<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>ESPL | Articles</title><description>Essays at the intersection of behavior change, AI, Web3, and healthcare — engineering reasons to walk. ESPL (Exercise Supplement).</description><link>https://espl.jp/</link><language>en</language><item><title>What makes ESPL advanced isn&apos;t that it&apos;s already AI — it&apos;s that the behavior-change execution structure that AI agents can plug into is already built</title><link>https://espl.jp/en/articles/2026-05-14-structure-before-ai-agent/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://espl.jp/en/articles/2026-05-14-structure-before-ai-agent/</guid><description>ESPL is a SaaS for behavior-change operations. It is not, today, an AI agent that autonomously designs challenges, moves funds, or executes distributions — humans do the configuration. But that configuration is itself the execution structure a future AI agent can be delegated to. What&apos;s advanced isn&apos;t &apos;AI inside,&apos; it&apos;s &apos;a place for AI to operate.&apos;</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ai</category><category>AI</category><category>AI agents</category><category>healthcare AI</category><category>SaaS</category><category>behavior change</category><category>commitment</category><category>JPYC</category><category>loss aversion</category><author>Hiroshi Tanimoto</author></item><item><title>Designed so not walking hurts — turning loss aversion into the reason to walk</title><link>https://espl.jp/en/articles/2026-05-12-loss-aversion-design/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://espl.jp/en/articles/2026-05-12-loss-aversion-design/</guid><description>People feel the pain of losing more strongly than the joy of an equivalent gain. ESPL converts that cognitive shape into a &apos;you lose if you don&apos;t walk&apos; mechanism, turning a walking habit that is hard to sustain into one that&apos;s easier to keep. The design philosophy, unpacked through behavioral economics.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>behavior-change</category><category>behavior change</category><category>loss aversion</category><category>behavioral economics</category><category>reasons to walk</category><category>commitment</category><author>Hiroshi Tanimoto</author></item></channel></rss>