Today let me share with you the conversation between Mr. Yoshiki Okamoto and Mr. Yuki "Kenny" Takahashi, the new CEO of Cave, a studio 100% owned by Deluxe Games ("DE-RA-GE").
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上場企業の新社長に半生を聞いてみたら想像以上に壮絶すぎる【ケイブ社長CEO高橋祐希さん対談①】
Kenny-san recounts that before moving to Osaka Prefecture, he stayed in Yokohama for around a year. Afterward, he and his family moved to South Kawachi in Osaka. Also, he studied in a public school where he wore a school uniform called "tan-ran," instead of "cho-ran," because the latter didn't look good on him.
Kenny-san also explains that in Osaka all were friends, more so than in other places, such that he and his family regularly received rice to survive. In school as well, particularly in middle school, young students could get the uniforms of the sempai (seniors) before their graduation. While it was very easy to anger another person just by looking directly at his eyes, Kenny-san shares that he's learned some rules to avoid this problem. He also points out that he had a good relationship with the teachers in school.
Kenny-san next recalls that when he began to enter high school, his mom had advised him to live away from home. This is why Kenny-san also had to look for a job to pay for his room and transportation, among other things, although he continued to be a scholar in public school. Kenny-san says that he found work at a pub (izakaya), which he did from its opening at four or five in the afternoon until its closing, so he received a special hourly wage of 900 yen. Moreover, on Saturdays, he worked as a waiter at the golf course.
This is all. I end here this part of the conversation between Okamoto-san and Kenny-san.
Esta noche yo querría compartiros la siguiente parte de la conversación entre Sr. Yoshiki Okamoto y Sr. Yuki "Kenny" Takahashi, el nuevo CEO de Cave, un estudio 100% propiado por Deluxe Games ("DE-RA-GE").
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上場企業の新社長に半生を聞いてみたら想像以上に壮絶すぎる【ケイブ社長CEO高橋祐希さん対談①】
Sr. Kenny cuenta que antes de mudarse a la prefectura de Osaka, se quedó en Yokohama por alrededor de un año. Después, su familia y él se mudaron a Kawachi del Sur en Osaka. También, estudiaba en una escuela pública donde llevaba un uniforme escolar llamado "tan-ran" en vez de "cho-ran", porque el último no le quedó bien.
Además, Sr. Kenny explica que en Osaka todos fueron amigos, más que otros lugares, así que su familia y él recibían arroces regularmente para subsistir. En la escuela también, particularmente en la escuela secundaria (o "middle school"), los alumnos jovenes podrían recibir los uniformes de los sempai (o los seniores) antes de su graduación. Aunque era muy fácil enfadar a otra persona por solo ver directamente sus ojos, Sr. Kenny comparte que ha aprendido unas reglas para evitar este problema. También, apunta que tenía una relación buena con los maestros de la escuela.
A continuación, Sr. Kenny recuerda que cuando comenzó a entrar a la próxima escuela, el high school, su mamá le había aconsejado vivir fuera de la casa. Por eso, Sr. Kenny también tenía que buscar un trabajo para pagar su habitación y transporte, entre otros, aunque seguía siendo escolar en la escuela pública. Sr. Kenny dice que halló un trabajo en un pub (o izakaya) que él hacía desde el abrir a las cuatro o cinco de la tarde hasta el cerrar, entonces, recibió un salario de cada hora especial de 900 yenes. Es más, en los sábados, trabajaba como servidor en el campo de golf.
Ya está. Aquí termino esta parte de la conversación entre Sr. Okamoto y Sr. Kenny.
Today I'd like to share with you the reason why people stand in front of walls.
Let me start by sharing that when I was in fifth or sixth grade, our science teacher would bring my classmates and I to the Audio Visual (AV) room to watch a science documentary from America on a CRT TV, the largest, I think, that we could get in the Philippines during the 90s.
Meanwhile, the films were in VHS and looked and sounded old for us children, but we enjoyed going there, because the room was air-conditioned, unlike our classrooms, which only used electric fans for ventilation.
One time, our science teacher was explaining to us that the sun could only really last up to a certain point in time before it would truly disappear, and everything would be dark and cold, and all the living things on planet Earth would die.
But, he quickly pointed out, it would still be a very long time, many millions of years, before this event would take place. By that time, my classmates agreed, we'd be dead. After that lecture, except maybe once, I never saw our science teacher again.
As it turned out, he was one of the many grade school teachers that I had who went missing after making a pronouncement like that. One, a female teacher, who taught Christian Life Education (CLE) and then English, spoke about Satan actually appearing before us and whom we'd have to confront; our life would depend on our decision, she said.
After this incident, another CLE teacher spoke confidently that once she had died and could come back from the dead, she'd meet us and tell this to us. It was during a lecture in which she was explaining the difficulty for ants to understand human beings, as it was for human beings to understand God, hence the need for Jesus Christ.
Now, as to my answer why there are people who'd walk toward a wall and just stand there in front of it for hours on end, this was actually part of my spiel to my younger sibling, who I thought had gotten himself stuck, kind of like someone with a locked jaw, and needed advice. I thought that he needed to be aware that he's very much overweight, a common sight among fathers.
Since he didn't really know why people did things like stand in front of walls, I told him that there are people who do things, because they think that they need to do them. The person who stands in front of a wall thinks that he needs to do it.
In the end, I told him that I had to say something, instead of remaining silent despite already seeing problems coming within a decade or so, because after all he's read and watched online, he's chosen to eat food that makes him very overweight.
Today let me share with you Chiba Institute of Technology President Joi Ito's lecture four years ago about web3 or web 3.0.
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web3とは | 何故、小文字で「web3」か？web3の重要性や懐疑的な意見について
In this lecture, Joi-sensei begins by explaining the history of web technologies, starting with web 1.0, in which it became possible for people to create websites and e-commerce sites to sell things online.
Afterward, with web 2.0, mobile began to be more widespread, and search engines from Google and Yahoo empowered people to find things more easily using text-based words or phrases. Moreover, social media platforms like Twitter (now, X) and Facebook (also, Meta) brought in more people to the internet. These people created accounts for others to identify who they were.
Now, web 3.0 aims to create metaverses and virtual reality, while using blockchain technology to move "nft (non-fungible token)" objects like their IDs or things that they've bought online from one platform to another.
Finally, Joi-sensei concludes that while web 2.0 brought together dispersed people using the internet into a few platforms, web 3.0 intends to again empower people to disperse anew, decentralizing the few, big platforms currently available. In fact, he says that his use of lowercase letters for "web3" is part of the culture that people can grow using this technology.
