ochyai\nPublic.icon\nhttps://gyazo.com/b56990bd2d6cc5707ab8d78a23703e56\n\n>Take a position. Be fair. Put out into the world. Make money. Find value in complexity and in things which take time. Cherish everything that makes your heart beat, while living without expectations and without despairing over it all. Change your standards from now to tomorrow and keep changing them.\n\n>Before you think about what will happen the day after tomorrow, think about what will happen tomorrow and today. Hopefully, you can keep the continuity; begin with the present and look ahead.\n\n>Find value where others do not, and with a job that will be called valuable 10 years from now, launch an offensive and drive away critics who will not take a position over an extended period of time. \n\n>Since it is Coming-of-Age Day, I would like to say that it is important to think about the future when you are working in the field. Become an adult with a flexible mind that can take a position while maintaining ambiguity. Asking “Why?” at all times is important. In all circumstances, whether you are unhealthy or healthy, fulfilled or hungry, think deeply and create things with your hands. Do not become a critic; create things before taking a position. Make a statement, and let it be propaganda that motivates you to create things.\n\n>The bottom line is, I want to become the person I strive to be, who grows not based on what the frame or goal dictates. I do not want to be a writer who only writes books, a researcher who worries whether their thesis will be cited or evaluated at conferences, an influencer who craves admiration, a money-oriented person who wants to make a profit, or a person who wants to reform the social system. To clarify these points, I simply love accomplishing something when I have a frame and a goal that seems interesting, and I like to optimize based on that goal.
I feel a rising excitement that creates a horizon I have never seen before, while experiencing a soft and smooth sense of continuity that I feel when I am in nature, and it is fun to decide on a frame of purpose and activity and carry it out.
For example, as an entrepreneur, it is a pleasure to use my abilities to support people's daily lives in society, expand businesses, and engage in economic activities that bring about better cycles. Also, as a researcher, I enjoy writing papers to spread knowledge, nurturing juniors, and systematizing and utilizing many technologies and inventions that have not yet been returned to knowledge through research. When I write a book, I write it with the intention of delivering it to readers, and when I am involved with the national project, I seriously use my head to discover, educate, and build ecosystems to realize a better society. These roles and pieces are individual elements that make up myself, optimized for frames and purposes. I don't resist the fact that my limited time is being used for myself. If someone is in trouble, I want to help them, and if there is a problem, I always want to solve it. It is one of the joys of living in active nihilism. If you think of me as an artist who loves the social sculpture of "digital nature," it is easy to understand my understanding. The point is that when I am carving a social sculpture, I want to somehow fill the difference between the vision of the future that I can see and the one that I can see. I live every day thinking that I want to do something about it.
As for Yochi Ochiai as the only seeker, I think I would keep doing it even if I were left alone in the world when I am creating works or doing research. I want to see something I have never seen before, and the pleasure of admiring it is very great.