Tokyo’s Muslim

China’s Andy Rooney Has Some Funny Opinions About How Great The Chinese Government Is

I should be happy about the job I got today. It is simple; build a few Regexes, and simplify the interface to a CMS.

Simple – yet stupid.

First, why is this difficult system being used? (Politics of a sunk cost)

Second, why is the design of the interface so utterly bad? (Japan only product therefore it doesn’t have to compete in an unbiased market)

Finally, is it morally right to sell this band-aid as a “solution” when the problem is actually a deeper malaise? (No)

I feel dirty.

I was having an interesting conversation with Paul P on his blog about Google and short term vs. long term hiring practices.

My belief comes down to cross-cultural pollination being inevitable in Japan. As a result, bilingual / bi-cultural Japanese would be far more likely to have insight into future trends than hiring monolingual Japanese or monolingual Gaikokujin.