Work life
- Japanese SNS Activities by Market Sector
About 3 years ago, I found myself doing some SNS based PR work for my friends, and one project lead to another. It has been exciting and fun to be involved within this new ground, and like everything else before in my life, work came in not as result of formal education, but learning by […]
...- 02 Feb, 2012 | Comments Off
- Happy New Year
Best wishes for the year 2012! At the end of 2011, I felt the important end to a phase in my life that lasted for 7 years. Call it, learning to be a leader phase. Of all the places, I learned how to be a leader from spending lots of time with my family. I could […]
...- 01 Jan, 2012 | Comments Off
- Creating best fit workplace
Mike Abelson and Yuri Shimizu’s Research is inspiring. Their ability to capture the spirit of things is amazing. I am stingy when it comes to spending my own money, but they make things so well, I end up buying them despite their price. I was inspired by their booklet , AT Work. I have found in […]
...- 10 Jan, 2011 | No comments yet
- New Year’s Greetings
When a new year starts with a sunrise like this, how can we top it? This morning was so beautiful. On some other days, people would see this and maybe a few would stop to admire the view, but this being a new year’s day, hundreds of people gathered around a good scenic spots to watch […]
...- 01 Jan, 2011 | No comments yet
- Obvious isn’t so obvious
When designer, researcher requests to see where the actions are, I most often take them to places where they didn’t realize of the connection with the product or service they are designing or researching. For instance, in Tokyo, I just can’t imagine purchasing iPad to use in my worklife. At home, there isn’t any place […]
...- 02 Dec, 2010 | No comments yet
- Picture does not come with history
Not a special scene to a lot of people. It’s a residential complex in Yokohama Japan. It becomes significant if you live there, or if you have some vested interest in some parts of this scene. You might live here. You might have built the building. I thought of how the light colors have changed […]
...- 30 Nov, 2010 | No comments yet
Every time we spend money, we make a statement about what we value; there’s no clearer or more direct indication. Thus, all inducements to spend money — print advertisements, radio and television commercials, mailers and the like — are primarily concerned with the inculcation of values. George Leonard When a company decides to do an […]
...- 24 Nov, 2010 | No comments yet
- Humans will be mostly manufactured
Maybe humanss will be manufactured, not born by year 2209. Look around now. We seem to have already made the choice. We are waiting for the technology to catch up. Kids in advanced country planted in front of PC or gaming device or some sort of machine, because there aren’t room for them to play outside. […]
...- 01 Aug, 2009 | No comments yet
- Use technology to communicate better
The title seem lame: use technology to commuincate better. I hear often that we already use too much technology and not enough face-to-face real life communicaiton. It seems many of us had enough of fragmented, tedius, limiting technology communicaiton in text messaging, both in forms of e-mail and homepages including blogs. In the world of […]
...- 29 May, 2009 | No comments yet
- President of a major global company, president of a country
Watching Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s speech at UCLA for the inauguration of UCLA Chancellor Gene D. Block, I started to think of the responsibilities of a president of a major global company and a president of a country. Both are ultimately leaders who’s action and decisions affects everyone within his/her company or country. Just as with a […]
...- 02 Apr, 2009 | No comments yet
