I just want to say one more thing about this, because I'm genuinely enjoying this conversation. Japan is a data-obsessesed society, but it is also superstitious

I just want to say one more thing about this, because I'm genuinely enjoying this conversation. Japan is a data-obsessesed society, but it is also superstitious. It's also largely Buddhist, which is a religion that orients toward the "middle way"—i.e., adopts the idea that every thing needs its opposite. It's important to reconcile the paradoxes of life in order to make real progress toward solutions.