This Week I Learned - 2017 Week 23

Last week post or the stuff from the archive.

Busiest week ever. Spent lots of time tidy up all the loose end. Non-stop churning out words after words for the past few days depleted me both mentally and physically. Having to write the same thing again and again but in different ways exhausted me further. Nevertheless, it was an "interesting" experience. Cognitively it was challenging but your learn a lot at the same time. However, if the knowledge gained will be forgotten later, then why we need to pick up it in the first place?

#1 On work ethic. Emphasis added.

Work ethic is about showing up, being on time, being reliable, doing what you say you’re going to do, being trustworthy, putting in a fair day’s work, respecting the work, respecting the customer, respecting the organization, respecting co-workers, not wasting time, not making work hard for other people, not creating unnecessary work for other people, not being a bottleneck, not faking work. Work ethic is about being a fundamentally good person that others can count on and enjoy working with.

#2 Iomega's Zip drive. We used to own one and have a few disks lying around. Not sure what happened to it. But one thing for sure, recordable CD, which was superseded by DVD, and USB thumb drive really killed the product. I still can't remember what we used it for, maybe just to backup all our downloaded files?

#3 Best possible reason on why Intel is not putting any significant efforts or buying more times on tackling AMD's Ryzen Threadripper. Intel and Microsoft have completely missed or failed the mobile market. If Intel cannot produce anything that match up ARM's mobile market dominance, we will see a significant shift of Microsft from x86 platform to ARM. 

#4 Writing journal is the art of talking to yourself silently. However, the correct approach to journaling is to focus on both cognitions and emotions will have the best benefits. I was contemplating of getting an actual typewriter to switch to more manual way of writing but the cost of the typewriter is surprising expensive, roughly more than MYR500. You probably can buy a very decent second hand computer with that pricing. There exists also Freewrite, a digital version of distraction free typewriter, sort of. Or the predecessor, the Alphasmart Neo or the retro looking Cambridge Z88. However, the pricing is just ridiculous! Why not spend the money on getting a second hand laptop like a used ThinkPad instead? Heck, might as well just switch to pen and paper instead.

#5 Productivity is less about time management than it is about mind management.. Profound insight. Basically is all about "hacking" your brain and getting it to a desired state.