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Welcome back, everyone~ This is the third episode of the Bo2SS Random Thoughts series. Today, I will mainly share another way to improve cognition besides reading books and finding mentors.

This week has an amazing symmetry with last week. Last week, I was stuck at home on workdays, and this week, it's the weekend that I'm stuck at home.

The management in various districts of Shenzhen has become so strict that the subway schedule on weekends has changed to this:

"Even the donkeys in the production team can't be used like this"~

Why do we need to improve cognition? Because besides differences in abilities, differences in cognition can also lead to completely different outcomes.

So today, I want to share another way to improve cognition besides reading books and finding mentors, and that is to read public accounts.

1 Reading Public Accounts#

Recently, I cleared all the public accounts that I rarely read. The reason is simple: if I haven't read them until now, I definitely won't read them in the future. Everyone can also clean up regularly (except for Bo2SS, of course) to reduce information interference.

I don't know if any of you have this habit, but when I wake up in the morning, I usually check public accounts before anything else.

Since there are usually a lot of new messages, I may not immediately click into them, but rather hover over them and read them one by one when I have some free time.

Let me share some of the insights and thoughts I gained from public accounts this week~

1. "Starting from today, add a time dimension to every judgment and decision you make, learn to reward yourself with time, and time will naturally become your friend." - "Learn to Reward Yourself with Time"

We often think that it's okay to have some bad habits occasionally. For example, if we stay up late today, we think it's just this one time and it won't make a big difference.

But over time, it becomes a habit that is difficult to change.

So when we are doing something, try to add a time dimension to it. For example, staying up late all the time is definitely not good for our health, so we should avoid it, even if it's just once in a while.

Similarly, for good habits (such as exercising, reading) and making certain choices, they may not bring immediate benefits in the short term. But if we consider them in the context of time, would we be more likely to stick to these habits and make different choices?

2. "The same goes for individuals. If you don't take any time to think every day or even every week, and just keep busy, how can you have the opportunity to grow? Being busy itself does not lead to growth, it is practice + reflection that brings growth. Being busy all the time and lacking reflection is the fundamental reason why many people work hard but don't grow." - "Avoid Getting Trapped in Busyness"

I also resonate with this statement. In a fast-paced life, we should take some time to stop, think, and look back, rather than being busy all the time.

How can we stop? I think the most cost-effective way is to write. For example, the series I'm writing now is to spend some time each week to reflect on my achievements, reflect on what I did wrong, and make targeted improvements for the next week.

For example, when planning my tasks last week, I put the easy ones first and the difficult ones last, which resulted in a high risk if additional tasks were inserted and the difficult tasks hadn't started yet. So this week, I arranged to do the difficult tasks first so that I could discover problems earlier and provide feedback to the team. In addition, when planning, it's important to leave some flexibility and not be overly idealistic by filling the schedule to the brim.

3. "Develop the habit of planning and making choices: you can plan and make choices every day." - "How to Improve the Ability to Make Major Life Decisions?"

Following the weekly planning mentioned above, we should also plan every day.

First, it allows me to break down tasks into smaller parts, which makes it easier to follow up and adjust.

• In the past, I didn't plan tasks in enough detail. For example, I would allocate three or four days for a task, but I didn't break it down into three or four subtasks. This often led to the situation where I realized on the last day that only half of the task had been completed.

• By planning and making choices every day, I can specify which part of a task I will complete today, making the progress more controllable and facilitating risk synchronization with the team.

Second, daily plans are often interrupted by unexpected events, and this is when I can make adjustments to the daily plan.

• If it's not urgent, I can add it to the daily plan to avoid forgetting.

• If it's urgent, I can deal with it first, and then adjust the plan based on the completion of tasks from the previous day.

For more time management methods, you can take a look at an article I wrote before: "A Time Management Book Delayed by Its Title".

4. "Set aside ten minutes every day to write down everything that worries you in a notebook, regardless of whether the anxiety is reasonable, foolish, or vague. Once you do this, the worries for the rest of the day will be relatively reduced, because your brain knows that its worries have not been ignored, but have been recorded. Please make a record on a new page every day. You will gradually find that there are always a dozen or so questions that bother you..." - "The Thinking Tool More Important Than Knowledge, IQ, and Money"

It does have a decompression effect, and recently, I've been writing and writing, and my worries haven't really changed. Why don't you give it a try?

Here's an example:

5. "Yes, who doesn't worry about you all the time? Be brave and be yourself. It's easy to be down when you have a thin face, but having a thick face is something you have to practice. Knowing that it's not easy, knowing that you have to work hard, if you mess up, you can only move on to the next thing, and maybe the next thing will be better. Zhang Yimou said this." - "Stop Worrying About How Others See You"

As a recent graduate, I'm still new to the workforce and I'm shy about expressing different opinions. I think this is a common psychological issue.

I previously wrote an article about the workplace: "As a Newcomer to the Workplace, After Reading 'Us as Newcomers to the Workplace,' I Give Myself Three Sentences". I believe that courage is the most important thing when entering the workplace. What do you think?

6. "Don't blame yourself for sleeping in, because you won't create any value by getting up early anyway. I have a friend who used to be a loser, but after getting up early every day, he became a loser who gets up early. It's better to sleep well, at least sleeping doesn't bother others." - "Losing the Ability to Sleep In"

This is so funny, and it's similar to the fifth point, which is "be brave and be yourself" haha.

After sharing it with SS, she can now sleep in peace without feeling guilty [Doge].

Also, we can use flomo to record some good quotes we come across. After following its public account and linking your account, you can record quotes by sending messages to the public account, which is very convenient~

2 Watching WWDC#

WWDC - a valuable learning resource for iOS developers.

I've talked a lot about cognitive input, now let's talk about technical input.

This week, I mainly watched two WWDC videos:

• WWDC22-10092 | Meet passkeys

The passkey introduced by Apple is actually an implementation of the existing WebAuthn standard, which turns third-party implementations into system-supported implementations.

The WebAuthn standard aims to solve the problems with traditional passwords:

1. Inconvenient to use (need to remember passwords; passwords need complexity and are difficult to maintain).

2. Security risks (user passwords are centralized on the server; passwords can be leaked when phished).

In addition:

1. Passkeys can also be shared by scanning codes, which prevents risks such as screenshots due to the proximity of Bluetooth broadcasting.

2. To enable passkey capabilities, support is required from the client, front-end, and server.

From a user's perspective, logging in becomes more convenient and secure. Looking forward to experiencing it on various applications in the future~

References:

Meet passkeys - WWDC Notes

遇见 Passkey - WWDC 内参

Information Security | In the Internet Age, How to Build Trust? - Bo2SS (An article I previously wrote about encryption. After understanding this article, the basic principles of passkeys become simple.)

• WWDC15-408 | Protocol-Oriented Programming in Swift

Swift is the world's first language to support protocol-oriented programming (POP), and the video introduces the development process of Swift POP.

The speaker's sense of humor is showcased brilliantly, and the presentation skills are very strong~

References:

Protocol-Oriented Programming in Swift - WWDC Notes

Conclusion#

I recently changed my workspace and was assigned a seat by the window. I can see Shenzhen Bay in the distance, and I feel relaxed 🌊.

Alright, today I mainly shared my insights on improving cognition by reading public accounts and my recent habit of watching WWDC to regularly output. That's all for now, see you next week~