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- The Faster You Finish, the More Work You Get: How Hours-Based Employment Punishes ProductivityArticle 6 of Japan's Labor Contract Act says an employment contract is formed when a worker agrees to work under an employer and the employer agrees to pay…
- Why Doesn't Work Shrink When We Get More Efficient?Why do working hours stay the same even after we become more efficient?
- Don't Block Urgent Paperwork: How Selective Micromanagement Kills ProductivityThe hardest part of work isn't always the big disasters.
- Less Overtime, Same Work? That’s a Management ProblemReducing overtime is desirable.
- “Doing Nothing” Feels Wasteful — The Unpaid Productivity OS, Rumination Loops, and the Overused Label “Only After the Body”Imagine one person spending an evening drinking, letting videos run for hours, and mechanically deleting accumulated coupon and official-account notifications…
- When AI takes over PM work, a one-person company never endsThe usual story is simple: if AI makes work faster, humans should get more free time.
- AI makes work 100x faster, so why isn't your income higher?The ILO’s 2025 global index estimates that about 25% of worldwide employment is in occupations with some GenAI exposure, rising to 34% in high-income countries.
- AI cut the job by 40%, so why do we add 67% more work?A sensible way to judge an AI subscription is to ask how many hours it gives back.
- Why Do We Keep Checking for a Reset? When Generative AI Pulls Future Work Forward Into “Infinite Work”“What day does Tibo actually take off?”
- I Barely Give AI Detailed Instructions. “Win More” and “Do Less Work” Somehow Turned Into an Automated Verification SystemLooking back at how I use AI, I noticed something odd: I almost never give it a detailed procedure.
- AI article factories: web savior or polluter? Give info a paper trailWhen you use AI to produce articles, the time spent writing goes down. But that's not where the real savings are.
- Choosing a QC Circle Theme: Turn “Missed Clock-Ins” Into a Strong TopicHere's a shallow way a lot of people write up a QC circle theme.
- How to Show the Problem With Numbers: Current-State Analysis and Pareto ChartsThe most common mistake in current-state analysis is simply lining up data.
- QC Circle Topic Selection: Turn “Missed Clock-Ins” Into a Scoring ThemeHere's a shallow way a lot of people write up a QC topic.
- QC Current-State Analysis: Show Problems in Numbers, Use Pareto Only HereThe most common mistake in this step is simply lining up data.
- When an Anonymous Blog Grows Too Big, You Can't Claim It AnymoreSay an anonymous project has grown to 12 languages and over 1,000 posts, with AI-assisted writing, translation, Markdown, GitHub and automation all running.
- When "this is boring" becomes a job: the CEO as discomfort detectorAs AI gets stronger, human value shifts away from “I can personally build every part.”
- When AI automation turned into infinite MinecraftIt feels like Minecraft or Palworld automation: the reward shifts from one resource to the machine that keeps producing.
- AI as a company compressor: running a shop and factory soloAsk AI to summarize a paragraph in 200 characters.
- Why does logistics choke in peak season despite automation?Buy ten things online and, from the customer side, almost nothing happened.
- The Three-Tap Guy Lost His Job After We Connected GitHub — Process Improvement Got So Extreme the CEO Was NextYou tell the AI, “Turn everything so far into an article.”
- Busy but Not RichSome people at work always look busy.
- Logging Your Mood With AI Can Be Surprisingly InterestingWhen you log your mood, energy, complaints, and productivity with AI, you may discover patterns you could not see before. You may feel hopeless in the morning b