Welcome back, everyone! This is the third issue of the Bo2SS casual writing series. Today, I mainly want to share another way to enhance cognition besides reading and seeking mentorship.
This week has an amazing symmetry with last week; last week I was locked at home during workdays, and this week it has changed to being locked at home during the weekend.
Shenzhen's districts have implemented closed management, so the subway schedule for the weekend has turned into something like this:
"You can't use a donkey from the production team like this"～
Why enhance cognition? Because besides differences in abilities, differences in cognition can also lead to completely different developments in situations.
So today I want to share another way to enhance cognition besides reading and seeking mentorship, which is scrolling through public accounts.
1 Scrolling Through Public Accounts#
Recently, I cleaned up the public accounts I often don't read. The reason is simple: if I haven't read a public account until now, I definitely won't read it in the future. Everyone can also periodically clean up (of course, excluding Bo2SS), which can reduce information interference.
I wonder if everyone has this habit of checking Douyin or flipping through Xiaohongshu in the morning. However, every morning, I usually scroll through public accounts first.
Since there are many new messages, I may not immediately click in to read, but instead hover over them and wait for fragmented time to pull them up one by one to read.
Let me share some insights and reflections I gained from public accounts this week～
- “Why not start today by adding a time dimension to every judgment and choice you make, learning to reward yourself with time, and time will naturally become your friend.” —《Learn to Reward Yourself with Time》
Many bad habits make us think that it's okay to indulge occasionally. For example, if I stay up late today, I might think to myself that it won't matter just this once.
But over time, it becomes a habit, and it's hard to change.
So when we do something, try to add a time dimension to it. For instance, staying up late is definitely bad for the body, so we should eliminate it, even if it's just occasionally.
Similarly, for good habits (like exercising or reading) or making certain choices, they might not bring immediate benefits in the short term, but if you consider them with a time dimension, wouldn't you be more likely to stick to these habits and make different choices?
- “The same goes for individuals; if you don't take any time to think every day or even every week, and just stay busy, how can you have the opportunity to grow? Busyness itself does not lead to growth; practice + reflection brings growth. Being constantly busy without thinking is the fundamental reason many people work hard but do not grow.” —《Avoid Getting Stuck in Busyness》
I resonate deeply with this statement. In a fast-paced life, we should leave some time to stop and think, look back, rather than just running around.
How to stop? I believe the most cost-effective way is to write. For example, this series I'm writing now is intended to help me set aside some time each week to reflect on what I've gained and think about what I did poorly, so I can correct it specifically next week.
For instance, last week when planning my tasks, I put the simple ones first and the difficult ones later, which led to a high risk of not starting the difficult tasks when some extra matters came up. So this week, I arranged to tackle the difficult tasks first, allowing me to identify problems earlier and provide feedback to the team. Additionally, when planning, it's important to leave some buffer time and not be overly idealistic by cramming the schedule full.
- “Cultivate the habit of planning and choosing: every day can involve planning and making choices.” —《How to Enhance Your Ability to Make Major Life Decisions?》
Following the weekly planning mentioned above, we should actually plan every day as well.
First, it can prompt me to break down tasks into finer details, making it easier to follow up and adjust.
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My previous task planning wasn't detailed enough. For example, I would allocate three or four days for a task without breaking it down into three or four sub-tasks. This often leads to realizing only on the last day that I've only completed half of the task.
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By planning and making choices every day, I can clarify which part of a task I will complete today, making progress more controllable and facilitating risk synchronization with the team.
Second, daily planning is often interrupted by urgent matters, and at that time, I can adjust my daily plan.
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If it's a non-urgent matter, I can add it to my daily plan to avoid missing it.
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If it's an urgent matter, I can handle the urgent tasks first, and the next day, we can adjust the plan based on the completion status of the previous day's tasks.
For more time management methods, you can check out an article I wrote earlier: A Time Management Book Delayed by Its Title.
- “Set aside ten minutes each day to write down everything that worries you in a notebook, whether this anxiety is reasonable, foolish, or vague. Once you do this, the worries contained in the remaining time of the day will relatively decrease because your brain knows that its worries have not been ignored but have all been recorded. Please persist in recording on a new page every day. You will slowly find that the things that bother you are always those ten or so issues…” —《Thinking Tools More Important Than Knowledge, IQ, and Money》
It indeed has a relieving effect, and recently, as I've been writing, my worries haven't really changed. You might want to try it too?
Let me show you an example:
- “Yes, who is always worried about you? Be brave and be yourself. Having a thin skin makes it easy to fall, but thickness is cultivated. Knowing it's not easy, knowing to work hard, if you mess up, just look to the next one; maybe the next one will be better. This was said by Zhang Yimou.” —《Don't Always Think About What Others Will Think of You》
As a newcomer who just graduated, having a thin skin and being shy to express different opinions is a very common psychology.
I previously wrote an article about entering the workplace: As a Newcomer to the Workplace, After Watching "We Are New to the Workplace," Here Are 3 Sentences for Myself, and I believe that the most important thing when entering the workplace is courage. What do you think?
- “Don't blame yourself for sleeping in; after all, you can't create any value by waking up early. I have a friend who used to be a useless person, but after waking up early every day, he became an early-rising useless person. It's better to sleep beautifully; at least sleeping doesn't disturb others.” —《Losing the Ability to Sleep In》
That's hilarious, and it's somewhat similar to point 5, also meaning "be brave and be yourself," haha.
After sharing this with SS, she can now sleep in with peace of mind[Doge].
Additionally, when we come across some good quotes, we can use flomo to record them. After following its public account and binding the account, you can send messages to the public account to record them, which is very convenient～
2 Watching WWDC#
WWDC — A valuable learning resource for iOS developers.
Having talked about a lot of cognitive input, let's discuss technical input.
This week, I mainly watched two WWDC videos:
The passkey introduced by Apple is actually an implementation of the existing WebAuthn standard, equivalent to turning third-party implementations into system-supported implementations.
The problem that the WebAuthn standard aims to solve mainly revolves around traditional password issues:
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Inconvenient to use (need to remember passwords; passwords need complexity, which is hard to maintain).
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Security risks (user passwords are concentrated on the server; passwords can be leaked during phishing).
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Passkeys can also be shared via QR codes, and due to the proximity based on Bluetooth broadcasting, risks like screenshots are prevented.
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Integrating passkey capabilities requires support from clients, front-end, and back-end.
From the user's perspective, logging in has become more convenient and secure, and I look forward to experiencing it across major applications in the future～
References:
Meet passkeys — WWDC Notes
Encountering Passkey — WWDC Internal Reference
Information Security | How to Build Trust in the Internet Era? — Bo2SS (An article I previously wrote about encryption; after understanding this article, the basic principles of passkeys will be very simple).
Swift is the world's first protocol-oriented programming (POP) language, and the video introduces the development process of Swift POP.
The speaker showcased programmer humor brilliantly, and their presentation skills were also very strong～
References:
Protocol-Oriented Programming in Swift — WWDC Notes
Conclusion#
Recently, I changed my workstation and was assigned a seat by the window. From a distance, I can still see Shenzhen Bay, which makes me feel relaxed🌊.
Alright, today I mainly shared my insights on enhancing cognition through scrolling public accounts, and I am currently developing the habit of watching WWDC and outputting regularly. That's all for now; see you next week!