On Kodansha’s web platform Gendai Business, a special series inspired by Daisuke Yosumi’s book The Don’t-Do List for Life has just launched. Each article draws on the book’s core ideas—excerpted, re-edited and expanded—and brings them vividly to life. Five new articles have now been published online.

Part 11: The Essence of Producing: Bringing Out the Artist’s Inner Core — Three Principles from a Hit Music Producer
Part 12: Why Parents Aren’t Always Your True Allies — A Former Top Producer’s Vision of a World Where Everyone Is Both Artist and Producer
Part 13: Drugs, Gangs, and Armed Police — How a Bullied Teen Found True Companions in One of America’s Toughest High Schools
Part 14: “I Don’t Want to Go to Work” — How a Struggling Salesman Became a Million-Selling Producer by Finding His Allies
Part 15: In Praise of Favoritism — Why a Hit Producer Kept a ‘Grudge List’ from His Unknown Days

Do give it a read!