Today I had an offline activity. I met big Bear and talked about how I had not updated my blog for a long time. In fact, I also said the reason, is the stomach no oil. With the recent development of the company and front-end development, I have gained some experience in business, product, team management and vue.js. But I was too weak to pull myself away from my work to sum up anything useful. I was stuck in a rut of work, self-doubt, and anxiety.
My friends sometimes joke that I’m a “smart” person, thinking they want me to get out of being a bitch, but in my heart I’m constantly thinking about how to work smart. In the past, I didn’t want to say the word “entrepreneurship”, for the simple reason that what was once a crazy, creative, imaginative pioneer industry has been pushed into the boundless sea of mediocrity by the current of society. Looking at a red eyes, from time to time to embrace the red tide of capital, from time to time in the cold capital of the people, I lament what is creating, and what just drift with the tide.
Create and change: Don’t use existing logic to predict the future
Tasteless, I looked the world in the eye and described the pursuers as strivers. I don’t have the ability to understand the things you want to create and change, and I don’t have the ability to find too much commonality to come up with a unified solution. However, this group of clever or stupid strivers, but like a lantern play, come and go in front of my eyes every day. Since it is a struggle, the struggle of time is never a problem, then efficiency is a problem, who can go on their own way faster than others, there is an invincible advantage. Of course, some direction is wrong, you go a lifetime is in vain.
What wakes you up in the morning is what you want to do, not what others want you to do
Manage your tasks without being influenced by anything outside
The word “busy” is the most popular among entrepreneurs and those who are striving for a career. These people are so busy that they have no time to answer the phone, reply to wechat, watch TV, visit their families, have no time to fall in love, and have no time to care about themselves.
The reason is that they don’t organize themselves enough and become the incoming tasks worker. For example, someone’s daily routine is:
- I have an interview with A this morning. I have an appointment with A at noon to talk about something. I have an activity to attend in the afternoon and I have to answer some emails in the evening.
- There is a new bug to fix, and there is a new requirement to do, so maybe this area needs to be changed again
- We have finished a rendering this morning, but we also have some poster designs at noon. Would you like to discuss them this afternoon
- When the new product is released, we need to send microblog, wechat and let our friends forward it. Should we also do a small activity
All of these, in my opinion, are extremely foolish. Instead of thinking about your goals, what are your main tasks for the day, you’re constantly processing all the incoming information like a machine and giving quick feedback. Your mind is like a gridlocked intersection, with cars coming and going, and you’re moving around, taking pains to clear the traffic so that everything goes the way you want it to. However, you work your butt off and don’t have time to think about how to fix the intersection or what keeps it congested forever.
Here are some very, very, very practical suggestions:
- Every day before you go to bed, please think about your next day’s things to do, select <=5 items. <=”” <=”” li=””>
- As you get your work done, eliminate as much external noise as possible, even from the person next to you. My solution:
- Do Not Disturb mode
- One way to quickly find out what your collaborator is up to is to eliminate the “have you done that yet” question as much as possible
- Don’t go to the bathroom all the time
- There is a unified way to manage incoming tasks and add them at almost zero cost. My solution:
Always face the fewest and most formidable enemies
Division of tasks, repetitive work process, prioritization
I wrote in an article a long time ago that prioritizing the tasks in front of you and breaking through them one by one is a gift that’s hard to develop later. In the behavior of friends around me, this fact is constantly verified, but the situation is not desperate. Most people who do not have this gift at all, although unable to self-awareness, can achieve a significant increase in productivity through some “coercive” methods.
- Clear division of labor: this is almost every smart start-up team should have the attribute, of course, it is normal to have a micromanaging boss, if he is a small child and a child of “other people’s children” style, then he will be around everything for a desire to control the desire will be very strong! My solution:
- Read the people around you, and then arrange it. You don’t trust the people you find, so I don’t know why you should read this article
- Cut the crap when others are doing it
- Have specific, trackable performance presentation mechanisms: look at the results, and if in doubt, ask about the process
- Process, modular, automatic all repetitive work
- Executable flow chart: Any idiot can get started after reading this flow chart
- Take the time to understand exactly what needs to be automated by the implementer
- Priority sorting
- repose
- Incoming tasks are placed in a list of incoming tasks, and the incoming tasks are assigned to <=5 incoming tasks <=”” li=””>
- Develop your own sense of importance and prioritization. Well, if you don’t have it, give up and fight for someone else
- Rare earth team’s Trello usage process
- INBOX: Tasks to be completed this week
- TODO: Tasks that need to be done that day
- Any work that cannot be completed on the day of the anticipated TODO needs to be explained in the card
- DOING: The task you are DOING that day
- CHECK: Get your tasks done that day
- On the second day of inspection, if there are unresolved problems, return to TODO
- DONE: Indicates that a task has been officially completed after being checked the next day
- NEXT: All future missions to discuss
Have their own grassland, endless, fertile land
You learn things better than others, faster, you are close to the niubi
The common trouble of strivers, looking at the thing in front of them, the mind is filled with tasks, knowledge access is blocked. How to find a better source of knowledge than everyone else in the work you are facing becomes an important weapon for shaping your own differences.
A good Android programmer, for example, doesn’t expand the number of places he sees new content every day, but updates his source of content every day as he gets better at it. Starting with tutorials and StackOverflow, starting with tech blogs focused on specific developers, a few quality tech sharing sites, Github libraries, and then focusing on a few people’s posts and what they’re sharing.
- RSS: Follow people who are still writing today, and keep digging through their knowledge feeds to find the most “cool” people in your knowledge
- Zhihu: No matter how we turn zhihu into tianya, there are still a lot of awesome people worth digging. You should be able to tell whether a person is intelligent, especially in the more specialized areas you focus on. If not, you probably don’t need to read about the amazing people yet
- Jane: There really are some writers to pay attention to
- Twitter, Twitter, Medium
- It’s always best to find less content that fits your range of abilities
- Categorize what you need to see
- Relevant knowledge, the purest sharing discussion community
- Whether it’s the old BBS, or all kinds of trendy communities
- Look for communities that have accumulated skills and tonality that are highlighted for constantly optimizing content
- Strive to be a sharer
- Porn forums have always been the best at this
- Talk to the expert and ask him what he watches every day
- Last but not least, if you are lazy and do not like to learn. Expect to be eliminated!
Personally, outside of the various RSS feeds (front-end, design, science, business, etc.) :
- Community discussion:
- Hacker News
- Designer News
- Growth Hackers
- Technology: Nuggets
- Product: Product Hunt