My columns are long.

However, "long" means a lot of research, a lot of calculations, a lot of diagrams, and a lot of writing.

And, I spend a lot of time using my brains and facing the computer for a long time.

So,

"I love how long Ebata's columns are!"

I think it would be nice if one of them would comment that way, but I have yet to see such a comment.

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I'm wondering if people who comment "more concise" would do so even if it's a romance novel.

I know there are many kinds of romance novels, but the framework of a story is basically like this.

(Step 1) They encounter

(Step 2) Various troubles/events occur.

(Step 3) They break up or get together

Three lines. You can finish reading this in three seconds.

However, I don't know anyone who says that romance novels are "long".

Well, even if you think so, I think it is because we all know that it is "nonsense", "rude" and "vulgar" to claim so.

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There are many things that need to be written in short form.

Reports to be submitted to superiors and organizations must be written with as clear an argument as possible.

To begin with, the first thing that newcomers to the workforce are thoroughly trained in is how to write a concise report.

Especially in the case of engineers, a huge amount of time (about 2 years) is spent on thorough training (I think this probably hasn't changed).

If it is a research paper, you have to summarize the results of a 200+ page study into a few pages.

If it is a conference proceedings, it is two pages.

Compression algorithms such as zip, tar, cab, 7z, and so on are nothing

Don't underestimate "sentence compression skills" of our "trained engineers"

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So why are my columns so long?

The reason for this is clear.

"Because I have so much to write/say"

Then, one might say, Ebata cannot criticize "the story of a principal of an elementary and middle school with no presentation skills," but this is an unfair criticism.

This is because I do not 'abuse children in any way,' such as keeping them standing up in the hot sun and making them collapse from anemia.

And I insist, 'If you don't want to read it, you have a 100% guaranteed right to stop in the middle.

Moreover, the editorial department of EE Times Japan also measures how many pages of Ebata's column a reader leaves.

This is why I have been trying to devise various ways to compose a "long column" (which I will keep as a "trade secret").

Anyway, I am very unhappy to be lumped in with the self-satisfied, boring, and unentertaining stories of incompetent school principals.

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I am currently working on this month's column, using MindManager.

I'm in the middle of a "deadline crunch," and it's during these times that I'm unlucky enough to stumble upon interesting content.

Right now, I'm hooked on "Marginal Operation" by Yuri Shibamura, and it's slowly stealing away my precious time before the deadline.

(To be continued)