【Inside beBit】Marketing Division - Yokoyama-san
Inside beBit - A project in which we ask 10 questions about a beBit member's work and personal life. We hope that “Inside beBit” will provide an opportunity to get to know more about the individuals you work with.
In this issue, we asked Yokoyama-san from the Marketing Division to answer our questions!
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・Name/Nickname：Yokoyama
・Department：Marketing Division - Production
・Year Joined：2022
・Birth Place：Saitama
１：Tell us about your background
Graduated from Keio Shiki Senior High School. The school was located in a forest in Saitama, and the vast grounds were home to wild raccoons and people living there without permission.
Majored in philosophy at Keio University. I attended lectures on panpsychism, which asserts that “everything has a mind,” so I used to make my friends laugh by saying “You have a mind, too..." to poles. I was also a part of the male choir and literature club.
Majored in philosophy at Keio University Graduate School, specializing in Martin Heidegger. I spent my time holed up in a Caffe Veloce near campus, reading with my classmates, even over Obon vacation. My parents were skeptical, asking “why would there be study groups during Obon vacation...?”
After completing my master’s degree, I joined a publishing company as a new grad. I wanted to work as an editor, but my boss told me, “Yokoyama-san. From now on, you will be a marketer,” to which I responded, “Ok.”
２：Why did you join beBit?
My boss at my previous job had joined beBit prior to me, and when I heard about the UX consulting business, I was impressed by how wonderful the company sounded.
When I visited the office for the first time and told Takegawa-san that I spend my time translating the Encyclopedia of Philosophy on my days off, he laughed gleefully and solidified my thoughts that this is a good company.
３：Please tell us about the work you do at beBit
Currently, I am mainly involved in planning and organizing seminars and white papers. I try to provide easy-to-understand solutions that only beBit could provide for the issues that other companies are facing. Due to the change in organizational structure, I plan on also being involved in production and management duties as well.
４：Tell us what you value most when working
Doing anything, and speaking my mind when I can. I’ve taken the liberty of changing my job title to “Man who will write anything” on Slack, but no one has mentioned anything to me about it. Maybe everyone is choosing to ignore it…
５：Tell us how members who (may) work with you should communicate with you
I may look sleepy, but I am very motivated!
６：Tell us one thing you like about beBit
The fact that everyone is very serious about both work and play.
We have several internal channels on Slack called “#enjoy_〇〇”, designated to hobbies and interests. When the members of “#enjoy_play_music” rented a studio and everyone performed together band-style, everyone would give each other feedback and advice on how we could make better music. There were glimpses of the beBit spirit, where everyone always tries to make things better than they already are.
７：Which of the 16Personalities are you?
I am the Mediator. It’s a rare personality that makes up only 4% of the population, so I will try my best to make sure that we don’t go extinct.
８：What do you do during your free time?
In addition to my daily routine of translating the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, I also read Heidegger’s “Being and Time” and Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason” in preparation for a reading group I host on Saturday and Sunday nights. I have also been studying “metaphilosophy”, which I recently became interested in. Sometimes I ponder, “Maybe I should get a little more sunlight.”
I am also a member of a working person’s choir, and we practice from 1pm to 5pm every Sunday.
９：What are your goals here at beBit?
I want to do my best to have more people think “beBit’s content is super interesting!”
１０：Tell us about any challenges you would like to attempt
I would like to continue to deliver content, both in my work and in my personal life. Specifically, my upcoming plan is to contribute a novel to a literary magazine that will be exhibited at the “Bungaku (literary) Flea Market” taking place in May.
In addition, I would also like to continue to improve the book reading groups that I organize. I have realized that it is inefficient to read books in order from the beginning while being constrained to a set time, so I hope to make it a decentralized group where each participant can deepen their interest at their own pace as they find fit.