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Entrepreneur from Hirosaki. Father of three (About)

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4 years ago8/11/2022

Whole Product and Platform

Recently, 10X has been clearly communicating — internally and externally — that we're aiming to...

5 years ago8/31/2021

We Temporarily Relocated Our Family to the Countryside

Starting in August 2021, our whole family relocated temporarily to Aomori — where my parents live....

6 years ago8/28/2020

10X's Next Stage

This post covers Stailer's current strategy, how we're building our organization around it, and the...

8 years ago8/7/2018

Three Books That Represent 10X's Values

Since founding the company, I've had several opportunities to think and talk about what's often...

9 years ago8/18/2017

Sketching an Organization Design

I sketched out an organization design. Small, cohesive, talks often — that's the team I ultimately...

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7/29Blog 更新

Why Couldn't the Sherpas Stop the Summit Push?

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At a recent all-hands, my colleague Kazu shared an analogy b...

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7/13Blog 更新

In Praise of Yasu Mikoto

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About four years ago, the podcast "Donguri FM" was raving ab...

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7/2Blog 更新

How Operating Companies Turn Into Investment Funds

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Because a mature business eventually converges toward the gr...

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6/29Blog 更新

What Happens to Supermarkets When the Food Tax Is Cut

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The Takaichi administration's campaign pledge to cut the con...

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6/27Blog 更新

The Middle Is Tough

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Every trip to the supermarket lately, I buy roughly the same...

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6/22Blog 更新

I Really Can't Stand the Em Dash and "Honestly"

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The other day I was listening to "Yai-Yai Radio," and riccha...

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6/16Blog 更新

Going All-In on the Growth Chart for My Kids

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I'm not a tall guy at 170cm, and when I was younger and push...

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6/9Blog 更新

Turning Claude Code into Your Ultimate Data Analyst

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I wrote a post about a BI tool called Codatum a while back, ...

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6/5Blog 更新

Getting Serious About Sleep

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I've been using a Xiaomi Smart Band for over three years. Mi...

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6/3Blog 更新

The Hidden Tax of Being a Platform

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There's a phrase people throw around: the "Apple tax." It re...

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5/30Blog 更新

500 kcal/day

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Since the start of this year, I've been aiming for an averag...

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5/29Blog 更新

What Actually Goes Wrong If the US Leaves NATO

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About a year ago, a friend named Hikaru introduced me to a Y...

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5/26Blog 更新

Between Community Ties and Isolation

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It's been four and a half years since I moved to Osaka — a c...

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5/22Blog 更新

Writing That Sounds Like You

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Careful. Well-organized. Nothing out of place. And yet, noth...

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5/18Blog 更新

A Typical Weekend These Days

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Saturday: 16,000 steps, 600 kcal burned. Sunday: 22,000 step...

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5/15Blog 更新

Wearing Clothes That Carry Culture

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On Free Agenda, we often come back to the idea of "from cont...

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5/11Blog 更新

Solo Podcasting Doesn't Last

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The dissolution of Off Topic is what prompted me to write th...

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5/4Blog 更新

AI and Dividualism

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One morning, I was talking with our engineer @metalunk about...

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4/23Blog 更新

What's Really Happening in Global SaaS for Supermarkets

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In 2024, Amazon pulled its cashierless technology from all i...

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4/14Blog 更新

"Aesthetics" and "The Way"

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The advances in LLMs are gradually replacing much of knowled...

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4/10Blog 更新

Codatum — A BI Tool That Reduces the Friction of Data Analysis

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I want to write about Codatum, a BI tool combined with an AI...

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4/1Blog 更新

Instacart Two and a Half Years After IPO: A Verification

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In September 2023, just before Instacart's IPO, I read throu...

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3/27Blog 更新

AI and War

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Claude — the AI I use every single day — had been deployed i...

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3/19Blog 更新

Use AI to Write Better, Not Less

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Why AI-Generated Writing Is Boring I'm encountering more and...

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3/13Blog 更新

Coaching Philosophy

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I've been finding myself thinking more and more: "what can I...

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3/10Blog 更新

The Role of Specs in the Claude Code Era

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I've been doing daily development with Claude Code, and in p...

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3/2Blog 更新

AI Agents Are Competing on "Where" They Live

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In February, I subscribed to Claude Code Max personally and ...

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2/17Blog 更新

The Future Where E-Commerce Gets AI-Aggregated

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I've been thinking about where e-commerce is headed, and aft...

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2/12Blog 更新

Developing Children's Physical Capacity

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I've been writing a lot about AI lately, but today I want to...

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2/6Blog 更新

It's Okay to Feel Anxious

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Inquiries from High School Students Recently, our company's ...

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2/3Blog 更新

Vanguard and Rearguard

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> "Business development (BizDev) should own the entire journ...

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1/28Blog 更新

Building a Newsletter Feature with Cursor Subagents

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Cursor's Subagent feature has officially launched. I wanted ...

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1/6Blog 更新

Compound Management — The B-Side

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Happy New Year. As part of 10X's New Year initiative, I publ...