Day 1

Howdy, all… I’m Doc. Co-founder of Maplopo. For the last three plus years we’ve worked on making Maplopo the best it can be for our learners. We’re proud of the company we have built and how we help change the lives of serious learners of Japanese. With all that focus on building, though, I’ve hardly had time to dedicate myself to the effort of improving my own Japanese! Being “learner #1,” in a sense… I am way behind.

There have been many starts, and an equal number of stops along the way. But being this is our April public cohort, and I’m making the time to finally get to it, this is Day 1 of my Maplopo journey. I’m beginning with the material in the 10-week private cohort program we offer, and today being my first day I took a few baby steps in the morning to get started. I didn’t do much. But, I did something. And, I’ve proven to myself over and over again that those tiny steps matter a lot.

So for today, all I did was my Anki deck material. Five cards. More on why that number is so low in a future update. But for now, five cards. Done. Tomorrow is a new day. This concludes Day 1.

Peace out, 
Doc
Hikone, JAPAN
4.21.2025