“I have never run a bar that has considered what the customer wants,” says Fukuyama tells us one evening at his bar. “People often say that the customer is always right, but I’m not confident that’s true. I don’t do… Read More »Recommended Read: Bar Martha, Tokyo, where the customer isn’t always right | Japan holidays | The Guardian
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“And that led me wonder, If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn’t we really be talking about plural realities?” https://urbigenous.net/library/how_to_build.html
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