Mogic considers

Infodemics and News Deserts

The pandemic caused by coronas has brought a huge influx of information to the Internet.

The phenomenon is called an information epidemic.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has an interesting page on infodemic surveys.

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Current Information Circulation on New Coronavirus Infections
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Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting (2020) estimates that the world's information transmission capacity has expanded 68 times since the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) epidemic of 2002.
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And although it depends on the method of calculation, the title of the Detroit Tohmatsu research report is "Information Transmission Increased 1.5 Million Times in a Century - Rapid Contagion of Information "Infodemics"". In particular, the amount of information and number of contents seem to be having a major impact.

While there is a flood of information, there is also the problem of news deserts.

This refers to the phenomenon that local newspapers in the U.S. are increasingly disappearing with the rise of online media and are no longer providing necessary news to local residents.

Infodemics flooded with information and news deserts depleted of local news.

If only human cognitive capacity could increase 1.5 million-fold in a century, but given that not much has changed, how can we cope with "information that swells and dries up"?

I wonder if there should be a course called "cooking practice of information (infocooking)" at least from elementary school.

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Reference information: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Promotion of Information Education
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Message in a bottle

Now I am just called "representative" anymore, and I rarely have the opportunity to teach interns or new graduates directly.

It may or may not happen once after the first month of employment.

The executive directors and chiefs are following up on this, so there's no way to get out.

That's all well and good, but a little rusty, I started to create a column site that only those who work at Mogic can read.

There are many miscellaneous topics, from basic knowledge as a member of society, job hunting problems, things to think about in your 20s, the three major expenses of life, the story of how Mogic was created, the stance we want our employees to take, and so on. All in all, there are probably about 200 articles.

The atmosphere at Mogic is a bit different, so I hope people will look at it when they wonder, "Why so many events and education?" and hope you will look at it when you have questions.

Writing a column for members who will come in the future is in itself a strange feeling.

However, I hope to deliver a bit of today's exuberance along with it, just like the bottle mail that people used to put letters in small bottles and float them out to sea.

How to match the rhythm

At the heart of a personal computer is an integrated circuit called a CPU, which performs various calculations.

In addition, there is memory for temporary storage, hard disks for long-term storage of large amounts of data, and external connection terminals, which work together in complex ways.

There is a secret to collaboration, and that is rhythm.

Since a large amount of processing is done simultaneously using electrical signals, if each part is out of alignment, it makes no sense at all.

Electronic circuits have "oscillators," or rhythm makers, that produce accurate and fast rhythms.

Many people have heard of the word quartz, which in Japanese is quartz (quartz crystal) as it is, cut thin and vibrating when voltage is applied.

I sometimes use rhythms that I have created by applying them.

Rhythm is also a major factor in human movement, and I recently read in a paper that the hippocampus, the part of the brain related to memory, is in a 4 to 8 Hz rhythm.

Rhythm seems to be important for the brain, too, to link the parts that are divided by function, such as sight and hearing.

However, there seems to be a debate over whether the system is centrally managed like a personal computer or whether it is decentralized and aligned by taking advantage of functional localization.

Thinking about such rhythms, I wonder what the rhythm that makes a company function should be.

Mogic has never had a numerical goal or roadmap. Each person or team brings up an idea at their own time, gets feedback, and then, poof, they're together and gone.

Spring rooftop is closed.

The Mogic office has a rather spacious rooftop where we sometimes sunbathe, nap, roast coffee, or work on wood, but the best time to do so is at dusk.

Fuji rises faintly as the sun sets, and the lights of the Sky Tree and buildings are reflected in the background.

As it gets a little darker, you can just barely see the first magnitude stars, and right now you can see Aldebaran in Taurus, Vega in Lyra, Deneb in Cygnus, and then Mars and Saturn shimmering.

As the weather warms up after the first day of spring, the cedar pollen will arrive, so the rooftop will be closed soon.

Next would be a small bookshelf on the stairs to begin a select book section.

Throughout the year, we find small pleasures in every corner of the office and share them with everyone. Such Mogic-ness begins today.

Home Runs and Striking Out

I once spoke with a lawyer who is a very active lawyer in New York in the past.

He was the kind of person who was putting together billions and billions of dollars worth of contracts, and he looked dashing and very smart.

While we were talking about many things, I unexpectedly asked a simple question.

Q: How can I learn to make big deals as well as you do?

It seems too naive to recall now, but he thought about it for a moment before answering.

A: People who hit home runs in the majors, they are spectacular.

For him to hit home runs there, he needs to play a lot of games in the majors, and he needs to hit some home runs in the minors before that.

In addition, I'm hitting home runs during practice to compete in the minors, and I'm also swinging at home.

You have to swing a hundred thousand times, think about it, and accumulate small results, and one day, if you're lucky, you'll hit for less than 30% in a major game.

Are you pretending to trade?

I try to trade at all times, when I buy apples, when I sign a parking contract.

I make small pretenses in my daily life.

It's a small pretense, so I will do it more and more without worrying about the consequences.

That's how you get the little tricks, and then little by little you get the big contracts.

In other words, a big deal is a huge accumulation of small deals, so try to train yourself with small bargains every day.

When I heard this, I thought it was as good as it gets.

To be able to explain ambiguous questions in an easy-to-understand manner by focusing on the main points and giving examples.

This must be another skill that has been cultivated in the trade.

Since then, I have been pretending to have something to learn.

If you can make even a small number of attempts during the day, you may get better at it when you forget about it.

project driven training

Mogic has developed in-house training, borrowing a bit of wisdom from various educational theories.

The most commonly used is project learning, with many large and small projects running simultaneously.

Project learning is where several people get together, decide on a goal from a theme, work out various things within a time frame, produce results, and receive feedback from all over the place.

Once this is done, the work seems to become your own and teamwork comes naturally.

However, support roles for non-members of the project require considerable skill and the ability to observe, advise, anticipate, and persevere in order to "make sure the members get the results they need.

Are the members' hearts broken as the project progresses to the halfway point, have they lost sight of the significance of the project, or are they feeling unfulfilled?

And since it does not make sense for a member to be out of touch with his or her support role, the best advice must be given at the right time.

Surprisingly, the sense of management in the support role can be very extended.

We have moved so many projects, and we are proud of ourselves that we have never had a setback until now.

Finally, from the afterword by the translator (Naohisa Ichimura) of John Dewey's book
The following is a summary of the book.
Experience and Education
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Dewey repeatedly points out how much more difficult it is for a teacher to discover material in the student's experience than it is for him or her to follow a pre-existing foundation of knowledge and methods in teaching a subject.

At the same time, it suggests viable ways to solve the "difficult problem," but also suggests that intellectual effort is required to trace and understand its logic.

Such intellectual efforts are also required of us teachers in the field of education.
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Usually no one notices this blind spot.

Apparently, the human eye has a difficult structure and blind spots.

It is always constantly complemented by the two eyes and processed by the brain, so it is never aware of itself.

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How did the human body get that way?
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The most famous example of a snoring natural design is the retina, which all vertebrates, from fish to mammals, possess.

Photoreceptor cells in the vertebrate retina are backward-facing.

In other words, the wire part faces toward the light, and the photoreceptor, which is the light collector, faces inward with its back to the light.

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Interestingly, the retina of cephalopods such as octopus and squid is not inverted.

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There is another snarky design in the human eye that is worth talking about.

It is a structure called the optic papilla, located right in the middle of the retina.

The optic papilla is located on the surface of the retina and makes a small circle without photoreceptor cells.

This creates a "blind spot" in each eye. Normally, no one notices this blind spot.
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I feel like there is a blind spot, but there isn't one.

This message is a very important checkpoint for teamwork and new projects.

Humans are not perfect, and even the best of us have holes.

However, when it comes to moving forward with a project, members are inevitably fixed, and someone's opinion may become stronger and feel as if it is always the right one.

If people around you feel uncomfortable, I suggest that you try to shed some light on the situation, even if it's just for a moment.

Bento OBENTO

It was right around this time last year, when I was walking around Paris for training, that I felt that I was being exposed to a lot of information about Japanese culture.

Walking from the hotel to the Montmartre hill, I saw posters of Hatsune Miku Europe version everywhere, and when I returned, a drink that looked like green tea was served for breakfast.

I had a casual conversation with the front desk clerk of the hotel, who said, "Tickets are expensive, but I'd like to go to Japan someday. I know some people who know people in Japan.

So I read the blogs of Japanese people living in the area and found that Japanese culture, especially obento (bento) has become very popular over the past few years.

There have been cases where other children have eaten their own children's lunches.

It is true that in other countries, apples, bread, and cheese are often put in a bag or more.

It seems that there are many reasons behind the popularity of obento, but what I personally found most interesting was the fact that obento obento is a very Japanese idea.

In this case, Japaneseness is synonymous with "the ability to cram so many different meanings into a small space.

In both the tearoom and the garden, there are few objects, yet there are many layers of meaning.

It is interesting to decipher it.

Such things seem to be hard to find in the world, and I feel that they are ingrained in the sensibilities of the Japanese people.

Something big and fancy would be nice.

Something small and beautiful would be nice.

We sometimes hear from other managers about their admiration for giant corporations.

However, in a future where the world's birthrate is declining and the population is aging, and resources are becoming an issue, I sometimes wonder if that is what we are aiming for with our Japanese competitive advantage.

We need proof, not just argument.