Patric Sawada (Silkdrive & vibecoding.app)
@patricsawada
Head of Growth | Cross-cultural Growth Marketing | Europe & East-Asia | Audio Engineer | Vibe Coder
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Every culture names its own tendencies. Dutch Calvinism, the Japanese customer is god. In your own mouth that is identity. In an outsider's it hardens into a stereotype about a person. I hold these as loose priors, scoped to cohort and context, never as a verdict.
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@patricsawada Exactly — and the gap is teachable. The "no" is almost always in what's *missing*: no enthusiasm, no specifics, no next step. 検討します with nothing after it is a closed door. Beginners listen for the word "no"; the real skill is hearing the silence around the "yes."
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People always ask me what cross-cultural training should cost. The honest range is huge: near-nothing for self-paced courses, several thousand a day for in-house work. What you're paying for is whether the trainer has actually operated in the corridor or only studied it.
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Naively sharing fake news such as “Islam is the fastest-growing religion in Japan”, a claim that contributes nothing to understanding Japanese society and serves only to generate noise, while responding to doubts or criticisms directed at us with dramatic victimhood rhetoric is, at the very least, not a sign of intellectual maturity.
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Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code:
"The advantage isn't going to who codes best anymore. It's going to who delegates best."
In 20 minutes the day Fable dropped, he explains what to learn now while everyone else pretends nothing has changed.
Watch the full talk, then save the exact config below👇
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4/ The opening is real and the bottleneck is cultural, not economic. That's the whole case for getting the cross-cultural groundwork right before you pitch. The Netherlands-Japan corridor, and why it works:
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Japan lost three million people in five years. That one fact is quietly reshaping who Japanese companies need to do business with, and most European firms haven't connected the dots yet.
European teams keep losing Japan deals in the meeting room. The problem is they walk in thinking the meeting is where the decision gets made. It isn't.
I've watched teams master the business card ritual and still lose the deal. Etiquette is the easy part to teach and the least of what goes wrong. What breaks things is misreading how a 'yes' actually gets made. Rehearse that, not the bowing.
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Most intercultural training fails because it teaches etiquette instead of decision-making. The version that works maps where your team's instincts will misread the other side, then rehearses the specific moments: how alignment happens, who speaks, what the silence means.
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google antigravity is now four products.
ide (vs code fork), 2.0 desktop, cli replacing gemini cli jun 18, python sdk. gemini 3.1 + claude 4.6 + gpt-oss across all of them.
full breakdown:
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