No.0106：Time-effectiveness
September 30,2022
Do you know the title of this article? I found it in a recent newspaper. It means results per hour. Good time-effectiveness means that the results per hour are great, and the fruit in a short period of time is great. The attitude of young people these days (I am a little disappointed that I have come to use this expression) to value time-effectiveness makes me feel ambivalent: "Oh yes, yes," I sympathize with them, and "Hmmm, something's different" I also felt uncomfortable.
They said that most trendy songs these days have short intros. It's a waste of time for the extra stuff (intros), they say, and they don't want to wait for it. They also said that best-of albums are better than original albums. They quickly get the latest fad, and let the other extras go. It seems efficient, to get results quickly. On the other hand, it is unlikely that you will find a wonderful place by chance, such as a landscape that is not in the guidebooks, but is strangely etched in your mind even though you have visited it casually.
Fast movies, which are movies that compress the content of a movie into about 10 minutes, have been reported in some news reports as a need for fast movies among young people who value time-effectiveness, along with the issue of copyright infringement. A similar book summary site is also attracting attention. I often watch TV information programs recorded by Nasne, a recording device, at 1.5x speed, skipping the commercials. It is very time-efficient because I can watch the program in half the time. On the other hand, a movie that also has an artistic aspect cannot be felt only in its rough outline. There is the indispensable enjoyment of the pause to refine a scene, the beauty of the scene sparked by the camera work, the minute movements of emotion expressed by the actors, and the nice fashions and gestures. I don't want to be a pitiful pitcher who throws himself too hastily and gets hit too hard.
The other day, I heard a news report on NHK about a company drinking party. "Why should I pay 3 or 4 thousand yen to listen to a boring old man talk? It makes no sense! " A young man said. The word "year-end party through" has also become common. I have a similar example. Unproductive regular meetings organized to appeal to the organizers, where only the organizers talk for an oddly long time; overtime work for socializing that is unnecessary but never allowed to leave; daily (monthly) reports that require only details that no one ever reads; Thus, the examples are endless. I was tired of the baseless, time-ineffective disappointment that somehow continued as a custom.
Recently, iPhone notifications have become less annoying than before. This is due to a feature called mode. For example, there are modes such as "concentrate mode" and "sleep mode". I'm thinking a lot right now, I'm sleeping, so I don't want notifications for non-urgent or non-important e-mails, phone calls, or LINE notifications. I used to be scared of emergency calls at work 24 hours a day, 365 days a year (perhaps a bit exaggerated, but just a feeling). A meal with family, a daydream in reading, a beer with friends, and such wonderful times are instantly darkened to the worst moments when a single phone call interrupts them. Like the price of semiconductor-related stocks plummeting due to reports of iPhone production cutbacks. There is no time to relax. I was seriously thinking that a service that provides a safe zone where no radio waves can reach would be a success for a fee. I secretly thought so. After that, I felt I was in danger of not being able to be there myself, so I turned off my phone when I needed it, regardless of how I might be criticized. But it was only for very limited times, such as funerals, and family vacations.
The establishment of remote work over the past few years has given me three more hours a day. My daily cooking has become more deliberate. I am able to spend more time learning languages that are not urgent but have a higher priority. I have more time for exercise to maintain my physical condition. I can do what I want, when I want, without anyone interrupting me, which is the ultimate luxury. I hope that technology and common sense will continue to evolve so that I will have more free time for myself in the future, and I think that this will probably be the reality. Running a fully automatic washing machine, cleaning your room with a Roomba, playing your favorites on spotify, or purchasing and enjoying your favorite electronic novel at home are time-effective luxuries created by technology. When automated cars become the norm, a new kind of free time will be added to it.
Thus, it is certain that we will have more free time in the future. While this is a welcome development, it is also somewhat troublesome. In the past, in this situation, it was often enough to let time take its course without thinking through the instructions and common sense that dictated what we had to do. We simply sat down at the same time and listened to our supervisor's platitudes, or we were assigned roles and goals by the company, and we simply worked hard under detailed instructions to achieve those goals. That is how I filled my time.
Now, however, the amount of free time available to oneself is increasing, and furthermore, the long-term sustainability of companies is becoming doubtful, and lifetime guarantees (employment) by companies are also becoming doubtful, and corporate performance becomes harder to generate from the pattern. In these times, people are starting to demand that they make appropriate choices about how they spend their time. Because of this, I don't think we need to be too eager for time-effectiveness. A lot of waste, detour, trial and error, in other words, freedom, improves long-term time-effectiveness. Because nowadays, the repetition of a bit of convenient quickness rarely leads to something that improves the future, does it? This is what I felt when I came across the word "time-effectiveness".
Man is condemned to freedom.
Sartre
They said that most trendy songs these days have short intros. It's a waste of time for the extra stuff (intros), they say, and they don't want to wait for it. They also said that best-of albums are better than original albums. They quickly get the latest fad, and let the other extras go. It seems efficient, to get results quickly. On the other hand, it is unlikely that you will find a wonderful place by chance, such as a landscape that is not in the guidebooks, but is strangely etched in your mind even though you have visited it casually.
Fast movies, which are movies that compress the content of a movie into about 10 minutes, have been reported in some news reports as a need for fast movies among young people who value time-effectiveness, along with the issue of copyright infringement. A similar book summary site is also attracting attention. I often watch TV information programs recorded by Nasne, a recording device, at 1.5x speed, skipping the commercials. It is very time-efficient because I can watch the program in half the time. On the other hand, a movie that also has an artistic aspect cannot be felt only in its rough outline. There is the indispensable enjoyment of the pause to refine a scene, the beauty of the scene sparked by the camera work, the minute movements of emotion expressed by the actors, and the nice fashions and gestures. I don't want to be a pitiful pitcher who throws himself too hastily and gets hit too hard.
The other day, I heard a news report on NHK about a company drinking party. "Why should I pay 3 or 4 thousand yen to listen to a boring old man talk? It makes no sense! " A young man said. The word "year-end party through" has also become common. I have a similar example. Unproductive regular meetings organized to appeal to the organizers, where only the organizers talk for an oddly long time; overtime work for socializing that is unnecessary but never allowed to leave; daily (monthly) reports that require only details that no one ever reads; Thus, the examples are endless. I was tired of the baseless, time-ineffective disappointment that somehow continued as a custom.
Recently, iPhone notifications have become less annoying than before. This is due to a feature called mode. For example, there are modes such as "concentrate mode" and "sleep mode". I'm thinking a lot right now, I'm sleeping, so I don't want notifications for non-urgent or non-important e-mails, phone calls, or LINE notifications. I used to be scared of emergency calls at work 24 hours a day, 365 days a year (perhaps a bit exaggerated, but just a feeling). A meal with family, a daydream in reading, a beer with friends, and such wonderful times are instantly darkened to the worst moments when a single phone call interrupts them. Like the price of semiconductor-related stocks plummeting due to reports of iPhone production cutbacks. There is no time to relax. I was seriously thinking that a service that provides a safe zone where no radio waves can reach would be a success for a fee. I secretly thought so. After that, I felt I was in danger of not being able to be there myself, so I turned off my phone when I needed it, regardless of how I might be criticized. But it was only for very limited times, such as funerals, and family vacations.
Thus, it is certain that we will have more free time in the future. While this is a welcome development, it is also somewhat troublesome. In the past, in this situation, it was often enough to let time take its course without thinking through the instructions and common sense that dictated what we had to do. We simply sat down at the same time and listened to our supervisor's platitudes, or we were assigned roles and goals by the company, and we simply worked hard under detailed instructions to achieve those goals. That is how I filled my time.
Now, however, the amount of free time available to oneself is increasing, and furthermore, the long-term sustainability of companies is becoming doubtful, and lifetime guarantees (employment) by companies are also becoming doubtful, and corporate performance becomes harder to generate from the pattern. In these times, people are starting to demand that they make appropriate choices about how they spend their time. Because of this, I don't think we need to be too eager for time-effectiveness. A lot of waste, detour, trial and error, in other words, freedom, improves long-term time-effectiveness. Because nowadays, the repetition of a bit of convenient quickness rarely leads to something that improves the future, does it? This is what I felt when I came across the word "time-effectiveness".
Man is condemned to freedom.
Sartre