(Recording of a speech given at an MBA EXPO, November 30th, 2013) As this talk is supposed to be about how great it is to do an MBA, let me start by saying that when I actually got to business school, my first thought was "Is this it?" Who…

I am currently in "writing mode", and work in a way that is extremely stoic. I put 25 minutes on a timer, shout "ready, go!", and after all of the minutes are up, count the number of characters I have written. If the results are not very g…

This technique for helping to write in quantity, Private Writing, was introduced in "IDEA HACKS!2.0". The method is to write down everything you think of, leaving nothing out. Its distinction lies in moving your hands and writing rather th…

I am working on writing for a new book right now. I have written 10, 000 characters in Japanese in the past 3 days. To make a book, I need 100, 000 characters so if I keep up the pace, it should be done in 30 days.Blogging is like a sprint…

On the other hand, making predictions for a year is difficult because we must use forecasting in a step-by-step fashion. Because it is the near future, we tend to predict it with the assumption that the past will continue in the same way. …

It is quite difficult to make a prediction of the year. For example, predictions regarding international disputes changes drastically by small and minor incidents. Even for the economy, it is hard to assess the impact of the consumption ta…