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- What happens to labor costs when AI is split into nine teams? The feeling of building a software company for about ¥15,000 a monthUsing AI to write an article can already feel inexpensive. The stranger realization comes later:
- Who Is Suited to Being Unemployed—and Who Is Not? It Is Less About “Tolerating Boredom” Than Starting Your Own Day Without a CompanyThe short answer: being “good at unemployment” is not the ability to sleep until noon without guilt.
- Can One Person Build a “Company” With AI? What a Low-Cost Content Factory Taught Me About LeverageIt usually does not start with a grand business plan.
- How a “Company” Sprouted from Three Hours, ¥3,000, and an Apple — What a Moving Gig Reveals About Small BusinessSomeone posted a tiny moving job: three hours of help for ¥3,000.
- Great as a Friend, Risky as a Household Partner: “I Don’t Mind” Does Not Mean “I’ll Manage It for You”You can genuinely enjoy someone’s company. Conversation flows. Going out together is fun. As a friend, everything works.
- Keeping Your Own Logs in AI Can Become Career Education — But Ask for a Balanced ViewKeeping your own logs in AI can be a very effective form of career education.
- If AI can make everything, who is left to buy it? — What demand looks like when even knowledge labor gets cheaper“Soon, if you cannot pay hundreds of dollars a month for generative AI, you will not be able to compete in business.”
- Work Is Not a Friendship Game: What You Need Is Not Being Liked, but Low-Friction Working RelationshipsWhen people talk about workplace relationships, the advice often goes in this direction:
- Why does Hatcho miso need three tons of stones, giant wooden vats, and more than two years without artificial temperature control? A Kakukyu tour where “the whole village is basically miso”The day in Okazaki was supposed to involve hunting for Tokai On Air-related stickers and manhole-card side quests.
- Are anime and character manhole covers private? — Nagoya’s 35 kg cast-iron lid led straight into sand molds, robots, naming rights and outsourced museum operationsA decorated manhole cover at a sewer museum raises a simple question: if an anime or character company owns the design, is the manhole itself private?
- The Vehicle Yard Looks Bigger Than the Factory, a Scooter Costs Six Months’ Pay, and the Museum Is Free — Suzuki Plaza Beyond ManufacturingThis is part four of the Suzuki Plaza field-report series.