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The reason: The one of earliest example of BIG DATA

He wrote the book “Grouped -How small groups of friends are the key to influence on the social web (Voices That Matter) -” This book describes the social behavior of human being on social networking service. He is Paul Adams who is working for Google service and Facebook. As far as I know, he has the best knowledge in this field, and this idea is one of earliest example of BIG DATA. Throughout reading this book, I strongly realized that it is difficult for Japanese to think in this way. For everyone, it is good chance to know we have to ask first what kind of the scale would be applied to discuss the subject.

Now, the web is entering its third phase of the development. The first phase was documents linked together. When we found the website, we couldn’t interact with other. On the second phase, we started seeing the opportunity for interacting with each other. Some website had reviews, give the readers opportunity to leave comments. Now, the web is entering the third phase, where websites are being rebuilt around people on social networking services. Social behaviors became key feature on this stage.

The data on the web are becoming structured, so then now easy to be analyzed both human and A.I. Now, people started looking at the overview of human behavior by looking at vast amount of data on the web.

On this book, what I would love you to know is how the framework to see the data is important. This is the example from this book. This book can give you the overview how you are communicating with people.

First things you have to remember are the numbers of people we are interacting with in our life. There are clear boundaries how many people we are communicating. The important numbers are 5, 15, 50, 150, and 500. We interact with 5 people as strongest ties. They are the people who we care most, like parents, partners, children, and so on. Next, the number is 15, this group is known to social psychologist as the sympathy group. The people we care very much closest friend, important colleagues.  The death of these people would leave you distraught. Beyond this, the number is 50. These are the people who you communicate with on at least semi-regular basis. Beyond this is 150 people these are the people whom you can maintain stable social relations. You know each other, and you know which of them know each other. How much the communication technology has advanced, this is psychological boundary of human beings. The next group is about 500. These are our weak ties friend of friend, people we meet occasionally, or people who met recently. These are people you know but don’t feel close to.

The next thing we have to think is how these groups influence us. The strongest ties are 5 people, with whom you are talking for the 80 percent of all time you talk.  Next, I want to focus on smaller than 15 closest, people, we connected with strong tie, such as family, closest friend. They are the people we trust the most. Strong tie is very important for maintain our well-being. So, we need to focus on them to have good relationship to stay happy. I also want to focus on more than 150 people, even though they are weak ties but the data showed that they can be strong information sources because they are sometimes specialists on something.

The biggest problem on BIG DATA is it isn’t always easy to point out that the correlation and causation is different. The Target can know who becomes pregnant by analyzing the buying pattern of customer. They can send advertisement automatically. Do you think this is appropriate? As far as, human analyzing the data might be fine, we might be able to regulate the way they treat the data though, how about A.I.? The Google’s A.I. keeps reading the whole information on the web. Do you think what will happen when A.I. started reading and analyzing the data by itself. It doesn’t care whether or not correlation or causation. For example, A.I. will be able to know who has tendency to commit crime though, it will not know why, until when it will be fully developed. So, we have to check the technology closely, like nuclear power, it can be bad or good. But, anyways, Paus Adams opened the possibility of BIG DATA.

The reason: He teaches what the physics is like and its beyond

He is not only physicist but also thinker. He teaches me Philosophy and Physics. He was Germany theoretical physicist. He is one of key persons of quantum physics. He published the paper about uncertainty principal, on which he built his philosophy and for which he is best known. He was awarded Novel prize in 1932 for the creation of quantum physics.

I love to read his memoir “The part and the whole”.  As far as I know, there is no English version of this book, I know this book was writing in Germany and there is the one translated to Japanese. On this book, he described a lot of discussions with friends, colleges, philosophers, and of course physicists in this book.  The book starts the discussion with friends when they were high school student. That discussion was actually highly intellectual even though they were high school student. They discussed why molecular, such as H2O, CO2, are depicted by pins and balls in the text because he believed that atoms are connected by natural law so then it cannot be given a specific form like pins and balls.

He wanted to be mathematician at first. His father brought him to the famous mathematician when he was high school student because he already was ready to study at college level. He was reading the book “Space, Time, Matter” by Hermann Weyl. The mathematicians said “You can’t be a mathematicians if you read like that kind of books” So the next, he went to the physicist Sommerfeld. The Sommerfeld said by listening to his motivation.  “You expect too much by reading the book. It isn’t always right. You understand easy things when you understand the most difficult thing.  You need to start what you can try now, I will choose right one for when we meet next time” and also said that “You need to choose to either theorist or experimentalist” This is very physicist like. As for me, my Ph.D. adviser said to me “You can’t be theorist how hard you try because the smartest person would be the theorist. You are good at calculation but not the best in the country, you should be experimentalist then you will survive. ”

Under Sommerfeld, Heisenberg met the Wolfgang Ernst Pauli. He is a brilliant physicist. But he usually went to bar evening and he came to University at night, and spent all night there to study, and went home without taking lectures. Heisenberg, on the other hand, he works in the morning and afternoon like regular person. Since the scientists are given “autonomy” to study, actually this happened to scientist. Actually, I am like regular person, I did not like the way of living as night person though, but the interest in science can make friendship even though the styles of living are different.

One thing I strongly memorized discussion is his discussion with Einstein.

Einstein said “You shouldn’t always believe theories of physics only would be made by observables.”

Heisenberg said “sir? But, you did emphasize we shouldn’t discuss absolute time because it is not the observable on the relatively theory?”

Einstein said, “Even though, in principal, the approach to make the theory by only using observables should be wrong. Because the truth is reverse, the people can know what to be observed by the theory”

This discussion is very important as experimental physicist. The experimental physicist of course use model to explain the data, but the model depends on the parameters, what we could do is basically the least squire method trying to find the best parameters can explain the data by using our model. So we are doing trying to explain what we don’t know by using the model which is what we know. The theory, as a point of our views, determines what would be observed. And also more importantly, our views are sometimes limited by the theory. We should exactly know what we can prove and what we cannot prove.

I also like his political point of view. During the World War II, many scientists had left Germany but he stayed. He focused on the rebuilding Germany when the country lost.  And he was assigned the team to make nuclear bomb at the almost end of World War II. Of course, only America could make atomic bomb at that time. This is very serious matter for physicists. Our work can contribute to peace or war. Even if the invention might be used bad purpose, should we still discover anyways?

We now are too busy to think seriously. We can access a lot more information compare with 10 years ago and also IQ we have is increasing, which means we can process a lot more information. However the processing information won’t give us the answer. For example, what is life, why are we living, how scientists can help people to have better life?

These discussions are very important for me to read, it tells me how the physics should be, what the intellectual life is. Wherever our society is going, there are systems from politic to science. We have to keep discussing what is right or long. The system fails not because the system is wrong, but because human do mistake. So, we will need to keep being back to here “Philosophy and Physics” in the future.

The reason: The prediction of future Chinese and mind of strategy.

He was born in Fukuoka, Japan. Dr. Ohmae got a bachelor degree from Waseda University and then a master degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology in nuclear physics, and doctorate in MIT in nuclear engineering. After graduation, he had worked for Hitachi as a design engineer for 2 years, and then he had worked for McKinsey & Company in Japan as CEO.

• As a Strategist

He is also one of good examples how physics can help thinking on business.

This book “the mind of strategist” was written in 1975 in Japanese. The American version of this book was published in 1982. Since I am a scientist too, the way of his thinking are very comfortable for me.  He was called Mr. Strategy. Even the strongest chess player in the world Gary Kasparov referred this book.

Anyway, this book consists from three parts which are the art of Strategy thinking, building successful strategy, and modern strategy reality. Even though he used Japanese companies as examples, you can easily adapt this idea. Why not trying?  This book teaches me how I can break the problem down to solvable. He wrote 100 books in Japanese though, one of good example is following, he wrote book about the emergence of the states in China at 2002 and the matter became very serious now.

• The Emergence of The United States of Chunghwa

He recently mentioned there are two stories about China in near future. One is that Beijing keeps controlling the whole China, stick to their power to control everything in China. I believe China should not go this way otherwise China will break soon. No one is happy to this situation. But, there is the hope. The other is that China develops as 6 mega regions state like the close concept of United States of America. Japanese will push China in this direction, so that we could do business and have win-win relation.

The nations don’t need to be unit in 21th century, from the points of view of regional economic activities, 3 million to 10 million should be the best. (For example of 5 million is Singapore, 6 million is Denmark.) The nations should be also important though, not so important the way in 20^th century.

Here is the basics idea, the China has 6 mega regions consist of followings. (Counting from the North) This book was written in 2002 almost 12 years ago, the number and current situation from his book need to be checked because in China was still very poor at that time. I do need to research again when I have time though, the concept is same, we should put China to have regional state and help them to develop by their selves.

1. Northeast China: the population 170 million (2002)

Northeast is the first industrial area in China. This area has strong connection with Japan. Since Japan occupied during the World War II. Japanese sat up infrastructure in this area. Many of call centers for Japanese, many students have come to study abroad in Japan.

2. Beijing and Tianjin area: the population 90 million (2002)

The capital area, at least 70 top level university and 200 of science and technology research centers for Chinese elites. Now they are moving from the factory of the world to the R&Ds center of the world.

3. Shandong peninsula: the population 90 million (2002)

The climate of this area is very close to Japan. This area is suit to export the crop to Japan.

4. Yangtze River Delta: the population 140 million (2002)

Yangtze River Delta is the center of finance and commerce in China. Also they have high level factories, such as Ericson, Siemens, Hitachi, Sony, and so on. There is much larger number of parts factories than those of Japan. 60000 parts companies were there at 2002.

5. Fujian area: 35 million (becomes 60 million if it include Taiwan)

Very close to Taiwan. I guess this area had changed so much recent 10 years, I am afraid of writing here.

6. Pearl River Delta. Around 90 million

This area has the world largest computer industry. IBM DELL, SANYO, PANASSONIC, Mitsubishi Electronic, Casio, and Honda are there. The factories which make parts are also good and prospering. For example, Japan largest cluster of factory is in Tokyo- Ohta-word which have 3500 companies (which was 8000 companies 40 years ago) the parts companies in Tokyo still have very competitive skill though, in Pearl River Delta had 50000 companies at 2002. I guess a lot of companies became obsolete, but large number of competitive companies should have survived.

This concept is becoming true, Chine is large country and we need to see the area with different of point of views. I agree with Ken Ohmae. These areas have independent power in China to keep prospering. Japanese push China to this direction. See what will happen in near future in Asia.

The reason: He runs through American Capitalism from the beginning to the future.

I don’t think I need to write much here about his biography. He is the most successful investor of 20^th century. He is the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and he was ranked as 2^nd wealthiest person. He went to Colombia Business School and was educated by Benjamin Graham (the author of “the intelligent investor”). I learned from him about how I should earn money and how I should use it. There is good book from Alice Schroeder “The Snow Ball”. You might read this.

• The life is like snow ball

Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

What I learned most is this concept of snow ball. I believe, as long as we are using the stable system of capitalism, our effort, education, money, trust, credit, and so on are accumulating. We need to do right things and keep doing them and gave them to our next generation. The snow ball will keep growing. Firstly, it looks grow slow but then we can’t stop keep growing and will grow faster and faster later on. We have to start rolling the hill as earliest as possible otherwise we can’t get grow large. He says,

I packed my little snowball very early, and if I had packed it then ten years later, I would have been way different than where it stand on the hill right now, So I recommend to students that if you start out a little ahead of the game —- it doesn’t have to a lot, but it’s so much better than starting out behind the game. And credit card really gets you behind the game.

• The rule of money.

The rule no.1: don’t lose money, the rule no.2: don’t forget the rule no.1, the rule no.3:don’t go into debt.

That’s it? But it is very thoughtful. We should use our money very wisely, should not waste money, and should not buy what we could not afford. And we can never emphasize too much not to forget this rule to be rich.

• The style of investment

Graham: Devotion to diversification vs Warren: Belief in concentration

I cannot write much here about his investment style though, two of most important investors have different style, Graham believed the diversification and Warren believed the concentration. I believe you should be very careful if you are going to be like Warren, because Burton G. Malkiel “the random walk down wall street” already showed only chosen few can keep wining without diversification the risk on the market.

Warren also said,

Be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy, but don’t think you can outsmart the market.

This is intuitive conclusion from the best investor and also this has been proven by science.

• Are you right?

You can’t do well in investing unless you think independently. And the truth is, you are neither right nor wrong because people agree with you. You’re right because your fact and reasoning are right.

This is the truth I have to face with as a scientist, also as an investor. We become very lazy by borrowing someone’s idea because we don’t have much time and it looks easy. But the truth is, if we don’t devote to get the truth by ourselves, we can’t know what is true or false.

• We should treat our body and mind well

You only get one mind and one body. And it’s got to last a lifetime. Now it’s very easy to let them ride for many years. But if you don’t take care of that mind and that body, they’ll be a wreck forty years, just like the car would be.

But, I heard that he drinks coke 2 litter every day. Could you please explain to me? But, anyways this quote is very thoughtful.

• The future of capitalism

I don’t know how much Warren Buffett earned money and will earn though, but he decided to donate 99 percent of his wealth said “It could not be better”. By seeing this, I could see the future of capitalism. The capitalism is one of systems, it is different from communism. In the 20^th century, (I have not have conclusion yet because Chinese is coming) it looks the capitalism had worked better. But, the capitalism could not the accumulation and inequality of wealth. How can we fix this? Maybe we could have some sort of hints from what he will do by using his wealth.  I believe that being rich is neither good nor bad. The point should be focused on how the one uses the richness.

The reason : He proved that human and machine can work together.

Garry Kasparov is the grand master who is said the strongest chess player in the history. He was ranked No.1 when he was 21 years old and he had been No.1 until he was 41 years old. Also, he was the last hope of human being against the computer chess machine Deep Blue from IBM. But he failed the match that happened 17 years ago. What is happening now? The chess program on our smart phone can beat grand master now.

He wrote “how life imitates chess” in 2007, I read this book every month. For me, the book is like the modern version of “the art of war”.  Here is what I learned from him and the book.

• The distinction between tactics and strategy is very important. Whereas strategy is abstract and based on long term goals, tactics are concrete and based on finding the best move right now.
• Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

He taught us the difference tactics and strategy is very important.

• Winning creates the illusion that everything is fine.
• You must train yourself, want to do better even when the thing is going right.

These quotes are very important for us. When we succeed or accomplish something. We might be arrogant enough to feel that we did it because we had worked hard or we have the talent. But, at that time, we are going to go weak because we tend to overestimate what we have done. We have to train ourselves hardest and analyze earnestly when we win otherwise we will lose the next time.

• The attacker has always advantage. I used to attack because it was only thing I know. Now I attack because I know it works best.

This is also warning for us. When we get older, and have some saving or have something to protect like family, We might lose enthusiasm to challenge because they already have what we needed. We need to keep attacking to our goal otherwise we cannot accomplish something in our short life. Do it today and take advantage of being an attacker.

• Your life is your preparation.

So, I am writing this blog. I am challenging 31 days of writing but I won’t be able to write more than what I have read, experienced, and prepared. I think every event in life works same. We will have the chance or the adversity in our life, but we only have what we have prepared for or against it. God might help us but we cannot accomplish more than we have prepared.

• We are the best when human and computer work together.

After historical defeat by the chess computer as a best mind of human beings, he said “if I cannot beat them, join them.” I am so impressed by him. If I were him, I would just give up everything, I would feel lose everything. But, he was different. He started the human + computer tournament. On the game, people may use computer. Do you know what happened? For the first tournament, the winner was an amateur chess player with 3 computers. Then, he got these important conclusions.

The team of human + computer > the strongest computer or the strongest human

And one more,

A weak human + computer + superior process > a strong computer + inferior process or a strong human + inferior process

So, we got these conclusions 15 years ago. So don’t worry too much for Terminator or Matrix because the team might be the best when human and computer work together whatever the team does.

The other quotes I like.

• ‘’Why?’’ turns tacticians into strategist.
• The person who knows how will have always a job. The person who also knows why will always be his boss.
• Self-awareness is essential to being able to combine your knowledge, experience and talent to reach your peak performance.
• Better decision making cannot be taught, but it can be self-taught.
• Every move has a consequence.
• Every step, every reaction, every decision you make, must be done with a clear objective.

The reason : The disruptor of information technology and further

I don’t know how much Son is known in the U.S. But, I believe he is one of most important person in the information technology like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. He is a CEO of the Softbank (TSE:9984). As you might know, the Softbank bought sprint last year. And the sprint was looking to buy T-mobile, however they were not allowed to buy. If that happened, the Sprint (NYSE) and T-Mobile (NYSE) could be the third competitive party on the mobile market the U.S. against Verizon (NYSE) and AT&T (NYSE).  You think Japanese are good at only car, don’t you? Japanese is coming also on the mobile market in the U.S.!! However, what I learned from him is not only about the recent mobile market.  He always reminds me I should not look around with my level where I am now. I should aim high wherever I am now, I can find always harder way and higher way to be great.

Japan is the biggest robotic market in the world in 2012. Japan especially is good at industry robot. However, in 21th century, Japan is going to go no industry robot. The Softbank was basically company for information technology, but it is going to get into the robotics. As shown in the video, the Softbank started to sell this walking and talking robot which is supposed to be used in house. It will be sold in 2015 just for around $2000 like buying a laptop computer. It will be constantly upgraded to improve the A.I. technology because it is wired with Wifi technology. I am suspicious for A.I. technology now because Dr. Howkins is against it, but still, this should be very interesting innovation. Since the population of Japan is decreasing and also aging, Japanese are trying to rise up their productivity per person by introducing robots. Once almost all people in Japan have robot at home and that might happen within 5 years, the robotics in Japan will have disruptive innovation for robotics, education, services and information technology in Japan. Japanese and Softbank will help the other aging countries all over the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwMJCAZUyGc

And also you might know that recent biggest IPO in the NYSE by Alibaba group. The Son has 34.4 percent holding in Alibaba valued at more than $50 billion after the initial public offering. Jack Ma was invested around 2000, Ma said to Son “Just, $1 million or $2million is fine for startup” but Son said that “Take $20 million, you won’t regret by how much you have money” So, it turned out $50 billion in 2014. Some says that he is like Warren Buffet in Asia. But the different is that he does know technology, so more like between Bill Gate and Warren Buffet.

The Softbank recorded ¥1.09 trillion (= $10 billion) operating profit 2013/2014 fiscal year, up 36 percent from previous fiscal year. There are only 3 companies (Toyota Motor Corp (TSE:7203) and NTT DoCoMo (TSE:9437)) earn more than ¥1 trillion of operating profits in that term. But, he is aiming at world No.1 in the future base on market capitalization. When the Softbank won Toyota and then becomes No.1 in Japan, something might happen. Yes, there is possibility for that. Son started the Softbank as a distributor of packaged software in 1981. Not like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, or Warren Buffet, he is still active and working hardest at company with great ambition.

The reason: He is the prototype of disruptive innovator in 21th century

I believe he is one of the most brilliant guys on the earth. Elon Musk is the Co-founder of Paypal. And he is currently working on Tesla motor and SpaceX as CEO. He is a disruptor car industry, new wind for space industry. He recently even mentioned he will send people on Mars [1]. How can someone possibly make an internet company to the space rocket company? I have no idea. I don’t know why there aren’t so many books that analyze his talent? I did not know him so much, so I researched a lot of publications from self-publishing e-book, and articles and interviews (including TED) yesterday to write this post. I need to do more though, here I guess what I learned from him.

• Keep taking risk like crazy

He has been taking huge risks every project he has done. He gave up Ph.D at Stanford to start his company. I surely could not. He was born in South Africa and went to Canada, and then the U.S., started his companies and has had several issues for his projects and money, but still he is running in every direction. I have lived the foreign country. So, I know how hard someone succeeds in the foreign country. He started everything from scratch and now he is competed with giant company or government institute. It seems that the adversities he had has been trained him a lot. He even worries that his sons don’t have enough adversity like him.

• Read books and talk to people

On his interview [2], he said “Read books and talk to people, it’s kind of how I have learned anything”. This is very simple suggestion though, it is very profound. Even making rockets, there is someone specialist and great books out there. Why not asking or reading how I can make them. I love to read book, some of them is too hard to read for me but I now knew someone like me (must be human beings, not alien from another planet) wrote that book. Why not sticking to read it until I understand it well? If I can’t, even how hard I tried, why not asking about the problem to the author?

• Only authentic people can tell who is authentic.

On this interview [2], he also explained how to tell the person who are really involved in and have solved the problem. I think what is said is very true. But I know, as a scientist, who is the person who solved the problem. If he were me, I can explain how I could solve the problem with multiple levels because I struggled a lot to solve the problem. We can tell who the one is because the person is he who struggled a lot the problem and never forgets how he solved the problem.

• Study physics, boys and girls, and gentlemen and ladies!!

As a physicist, I am kind of feeling ashamed when I learned about him. He said that the frame work of physics is very strong. It seems he is learning everything by using the framework of physics. I knew physics framework is very important though, I was not challenging enough to take advantage from it. I know physics, I am professional. The physics is the comprehensive study to solve the problem by keeping asking “Why is this happening?” He reminds me that I have to use physics a lot more.

• Honesty

He says honestly sometimes “I don’t know” during interviews when he was asked question that he doesn’t know or cannot answer. It seems it is easy to say so, I don’t think so. He can say “I don’t know” because he knows something clearly and confidently, but also he knows he doesn’t know or can’t say exactly. I don’t think this is easy.

• Living in the 21th century

When I saw and read about him, I realized that we are living in the 21th century. Since even we are living 21th century we are using many of ideas from 20^th century. And they are great. Also they are improving gradually, but the concepts of them don’t change so much. Many people might say that we have everything to live already, say “Why should we innovate something to the future?” This question might be the biggest disruptor of our motivation to innovate.

People might have cheap electric car, live sustainably with self-produced electricity (with Solar power maybe?), travel with hyperloop, talk to artificial intelligent, and even live on Mars in near future. Let’s struggle to our future human beings!! We are living the 21th century!!

References

[1] CNBC’s number 1 disruptor, Elon Musk: http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000285676#.

[2] How Elon Musk Can Tell If Job Applicants Are Lying About Their Experience http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-job-interview-rule-2013-12

So, unfortunately, I have not reached Australia yet. I was told and I have been thinking that American are very competent on paper job, however, it seems this is not the case for FBI. I have waiting more than 3 moths from the original request for my record. I will make a phone call them tonight to know the current situation.

This is of course unfortunate though, I am also having good time to prepare to the future. Looking back my life, maybe, I have never read such a lot of paper for my research. I could have developed my reading skill as a scientist and also I could have finished (and will finish) several papers and proposals. This is good chance to learn. And I might have several more weeks. So I will take advantage of this.

This week, an interesting thing happened to me. Since I am not that smart enough to compete many of top level scientist (They are insanely smart), so naturally, I need to find the niche market in physics to survive, in especially the study of magnets. So I have been focusing on some material which I was thinking I knew the best in the world. However, that was just my hope I wanted to cling.

I found that there is a material whose magnetic structure might be wrong. This material has been studying for 50 years something. Although just reading the papers though, I was excited to know this. So I planned the experiment and read a lot of papers very carefully. And then I happened to find the paper which is written by Chinese guy (I didn’t know at that time) at Beijing. So, I emailed to him (I can get email address from the paper) to let him know my idea for his paper. I came up with the idea to keep his study going. He thanked me and told me surprising news, which was published this week. And he said he is already collaborating with Univ. of Tokyo. Oh, I am sorry I was in America.

I was surprised to hear that. And then, I researched around this area. There were several works have done this material very recently. Some of them are close to my recent findings which I haven’t published. As for science, this thing sometimes happens. People work independently, separately, and competitively but the innovation happens almost the same time. So, I have to be in hurry to publish my paper before they can reach my idea.

Challenge? Accepted!!

http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-job-interview-rule-2013-12

I attached the best video I watched this week. One of the most brilliant guys I know on the earth talks about job applicants. This talk is really short but he talked everything to tell who the talented one is. And this is very true. You can tell whether or not he is good at solving problems by the way of his understanding the problems. His words should be very strong, simple, sincere, and profound because he struggled with the problem by himself. This 90 second interview is worth 10 books. You can even know how to build a rocket from scratch＼(＾▽＾)／

The audible publishes audiobooks. Since I love to read but don’t have much time to read, listening to audio books is great help. I am using audio book for reviewing the book because listening is kind of passive action. Sometimes, I am thinking different things when I am listening and happen to skip some words and sentences. So, I don’t listen to the book I don’t know. I just listen to the book I already know the story. I will review here on this blog what I listened to audible shorter than what I write about the real book.

• Talk like TED.

This book is about TED talk. The author summarized what successful TED talkers have in common. “Passion” is most important. How can I be passionate about something? I believe that people already ruled out how people can succeed. This book is written in the beginning of 21th century though, the rules should have been same. I love this sentence in this book “Ideas are currency in 21th century”

• The Grouped

I read this book sometime in 2012. This book was surprising because I believe this idea is one of the first examples of big data analysis, trying to explain how people connect on the web and how people relate each other. This is the summary of these phenomena at the time of writing though, the author explains very well. And this book is very simple small book though, it is very well organized. I think most of Japanese can’t do this. I am impressed every time I read this book.

• Norwegian woods

When I am tired of listening to English, usually I listen to this book. I don’t know how many times I have read and listened to. This story is kind of sad because the person died in the story who the main character Toru loved much. She committed suicide. How hard Toru tried and was patient, she chose to die. I am always thinking by reading this book, sometimes how hard I loved someone, and she might leave me. So, why not just loving, just doing what I think that is right things to do?

• Think and Grow Rich

By listening TED talk, Richard St, John summarized by interviewing 500 people. On this book, Napoleon hill did that like him. I am thinking there is formula which lead people succeeded already. Even though time has changed, the words are different, what authors are trying say sounds same. I reviewed this book almost 5 years since I have read last time. I believe what he said is true, only problem is how to apply them to our life.

I am listening to Audible at the speed x3. But, when I measured actual speed, it turned out x2 times faster than normal speed. The speed x2 which app shows actually is x1.5. So, please be aware when you are listening to them at limited time. I reviewed 4 books here and I will write here again what I am reading. The review I am going to write here is not literally “review”, just my impression about the books. As I said before, we can’t listening to everything on the book when we are listening to audiobooks.