TEK Talks

The original essay > https://note.com/tatekimatsuda/n/n32f4ac24387a TEK TALK · Ep. 3 — A father has no tap In a fight, I could always tap — give up the round, survive, come back tomorrow. As a father, there's no tap, and it took me years to understand what that does to a person. This one runs longer than usual, and it's the most personal one I've recorded. What comes up: Why I never tapped in my M...

I was somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, returning from Hololife summit in France, when the system I trusted broke. My heart spiked—that cold, heavy adrenaline dump you usually only get right before the cage door locks—but this time, the threat wasn’t a fighter standing across from me; it was a message about my kids. The Pivot For the past two months, I have been absent from this newsletter. Not b...

TEK TALKS is a voice blog from Boston. Hosted by Tateki Matsuda — former UFC fighter, former international student, father, entrepreneur, and lifelong student of health and performance. From raising kids overseas to building businesses across North America and Europe, Tateki shares the real experience of living between cultures. In this first English episode, recorded on his 40th birthday, Tateki...