[ Insight ] Is “manager” becoming a retirement position for people who cannot stay in the front line?

by isaokato | Apr 21, 2012 | Post

[ Quote ] Change in Japan is usually visible only with hindsight

by isaokato | Apr 21, 2012 | Post

Change in Japan is usually visible only with hindsight. The mood, as one disenchanted civil servant puts it, recalls the moment before the end of the second world war when many Japanese soldiers and civilians realised the generals were leading their country to...

[ Technical Communication ] The future of book or a glorified powerpoint

by isaokato | Apr 20, 2012 | Post

For some reason I cannot see myself embracing this “future” book format. If multimedia truly enhances the reading experience, I would have become a Powerpoint fetish by now. I guess the power of book lies in its limitation (you cannot do anything but to...

[ Quote ] Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it

by isaokato | Apr 20, 2012 | Post

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. Anaïs Nin, Winter of Artifice

[ Insight ] So-called Western restaurants in Taipei may not carry authentic taste, but I think that’s because they exist for socializing; for that objective, they are doing quite well.

by isaokato | Apr 19, 2012 | Post

[ Quote ] It’s unfair to ask people who don’t have a sense of the opportunities of tomorrow from the context of today to design

by isaokato | Apr 19, 2012 | Post

We don’t do focus groups – that is the job of the designer. It’s unfair to ask people who don’t have a sense of the opportunities of tomorrow from the context of today to design. Jonathan Ive, London Evening Standard Interview

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