Joel Harvey.

Projects, research & writing — built mostly in Tokyo.

Ventures

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Faresay Practice portal for therapists.

Fair-Do Affordable UK tutoring — tutors keep 100% on their own students.

Airgap Weekly offline skills courses — learn with your hands, away from screens.

LonelyBirds Companionship sessions for solitary pet birds.

Metta is Better For a meditation practice that has plateaued — a quiz, then a 30-day track.

Psychosecurity Security scanner for AI-built apps — paste a URL, see what leaks.

MyOwnArc AI research library for students — every answer cites its source. From $5/month.

Seasoned Beings Health, wellness & smart tech for the over-50s — plus history worth retelling.

shinyashimada.com Shin's own corner of the web — home of the plant journal and the croissant hunt.

Research & writing

Research Hub Men's mental health research library — collect, read, cite, ask.

Writing Screenplays, fiction, memoir and poetry — the full catalogue.

Listening Space A quiet place to talk — an AI listener, trained the way lifeline support workers are.

Shared with Shin

The Library Every book the two of us own — whose it is, which shelf it sits on, and whether anyone has read it.

The Balcony Shin's plant journal — care schedules tuned to Tokyo weather. One passcode, shared records.

Croissant Hunt The joint search for Tokyo's best pain au chocolat — six criteria, one leaderboard.

Daily

Tokyo Today Weather, forecast and the morning's headlines — 日本語 and English.

頑張れ日本語！ Vipassana retreat Japanese — kitchen & conversation drills, built for the train.

Forza Italiano! A1 & A2 Italian grammar drills — beat the clock, keep the streak.

Ops

Mission Control The private ops dashboard — finances, checks and the cost model across the ventures.

Listening Post Social listening for the ventures — relevant conversations, a reply queue and the content library.

Outreach Cold email for the ventures — domains, warm-up, campaigns, replies and sender health.