Today, new my column is released, so I take a day off.

Dancing Buzzword - Behind the Buzzword (10) Blockchain(4)

Trying to use the rebel currency, Bitcoin.

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I think I've written about this somewhere before, but once when I was asked, "How do you write a patent specification? I answered

"Write like a picture book"

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"Once upon a time, there were,

the first means of transferring the location information of the object in real time,

the second means of receiving said location information,

the third means of displaying said location information on a map.

A picture book page with a diagram of the three measures and a brief description of the diagram, inside the facing page.

This is the essence of a patent specification, I said.

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My columns are often said to be "long," but the actual text is not that voluminous.

It just looks long because I throw in about 20 charts and tables every time.

Therefore, I think of myself as "drawing picture books" rather than "writing columns"

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Well, even if it were a "picture book", it would certainly be "long", and basically "long" things are "hard to read".

But that's okay.

Because I am writing for the "future me".

I don't want the future me to read my column and "lose track of what I wrote in the past.

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For example --

When I receive a notice of reasons for rejection from the examiner of the Patent Office, which comes about two years after the filing of the application, I re-read my patent specification and I come to think every time,

"What the hell was I trying to say?"

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In order to deliver my column to the future me, I have to write a complete account of what I was thinking, without any omissions.

The diagrams, tables, and illustrations are all for the "future me".

Well, if the theme is disjointed, as it was in this case, the top management (the editorial department) may order, or even "request," a division.