Smartphones are now a part of life. Without being restricted by time or place, you can cry while reading, check your own direction, and miss the past with your loved ones. You will feel the comfort. Wouldn't you be thrilled to think that you could use such a great tool for your work more? Radical Balance is a company that makes you wonderful by freeing you from time and place.
Watch over the lonely elderly with a smartphone
Introducing "Yurukone," an app that uses IoT and AI to alleviate the anxieties of lonely elderly people and young people with such parents.
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Providing communication that maintains an appropriate sense of distance that can be continued every day without burdening both the young people watching over and the elderly receiving it.
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Simple operability that even elderly people who are unfamiliar with device operation can easily use.
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Reassurance of the child who is the watcher by checking the physical condition and survival of the parent every day.
Growth Through Compounding - and the Loneliness It Brings
December 29,2025
How we learn, how we work, how we keep our distance from others-these things accumulate quietly over time and eventually create significant differences. That said, such growth can sometimes make a person lonely.
The Snowball Called Compounding
Recently, the policy interest rate was raised to 0.75%, reportedly the highest level in 30 years. Savings have become slightly more attractive. That reminded me of an explanation I once heard that compared the power of compounding to a snowball. Interest earns interest, and that cycle repeats again and again. When this keeps going, the result can be astonishing. Here, I want to reflect on the power of this snowball effect.
Options are a weapon - and a trap
Novemver 29,2025
Those without options have no freedom
When you lack options, you get cornered. People take advantage of you because you have no alternatives - they can spin you around in the palm of their hand. In that position, you risk being controlled.
Dictatorship - The Leader Who Lost His Mirror
October 31,2025
Recently, Japan’s prime minister changed. As the nation’s first female prime minister, she has drawn enormous attention and enjoys strong approval ratings.
A Farewell to Stalemate
Septembar 29,2025
When you try to do everything at once, you can get so tied up that you can’t move at all. And yet, sometimes a small trigger lets a ray of light break through the clouds, and before you know it, the sky has completely cleared.
The Chaos of System Development
Take system development ー my own profession ー as an example. To build a new system within budget, you first have to define the scope. Each department, and every person from rookie to veteran within them, has different things they want the system to do.
Between Proactive and Passive
August 31,2025
Additive vs. Subtractive Scoring ー Two Axes of Evaluation
In organizations, evaluation methods can be seen along two axes: additive scoring (proactive) and subtractive scoring (passive).
