty catalogued ideas — apps, games, businesses, books — and a habit of turning the best ones into real, shipped things. The domains change; the method doesn't.

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Feature · Worlds & Stories

Worlds I've kept
since I was eleven.

A fantasy novel he faked his way into finishing and published at fourteen. The worldbuilding never left: a 150,000-word dark epic in progress — The Swords of Darkness — a homebrew D&D world with its own playbook, and a manga he still wants to make.

The habit started as a trick and turned real, and it's the same engine underneath everything else he builds.

Department · Learning & Teaching

Learning anything,
taught right.

How he learns anything fast, and why he's building the courses he wishes someone had taught him — math, statistical and computational thinking, built for real understanding instead of the exam.

Being told he was smart became an identity worth more protecting than risking — which is exactly the cage the teaching is meant to open.

Feature · Games & the Table

Find the fun.
Build it back better.

Take a system apart, find where the fun actually lives, and build it back better: a Balatro-inspired dice roguelike in design, a board game in progress, and D&D run as a set of living systems.

Roughly 28 of the ~160 catalogued ideas are games — design problems waiting for the right collaborator.

Profile · The Modern Bard

The half I rebuilt
on purpose.

Singing, standup, improv, voice acting, speaking — the half of himself he rebuilt deliberately, treating charisma as a skill to be built rather than a gift to be born with.

It's the most public proof of the 30-day method: tone-deaf to singing from memory in a single month.

Portfolio · Photography

A camera, a single prime, natural light.

Portraits, fits, and the cities I've lived in — Osaka, Tokyo, Kōyasan, Budapest, Lisbon, Nagpur. One camera, a single 23mm prime, golden hour, graded by hand. The visual half of the same brain that obsesses over color and type.

Feature · The Athlete

The same engine,
pointed at the body.

The same engine he points at apps, pointed at his own body — and the sports that are how he makes friends in a new city: soccer, badminton, volleyball.

Trained the way he builds everything: control and intention first, speed later.

Department · The Mind

A reading life,
run like a syllabus.

A reading life run like a syllabus — philosophy, history, business — all read through one lens: read to build, not to collect.

Every discipline is treated as raw material for the next thing he makes.

Masterclass · The Method

How to learn
anything in 30 days.

Pick a skill, go all-in for thirty days. Japanese to A1 in about twenty focused hours. Tone-deaf to singing from memory in a month. Badminton, YouTube, shipping.

The trick isn't grinding harder — it's refusing to start until he's found where the common advice is wrong, then building the shortest honest path and letting sleep do the heavy lifting.

Coming issues · the Editor's wishlist

Things I haven't
built yet.

1. i.

   Write a TV show — he's watched thousands of hours of film and anime, only the best, mostly to take apart why they work.

2. ii.

   Finish the manga — the "next Death Note or Game of Thrones": a complex plot that's somehow easy to follow.

3. iii.

   Make Westworld real, as a game you can actually live inside.

4. iv.

   Open a café that's a third place for serious makers — writers, artists, builders, one room.

5. v.

   Find the talented, curious people he'd do all of the above with.