Chapter 28

So sometimes, when I saw mages, they could genuinely treat playing with their phones as part of their work. But every day, I had all kinds of meetings, right? All kinds of business trips. Of course, another reason was that I played with phones too much. When you could experience almost every phone before it hit the market, the threshold became very low, and it was just that sense of novelty. The feeling of happiness after going to great lengths to get one back. How could an internet company have that kind of quality? Actually, there were still many things it needed to pay attention to. Besides the phone circle, you also had to pay attention to this, and to the internet circle and the capital circle. So, all these technological iterations, industry changes, and capital environments... Because we had our own laboratories. R&D staff. Under these circumstances, if you wanted to understand the past, it became very easy. Unlike before, when you wanted to know something... Well, then what could you do with that repeated time?

You could do some other things. For example, that was my basic requirement at the time. I used to especially long for the state of never running out of phones. Like a child who had just woken up. Now, my personal interests had shifted more toward myself; before, I didn't have that. Intelligent design, those sorts of things, lots of magazines. So I felt that this sensation, and what every industry called the highest level of enthusiast culture, began with the pursuit of...

Novelty, even vanity, and then returned to simplicity. What remained was all of this. It settled into a kind of thinking ability and system of judgment. We could make a phone, at 100% battery, look the way we wanted it