Yuta Morinaga
あなたの世界に、
やさしい追い風を。
A gentle tailwind for your world — for those navigating life's turbulence and looking to build something more solid from the inside out.
About
I'm Yuta — an engineer and startup founder based in Michigan. I'm training as a coach through the Co-Active framework (CTI) while studying Japanese classical wisdom (帝王学). Still learning — and I think that's part of the point.
For a long time I believed that succeeding at work was the same as protecting my family. Outwardly I looked like a functioning startup exec — but inside I was performing "good father" instead of being present, avoiding my own emotions, and quietly losing the people closest to me. Then came the harder chapter: 30 million yen in debt, doing Uber deliveries at midnight while my family slept, running on 90 minutes of sleep a night. I know what it feels like when the floor gives way.
There's a metaphor I keep coming back to. When a monarch butterfly transforms, it doesn't just grow wings — it dissolves completely inside the chrysalis, into a kind of biological soup. But one group of cells, called imaginal discs, survives and rebuilds the whole thing into something new. I think real change works the same way. If you're in the middle of dissolving right now — you're not finished. You're in the middle of becoming.
What I care about
球体思考Spherical Thinking
When something triggers you, pause before reacting. Ask: what worldview produces this? Entering another person's world — with real curiosity, not judgment — is one of the most radical things you can practice.
本気Full Commitment
There's a quality of aliveness that comes from going all-in, even imperfectly, even while exhausted. I don't mean grinding. I mean the feeling of being completely present in what you're doing — and believing it matters.
在り方Ways of Being
The most important changes are invisible first. Before strategy or skill, I'm interested in who you are when no one's watching — and who you want to become. That's the ground everything else grows from.
Writing & Radio
I send a short daily voice note — YUTAラジオ — to a small community every morning. Topics range from spherical thinking and self-disclosure to what it means to live one day as one full life (一日一生). Longer essays on note.com.
Contact
I work with people 1-on-1 — as a thinking partner and your personal cheering squad. No fixed agenda, no judgment. Just someone fully in your corner, running alongside you.
If something here landed — even a little — I'd love to hear from you. You don't have to have it figured out first.