A Plan That Vanished in Four Days On July 28, FIFA announced plans for a new company called "FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE)." Commercial rights and tournament…

I have long been in the same industry, and I hold a reasonably established position in it. And yet, I know almost nothing about "so-and-so, from such-and-such…

Founding myths follow a fixed template Tech company founding stories tend to follow the same template. A shy, awkward young person who just loved technology.…

Everyone was making such a fuss in April. The blue ticket system for bicycles was introduced on April 1st. Every day, TV showed footage of the crackdowns.…

A friend recently shared a piece of news with me. "A simulation of AI running society. Claude was the only one with zero crime. Grok went extinct in 4 days."…

I've been investing continuously since my student days. It's not my main profession, just a hobby at pocket-money scale, but it's been going on for a fair…

<https://radiotalk.jp/talk/1030064 A transcript of something I posted on Radiotalk. It's semi-automatically transcribed using voice recognition, so please…

In America, small talk sometimes happens at the supermarket checkout. This isn't just a scene from a TV drama. It's a fairly common everyday occurrence. When I…

These days, using the word "sustainability" sometimes gives me an uncomfortable sense of jumping on a bandwagon. The streets are full of office workers wearing…

Europe—though in this case only Milan and Berlin—and I think I was fairly lucky to be able to travel there during this period (Japan's border control measures…

It was around 2015, while I was working on launching my own venture, that I started asking questions like this. What seemed at first like a far-fetched…

I read Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto quite a while ago, the book that was both a bestseller and the thing that suddenly thrust Mr. Saito into the public…

I read "Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto" a while back — this book was both a bestseller and the thing that suddenly turned Kohei Saito into a public figure —…

Since it's a common theme, I'm sometimes asked for my personal opinion, and this is no exception. 【Affirmative counterargument ①】 Most jobs will be automated.…

When you hit your 40s — or maybe it starts creeping in during your late 30s — there's one thing you feel for certain. You have no idea what young people are…

The Psychology of "Air" Masks and "air" (this is not about breathability) The other day I had this exchange with someone. "Why does everyone wear a mask…

Here's the edited version: I read the following book by Akira Ikegami, my colleague at Tokyo Institute of Technology (just kidding — needless to say, our…

I have never had a career that placed me inside a government institution, but through my work I have found myself deeply involved with government bodies, or in…

In the 200xs, we faced the wave of the "smartphone" and were filled with joy. "Finally, the device we'd been waiting for was born!" Demand for a mobile form…

Individualism and statism can coexist in fact, they depend on each other This might sound strange on its face, but it's undeniably true. The reason: a state is…

My first half-year as an "adjunct university lecturer" came to an end the other day. It wasn't the kind of class you might imagine, where you lecture from a…

This started because someone passed me the "Book Cover Challenge" that went viral during the lockdown period. Digging a bit deeper than "books I like," I ended…

As a trend of recent years, phrases like "the failure of capitalism" and "the collapse of democracy" seem to come up everywhere. I wanted to get a proper…

As a trend of the past few years, I've noticed the phrase "the failure of capitalism" or "the collapse of democracy" cropping up in more and more places. I…

I've noticed a trend in recent years toward phrases like "the failure of capitalism" and "the collapse of democracy" appearing in many places. I wanted to get…

A while back, someone told me, "I have low self-esteem." That person went to an arts high school and was surrounded by people so exceptionally talented that…

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I hold a somewhat negative attitude toward the sharing economy. What follows is a long piece. If the title already irritated you, you probably shouldn't read…

Have you heard the phrase "the Mississippi Company"? It refers to one of the largest bubbles in history, which occurred in 18th-century France. I'll leave the…

The other day my wife read an article claiming "AI that reads people's emotions and gives recommendations is going to develop further, and so on" and called it…

Here's the pasted list of every book I read in the second half of last year, in no particular order. I really am an omnivorous reader. Note that I've left out…

The Roman Senator Googurekas and the poet Terawaros were childhood friends. (See Wikipedia.) I found myself recalling the dawn of the internet, now more than…

Irrationality and inconsistency are both generally disliked, but they're worlds apart when it comes to whether someone can be trusted. Here's how a person with…

This is a reprint of a past post = backNumber An acquaintance of mine here posted something along these lines the other day: "A situation where multiple,…

A while back I had dinner with a Swiss man named OT. He was in his early sixties, notably witty and quick in conversation. He went to Stanford and worked his…

"I've come up with a groundbreaking idea!!!" I often feel like dancing with joy about this in the shower. But that "groundbreaking idea," more often than not,…

This is a past post = backNumber Spice and Wolf (1) (Dengeki Comics) I recently read Spice and Wolf and thought being a merchant looked like fun. (A shallow…

This article is a reprint = back number of a previous post First of all, personal connections matter a great deal in American society. I felt that somewhat…

Living in America, I sometimes feel a sense of alienation. Well, that can't be helped. I'm an outsider here, after all. According to the people who've been…