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1 Failing to Write#

There's nothing much to write about this week, so I don't plan to write anything.

But I thought about what was mentioned in "The Courage to Be Disliked" about teleology:

"No matter what happened in your past life, it has no influence on how you live your life from now on. You are the one who determines how you live your life in the present moment."

Actually, it's not that I don't plan to write because there's nothing to write about, but rather, I don't plan to write, so I found an excuse to say that there's nothing to write about.

Similarly, SS recently realized that she doesn't not want to write her thesis because she feels bad, but rather, she feels bad because she doesn't want to write her thesis.

So recently, she voluntarily asked me to find a way to supervise her writing her thesis. To be honest, we have tried many methods over the years, but we haven't found a suitable reward and punishment mechanism until she suggested, "If I don't achieve my daily goal, I will do the dishes for a month."

I think this might be the most effective punishment so far, as it is targeted and mutually beneficial.

I look forward to the results, and no matter what, under my supervision, I will definitely win a few months of dishwashing freedom help SS graduate smoothly.

2 Eliminating Worries#

Speaking of not having much to write about this week, it's not because I haven't done anything, but because I have been busy eliminating the worries mentioned last week in "#3 I Started Recording My Worries Every Day". I am preparing a presentation on "App-related Knowledge" with the aim of helping all the students in the front-end development field (RN, Web, iOS, Android) to better understand the features of our client applications (iOS, Android).

After all, as the main provider of system capabilities, we have many technologies that are transparent to the front-end (RN, Web). If the front-end ignores some details of the client application when designing solutions, it can easily lead to performance or logic issues.

However, the topic of "App-related Knowledge" is quite broad, and for me, I don't know what to say and how to go deeper.

So this week, I increased my input and searched for relevant materials. I found materials from WWDC, Geek Time, as well as from public accounts and blogs. I kept reading, trying to find inspiration and categorizing the materials I found.

Finally, I organized the following outline, which was supplemented by an internal team survey:

![Outline of "App-related Knowledge" Presentation](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/doubleLLL3/blogImgs@main/img/2022/09/20220912-192505.png "Outline of "App-related Knowledge" Presentation")

For now, I am studying and organizing my own content based on this outline. With these specific goals, worries are no longer worries.

In fact, the exploration process mentioned above can be summarized into the following 6 steps, which are suitable for the preparation stage of many research projects:

1. Understand the background of the problem;

2. Increase input on the topic;

3. Categorize the input and create an initial outline;

4. Conduct a survey based on the initial outline;

5. Update the outline based on the survey results;

6. Further study and output according to the outline.

3 Leisure Activities#

There haven't been any major changes in my leisure activities this week. I am still reading the book mentioned in the first week's journal, "The Courage to Be Disliked," and watching the drama mentioned in the second week's journal, "Mao Zedong."

In addition, when I have free time (such as when taking a shower, cooking, or doing dishes), I sometimes listen to audiobooks. For example, recently I have been listening to "Xu Kai Talks about the Korean War" on WeChat Audiobooks. After reading and listening to so many battles where the few defeated the many and the weak defeated the strong, I have come to a profound realization:

"Excellence is the enemy of greatness."

It's already great to become a capable person or a great company, but if they can remain humble and committed to learning, they will be even more impressive.

Take General Douglas MacArthur, known as the "World War II figure, American military god, and national idol," for example. The combined forces he led lost to the "Chinese Volunteer Army that had no air support, no logistics, and lacked food and clothing" in the Korean War.

The reasons for this can be attributed to his two strategic misjudgments:

1. The Chinese would not join the war because they were still working on domestic unification and their weapons were very outdated (the result was that China sent 300,000 troops to secretly cross the Yalu River at night, and the combined forces fell into the pocket formation that the Volunteer Army had set up in advance, suffering heavy casualties).

2. The Chinese Volunteer Army could not have so many people, at most 50,000 to 70,000 (the result was that the combined forces once again fell into the Volunteer Army's pocket formation and were almost completely annihilated, which is known as the famous Battle of Chosin Reservoir).

And the reasons for these misjudgments were his arrogance and underestimation of the enemy.

Of course, we should also thank him, as this war made the world take notice of China.

4 Automatic Email Filtering#

Do you receive a flood of emails in your work inbox?

If emails are not handled well, you may miss important reminders or have low efficiency when searching for certain information.

In the section "Email Maniac" in my previous article "Little Qiang's Promotion Diary (Part 3, 4)", I mentioned the approach to handling emails, which is key to:

1. Establishing email subject standards in advance;
2. Regularly processing emails;
3. Properly categorizing emails.

Today, I want to share a small trick for automatically filtering emails: filters + labels.

Taking Gmail as an example, as shown in the figure below, it only takes 4 steps to automatically process emails that meet certain conditions~

1. Open Gmail's advanced search;

2. Enter the filtering conditions, such as sender, keyword in the subject;

3. Configure filter properties, such as skipping the inbox, marking as read automatically, applying labels automatically, and applying to the currently matched emails;

4. Complete the creation of the filter.

The final result is as follows. I have filtered out emails related to reminders such as code collaboration, status updates, and test reports. We can find them in the labels when we need them, instead of cluttering our inbox and reducing the visibility of important information. For important emails that require follow-up, we can manually add additional labels for easy retrieval in the future.

If we want to modify the filtering rules for labels, we can go to All Settings > Filters and Blocked Addresses to edit.

In fact, this kind of filtering capability is not exclusive to Gmail. Most email platforms have this basic capability. At least I have seen it in QQ Mail. You can give it a try when you have the chance and enjoy a peaceful world in your inbox~

Alright, that's all for this week. For the presentation on "App-related Knowledge," I welcome any suggestions from the experts~

This week is also the Mid-Autumn Festival, so I wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival 🥮. See you next week!