About
Christian in 10 seconds
I’m Christian Bareuther, a father, strategist, and long-time Tokyo resident writing about happiness, health, fulfillment, and how to live more fully alive.
Christian in 10 minutes
I care about energy, rhythm, agency, relationships, work, fatherhood, and the small daily choices that quietly shape a life. I’ve spent years building, measuring, recovering, simplifying, and learning what actually helps a human being feel alive instead of just functional.
Tokyo is home. It gives this journal its texture: density, beauty, precision, contradiction, movement, and space to pay closer attention.
Why KULA exists
KULA exists because modern life gives us more abundance than ever — more tools, information, comfort, AI, and opportunity — but not necessarily more peace, clarity, or aliveness.
This is where I think in public about turning abundance into something more human: energy, rhythm, agency, health, happiness, meaningful work, and a life that feels honest from the inside.
Long horizon
A simple image guides a lot of this: I want to dance with my son Otto at his 60th birthday.
That long horizon changes how I think about health, ambition, pace, recovery, relationships, and the kind of father and man I want to be over time.
Burnout, lightly held
Burnout and recovery are part of the story, but not the whole story. I’m less interested in dramatizing the crash than in understanding what creates a calmer, stronger, more sustainable way to live.
Values
Love. Authenticity. Curiosity. Health.
Get in touch
If something here resonates, send me a note.
I’m open to thoughtful conversations, collaborations, podcast ideas, and honest exchanges around happiness, health, fulfillment, energy, rhythm, agency, and living more fully alive.