Worklife

Ramblings about workplace culture, life in Japan, and then some.

Archive for 2004


Upbeat

Woke up with a hang­over this morn­ing. It might be the effect of pain relief I took for the hang­over, because even half a dose of any drug does its job, even gets me high. Maybe I was already at the point of dis­cov­ery and hang­over some­how nudged it over the edge

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15 Jan, 2004 | No comments yet
From Feynman’s Rainbow

My Aus­tralian friend once men­tioned to me dur­ing his first visit to Japan that he noticed that eat­ing is inter­act­ing in Japan. At many sushi place, you grinde your own wasabi. We mix chopped nori, ground gin­ger to our taste at the table when we eat cold soba noodle

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13 Jan, 2004 | No comments yet
Searching for workplace change case studies

When I worked on a work­place change project for a non-Japanese com­pany in India last year, I thought my days were num­bered work­ing on Japan­ese com­pany projects. Now it appears as my days are num­bered for work­ing on Japan­ese com­pany projects

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07 Jan, 2004 | No comments yet
Development of innovation

Read­ing Jung is hard. He will not give me a break. He is not like Joseph Camp­bell who learned much from Jung, offer­ing com­fort­ing words, smooth way of acceptance

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03 Jan, 2004 | No comments yet


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