2026 New Year's Resolution

Review of 2025

Review of last year's goal achievement

  • △ [仕事] AIポストレコメンドの導入による人事効率化
    • 着手はしたが、実用化まで持っていくには至らず
  • ✕ [仕事] クラウド業界にキャッチアップする何かしらの行動を行う
  • ✕ [Private] reminiscenceをピアノで弾けるようになる
    • キーボードを常設したが、洗濯物が置かれてしまい練習できず。時間もなかった。
  • 〇 [Private] 災害対策としての食糧備蓄のスキームを作る
  • ✕ [Private] 体重を55kgに戻す
    • 結局忙しくて歩く時間がない。途中から筋トレに切り替えたが、結局これもルーチン化できておらずあまりできなかった。

Work

  • HR2年目。
    • 仕事は一回しして大まかな動き方はわかった。
    • 一方、管理職等が少ない問題等、完全には解けない問題が多く、長期間を見据えた課題に対する取り組みが必要。
    • 9月にはHR Tech Conference@ラスベガスに参加。AIの進化を強く意識した。
    • 社内のHR Tech活用においてはかなり力を入れたが幹部からの物言いがあり、方針の見直しが必要。今年には一定の成果を出していきたい。
  • もう少し技術的なところで活躍したいところ。
    • HRにおける効率化等には貢献できているが、そういう事じゃない。

Private

運動が少なく太ってきている。55kgどころか62kg台に。 今年の目標は運動の習慣化。 妻子供は鬼滅の刃の映画にハマって10回以上見に行っていた。 グランピングは今年も行った。

買い物

  • TV (2025/08)

New Year Resolution in 2026

  1. [Work] HR Techをリリースする。
  2. [Work] 今後5年の業界の動きを検討/リサーチし、どの領域に注力すべきかを決め、自分ができることは何かを決定する。
  3. [Private] No.2に合わせて当該領域に取り組む優良企業に対して投資する。
  4. [Private] reminiscenceをピアノで弾けるようになる
  5. [Private] 運動の習慣化 + 体重55kg

2025 New Year's Resolution

まずは2024の振り返りから

Review of 2024

Review of last year's goal achievement

  • 〇 [仕事] 採用(につながる何かをする) → 1名採用
  • 〇 [仕事] 中期計画(2028年度までのライフサイクル計画の骨子の作成) → 完成
  • △ [仕事] 振り返りの週間をつける。毎月振り返りを行う → むしろ毎月だと忘れるので毎日レビューへ。できる日もあればできない日もあった。特に7月の異動後は出来ていなかった。
  • ✕ [Private; 再掲] Walk 10,000 steps every day on average → 平均7254歩。。昨年の9540歩と比べると後退。今年は異動もあり、歩く時間が物理的に取れない日も多かった。

Work

  • 2023/7からVSへ異動と思ったら2024/7でHRに異動。
  • 一応Apolloについてはある程度骨子は作ったつもり。あとは頼んだ・・・。
  • HRは色々文化が違いすぎるし考え方が違うので、色々外してしまうことも多かった気がする。
    • 特にHRにおいては自らの行動/決定による影響範囲が今までのそれとはまるで違う(影響範囲が大きい)。抽象的に大きく網をかけるということも重要であることを学んだ。
    • これまでは抽象的なことは悪、具体的なことが正と思っていたが、HRに来てそうでもないことを学んだ。
      • 例: HRから〇〇の考え方に関するメッセージ、のような抽象的なコンテンツを出すことは意味がない(具体的な指示にまで落とし込まないと意味をなさない)と思っていたが、それによってなんとなく全体としてのコンセンサスが形成されることがあることを学んだ。
      • 例: OJで○○の紹介記事を出す、ということも上記と同じく「誰が見てるんだ、意味ない」と思っていたりしたが、社員全体に投げかけると一定数はそれを見ていて反応が返ってくるということもわかった。
  • 一方、人事関連プロセスは改善の余地しかない(ルール面、運用面)。何年いるかわからないが、いい機会ととらえてここの改善(というより改革)は進めたいと思う。

Private

一番大きかったのは自分の異動とほぼ時を同じくして起きた妻の離職。これにより在宅時の食生活(主に昼食)が自宅になったので、経済的にも、健康的にもよくなった気がする。一方、食事に出歩かなくなったのでその分歩数が少なくなったというのもあるかも。 毎年恒例の山梨旅行の代わりに今年はグランピングに行った。これは非常に楽しかったので来年も行きたいかも。

今年は大きな買い物はなかった気がする。

New Year Resolution in 2025

  • [仕事] AIポストレコメンドの導入による人事効率化
  • [仕事] クラウド業界にキャッチアップする何かしらの行動を行う
  • [Private] reminiscenceをピアノで弾けるようになる
  • [Private] 災害対策としての食糧備蓄のスキームを作る
  • [Private] 体重を55kgに戻す

2024 New Year's Resolution

毎年恒例一年の振り返り + 来年の目標を定める時期がやってまいりました。 昨年までは英語で書いてましたが、面倒なので今年は日本語で書くことにします。

まずは2023の振り返りから

Review of 2023

Review of last year's goal achievement

  • ❓ Broaden my network of contacts → 評価関数がないので広げたとは言い切れない。が、今年は社外の色々な人と話す機会があった
  • 🔺 Re: Keep me healthy: Lose my weight to 55kg → 惜しい、56.2kgしかし去年の57.6kgよりは進歩！
    • 🔺 Walk 10,000 steps every day on average → 惜しい、9540歩！しかし去年の5032歩に比べたら格段の進歩！
  • ❌ Build a charging station in my room

Work

忙しさは年々増している。去年がMaxかと思ったが、今年はまたしてもそれを上回ってきた。

  • Managed DBサービスは一旦塩漬け。
  • そしてチーム異動。7月から仮想サーバ/ストレージサービスを担当することに。
  • Downfall対応
  • CPv3ライフサイクル整理
  • 螺旋が形になってきた?
  • Openstack基盤ver. up(Mitaka → Queens。死ぬほどトラブルったけどなんとかやりきった)

上記以外に月1以上の障害対応もありましたが、優秀なチームメンバーのサポートのお陰でなんとか乗り越えることができました。

来年はでかい花火が待ち構えているので気合い入れて頑張りたいと思います。

Private

今年は盛りだくさんでした。

買ったものはiPhone13くらいでした。

New Year Resolution in 2024

  • [仕事] 採用(につながる何かをする)
  • [仕事] 中期計画(2028年度までのライフサイクル計画の骨子の作成)
  • [仕事] 振り返りの週間をつける。毎月振り返りを行う
  • [Private; 再掲] Walk 10,000 steps every day on average

2023 New Year's Resolution

It's time to talk about my annual New Year's resolutions.

First of all, let's look back at what I could achieve last year.

Review of 2022

Review of last year's goal achievement

  • ❌ Post a blog more than once a month → Only 4 posts..
  • ✅ Buy a house
  • ❌ Keep myself healthy: Lose my weight to 55kg
    • Walk at least 30min a day on average
  • ❌ Reduce time for work
    • Overtime should be less than 40 hours / month

Work

I said 2021 was the busiest year in my life but 2022 was tougher as I expected.

  • Launched Managed Loadbalancer service in Smart Data Platform
  • (Almost) Developed new database service

The latter was so challenging and I had to focus on it. So I've let go of my work on HR, Baremetal / Hypervisor project lead.

Last year was also a year of learning a lot in terms of how to do my job. Although it has been said before, I learned not to do everything by myself too much and to leave it to others who should do it. Everyone has a role. I should do what I have to do as my role and let other members do what they should do.

Private

Major events

  • My grandfather passed away in Mar
  • All my family affected by COVID-19 in Aug
  • Purchased a home in Apr
    • And moved there in Sep

Trips

What I purchased

New Year Resolution in 2023

  • Broaden my network of contacts
  • Re: Keep me healthy: Lose my weight to 55kg
    • Walk 10,000 steps every day on average
  • Build a charging station in my room

2022 New Year's Resolution

It's been two years since to write a blog post. (I slacked this off last year..)

Review of 2021

I didn't declare a resolution so will try to look back what I did last year.

Work

It was the busiest year in my work life last year. I've been leading three development projects(BM/DH, NFV, DB) + α in parallel. I have worked so hard that I could only take off almost one day a week.

  • Completed a launch of a new region (JP7) in Smart Data Platform
    • I've been working as a project manager for this big project.
  • Decided the direction of Baremetal / Dedicated Hypervisor service
  • Started / Continued to develop new services (NFV, DB)
  • Started HR-related work in my dept.
  • Recruitment (as usual)

I'm relieved that we're done with the jp7 release, but last year was generally a year of sowing seeds. My team has grown to 11 by adding 4 people (including employees, contractors) last year. I have to fulfill my duty which means that I have to release new services and get them on track somehow. This year will be tougher than the last year.

And I also renew my working environment so that I can work from home comfortably - buying a working desk and an ultra-wide monitor.

Private

Major events

  • My daughter started taking English classes.
  • Adopted a dog from a shelter
  • Pulled out a (left lower) wisdom tooth
  • Resumed to looking for our new house. (I didn't do this last year at all..)

Trips

Others

I couldn't spend time for my family than I expected as usual.

New Year Resolution in 2022

  • Post a blog more than once a month
  • Buy a house
  • Keep myself healthy: Lose my weight to 55kg
    • Walk at least 30min a day on average
  • Reduce time for work
    • Overtime should be less than 40 hours / month

2020 New Year Resolution

It's been a while to write a blog but it's again a time to review 2019 and declare new year's resolution.

Review of 2019

This is my goal for 2019 which I wrote on 1st Jan. shoutm.hatenablog.com

I declare these goals below. I reviewed which items I could / couldn't achieve.

  • Legend
    • ✅=Win: Perfectly / Almost achieved
    • ❌= Lose: Didn't start trying yet
    • ⚠ = Draw: Started but not achieved
    • 💔= Scope out: don't need to work because of environmental change

Work

Performance measurement against my goal

  • ✅Complete the vFW(vSRX) "Day2" project.
  • 💔Release more variable features of VCF
  • ⚠ Become a VMware specialist
  • ❌Got a TOEIC score of over 950

1 Wins, 1 Loses, 1 Draw, 1 Scope out

As for vSRX Day2 project, we have faced a big issues that vSRX3.0 stopped forwarding packets when NFS disconnected. So we changed our plan from using vSRX3.0 to using 2.0. But again we found several problems (again stopped forwarding packets in several situations). However my colleague made a script which rescues vSRXs which lapsed into the situations. Finally we could confirm an adequacy of its quality and decide to release this version.

As for VCF, we changed our priority to work so didn't touch this topic at all. Instead, we have worked on baremetal server v3 flavor integration and started planning of containerization of baremetal controller.

As for VMware speciality, I finished a course of VMware Networking study and got a certificate of "VMware Certified Professional - Network Virtualization 2019". I could understand the basics of VMware networking and useful features customers may want. It will helps me working on VMware related project in the future.

As for English, I have not had a noteworthy activities in this year. I had a TOEIC exam once in this year but of course I couldn't achieve 950.

Events in 2019

This completely changed my mindset and behavior in this year. My responsibility was changed from doing my best as individual to bringing out the best performance of my team. So I spent my time for my team members rather than me. What I made a strong effort to is 1 on 1 meeting with my team members. I did F2F meeting with each member for 30 minutes every 2 weeks. I also bought several books for it.

Generally speaking, feedbacks from them are quite good at this moment. But I don't know the cost effectiveness of this.

Transferred to NTT Ltd

At the same time I was assigned as a senior manager, I and a large number of my colleagues are transferred to NTT Ltd. This is not a big change for me at this moment against my expectation because the migration is still on the way and big waves will come this year. I am actually so excited because I prefer to work abroad (or with colleagues from other countries).

Technical skills
  • Started Qiita
    • A couple of contents were posted. I think keep studying technical stuffs are still very important even after becoming a management role so I'll keep posting.
  • Started building my own kubernetes cluster on vmware at my home to study k8s and vmware
    • It's still on the way, I just built vmware infrastructure. I'll continue working on it.
  • Started rewriting ecl-resource-analytics-client (again in ruby) https://github.com/tamac-io/ecl-resource-analytics-client
    • I dispatched it form the repository of ecl-resourece-analytics (server side) http://github.com/tamac-io/ecl-resource-analytics so that I could use the latest ruby runtime (2.7.0 which was released on 25th Dec 2019)
    • At this moment, I'm writing unit tests earnestly !! This is good for me to understand rspec-mock more and how to write testable code.

Private

Performance measurement against my goal

  • ✅Take a family trip to somewhere (best suited for my daughter?)
  • ⚠ Go to a gym twice a week
    • ✅Take a record of Gym attendance.
  • ❌Exchange Christmas presents
  • ❌Stay in the hotel which we stayed in our wedding
  • ✅Go to the Anpanman museum and the Disneyland
  • ✅Go see a movie of Bohemian Rhapsody

3 Wins, 2 Loses, 1 Draw

As for family trip, we went to:

Awaji trip was very tough to me. My daughter is afraid of strangers and can't get used to new places so she has been crying almost all the night at a hotel on the first day. And worse, I received a phone call for a production issue at 3 or 4 am. It was tough. But she was getting used to gradually, I felt her growth.

As for gym, I built a easy workflow to record my gym activity as below. The result: I went to the gym 44 times last year. 1 year = 52 weeks so the result was less than half of my expectation. Throughout this year, my goal was too high. I have to revise this. shoutm.hatenablog.com

Events in 2019

Life plan holidays for changing nursery of my daughter

I took a week of life plan holidays. This is my first time to take it. I have to take it for my daughter but I think it's a good welfare program.

New year Resolution in 2020

Work

Todo

  • More time for service development: more than 40% of our working time
    • Current percentage: around 20%
  • Containerization of baremetal controller
  • Keep acquiring skills and output
    • Post a blog more than once a month
      • Keywords: engineering manager, k8s, vmware, Competitive programming etc.

Stop doing

  • Looking at slack all my working time: Keep the number of following channel less than 30 each workspace.
    • Now I'm in 10 workspaces, 200+ channels. I realize slack often distracts my attention.

Private

Todo

  • Prioritise my family than work: Leave the office on time twice a week
    • My daughter is now three years old. This time should be the cutest time in her life so I spend more time with my daughter this year.
  • Keep myself healthy: Lose my weight to 55kg
    • Go to a gym once a week
    • Use bicycle than bus
  • Start investment
    • Read more than 5 books
    • Invest around 3% of my asset this year
  • Planning buying home (within two years)

Stop doing

  • Stop using unuseful SNS
    • Facebook app: uninstall
    • Twitter: An hour a day
      • I realise that I spend a lot of time for SNS. They sometime give me useful information but almost all contents are noises.

Multi-hop SSH by one-liner / 多段SSHワンライナー

Since I always forgets to how to make "multi-hop ssh", I'll summarize it in this article. I'll write some config in .ssh/config if a topology is fixed but I won't if a topology is formed temporarily.

If there is a network depicted as below,

client ---- jump-server-01(10.0.0.1) ---- jump-server-02(172.16.0.1) ---- target-server(192.168.0.1)

you can use this command to ssh to the "target-server".

ssh shoutm@192.168.0.1 \
-oProxyCommand=“ssh -W 192.168.0.1:22 shoutm@172.16.0.1 \
-oProxyCommand=\”ssh -W 172.16.0.1:22 shoutm@10.0.0.1\” "

I hope it helps