Translated from 日本語 • View original Hello! This is Koshiba from the Human Resources & Branding Project!
**Let's interview Colorkrew's engineers, Part 10! **
This time, we spoke with Mr. Furuyama, who has been with Colorkrew for 11 years. Until recently, Mr. Furuyama was busy converting his core systems to the cloud, so I was thinking of asking him to talk about his work, but before I knew it, I was invited to Furuyama World and told him a completely different story.
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Mr. Furuyama is an iron man in bicycles, marathons, and iron men. He also won a hill climb competition (by age group) to climb Mt. Tsukuba. [/caption]
I want to see where humanity is going
Koshiba: Thank you, Mr. Furuyama! As part of my preliminary information, I also listened to the podcast!
Furuyama: Eh, do you know?
Koshiba: Yes! I really like the loose ~ atmosphere. Since when have you been doing that?
Furuyama: About two years ago. I had already quit, but there was a member I was coaching at the time, and I was talking to him about wanting to try something like this. I started thinking it would be nice to have more opportunities for communication.
Koshiba: Oh, that was the opportunity.
Furuyama: Yes. Now I continue to operate it as a means to connect with engineers who have left the company on a regular basis. I don't think it's okay to lose contact just because I quit the company.
Koshiba: When I look at the names of the speakers, there are people who miss me, and on the contrary, there are Ryoji-kun, who is a new graduate, and it's a good mix of old and new.
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Various members appear on the podcast. [/caption]
Koshiba: Mr. Furuyama has an image of actively disseminating information on radio and Qiita.
Furuyama: Yes, I want to put useful information in a place where everyone can see it often.
Koshiba: I think some people are afraid to show it or don't want to be known, but where does your motivation come from for wanting to convey it to everyone?
Furuyama: I want to see where humanity is going.
Koshiba: Yes???
Furuyama: But life is limited, isn't it? If you live to be 80 years old, you only have 33 years left. If we don't accelerate the speed of human evolution, we won't be able to catch up.
Koshiba: Well, that's right.
Furuyama: The age of the universe is said to be about 15 billion years. It's so long that I don't understand the meaning.
Koshiba: It's unimaginably long.
Furuyama: On the other hand, there are about 7 billion humans. If we connect the time of people living today in series, it will be 7 billion years in one year. Just over two years, 15 billion years is the same age as the universe. If you think about it this way, humanity now has a ridiculous amount of time resources. We have to take advantage of this advantage, and to do so, we have to share our knowledge at a tremendous speed.
Koshiba: What, I see?
Furuyama: It's not enough for me to just receive information unilaterally... Even if there was a large computer called humanity, it would not function as one of the nodes. By receiving information properly, adding your own information, and disseminating it, you can contribute to the scale-out of the large computer of mankind, or become one of the computer resources...!
Koshiba: I was surprised at how grand the scale of the idea was. Laughter
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I want to be one of the computer resources of mankind... [/caption]
Furuyama: I have a long history as an engineer, so I know the days when the Internet was not working.
Koshiba: How did you work in the era when there was no Internet?
Furuyama: Yes, for example, if you try to use Oracle's commercial database, you won't get any information even if you search the Internet like you do now. That's why I read the manual, and there are about 3 boxes of cardboard...
Koshiba: Wow, I don't want to read it! Laughter
Furuyama: I worked hard to research the large number of manuals, and if they weren't listed there, I would contact the manufacturer. In other words, it was extremely expensive to obtain information, and the speed was slow. Now there is a system called the Internet that allows us to exchange information, so we want to make use of it. Are you saying the same thing over and over again?
Koshiba: No, No, Mr. Furuyama's values were well conveyed.
Furuyama: Well, in short**, I want to contribute to the progress of mankind, and I think it is important to share information for that**.
Koshiba: No one ever talked about information opening on such a grand scale. lol But if you think about it from that point of view, I'm a little pessimistic, but I wonder if this corona situation will not work better even though we are an Internet society.
Furuyama: Do you mean that you are being danced by information?
Koshiba: Including that. Even though the amount of information and the speed of transmission have advanced so much, it seems that there are many parts that repeat history.
Furuyama: Hmm, I'm going to digress a little, but do you know a science fiction novel called "The Door to Summer"? I will omit the content, but it has a message that the more the future, the better it will be, and I believe in that.
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A novel with a cat cover as a landmark. Mr. Furuyama also recommended another novel called "The Three-Body Problem". [/caption]
Furuyama: I don't think humans are that stupid. I do stupid things, but I think it's basically getting better.
Koshiba: Mr. Furuyama is positive on a human scale! I felt that even if I was pessimistic, it wouldn't start!
Colorkrew Like the Short Hands of a Clock
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When I went on an overseas business trip with Google Cloud Next'18, I felt the need for English and continued to study, and as a result, I broke through TOEIC800 points the following year. [/caption]
Koshiba: You mentioned earlier that you have a long history as an engineer, but you also have a long history of Colorkrew.
Furuyama: Yes. I originally came from CSK, the parent company of Colorkrew, but in fact, I was only doing PL things during my CSK days. The business was like an IT general contractor, so it was a job where I used a lot of partner companies by myself.
Koshiba: Huh! Mr. Furuyama? !
Furuyama: But I really wanted to write code. So when I came to Colorkrew, I was asked what I wanted to do, so I said I wanted to write code.
Koshiba: Oh~ So you can now write code.
Furuyama: Yes. I was really grateful that I was told that I could do anything else, even though my value was PL at the time. But at that time, Colorkrew's business situation was not flatteringly good, and it was in a state where it did not form the body of the company. Laughter
Koshiba: I'm grateful that I can now work as a programmer, but the company was pretty bad. Laughter
Furuyama: It has changed since Mr. Nakamura (CEO of Colorkrew) came. There have been a lot of aura people who say, "I'm going to change everything from tomorrow!", but I've never seen anyone change slowly but surely, and I think he's a special person.
Koshiba: What is your impression of Colorkrew from Furuyama's point of view?
Furuyama: It is a company that changes quietly but steadily and steadily, like the short hands of a clock. I think this might really change the world.
Koshiba: Certainly, if you cut it down by age, it has definitely changed.
Furuyama: Choosing to stay here means that you are cutting off other possibilities. But I have no regrets. Of course, if you go to another company and change the environment, it will change drastically, but I don't think that staying at Colorkrew has reduced the opportunities I would have had at other companies.
Koshiba: Because Colorkrew is changing.
Furuyama: Yes. That's why I think it's good to be there, and I like the fact that things are changing. I also think that changing the world and opening it up will result in a faster rate of evolution and a faster way for humanity to get to where it should be.
Overturning the retirement age theory and continuing to contribute to the world team
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It seems that they are conscious of places where engineers can connect, such as the Readable Code Momoku Meeting and the Effective Programming Study Group. [/caption]
Koshiba: Can I tell you about the future?
Furuyama: Do you know the theory of the retirement age of 35 for engineers?
Koshiba: I've heard of it.
Furuyama: It was often said in the past. There is no way to continue writing programs like this, so go to the management side. Lately, I've been talking about it a lot, but there are still few role models who are better than me.
Koshiba: Is that possible?
Furuyama: I had no choice but to do it myself. It has a kind of sense of mission.
Koshiba: That's really good! I think it's important to have such a presence close to you, Mr. Koizumi. There is hope for the future.
Furuyama: Mr. Koizumi is funny! India, job change, and top sales are such hard lives. lol I don't have the confidence to survive. He's a terrible person. Laughter
Koshiba: Haha. I'm looking forward to Mr. Furuyama too!
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Please read the story of Mr. Koizumi's terrible from this article! [/caption]
Furuyama: In my case, when I retire, I probably get blurry, so I want to continue doing something. I want to take a break, but I have the image of being left behind by the world when I'm in a daze... I want to be one of the nodes of the world while I'm alive.
Koshiba: There is no wavering in the world perspective.
Furuyama: No matter how old you are, Colorkrew, which doesn't keep you looking for growth and doesn't let you blur, suits me. lol Maybe the ability to write code or build systems alone is no match for me, so I would like to contribute to the differences.
Koshiba: Since it's a team, I think there are many ways to contribute.
Furuyama: In my case, the team may not be a company, but a unit of the world.
Koshiba: It's out! World! Laughter
Furuyama: Returning to the future, continuing to be a programmer and creating services in this way I want to do it.
Koshiba: Is there anything you think you like about this kind of service?
Furuyama: The right to be forgotten: People tend to focus on things like data disappearing after death, but it's the opposite. I'm interested in "eternity" and "eternity in the future", so I think it would be nice to have a service that continues to keep data.
Koshiba: Oh, it's like GitHub's Arctic data!
Furuyama: That's right! That's good~! (Tension explodes)
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Mr. Furuyama is very excited about the topic of the GitHub project. [/caption]
Furuyama: Colorkrew has a vision of "making the world happy," and work is important, but it seems that there is not much information left about who did what kind of work. For example, a lot of people must have been involved in building Tokyo Tower, but even if you search for it, it doesn't come up. Even if my grandfather was transporting materials at the site, there is no way to know.
Koshiba: That's right.
Furuyama: Even if the past is impossible, I think it would be nice to be able to accumulate and search for such information about the future.
Koshiba: Hmm~, Mr. Furuyama's story is full of romance! It was fun to talk to him! Thank you very much!