I used to play football (soccer) when I was in junior high school and high school. When you are running or dribbling at top speed, your view cannot stop being narrow. Sometimes you need to stop, look around the entire field and try to gras…

Sometimes, art and science are considered to be placed at the opposite side. But both of them deal with the same thing: our world. Science tries to explain the world.Art tries to express the world. I love both of them.

さて、例えば今、職場や学校に、足が４本ある人が現れたとします。 そうすると、たぶんその人は「普通じゃない！」と周りから思われるでしょう。このご時世なので、あからさまに言われなくても、皆、「あの人は普通じゃない」と思うでしょう。 さて、今、足…

I'm not a specialist in Machine Learning at all but interested in it and have read books about it. 人工知能はどのようにして 「名人」を超えたのか?―――最強の将棋AIポナンザの開発者が教える機械学習・深層学習・強化学習の本質作者: 山本一成出版社/…

I feel like many people are good at asking HOW questions. How to make money?How to learn a new language?How to get married? Then, we ask WHY? Why do I need money?Why do I have to learn a new language?Why marry? But to think deeply, I think…

Now I work for a small startup. A small startup always has resource constraint and needs to think about where to allocate scarce resource. On the other hand, when I was working for a big transnational corporation, there was enough budget. …

The word research is obviously a combination of the prefix "re" and the verb "search". In the course of our daily lives, we come across events, go through experiences and feel diverse emotions. But we hardly look back on those and reflect …

昔からお祭りという特別な空間、時間が大好きでした。 小学校のときから、運動会や文化祭みたいな特別なイベントが大好きだったし、高校や大学の学園祭は、主催側として関わるのも、参加者側として関わるのも好きでした（どっちかと言うと主催者側の方が面白…

僕のモットーの一つは、「真面目にテキトウする」です。 ーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーー 「真面目」の語源を調べてみると面白い事がわかります。 まじめ、の「まじ」の部分は、「じっと見る」という意味みたいです。「まじまじと見る」の「まじ」…

こないだのジェンダーの記事の最後に、「『男女』と言った時点で人間はオトコかオンナのどちらかに分類できる、と仮定していることになる」と書きました。 今日はもう少しそれについて考えてみたいと思います。 「男」という言葉は、「女」という言葉と対に…

I like having fun. I like having sense of humor whenever and wherever I am. But sometimes, bringing sense of humor into work places or academia is considered to be immoral and sinful. Or it's just not welcomed because people think that I'm…

(I think I wrote the same kind of article before but I forgot which one...haha) It seems like the word "Diversity" is in the mode all around the world since a while ago. Corporations say "we respect diversity among employees," schools and …

Yesterday, I wrote about why people tend to think that increasing the amount of input can enhance their productivity, living standard, well-being and etc. One of the explanations might be that increasing the amount of input is tangible, vi…

A while ago, I wrote that "less" might bring about something that can contribute to "more". What is it? I believe that it's "knowledge." I think "knowledge" is the single most important thing that brings about "more" in our life.(How to de…

I like asking "why" question rather than "how" question.Honestly speaking, Im not that interested in "how". "Why" question is about making sense of the world that surrounds me.I somehow want to make sense of it. I want to "understand" what…

さて、こないだフィリピンのレイテ島というところに行ってきました。まあ、調査、というか、フィールドトリップ、というか、旅行、というか。 レイテ島というと日本ではレイテ沖海戦とかレイテ島の戦いで有名だと思います。 とっても奇麗な場所。 が、今回の…

ダンスをずーっとやっていますが、心からダンスを楽しむ様になってから、一段レベルが上がった様に思います。 楽しいから、続けられる。楽しいから、頑張れる。楽しいから、一段上のレベルに行ってみたい。楽しいから、もっともっと上手くなりたい。 楽しん…

（ずっと前にスペイン語で書いた記事と内容は同じです） 「戦争はなんでなくならないんだろう」、みたいな純粋な疑問を、小さい頃持った人もいると思います。 その答えとして、「国境なんてなくなればいいのに、世界が一つになれば良いのに」と思った人もい…

Put water in a container and boil it. If the container is not covered with a lid, the water just spills over the container when it is boiled. But if the container is covered with a lid and the water is pressured inside the container for a …

I learned a lot of things in graduate school.Surely, I leaned a lot of new knowledge, facts and frameworks. Of course, that is important. However, I also learned "how to think." I believe that this is more important than learning knowledge…

There is a Japanese proverb saying "after a festival, you feel sentimental."Festivals create special time and space in which people interact and obtain shared experience with other people.In festivals, people get out of their daily routine…

Probably, most of us have said this at least once: "He is a smart person!!" Well, I don't think it's a problem to say such a thing but today, I want to think about it. Certainly, there are lots of types of smartness: having a good memory, …

No sé por qué pero me ha interesado aprender otros idiomas desde cuando era pequeño. Cuando hablo diferentes idiomas, me doy cuenta de que mi pensamiento cambia.Cuando estoy hablando inglés, digo algo que nunca digo cuando estoy hablando j…

大学時代のゼミの専攻は、「社会起業論」、英語でいうと「Social Entrepreneurship」でした。 フランスにいた時に学んだんですが、この英語の名詞、「Entrepreneurship（アントレプレナーシップ）」の語源はフランス語の動詞Entreprendreにあるようです。（…

子供の頃から生意気で、しょっちゅう、親や先生に口答えをしていた覚えがあります。 そんなときに、いつも決まって、こんなキメ台詞で怒られたものでした。「屁理屈を言うんじゃない！」 その、「屁理屈癖」が今、こうやって世界のいろんな文化や価値観の人…

The other day, as a kind of new year's resolution, I wrote the importance of connecting my mind and head.(By the way, I don't believe in new year's resolution as I wrote at the beginning of 2014, hahaha) → Trap of New Year's Resolution: ht…

こないだの記事の続きです。 いくつかのコメントを昔の友達からもらって嬉しかったので、ちょっと続きを考えてみた。 僕はこないだの記事で「日本は発展しすぎて冒険がなくなってしまった」なんて言いたかった訳では全くありません。 『もし、「論理」（つま…

① When I quit my company in Japan, I said "I want adventure, not stable job." On the last day of my work, I said this in front of many employees out loud and left the office. They must have thought that this guys is crazy. hahaha. I wanted…

It seems like people are generally good at criticizing. (well, sometimes, it becomes complaining...hahaha)We always criticize or complain about politicians, bosses, scholars etc etc. I do not think it is a bad thing. Even criticism without…

Here in Costa Rica, rainy season is almost over. Im happy. I don't like rain. During the rainy season, I was feeling a bit stressed out and told my friend about it. (Im always like this in rainy seasons. Its normal, so dont worry, nothing …