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Name the Nishio's own style.

Dec 22, 202210 min read

In 2018, when I wrote The Intellectual Production of Engineers, I asked, “Why don’t you give this intellectual production technique a name like the KJ method?” I was asked.

  • I said, “I won’t name names.”
    • Deliberately avoided naming names from the time of writing.
  • for some reason
    • This manuscript was written in 2017.
      • I wrote the book thinking, “The paper method is useful, but it has a number of problems, it needs to be electronic.”
      • No digital tool had yet satisfied me.
      • After the writing was done, we started developing digital tools.
        • This led to the current [Kozaneba digital stationery to organize your thoughts
    • I think in retrospect that at the time I was writing it, I had the feeling that the way I was doing it at the moment was not the finished version.

2022 KJ Method Study Session @ Loftwork at

  • I told him, “Let’s make our own style,” and “It’s good to exchange information about our own style.”

  • Q: name your own style and might be easier to distribute/exchange?

  • And I thought, “That’s right.”

  • for some reason

    • It makes sense to create a lingua franca to share within the organization, but as a preliminary step, it might be a good idea to secretly give your methods a personal name (Personal words).

    • Unnamed concepts are like liquid, elusive and difficult to manipulate

    • Naming the concept allows us to manipulate it with a handle, like coffee in a mug (Metaphor of liquid in a container).

    • The first step before creating a common language is to give a personal name to your method.
    • It is easier to manipulate than unnamed concepts
    • By naming a concept, you turn that concept into an object that can be manipulated and handled with a handle, like “liquid is in a container.”
    • This is the story I wrote in The Intellectual Production of Engineers p.36 [(Column) To name the pattern.

  • Compare with 2018 decisions

    • Writing in a book with a name” is the equivalent of creating “a common language shared around the world.”
    • The 2018 decision “not at the stage of naming names” is “not at the stage of creating a common language.”
    • Giving a “private name” as a preliminary step is beneficial

So I gave a tentative name to Nishio’s own style.

Presentation Story Construction Method

  • I literally use it to create the presentation story.
  • Mixture of KJ method and [knee-swing (gymnastics)
  • Fragments of the story are on sticky notes.
  • Related stickies, stickies that can be connected and talked about, are placed close together or connected by lines.
    • Group items that have been determined to be spoken in this order in close proximity so that they can be moved in a single group.
      • With Kozaneba, you can even fold it up.
    • If you decide to quit, just ungroup.
    • This is an act similar to the stapling of the Kozane Act
  • There is a rough “top left starts, bottom right finishes” axis.
    • For example.
      • Self-introduction sticky note is placed in the upper left corner
      • If there is group work after the lecture, the connection to the explanation of the group work will be in the lower right corner.
    • Most of the remaining stickies are arranged according to the connections represented by lines.
  • Even if I started out writing out stickies with the intention of including them in a lecture, I gradually realized that it was impossible to make a story that would connect well with these stickies, and I would say, “Let’s leave these out this time,” or “Let’s just use this part as a stand-alone article.
  • On the other hand, when the “I want to go from here to here, but it’s too big a leap,” a sticky note is added to pause the conversation.
  • When building from scratch, a divergent phase around a theme, such as Fireworks to think about, may be interspersed first.
  • The real value comes when “it can’t be used as is, but has a relevant story to tell.”
    • Reusable:.
      • There is a lot of material already written out without having to verbalize it from scratch.
      • Proximity relationships in the original story are relationships that can also be proximate in the output story
    • What is the case when you can’t use it as it is?
  • example - Create a short version of the lecture material - The process of converting KJ Method Study Session @ Loftwork_Lecture Material v1, scheduled for one hour, into KJ Method Study Session @ Loftwork_Lecture Material v2, scheduled for 30 minutes.

Difficult Sentence Reconstruction Method

  • I use it to read difficult texts.
  • Chop difficult sentences into words. - The word came up here too.” - This directive refers to this word.” - This word is counterpointed with this word.”
    • etc. in a line.
  • Difficult sentences are, in the first place, complex network-like knowledge forced down into one-dimensional sentences.
    • Using directives and repetition of the same words to express “links”.
    • But it overflows the capacity of the reader’s brain, and he can’t remember, “Oh, this word was used earlier, which means it’s used in this way.
    • This is how the link has been severed and can no longer be restored to its original form.
  • You don’t have enough brain capacity, so it’s better to reconstruct it on the screen instead of trying to reconstruct it in your brain.
  • example - I used it in the process of creating Kegon Summary. - > I saw the article “Computer Graphics, Media Art, Tea Culture, and Zen. When I tweeted that the keyword “Kegon” was not sitting firmly in my mind, Yoichi Ochiai pointed me to “this area,” so I read it. - The Formation of Chinese Hua Yan through the Fusion of the Hua Yan Sutra and Zhuangzi - Process: Kozaneba: The Formation of Chinese Hua Yan through the Fusion of the Hua Yan Sutra and Zhuangzi. - (We called it Kozaneba Reading at the time.)
    • I used it in the process of reading and understanding the lecture Building, Living, Thinking by Heidegger.
      • Kozaneba:dwell-think
      • I couldn’t figure this out when I read it a few times off the top of my head.
      • After I finished building the network, I understood each element of the sentence I wanted to understand by following the link “Thinking itself also belongs to living, in the same sense as building, but in a different way” and reading it backwards.

Book Reconstruction Method

  • I use it to read thick books.
  • Sticky note with table of contents, titles of figures, etc.
    • Structuring it.
    • First, the “author-created structure” of the tree structure of the table of contents is reproduced.
      • Unlike the KJ method from fieldwork, the goal is to internalize the knowledge structure within the author, which is fine.
    • Then we look at “anything that deviates from the tree structure.”
      • A “line across the group” of fireworks to think about.
      • The fact that it was necessary to write it in such a form means that it is an important concept for the author.
  • example
    • I don’t know if I have a record that summarizes the process very well.

(Tentative) Kozaneba Law

  • The above methods were separated by use case
  • But I also thought there were more generic things they were doing.
  • What to call this is troubling.
  • I am developing Kozaneba to make it easier to do my own style, but it feels strange to call it the Kozaneba method.
    • What kind of discomfort?
      • Kozaneba is a tool, calling the methodology the “Kozaneba method” is like calling it the “fountain pen method” or the “post-it method”
  • I can’t think of a good name right now, but this is like trying to put on a nameplate before the group is clear, so I’ll hold off.
  • technique
    • Write it down with a tool that allows you to itemize
      • I use Scrapbox, but that’s because I already use Scrapbox, not because it has to be Scrapbox.
      • Anything that can be exported on a smartphone, even a simple text editor.
        • Why a smart phone: because I often take walks and write things down.
      • Leave a blank line at large separations.
    • Import into Kozaneba
      • Kozaneba imports multi-line text as a single kozane for each line when pasted
        • Miro should be able to do something similar.
      • It is important that the tool be capable of 2D placement
      • Kozane that are in consecutive lines at the time of writing are basically connected by association, so they can be placed in close proximity to each other.
      • Draw a line when there is a relationship between distant places.
        • Now Kozaneba is hard to draw a line between things that are far apart, so you have to draw it closer once you get there.
        • I thought this should be improved, but when I observed the work, I was troubled by the fact that many people left things far away from each other on a line, leaving them far away from each other.
        • Kozaneba makes it so that the longer the line is, the more transparent it becomes.
    • Regarding the enclosure of fireworks
      • I’m usually not very enthusiastic about it.
        • I group them together as needed.
        • The group title may be left empty or given at random.
        • When folding a large number of sheets, make sure to put a title on the folded sheets so that the contents can be identified even if they are folded.
        • Keep important groups large.
          • When the kozane in a group is large, the folded ones are also made to be large.
      • Kozaneba does not have the ability to softly enclose, so it is difficult to do the fireworks properly.
        • I took a screencap and surrounded it with the iPad’s note tool (Notability) when I presented it as a case study this time.
        • The note tool is whatever I’m used to, as long as I can draw a line over the image.
          • Like GoodNotes.

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