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*“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”*

MakotowillOlympusMons
makoto-hoshino.com
629 episodes

*“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”* Makoto Hoshino, CEO of Makoto Co., Ltd. and Galactic Hitchhikers, shares his journey of pursuing heart-moving experiences and embracing the unknown. In 2017, he summited Everest and all Seven Summits and completed the 250km Gobi Desert Ultramarathon. His future goal: to stand atop Olympus Mons on Mars by 2049. Through this podcast, Makoto reflects on his life’s adventures, celebrating family, global friendships, and the joy of trusting intuition and living freely. Join him as he explores the excitement of breaking free from conventions

Episodes

My Wife Sent Me a Link

about 17 hours ago

1m


Caught Off Guard by Something Completely Inefficient

Jul. 16

2m


The Uncopyable Real

Jul. 15

3m


Greetings from Silicon Valley — and What a Small Eyewear Shop Has in Common with Startups

Jul. 14

3m


The Other Side of the AI Boom

Jul. 13

2m


If Humans Stop Dying, What Happens to Religion?

Jul. 11

3m


A Book That Made Me Rethink What We Should Stop Doing

Jul. 11

2m


Watching Yoshida Katsunori on YouTube — as a cave explorer

Jul. 10

3m


What Attempting a Backflip Taught Me About Which Parts of Me Are Still Young

Jul. 9

2m


What I've Noticed Since Starting to Wear the Oura Ring 5

Jul. 8

3m


Korea, Day One. Keep Going, Quietly.

Jul. 7

2m


Curiosity, Slightly Stronger Than Fear

Jul. 6

3m


Surrounded by Rain, Yet Running Dry

Jul. 4

4m


From Drug Lord's Kingdom to Tea Country. And Now, a Hub for Scams.

Jul. 3

7m


Will AI Become the New Oil?

Jul. 3

2m


Syncing with the Earth's OS

Jun. 30

2m


The Man Who Dissolved His Own Religion

Jun. 30

3m


Still Ahead at 90

Jun. 28

2m


The Desire to Be Different Is What Keeps Consumption Going

Jun. 27

2m


The Best Kind of Work

Jun. 26

2m


On Battery Life and Slack

Jun. 26

3m


Make Your Mass Heavier. Leave a Dent in the Universe.

Jun. 25

3m


The Invisible Line Between Two Pins on Google Maps

Jun. 23

3m


Don't Optimize What Shouldn't Exist

Jun. 23

5m


The Man Bought for $13 Billion, and What He Said About AI's Real Edge

Jun. 22

4m


Banishing Your Phone from the Bedroom — The Simplest Sleep Fix

Jun. 20

1m


We Are Not Built to Stay Happy — On Homeostasis and Hedonic Adaptation

Jun. 20

3m


SpaceX's Acquisition of Cursor: Buying a Habit, Not a Model

Jun. 18

4m


Is AI Infrastructure Now a Matter of National Security?

Jun. 17

3m


Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Pulled: Are We Heading Toward a US Version and an International Version of Frontier AI?

Jun. 17

3m


You're Only 48

Jun. 16

2m


Four Young People, Burned Alive for Asking to Be Paid

Jun. 15

2m


A Quote from Takeda Shingen That Still Lands Every Time

Jun. 14

3m


Removing the "Fiction" from Science Fiction

Jun. 13

5m


A Crowdfunding Campaign That Has Lasted 144 Years

Jun. 12

3m


In 2026, a 75-Minute Film Was Made for $2,000

Jun. 11

3m


The "50x Seat" Nobody Else Was Sitting In

Jun. 9

6m


June 12 — One of the Largest IPOs in History: SpaceX Arrives Like a Final Boss. But More Than Anything Else — the Compensation Package Tied to Putting a Million People on Mars

Jun. 9

9m


The Cars We Left on the Moon

Jun. 7

3m


Maybe Displays Aren’t Necessary After All.

Jun. 7

3m


I Tried the ROKID AI Glasses

Jun. 6

3m


Apple's Four-Year-Old Hidden Gem: Universal Control

Jun. 4

2m


Dell, Intel — and Now Nokia?

Jun. 4

3m


Spend your time not on predicting the future, but on becoming someone with more options for whatever future comes.

Jun. 2

2m


Sometimes, Something Blooms on the Other Side of "It's Over"

Jun. 2

3m


I Started Copying Araki Hirohiko's Smoothie Habit, and Something Shifted

Jun. 1

3m


Today's Mission: "Just One Minute"

May. 31

2m


Daily habits are genuinely fascinating

May. 29

3m


Nightmares as a Flight Simulator for the Brain?

May. 28

2m


Relationships and Work Are Compound Interest, in the End.

May. 28

2m


"You Can Do It If You Try" Is Risky. Think About Your Career in Terms of Energy Efficiency, Not Willpower.

May. 27

2m


Does Legalized Doping Really Push Human Limits? Why the Enhanced Games Fell Short of Expectations.

May. 25

4m


How Are We Supposed to Live on That?

May. 24

3m


"I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore" — Isaac Newton

May. 23

1m


On Story Addiction, and the Escape It Offers

May. 22

3m


Eric Schmidt Gets Booed at an Arizona Graduation Ceremony

May. 22

3m


Intel Is Back?

May. 21

4m


Is "SaaS Is Dead" Actually True?

May. 19

2m


The People Who Find Their Niche Win.

May. 18

2m


Idleness and Inner Space Are Not the Same Thing.

May. 17

3m


Claude Managed Agents' New Feature: "Dreaming"

May. 16

4m


Watching Netflix's "You're Going to Hell" Made Me Think About What I Actually Want to Leave My Kids

May. 15

4m


Where the Wrong Way Becomes the Right Way: Ice in Your Beer in Chiang Mai

May. 14

2m


The Shock of “Orbital Data Centers” — What Google, SpaceX, and Anthropic Are Building

May. 13

5m


Using Apple Watch Ultra and Pixel Watch Made Me Realize How Extreme Garmin Fenix 8’s MIL-STD-810 Really Is.

May. 12

4m


JetBlue and Spirit Airlines — The Story of How Regulators Tried to Protect the “King of Cheap Flights,” and Ended Up Losing It Anyway.

May. 10

4m


What I Learned About a Temple Before Leaving for Thailand

May. 10

3m


“Stretch (STRC)” — Is Bitcoin’s “Debt You Never Have to Repay” a Scam, or Something Closer to a Game Between Professionals?

May. 9

3m


Children Believe Actions More Than Words.

May. 8

2m


Anthropic and SpaceX Team Up.

May. 7

3m


Search is quietly moving beyond the age of keywords.

May. 6

2m


The Shock of AI-Generated Drama: The “Tyrant CEO” Archetype.

May. 5

3m


Naoya Inoue: “I’m excited to face the pressure and my own mind”

May. 4

2m


Surprise as a Skill

May. 3

1m


A Cold Society, or One That No Longer Needs Help?

May. 2

2m


The Original GoPro Max (2019) — Once Innovative

May. 1

4m


The Price of Free

Apr. 30

3m


Peptides — AI Isn’t an Inventor, It’s an Accelerator.

Apr. 29

4m


Blowers Are Fine, I Thought — Until I Wasn't So Sure

Apr. 28

3m


Quiet Empire-Building: Why Google Is Funding Its Own AI Rival

Apr. 27

4m


Do Lower Ceilings Help Children Feel Calm? Thoughts on Space and Comfort

Apr. 26

2m


From “Sharing” to “Creating”: Thoughts After Reading Tao’s Paper on AI.

Apr. 24

3m


Tokens as an “Invisible Character Limit” — What I Learned Running Gemma 4 Locally

Apr. 24

3m


Mercari Notification 10 Minutes After Delivery:

Apr. 23

2m


Starting from “1 + 1” at 47 — My Git Debut

Apr. 21

1m


From the Browser to the Terminal — AI Agents and Git as a “Save Point”

Apr. 21

3m


Phishing Scam: “American Express Centurion Invitation” Email.

Apr. 20

2m


Voice Input and Smartwatches — Apple Watch Ultra 3 and Google Pixel Watch 4.

Apr. 18

3m


“M5 Ultra” Mac Studio — When an Intel Chip Starts to Struggle with Today’s AI.

Apr. 17

2m


Electronics Are “Perishable Goods”

Apr. 17

1m


“Gemma 4” — Offline AI Inside Your Smartphone.

Apr. 16

3m


“Urgent Notice from Rakuten Card” — What I Learned from a Fraud Case

Apr. 14

3m


“Escalated to a Senior Team” and “Please Return via FedEx or USPS” Reflections on the Repair Process for a Google Pixel Watch

Apr. 14

3m


2049: Climbing Olympus Mons on Mars *Turning an “Idea” into a Timeline*

Apr. 13

3m


Artemis II Orion Spacecraft “Integrity” Safely Splashes Down. From a Place We “Look At” to a Place We “Use”

Apr. 12

4m


Quantum Computing and Bitcoin.

Apr. 10

3m


My Child Is Already in High School.It Might Be Time to Talk About Money

Apr. 9

3m


The Day a Slime Gains a “Heart”

Apr. 9

2m


Satoshi Nakamoto — A Person Who Chose Principles and Safety Over Recognition.

Apr. 8

3m


“Artemis II” Orion spacecraft passes the far side of the Moon — but what is Orion, really?

Apr. 7

4m