Mogic considers

'We can build the company the way we want to.
We will do what we believe in, even if it is different or unusual.
Because what we can believe in is surprisingly rare.
Yes, we have been searching for it in a truly honest, straightforward, and sincere manner.

Representative Director Yoichi Yamane

September 29, 2025

To a partner with a different background

Teaching and being taught is difficult.

I can't get the message across at all, no matter how much I try.
I don't know what to do after I've been taught.
The ideal person is someone who can naturally lead me to a great place.

Every time I heard a plausible(?) I was pacified every time I heard an opinion, but I wondered what I should really do.

To put it bluntly, since the other person and I are different people, I think it is essentially "impossible to teach/be taught.

And the fact that someone did well is predicated on his or her experience, personality, and timing.

If another person imitates it verbatim, there is no guarantee that it will work anywhere.

The dishonesty of continuing to teach/learn with the uncertainty that

But that doesn't mean you want to give up on delivering something to someone from a different background.

But, I don't know what to do.

I wonder what is good to be communicated and how it should be.

It was around this time that I came across the sentence of a single scoop.

I think that is still the basis of how we teach at Mogic.

oooooooooooooooooooooooo
Reading the Heart of Poetry
Noriko Ibaraki (Author)
h ttps:// www.iwanami.co.jp/book/b269008.html

If anything truly deserves the name of education, it is when one is able to educate oneself.

We are very passive when it comes to education, thinking that someone will take care of us, but it is much more active.

I feel that education is complete when you can develop within yourself the most demanding teacher.

Schools are there to provide a little guidance to help you achieve this.

Ishigaki Rin, a high school elementary school graduate, has written many times that he has always felt inferior in terms of his educational background, or perhaps he does not realize it, but he appears to be a rare person who has been able to educate himself rigorously.
He is a rare person who was able to educate himself strictly.

September 17, 2025

We want to seize the future for ourselves.

When it comes to running a company, there are roughly 11 layers of time ranges alone.

1st layer: tens of seconds to minutes
2nd layer: 1-2 hours
Layer 3: 6-8 hours
Layer 4: 2-3 days
Layer 5: 10 days
Layer 6: 1-3 months
Layer 7: 6-12 months
Layer 8: 2-3 years
Layer 9: 5 years
Layer 10: 10-15 years
Layer 11: 30 years

If we include one more unit, it is the spatial width.

Layer 1: I'm reading my e-mail.
Layer 2: You are working alone, such as creating a document
Layer 3: I am listening to what the other person is saying.
Layer 4: Confirming that you understand what the other person is saying.
Layer 5: You are listening to more than one person.
Layer 6: I understand what more than one person is saying and then confirm it.
Layer 7: I am listening to the status of the project
Layer 8: I understand and confirm the project
Tier 9: I am looking at the degree of interference of multiple projects
Tier 10: I evaluate and correct each project
Tier 11: I am looking at the degree of cooperation between departments, etc.

If one more unit is included, it is the range of occupational categories.

1st Piece: General Affairs / General Affairs
2nd one: Human Resources
3rd Piece: Accounting
4th one: Finance
5th: Legal
Sixth: Sales
7 pcs: Marketing
8 pcs: Development
9 pcs: Design
10: Quality Control
11th: Information Systems, etc.

In addition, of course, we need to look at people and

1st piece: tone of voice, facial expression, gesture
Second: Tone and wording of what is said.
Third: Comprehension of the request.
Fourth: Sensitivity to deadlines
Fifth: Personality and special skills
Sixth: Persistence and carelessness
Number 7: Inner motivation
Eighth: Emotional presentation
Number 9: Strong thinking style
10: Stance toward collaboration
11: Previous ways of working, etc.

When people come together, there is an organization.

First piece: office equipment
Piece 2: Work rules and evaluation system
Piece 3: Department names and roles
Piece 4: Project decisions and progress
5: Roles and advancement for each position
6: Establish work flow
7: Determination of communication methods
Piece 8: Approval and decision-making process
Pt. 9: Adjustment of values
10th piece: How to deal with problems
Eleventh: Training and recruitment flow, etc.

If you have an organization, you need a strategy.

First piece: Economic and social trends
2nd piece: Development of the industry
Piece 3: Entry and exit of players
Fourth: Steps in financing and equipment procurement
Fifth: Speed of know-how accumulation
Sixth: Degree of human resource development
7: Project length
Eighth: Optimal combination of multiple projects
9. Thinking to transform weaknesses into strengths
10 pt. 10: Evaluation of a vast number of future scenarios
Eleventh: Calculate and recover from risks, etc.

If we only inflate the risk.

First one: Influence of world affairs
2nd piece: Economic cycles
Third: Changes in regulations
Number 4: Increased competition
Fifth: Decline in value
Sixth: Mismanagement of funds
Number 7: Deterioration in quality
Number 8: Retirements and organizational breakdown
Number 9: Cyber attack information leakage
Number 10: Breach of contract or conflict of interest
Eleventh: Compliance violations, etc.

A surprisingly large number of payments are made to government and local governments.

1st: Corporate income tax
2nd: Corporate inhabitant tax
3rd : Enterprise tax
4th: Local corporation tax
5: Consumption tax and local consumption tax
6: Fixed property tax
7: Health insurance
8: Employees' pension insurance
9: Unemployment insurance
10: Workers' accident compensation insurance
11th item: burden of payment of source and social insurance, etc.

Phew, I am exhausted just writing this out, but of course there is more.

So, as you have already guessed, there can be all kinds of trouble and bad luck ahead of a huge number of combinations.

And yet, why do you still want to run the company?

If you cannot answer that question, you will probably lose heart at some point.

We wanted to "grab hold of a future we could believe in, even if we had to go that far.

It doesn't matter if you scarfed down a souvenir from Hokkaido in the early afternoon, sliced up the last watermelon of the year, or snacked on Daifuku in the middle of autumn (or something like that yesterday).

If you feel it has meaning and value, go for it.

Even if you are teetering on an endless sea of possibilities, you will soon discover what is important as soon as you ride the wave of "uniqueness".

So it is simple in one sense and easy in another.

2025.09.05

Closing month is something of a set-up.

This September is the closing month for Mogic.

I thought back to how things used to be during this time of year, so I traced Mogic's history on our in-house wiki.

September 2010: Three-person meeting at Royal Host in Shakujii
September 2011: Moved into first office and purchased a large number of MFPs, chairs, etc.
September 2012: Built news media in one month & celebratory barbecue
September 2013: LearnO press release with over 50,000 users in 1 year
September 2014: Significantly increased the number of open positions for employees & played with electric kickboards
▪ September 2015: Expanded by signing a contract for a 1st/2nd floor in addition to the 3rd/4th floor at the current office
▪ September 2016: almost complete division of labor in the company's workflow
▪ September 2017: Temporary response to a major object storage failure
▪ September 2018: Creation of a design subsidiary
▪ September 2019: Go live with our own recruitment management tool
▪ September 2020: Renewal of the Mogic website & launch of the ordering department
・September 2021: Release of remote work after the Corona disaster
September 2022: Logo installed after obtaining ISMS certification
September 2023: Final screen build for LearnO rebranding
September 2024: Preparation of Good Design award presentation

I still feel that the end of the term is somewhat eventful.

I'm stuck in the middle of the year, so I think I'll set something up now.

August 22, 2025

bad things will happen in rapid succession

We often see explosive growth, or exponential amplification.

To put it simply, it is a graph that is growing steadily and quickly toward the upper right corner of the graph.

Because it is intuitively positive, it is often used to make an appeal in business settings.

Contrary to this, however, "exponential decay" is almost never mentioned.

The graph that sinks into the lower right corner, which seemed to make more sense than expected, so I will try to deepen it.

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Exponential decay
h ttps:// w.wiki/6Jsy

Exponential decay, or exponential decay, is the rate at which a quantity decreases is proportional to the amount by which it decreases.
loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

This is a bit circuitous, so let me try to express it with a simple example.

What would happen if there were 1000 treats and 10% of that time was lost each day? Let's assume that

1st day: 1000 pieces - 100 pieces * 10% = 900 pieces
2nd day: 900 pieces - 900 pieces * 10% = 810 pieces
3rd day: 810 pieces - 810 pieces * 10% = 729 pieces
4th day: 729 pieces - 729 pieces * 10% = 656 pieces
5th day: 656 pieces - 656 pieces*10% = 590 pieces
・・・・・
Day 10: 387 pieces - 387 pieces*10% = 349 pieces
・・・・・
Day 15: 228 pieces - 228 pieces*10% = 206 pieces
・・・・・
Day 20: 135 - 135 * 10% = 121
・・・・・
30th day: 47 - 47 * 10% = 42

What I can roughly tell is that there is a sudden decrease at the beginning, and the rest is blah.

If it were linear, it would proceed more leisurely, and this would be the most important characteristic of exponential decreasing.

So if you feel, "Oh, why did things suddenly get worse?" and then "Why do bad things keep piling up?" you may be indicating exponential decay.

How should we think about applying this phenomenon in business?

To do so, we must first understand the "background of exponential, not linear".

If we cannot identify the conditions under which the exponential effect is at work, the comparison with linear will be meaningless.

The expectation that immediately comes to mind is that if the elements in a group (set) are independent and discrete, it is likely to be linear, and if the elements are connected to each other like a network, it will be exponential.

If we take "happiness" as an example, the elements that make up happiness (money to spend as one pleases, job satisfaction, dependable friends and family, one's own identity, free time, comfortable environment, etc.) are interconnected, so if even one of them deteriorates, the chain of events will cause a rapid decline in happiness. If even one of these factors deteriorates, it will cause a rapid decline in happiness.

There may be others, but please note that this is just a small application.

Then the guiding principle would be, "If a situation is found that deteriorates rapidly, it should not be treated as a single cause," and "Operations that span many departments must be tackled first, even though they are difficult.

We won't know until we try it, but it will at least prepare us for a rapidly worsening event.

August 08, 2025

Hell's lid opens and closes.

We will be on Obon vacation for about 9 days starting tomorrow.

Since this is a slightly longer vacation, preparations are being made here and there.

I water my desk plants, set up auto-replies to inquiries, check the emergency contact network in case of emergencies, and check the door locks in places I might accidentally leave.

Yeah, well, we all know this area very well, so it is as stable as usual.

A sense of stability that moves forward without missing a beat, ummm, and therefore a sense of uneasiness that arises from the question, "Is this the right thing to do?

It's because of the unchanging Obon that we can stop and think about it for a moment.

So, I have done a little research on Obon.

I will start by quoting the origin from wiki.

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
h ttps:// w.wiki/3snB

It is called "Bon" (generally "Obon") as an abbreviation of the Buddhist term "Uranbonkai.

Bon" literally means a container in which offerings to the spirits are placed, so it became a name for the spirits who are enshrined with offerings, and some say that it became confused with Uran-bon and merged with Uran-bon.

In Chinese culture, there is a custom, centering on Taoism, to designate the seventh month of the lunar calendar as the "demon month. The belief that the lid of hell opens on the first day of the seventh lunar month and closes on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, the Zhong Yuan Festival, is thought to have been influenced by Taoism.

The Mid-Yuan Festival is still celebrated with great fanfare as an ancestor worship event, especially in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and southern China.

The definite origin of the tray is not known.

It is said that the early spring festival became a New Year's festival because it emphasized the divine status of the ancestral spirit as the god of the year, and the early autumn festival became a Buddhist event by merging with Uran-bon. The early autumn version is said to have merged with Uran-bon, and became a Buddhist event.

In Japan, the custom of holding ancestral memorial services in summer is believed to have been established around the 8th century.

abbreviation

On the evening of the 16th, the day after the 15th Bon festival, men and women of all ages gather at temples and shrines to dance, which is called Bon Odori.

It is said to imitate the state of joyous dancing of the departed who have been spared the torments of hell. It is the climax of the summer festival.

Note that the newly held Bon Dances are often held at a slightly different time of the year to avoid competition with other Bon Dances.
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Obon as a traditional event that has existed for more than 1,000 years.

Ancestral offerings, offerings to the spirits, and Taoist and Buddhist influences are all intertwined in Obon.

Obon dance to prevent new Bon Odori from being clashed with other Bon Odori.

The image that comes to mind is that of an outcropping where various thoughts of each era are folded and piled up.

It is a tray that does not seem to be a straightforward process, but it is what it is.

This must be a rare time when the lid of hell opens and then closes again, so I hope that we will be able to nourish our spirits during this period of dimensional overlap and push forward toward the New Year.

July 23, 2025

Unable to detect slow speeds.

We are audited several times a year for security.

Security" is a word that is spoken casually and heard everywhere, but it is a word that you may or may not understand, so I thought I would delve a little deeper.

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
h ttps:// w.wiki/EpNe

There are terms (concepts) commonly used with respect to security.

1: RISK - The potential for a situation or circumstance to cause some loss. It can also refer to the likelihood of loss (risk factor) identified as a result of analyzing possible threats.

2: vulnerability - the cause of the risk.

3: threat - A means of exploiting (exploit) a vulnerability to make the risk real.

4: countermeasure - A measure that attempts to deter (minimize) a threat from making the risk a reality. Also called countermeasures.

5: ASSURANCE - An estimate of the "certainty" of having the expected security.

6: evaluation - providing supporting evidence of assurance.
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Of these, it is the vulnerability and threat portions that I thought would eventually become troublesome.

This is because they are more susceptible to outside influences than other items and will likely change more slowly over time.

A small distortion may produce a squeak, a repetitive rattle, and a thud.

I think the gradual speed of that displacement is difficult for humans to perceive.

In light of this, we can rethink security from a "changeable place".

List the most changeable places in the company in order and track their rate of change.

For example, the entry and exit of new employees, reorganization and reorganization of the organization, the lines of communication between workers, the flow of money in and out of the organization, and the things that people carry with them.

I would love to do such a slow-mo audit, fast-forwarding through time.

July 08, 2025

I think with a head that reaches and cools in the irritating winds

In the old saying, this time of year should be called "Atsukaze-tsuki" (warm winds prevailing).

The sun is shining and warm winds are blowing from a looming high-pressure system.

Today, however, the heat is so intense that it can be described as a "kafu-dera.

It feels like a physical tease, like the heat of getting back at you.

I had to take a breather to catch my breath, so I took a summer vacation a little early and went far away from home.

Of course, I take time off to take care of my overheated body, so I may or may not look at my company e-mail or chat once a day.

It is because we receive very little information about the company compared to usual that we can see a lot more about the company than we might expect.

"You've been unusually urgent since this morning, how are you going to proceed?
"Today is Tanabata, so they are planning to hold an event.
We're discussing a new workflow, but how do we decide what to do?

With such concern, I can't help it, so I pretend to forget about it.

It was a pretense, but I was so distracted by the breeze that blew through that I forgot about it.

The next morning, when I looked at it as I remembered it, all that remained was a trace that something had been spoken.

I think, "Hmmm, I guess they self-organize on site.

When worrying about others only leads to loss, the next thing you think about is yourself.

I wonder if I was able to do what is natural for a manager to do. Did we constantly ask, 'What should we do and what should we not do?

If I were to return to the city in the heat of the sun with the intention of getting my cool head working again, I would have to start with that first, right?

June 23, 2025

Compression of intelligence at the social level.

As computers and the Internet have become more widespread, we are able to look at information in more and more detail.

For simplicity's sake, let's take the example of an advertisement.

In the past, when we placed an ad in a magazine, we could somehow guess who would see it based on circulation and readership, and we somehow received more inquiries and orders.

When this goes online, the number of times the ad is displayed, its location, the number of clicks, and from the click to the purchase are displayed as exact numbers.

In some cases, we even know what the user was doing with the mouse.

This is great enough, but recently the scope of what we can know has expanded even further.

It is a feeling that can be traced back quite far and deep, zoooooooooooooong.

Apparently, the evolution of technology increases the dimension of observation, and I will start with a quote from the text that mentions it.

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
The Life No One Knows: Assembly Theory Reveals Life and Its Origins
Sarah Imari Walker (Author), Jun Mizutani (Translator)
h ttps:// str.toyokeizai.net/books/9784492800997/

Later, when human society invented the microscope and telescope, more complex ways of "seeing" evolved.

Microscopes made it possible to see into the previously unknown microscopic world, leading to various discoveries ranging from living cells to elementary particles.

Telescopes made it possible to see farther into space, and satellites orbiting other planets and planets orbiting other stars were discovered.

abbreviation

In this sense, our technology is a nearby filter, so to speak, through which we evolve to see reality in new ways.

abbreviation

Thus, in the broadest possible sense, technology is the knowledge (information selected over time) that makes possible the existence of something that could not originally exist, and the application of that knowledge.

abbreviation

One of the most widely discussed of the technologies currently emerging on the planet is artificial intelligence.

It is often argued that artificial intelligence is insubstantial and even out of the evolutionary stream.

But the technologies we are developing today - large-scale language models, computer vision, automated devices - are not divorced from the biosphere that created them.

It is nothing less than a new capacity of life realized again in a new substrate.

And with it, intelligent life on a new scale, a planetary scale, is about to emerge.

abbreviation

Artificial intelligence, which is being developed, is another important piece because it can process data on a large enough scale to see objects as deep in time as we do.

In this sense, artificial intelligence is another technology of perception.

Compress the vast amount of data that describes us as a collective (like a society) into a length and timescale that individual humans can understand and interact with.

In doing so, it allows us to observe ourselves for the first time in a fundamental and more abstract way.

Some people marginalize ChatGPT not because it is human-level intelligence (as has been argued here and there), but because it compresses social-level intelligence to the human scale.
loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I wanted to convey the nuance well, and the quote is long.

This is the part that concerns me the most

'It's not human-level intelligence, it's social-level intelligence compressed onto a human scale.'

What this means is that the essential way to deal with artificial intelligence is "not" an extension of daily conversations and meetings.

In other words, I think that the empirically acquired technique of conversing one-on-one or discussing with several people does not fully raise the dimension of observation.

Sensibly speaking, you need tension (and from the perspective of artificial intelligence, many attention heads and layers) to have an instantaneous ba-ba-ba conversation with the entire society that has been accumulated so far.

And since a huge amount of information is delivered in a folded format, the world has become a convenient but also frightening place to live in.

Latest Articles

Interview with Representative

Monthly Archives