Natsuko's Blog

The weekend has been the most breakthrough weekend for us in terms of getting to know people. We were especially keen to meet the expat community because even though we’ve been here three months now, we hadn’t gotten to know the foreigners like us residing in Nepal. And we were...

Today I had the opportunity to attend a panel discussions titled “Moving Asia” - a dialogue sessions by photo journalists about migration in South Asia. This panel discussion was among the many events held throughout the week as part of the Photo Kathmandu initiative, the only international photography festival in...

Last week were on a week long Dashain holiday, the largest holiday in Nepal. Dashain, also known as Vijaya Dashami, celebrates the “triumph over evil”, commemorating the victory of gods over the demons. The goddess Durga, who played an instrumental role in the battle between Lord Ram against the wicked...

In my previous blog “Let’s talk about startup failure and how to deal with it”, I talked a little bit about how we pivoted to releasing a completely remote course, without really elaborating on it or following up with the results. I’d like to look at our pivot here in...

One thing about my self, I’m a person that gets distracted pretty easily. I’m not good at focusing on one task at the same time for hours on end, like my partner Take. His focus is truly amazing – he would be on his computer the whole day coding if...