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Many comments point to "monoculture", but I think that a more useful lens to look at this is "the importance of maintaining society vs the importance of individual rights". In Japa…

This seems little different from the Automated Parking Systems that I saw in widespread use in Japan from the 1980's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_parking_system (The ma…

I usually think of the ideas behind "composition" as "how do I assist a future developer to replace the current (exported) implementation of a type with a new one by restricting ex…

Legacy corporations have a very hard time incorporating fundamental technology shifts (moving from ICE engine/drivetrain dominant designs to software dominance). They walk into the…

Instead of looking at your high quality software as an "asset to monetize", I would recommend thinking of it as a "way to introduce your high quality skills to attract high quality…

I spent ~11 years in Japan, porting/building telecom protocol software and, more importantly, trying to build software development and business competence in our teams. Sadly, alth…

When I first met him in 1978 and asked for his last name, he replied "Arvind is my name". He was very deeply against the caste system and felt that using last names (IIRC, which al…

I have always liked the book "日本語擬態語辞典" by Gomi Taro: https://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/product?item=0000193814 > It has great illustrations that quickly get the idea across for Japa…

The biggest case I know about is Enron. IMO, it seems like they are obviously liable, but I expect they were pretty strongly manipulated by the CEO: https://www.govinfo.gov/content…

Having had interactions with board members at 2 Fortune500 companies I worked for, I have pretty much lost faith in the "board members reflect the shareholders and manage the execu…

Strongly agree. When you feel like the combination of administrative hassle and/or work content no longer fits you, it is trivial to just wrap up the current work cleanly (as menti…

We go up to SF every 3-4 weeks and find it pretty unnerving each time. The homelessness (mentally ill), open drug use, and theft/vandalism are pretty draining. I lived for a long t…

> religion of rituals that aim to gain some measure of control over a chaotic world Yes, my experience is that most Japanese are into "actions/practice" more than philosophical "bi…

In Japan, properties have "sunlight rights", so that neighboring properties above a certain height are not allowed to shade them (causing lots of sloped, north-facing roofs). In ad…

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As creator/chief architect of Meltemi (p.132 of the pdf), I was way too close to the events in the book. In the end, I think that Elop was pretty honest, if not too bright, "good o…