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Patrick Ubezio is the author of My Yarigai: How to Survive the 9-to-5 by Finding What You Truly Care About. The book was published in 2025 for ‘everyone who has ever looked at their calendar on a Monday morning and thought, there must be more to this’. Yarigai relates to the satisfaction of ‘engaging in something worth doing’.
He also contributed to The Fax Club Experiment throughout 2024 and 2025. For the project, 100 anonymous people across the world bought fax machines and answered one life question per week during a full year. The outcome was published in 2025 by "The 32" remaining participants at the end of the experiment.
My Yarigai
How to Survive the 9-to-5 by
Finding What You Truly Care About
Yarigai is a powerful concept rooted in Japanese culture that focuses on doing meaningful work that energises and fulfils you. While Ikigai is often translated as ‘reason for being’, Yarigai is more about the deep satisfaction you get from the act of ‘engaging in something worth doing’, even when no one is watching. It’s about showing up for others, being the ‘team glue’, or even the one who makes everyone laugh.
Unlike Ikigai, which carries a heavier dimension of purpose, Yarigai asks: what gives you that quiet pride at the end of the day? This difference makes Yarigai easier to find in the small, daily things – like helping a colleague, fixing a problem or creating opportunities for others to shine.
When people find that spark – their Yarigai, that sense that what they’re doing matters – something shifts. They don’t just survive; they light up. They contribute more. They are more engaged. They laugh more. They create better work and better environments for everyone around them.
My Yarigai is all about how to find it.
The Fax Club Experiment
A crazy idea.
It shouldn't have worked.
But it did.
The Fax Club Experiment began with a simple, unlikely idea: what if strangers could connect, reflect, and create something meaningful—slowly—through a fax machine? In 2024, 100 people bought fax machines to join a bizarre experiment. For 52 weeks, one question was sent out each Friday. The anonymous participants responded in isolation, each offering their own perspective without influence, debate, or judgment. In the end, 32 remained.
The result is a collection that’s part time chronicle, part thought experiment, and completely unlike anything you’ll find online. The book captures the most powerful, surprising, and moving insights that emerged from a year of radical curiosity—showing how anonymity and patience can spark connection in ways that speed and consensus never could.
Not a memoir. Not a manifesto. Something else. Something real, made slowly, on purpose. The Fax Club Experiment invites readers to step away from the noise of instant answers and rediscover the power of reflection, honesty, and community—built one question at a time.
