I mentioned how I focus on working by using “focus sessions” in the week 12 newsletter. But focusing on the wrong thing can lead to the wrong direction as well. That’s why we need to have life purposes. I first learned this 12 years ago from GTD’s 50,000 feet article.
https://gettingthingsdone.com/2008/07/gtd-at-50000-ft-how-to-find-and-fulfill-your-lifes-purpose/
So in my focus sessions system, I defined goals from different levels:
Life purpose
five-year goal (Role)
Annual goal
6-week goal
weekly goal
daily goal
focus sessions
If the focus sessions, or the time spent, do not fit into my goal for a long while, I know something goes wrong. This acts as a map of my life purpose so that I won’t get lost during day-to-day busy tasks. I can measure how well I align my tasks with my long term goals.
So, does what you are focusing on now match your life purpose?
Links worth sharing
Full of Potential: Developers on the iPad's Past, Present, and Future
Elon Musk's SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns: memo - Reuters
Common tasks of managing HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript
https://htmldom.dev/
Multiple border-radius values
https://codepen.io/jadlimcaco/pen/ExjGrqJ
Unbranded
https://tj1122.github.io/unbranded-site/
A fun site to break brand guidelines
Basecamp’s home office desks
https://m.signalvnoise.com/remote-working-the-home-office-desks-of-basecamp/
Michael Tsai - Blog - macOS 10.15.4 Broke SSH
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2020/03/31/macos-10-15-4-broke-ssh/
At least in my case, my one server that happened to be running on a non-standard ssh port above 8192 will not connect from Catalina 10.15.4 when using the hostname instead of the IP address.
John Maeda | How to light yourself on the cheap - YouTube
Full of Potential: Developers on the iPad's Past, Present, and Future - MacStories
https://www.macstories.net/stories/full-of-potential-developers-on-the-ipads-past-present-and-future/
Apple acquired DarkSky
https://blog.darksky.net/dark-sky-has-a-new-home/
Our API service for existing customers is not changing today, but we will no longer accept new signups. The API will continue to function through the end of 2021.
And the Android version will be shut down very soon.
Elon Musk's SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns: memo - Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spacex-zoom-video-commn/elon-musks-spacex-bans-zoom-over-privacy-concerns-memo-idUSKBN21J71H
Technically, How Zoom for Mac bypasses installation
There has been so much bad news this week regarding the popular Zoom video conference tool. But Zoom is also responding fast to fix things.
Quote of the week
The more control you have over your attention, the more control you have over your future. — @JamesClear
Stay healthy friends!
Until next week,
Thomas Mak