Turn mentors into customers.

from Nodal Point of Thought 2021 Unexplored Jr. Turn mentors into customers.

nishio: After looking at 100 applications, a dim picture emerged: “Solve problem Y with means X to make customer Z happy.” If we apply this to the royal pattern, this would be (2) “lack of means” pattern. This is unlikely to be adopted. On the other hand, there have been cases of adoption of patterns (3) and (4), so I am wondering what the difference is.

nishio: for example, I think this is (4) not (1) jr.mitou.org/projects/2020/…

nishio: It doesn’t make a big difference whether you are (4) or (3), and this project can also be (3) by saying “The current computer is a black box, this is a problem. You can claim that “we will solve the problem by building a computer with relays,” and you can be (3). But “Who will be displaced by it?” The same thing is not answering the

nishio: and “who will be happy by making it?” I don’t think we are instructed or otherwise instructed to clarify the I think they accept the implicit and self-evident solution, “I make something because I want to make it, and I am the one who will be happy by making it,” without any particular objection. - Or a project without a customer. - I am the customer

nishio: The reason why such a project with “only me as a customer” could be adopted is because through the proposal and interviews, the mentor’s empathy is elicited and “me and the mentor are customers” by eliciting empathy from the mentor through the proposal and interviews. Therefore, this process depends on the mentor’s feeling and has a strong element of luck.

nishio: For example, if the quality of the prototype at the time of proposal had been lower and there had been more doubt about “can we actually make what we say we will make?” If the quality of the prototype at the time of proposal was lower and there were more doubts about “can we actually make what we say we are going to make? But in this kind of project, it is meaningless to make it (1) in appearance only, so I think the most important thing is to improve the quality after all.

nishio: “It is meaningless to make it (1) only for appearance” means a proposal like “more elementary school students are learning computers due to mandatory programming education, but they are in trouble because computers are a black box. I mean a proposal like “they are in trouble because computers are a black box and they are learning about computers due to mandatory programming education. Isn’t the means to an end excessive?” “Isn’t the means too great for the end?

nishio: On the other hand, if you adopt something that’s already great enough at the time of the proposal and it self-propulsion produces reasonable results, the mentor is not adding It doesn’t create any added value.

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