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Be trustworthy.

How to treat children from the youngest kindergarten class to middle school age.

I feel that the use of the word "nowadays" makes it even more difficult to deal with children, but I found a book that is very easy to understand (out of respect for the author, I will deviate from the original citation grammar), so I will quote it at some length.

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The Adult Who Hates Children
By Zhu Mo Note (Author)
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Some adults want to mount against children.

I think this is because the leaders and teachers want to take the initiative in subsequent instruction and classes.

But for some people, it is counterproductive.

Children will listen to those they trust without having to be mounted.

I also like people who are fun and friendly.

However, I am not interested in people telling old saga stories or bragging about how their students are such famous people.

The same thing can be said in conversations between men and women. Some people may think that "bragging about how great you are" and "stories about how bad you used to be" are great as long as they are told to the opposite sex, whom they think they like, but in general, those who listen to them are tired.

A slightly violent story, especially from the Showa or early Heisei period, should be disliked not only by the child but also by the parents who heard the story from the child.

If something goes wrong, you may be the first to be suspected, saying, "That teacher (instructor) used to talk about this kind of thing.

The attitude of "you're not ready yet" without praising a child who has learned to do a few things is also not good.

There is also a way to praise them if they do even a little and let them get better and better at it.

It would be difficult to talk negatively there and take it in the direction of artisanal thinking that would make them want to be "recognized" unless it is a "special group" or other group of specially gifted children, etc.

Because if the class gets to that level, it is likely to be a group of kids who are competitive and goal-oriented.

Be aware that unnecessary adult awareness at the beginning of that competition, instrument, or study can reduce children's interest and, in some cases, cause them to rebel.
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The more I read, the more I think that it is not only the same for today's children, but also for today's corporate management.

If you try to elicit the conditioned reflex of "wanting to be recognized" by using the unattainability of grandiose goals, they will immediately see through your artifice and say, "Oh, really? They don't want to hear about the sagas and boasts of 5 or 10 years ago, which are not realistic for them.

No matter what time of year, no matter what position or form you are in, no matter what time frame you are feeling or reacting to, at the end of the day, you must be a person who can be trusted.

I believe that is universally true.

To pick and choose or not to pick and choose

Today, when everything is offered as a service, "picking and choosing" has become a very common act.

It is so obvious that one might ask what I am talking about.

I'll give you a few.

Find and select a private school that looks good for your child.

Find and pick and choose the services that will help you with your household chores.

Find and pick and choose images online for your enjoyment.

Find and select an MBA school to advance your career.

Find and pick and choose support services for distant parents.

Find and select the services you want to operate for your own retirement.

There are many others.

What these actions have in common is that they are "listing and comparing".

Digging a little deeper, I think it is based on a style of thinking that tries to reach the goal in the shortest possible distance.

This is natural since there is much to do and time is limited.

However, what should we do if we eventually become tired of "picking and choosing" from too many choices every day?

I can think of two extreme directions.

One would eliminate even the process of choosing = listing and comparing.

In short, promote "recommendations," "templates," and "routines.

The other is the opposite of picking and choosing: not picking and choosing.

Since we will not be using outside services (i.e., there will be no third-party assistance), we will have to do it ourselves anyway, which will take time and effort, but we have no choice.

Even so, it is not all bad.

If I do it by myself, there is only so much I can do, and I can rethink whether I was being a bit greedy and narrow down what I should be doing.

You should paint a picture that looks like it.

When I redecorated one of the rooms in my office, I could see a large, black wall.

Since the interior work was done a long time ago, the marks where things have bumped into each other and rubbed against each other are inevitably noticeable.

Just as I was about to repaint it in black or white, a passage from a book I read the other day came back to me.

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Adventures in the Underground World
Will Hunt (Author), Shiyuki Tanahashi (Translator)
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Fourteen thousand years ago, we were on the path followed by the last Madeleans to enter this cave.

The Madeleine culture, which lasted from 17,000 to 12,000 years ago, is a prominent feature of European prehistory.

Prior to this, the Solutrean (22,000 to 17,000 years ago) and Gravettian (32,000 to 22,000 years ago) cultural periods also had their own periods of brilliance.

They made elegant stone vessels, sculpted beautiful small, portable statues such as the Goddess of Willendorf with her buttocks accentuated, and painted breathtaking murals of animals in the famous "Chauvet Cave".

But the Madeleines were master craftsmen.

You could call it the Florentine Renaissance of the Paleolithic period.

The reindeer and bison they depicted in "Lascaux" and "Altamira" were so exquisite that they could not be considered ancient artifacts, and early archaeologists even declared them to be fabrications.
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It is not enough to just reapply a coat of paint just because it is dirty.

The walls we see all the time are where we express our style, so we should paint a picture that is typical of us.

Yes, the 15th anniversary of the founding of the company, if you want to dabble in this.

So we decided to paint a mural in our office.

At such a time and such a place.

Several times a year, we are asked, "Would you be willing to have our child work as an intern?" We are asked several times a year.

When that happens, I tell them, "Well, as a flow, I have no discretion at all (as to whether or not to hire). I tell them, "I'm sorry to trouble you, but please apply through the website.

I am sorry that I am not really involved in the hiring of students, but even so, I am always struck by the anxious mouths of the parents.

After completing compulsory education in elementary school and junior high school, students proceed to high school, vocational school, and college before finding employment.

What parents can do for young people around the age of 20.

I don't think there's much, I don't think they'd like it.

I felt that way.

But if you start to think about it, it seems different.

If the earth rumbles in your parents' ears with the rapid march of neo-liberalism that incorporates everything into the marketplace.

If everything is integrated into the market, that is, if children's way of life is relative as a number and they have no choice but to constantly compete with each other.

I don't want to send my children to such a place, but if it is inevitable, I want to let them stand in society well ahead of the rest of us.

If such thoughts are transparent, this will be seen as a kind of defensive instinct against society, or a resistance activity.

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Neo-liberalism (neo-liberalism)
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An economics school of thought that, since 1930, has advocated a reevaluation of individual freedom and market principles in response to the social market economy, and that government intervention in individuals and markets should be kept to a minimum.

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Yasuhiro Nakasone, who assumed the prime minister's office in 1982, promoted "private-sector projects" to utilize the vitality of the private sector for social development without any fiscal burden, and further privatized three public corporations: Japan Monopoly Public Corporation, Japan National Railways, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation. Later, neoliberal policies were succeeded by the Hashimoto administration's financial Big Bang and the Koizumi administration's deregulation through sanctuary-free structural reforms.
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I guess it's Sweets at the end of the day.

In my unusually busy schedule, I had completely forgotten about the purification ceremony of Natsukoshi-no-harae.

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Great Purification
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Oharae (大祓え, Oharai) is one of the purification ceremonies of the Japanese Shinto religion.

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Although Natsukoshi-no-harukeri was not established as a vacation period by a proclamation of the Dajokan in 1873, Natsukoshi-no-harukeri, which can be seen in the poem "Mizunagatsu no nagoshi-no-harukeru-hito wa chitose no meinobu-to ufunari" as "title unknown" and "yomi hito unknown" in the "Collection of Poems", is an annual event that has been observed in the private sector from ancient times, It is one of the annual events that have been observed in the private sector since ancient times, and various customs have been preserved.

It is thought that the reason why the ceremony was held in summer was to prevent epidemics and to keep people healthy during the remaining six months of the year by replacing clothes with new ones once every six months before summer, when germs tend to multiply.

It was also a reminder to get through this harsh period of the year, when the rainy season ends on the last day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar and the summer season of intense heat and drought begins in most areas.
It was also a reminder to get through this harsh time of year.

If you have forgotten, you have missed out on Mizunazuki, a Japanese confectionery associated with this event.

As I think about how I didn't get them for everyone this year, I'm beginning to wonder, oh, why is Natsukoshi Mizunashi?

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Mizunazuki (Japanese confectionery)
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According to Nyosen Fujimoto's "Japanese Confectionery" (1968), mizunazuki in its current form was first made by a Japanese confectionery in Kyoto in the Showa period (1926-1989), and was incorporated into food events.

It is said that the white Uiro cut into triangles represents the ice of "Hyokuro no Sekku" or the half of a square to indicate the half of a year, and the red color of azuki beans is also believed to have the meaning of warding off bad luck.
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Surprisingly, to think that it had the same origin as Valentine's Day chocolates.

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Valentine's Day
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It was partially done by foreigners who came to Japan before World War II, and shortly after World War II, the distribution and confectionery industries attempted to popularize it for sales promotion, but it did not take root in Japanese society until the late 1970s.

It is said that the owner of the confectionery store, who was troubled by the drop in sales every February, came up with the idea of this project.

It was around this time that the "Japanese Valentine's Day" style of "women giving chocolate to men as a token of their affection" was established.

Culturally, Japanese men did not have the custom of giving gifts to women, so it did not take root. When the catchphrase was changed to "gifts from women to men," it gradually became popular.

It is said to have been a successful commercial success due to the confectionery store's planning and advertising, catch copy, publicity methods, and tag-teaming with department stores.

It is said that Kunio Hara of Merry Chocolate Kamppany, a confectionery company in Ota-ku, Tokyo, was the first to devise and practice the idea of giving chocolates on Valentine's Day.

Hara is said to have given the catchphrase "Once a year, a day when a woman can confide her love to you.
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I felt a bit dusty.

Even with the ostentatious name of "Natsukoshi no Purification" or the commemorative name to celebrate the saint, in the end, it's all about the sweets.

If we were to break the ice a few times a year and say, "I knew it was the right thing to do, to simply eat good food and celebrate," I'm sure people would look at us with smiles that would spill over.

Rewrite the organization as information

It occurred to me to do a thought experiment that is typical of IT companies.

First, assume that everything in the organization can be converted into a "flow of information".

In short, everything is considered "information flow," including the contents of e-mails and meetings, casual daily conversations, teaching and learning, hiring new people, getting to know someone you don't know, preparing quotations and contracts, issuing invoices and checking payments, managing cash flow, setting up office facilities and work rules, checking attendance time, enhancing security, and so on. Checking office equipment and work rules, checking time and attendance, enhancing security, etc., are all considered "information flow.

The question then becomes how best to route (design routes) if one is in a position to have a bird's eye view of all information.

This does not mean that because you are the head of the organization, you are authorized to view all information, but it is a hypothetical situation where you really have access to all information.

In a normal work site, it is enough to process the information coming from one person's point of view sequentially, but in this case, it is difficult to keep track of everyone's information at the same time.

Even if it were for one day in an organization of 10 people, the simple addition of all the information volumes would be enormous.

Furthermore, as time passes, current information creates new information as a chain of new information, which, if left alone, will accumulate linearly (whether in a straight line or a curve).

The image is that if nothing is done, a lot of unread mail will accumulate.

Now, what should we do?

First, consider the method of selection & prioritization.

The granularity of information is determined in advance and divided into appropriate sizes.

Prioritize the divisions based on the measure of their impact on the organization as a whole.

A category that affects more than one category is considered higher than one category.

Select from the top of the priority list and discard the lower ranges.

This way, the amount of information can be reduced, since the resource of attention can be devoted only to the top priorities.

However, risks remain.

What may seem to have a small impact from the perspective of the organization as a whole may miss the larger impact from the perspective of society outside the organization.

We will call this the top-down "single viewpoint trap.

Second, consider node & filtering methods.

Determine the important nodes (nodes) that will serve as hubs and spokes, and establish filtering (screening) functions at these nodes.

In layman's terms, information is gathered from the members to the head of the department, and the head of the department makes a comprehensive judgment and then gives the information to a higher node.

If the node takes a hierarchical structure, the more steps you go through, the more the information decays.

This is also a risk.

It is easy to make partially-optimal decisions only around important nodes, an issue that can easily delay information when there is a hierarchy or when nodes are far from each other.

Partially optimized node-by-node information arrives at different times, and as a result, it takes longer to make a policy decision as a whole, which may magnify the bad effects.

We will call this the bottom-up "multiple node trap.

Third, consider redundancy & compression techniques.

It applies what is used in information theory to minimize the number of packets to be sent.

Compresses data by treating similar portions of all information as identical.

If you have information that X = {A, A', A'', A''', B, B'}, it is shorter to do something like {A*4, B*2}.

Therefore, if all information that is similar to each other is considered redundant and identical, it can be compressed, thus reducing the amount of information while maintaining the overall structure.

This also has risks.

If too many parts are made similar, the compression ratio may be too high and the information may not be understood at the destination.

On the other hand, if the resolution is increased too much, there is no place to compress.

In other words, it is difficult to determine the criteria for what constitutes similarity or not.

We will call this the "redundancy level trap" due to resolution.

For reasons of space limitations, I cannot expand further, so I will force my way into a summary.

Since there is an overwhelming increase in information within organizations compared to 10 or 20 years ago, I propose that we should work on organizational networks as informatics rather than organizational charts as geometry or taxonomy, without being afraid of various traps when new problems arise.

Recursive Narrative

When talking to engineers, "Recursion (recursion) is all about finding the right structure.

So this time, I will use recursion to go a little farther.

First, from the definition of precondition recursion

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Recursion (Recursion)
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Recursion, or recursive, refers to the occurrence of references to the thing being described in a description of the thing itself.

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When an object is placed between parallel matching mirrors, its image is reflected infinitely in the mirrors. Thus, when something is partially composed of itself or defined by itself, it is said to be "recursive.

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Linguist Noam Chomsky and others have argued that the fact that there is no upper limit to the number of eligible sentences and no upper limit to the length of eligible sentences in a language can be explained as a consequence of recursion in natural language.

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Programming languages that have the concept of procedures and functions often allow the procedure itself to be called again within a procedure. This is called a recursive call, and is suitable for describing algorithms that have an inherently recursive structure (recursive algorithms), such as factorial calculus and the Fibonacci sequence.

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Shapes that appear to have resulted from recursive processes, such as structures in which one large part branches into several smaller self-similar parts (fractals), are sometimes seen in plants and animals. The vegetable romanesco is an example.

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The matryoshka doll, which originated in Russia, is an example of physical modeling of the concept of recursion, and in Japan such forms are also called "neshi-zaiku.

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A 1956 work by Maurits Escher (Print Gallery (M. C. Escher)) is a print depicting a distorted city, including a gallery with recursive paintings, in an endlessly stately composition.
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In light of this, I feel that the management of the company is extremely recursive.

A similar word is "regression," which means "to return to the original position or state, or to repeat it," so management would still be recursive.

Let me give you a simple example.

Today I am going to read and listen to a talk to think about finances.

After a moment's pondering, we decide that this is the best way to go about it and take action.

Three months later, I think about finances once more.

I already thought this through last time, but I will look over it again.

We find unexpected challenges from a different angle and decide to tackle them.

Then, three months later, we will delve further into the financials once more.

If you think it won't happen again, you will find new challenges.

It's not just the same situation, it's a crux back using the structure that has been in place.

They never tire of returning, wandering from theme to theme.

So, for me, management is a "story that can be continued.

Asked about all kinds of "growth".

Every few months a representative interview comes along.

This is the last issue of the series, which is early in the year.

We were asked about "growth" from all angles.

Surprisingly, growth is difficult to put into words.

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- I'm a little nervous about this last installment. Let me start by asking you about Mogic's growth to date. I understand that you started out as a one-person consulting firm. Why did you decide to add more people?

Yamane: Since we registered as a joint stock company, we decided that we would work with others somewhere else.

But if you start a company with a few people, the fixed costs will be heavy.

These are things like labor costs and rent.

To get the project off the ground while financing it, we had to work hard to prepare a large amount of funds at the beginning.

I wanted to do it more loosely and thoughtfully, so I started alone.

Fortunately, I got a job from a friend and acquaintance, and within a few months it looked like we could make it work, so we put a team together.

Let's grow up! Rather, I just wanted to do more of what I could do.

- It took you about a year to start your own branded service after you started your business. What did you need to do to start your own service?

Yamane: After all, it is very difficult to create and expand a service all by ourselves (laughs).

No wonder.

After choosing a field that could become a business, planning, gathering people, working out the funding, and managing the schedule, we finally release the product.

Furthermore, that's where the real challenge begins. There are running costs for servers, development, promotion, and marketing, but we can't devote that much time or resources.

So I was always looking for ways to get it off the ground with the least amount of man-hours.

It is quite different from working for a company to create a service, so we had to carefully manage our own resources and gradually got better at it.

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