Programmer experience, time management in the era of Internet fragmentation

I sent a microblog yesterday.

For the front-end development, in addition to the blue ideal, there are several places more waste of life: Baidu, CSDN, Cnbeta, QQ Group, Weibo. The more time spent in these areas, the lower the wages.

As expected, attracted a lot of onlookers and controversy. I sent this micro-blog is intentionally "extreme", to accidentally hurt friends, especially in Baidu, micro-blog and other companies to work friends to apologize. Behind this tweet is to talk about time management. No intention to promote any sense of superiority, values, just because of experience, through a confused journey, heart pain, just want to share.

The following text comes from my blog post six months ago: time management practices in the Internet age. After more than half a year, with a lot of new ideas and experience, to comb the following. If there is any help, please drum a palm, if no benefit, ignore the good.

The internet has brought us great convenience. Many excellent products, as Zhangxiaolong said, are trying to attract addicted users through human greed. Users inadvertently spend a lot of time on these products, but the benefits users get are far less than expected. How to properly use these Internet products, it is worth every one of the network fans to ponder.

Tell me about my experience and practice.

IM

About two years ago, I am a heavy user of IM. Every day open Ali, joined a lot of groups, a group of what news, can reply always prompt reply. At that time, using a software statistics, found that at least 3 hours a day in the use of Wang Wang. This statistic really startled itself, and later made the following adjustments:

1. Exit unnecessary groups. From more than 30 groups, reduced to about 10. Feel that they do not help the group, bold retreat is good, there will be no loss, the only need is courage and determination. A group was returned, and the leader was looking for a conversation, but luckily the leader was persuaded by me. (now think of yourself too tender, the better way is to set this group to not accept nor remind of the good.) )

2. Some groups are really difficult to retreat, or occasionally need to relax, Ali has a very intimate setting: Only receive not to remind. In this way, the initiative is in your hands. Occasionally stuffy, go to chat also good. The necessary feelings to dredge or beneficial, especially the mm many groups.

3. Only some very important groups, such as those related to safe and stable work, retain reminders. In this way, when there is a major failure occurs, can be timely informed and the investigation.

4. Next is: Always online, but always stealth. Because of the need for work, open Ali in many cases still helps work. Take the stealth status, can control the initiative in their own hands. In a really urgent matter, colleagues will call or human flesh come over. Messages on the will are generally processed asynchronously.

In addition, the use of Mac Wang Wang, all the window and other reminders and ads can be thoroughly filtered out, never interfered.

5. In short, take the initiative to use IM, and not be im used. QQ and Gtalk and so on, micro-letter is the same. Zhangxiaolong's wish is great: it is better for no one to use the micro-letter. My understanding of this is that no one should waste a lot of time on micro-letters, and most of the time on micro-letters should be spent on valuable communication or valuable information. I hope this wish will be realized soon. Now from the micro-credit public account has seen some small and great attempts, everything is just beginning.

Mail

I love the Web mail system, and I haven't used client tools like Outlook years ago. have been using Gmail to send and receive all kinds of mail, like Gmail default recommended use habits:

1.Inbox is the inbox. The processed messages are deleted or archived immediately. This is a sense of achievement, every time the task of opening Gmail is to let Inbox empty.

2. For * * Important mail, will add a star * *. Now Gmail default also has the priority function, can according to your usage habit, automatic partial message priority raise. When there is a large number of new mail, it is very convenient to handle.

3. Do not use any tag to manage. Zhangxiaolong says a good product should avoid getting users involved in management. Very much. In Gmail, through powerful search, tag and category are clouds.

4. Later, due to the company system, corporate mail is managed by Outlook Web App. Although far less convenient than Gmail, but the day down the mail is not much, concentrate on time to deal with. You have not encountered a message that must be answered in a timely manner.

In short, take the initiative to deal with the message, rather than being processed by the message. Of course, this is related to the nature of the job. For me, for most programmers, I believe this can improve time utilization.

Weibo

I once sent a micro-blog, said GFW done a good thing, it is effective to reduce the number of netizens to spend time on Twitter. It was half a joke and half serious. Now that I'm barely on Twitter, I can say it's really GFW help. Everything has pros and cons, there is no absolute good or bad. (This passage was spit out and rose to servile, liberal, Democratic or whatever.) These are written code but the Prime minister's heart of the spectators, do not pay attention to me, your spit and things do not work, when you have a gun and then come to me. )

I now basically only on Sina Weibo, seems to be an activist, in fact, I spend not much time on it. By week, the average is less than half an hour. The main methods are as follows:

1. The microblogging as the media to see. Micro Bo really do it, stay indoors, and know the world. If the product to Zhuge Liang know, must envy death. With Weibo, I never went to the portal site (as if I didn't have a microblog or a portal). I only use the web version of the microblogging, because it can effectively take the initiative in their own hands, the second is because the web version of the microblogging page on the right side of a hot topic. Once a day or a week to glance, know the world, for me, enough.

2. Play Weibo as a guest book. The social networking of Weibo, for me, is a guest book that can be added by oneself. Sina Weibo group is a good feature, I built an "acquaintance" group, which only I think it is worth reading, only a small number of subscriptions. In this way, a day of reading is very small, often have nothing to read. In addition to the "acquaintances" group, there is a more time-consuming view of comments and forwarding. Now basically just look at the comments, do not look forward. Forwarding a lot of content and the repetition of comments, Sina Weibo how not to do it heavy?

3. Use microblogging as a search. Recently, almost every week, the microblogging search Seajs to see if there are any new discussions, new information. Sincerely hope that Weibo can be like Google, the introduction of a Alerts service, with new content, email me. Kai-Fu Lee recently recommended the Pulse Bo network is good, has a keyword subscription function.

Microblogging other features for me are all clouds, occasionally to turn, such as Micro-magazine, but more from the perspective of product analysis.

In short, or the words, take the initiative to use micro-blog, and not be used for micro-blogging. Never believe in the use of bits and pieces of time. All the products that preempt the user's fragmented time are rogues, and the user is poor enough. Weibo is just a pair of gloves and it's good to take with you. Do not take micro-bo as a plane, landing themselves in, and so on when the crash is difficult to think about.

Site

Yesterday's microblog, named Blue ideals, CSDN, etc., is not to deny that they have been brilliant and past and now help the novice, but from the current development of these two sites, any aspiring to improve their professional skills, as far as possible away from these domestic forums. Inside of the noisy impetuous, filled with inferior posts, I do not know how to use words to describe. You may not agree with this passage, but I have my point of view. If you think I'm wrong, it's best to prove you're right.

As a programmer, I currently often on the site is not much, there are Google, StackOverflow, Quora and so on. At present every day stroll only GitHub. GitHub for me is a game park, full of challenges, but also with fun.

RSS Feeds

This, put to now, seem to need not how to discuss. The last few years spent a lot of time on Google Reader, even a day without itching. Now with the collapse of the blog, RSS in the quality of more and less content, no desire will not invest time, do not worry.

Similar to RSS, there are other sites, such as watercress, know, Pinterest and so on. It seems to me that there is no attraction, watercress is to buy books will go to read the book review, know that the mail is invited to answer questions, occasionally go. Pinterest and other foreign sites, more is the mentality of research products to go, as if not really into the, including Facebook, feeling is a free egg pain site.

Forget that the other function of Weibo is "collection". Feel this is the new era of RSS. On Weibo, you will often see valuable long texts or videos to share. At this time I will use the collection function to collect, then waits for the evening and the weekend, concentrates for a while to read. Just like reading Google reader.

It's not a collection of microblogs, it's more about using Evernote. See the article is worth looking carefully, will be extended through the clearly to the Evernote server, and then eat, before bedtime and other scattered time, through the mobile phone client review.

Another position is the micro-letter of the public account, currently subscribed to the Grapevine, Mac skills, Ghost Foot Seven, ATP, Qinglong old thieves, 36 krypton and other public accounts. The quality is very good, interested in the optional subscription.

Summary

Looks like I was a conservative, half a year ago to upgrade the system to Kings Lion, studied for half a day notifications Center, finally decided to completely disable it, the top right corner of the icon also deleted. The IPhone's Push function has been shut out.

Like to use Google Calendar, the first thing to work every day, is planning a good day to do. But also never open reminders, there are meetings or anything, is a long time moji in the heart, rarely forget.

Finally, think of @Macji saying: Once you've had the fun of investing in your work, you're not obsessed with social pleasure. I think it's very good to say that. I have summed up a few points to myself:

1. The best reading is output. For example, I now write this text to get the fun and harvest, far more than on the micro-blog to see 1 million micro-bo strong.

2. The best IM is mail. Always do not like through microblogging or IM to discuss technical issues, more recommended by mail to communicate. By writing emails, you can make your thoughts clearer and more complete, so that the problem can be solved more effectively. In addition to mail, the current code class discussion, very much like GitHub Issues. Markdown format is very elegant, GitHub Issue can automatically get through with the mail, very convenient.

3. The group will make you into a crowd. Want to the people, go to Bubble Group bar.

4. Asynchronous is better than synchronization. asynchronous allows you to control the initiative in your own hands, asynchronous allows you to set the time freely. For programmers, except for a few things that need to be synchronized, in most cases, asynchrony is the soul of efficiency.

5. Fragments are robbers. The software that grabs the debris time will not help you take advantage of the fragmented time and will only fragment your entire time.

6. Reading good books over the internet. A good book brings people's harvest, often far more than a large number of online reading can bring.

7. Let the information find you. Really important information that will take the initiative to your side. Information is going to walk without your own digging. Don't worry about missing information.

8. The Internet is a tool. Don't put your feelings into it, really. The internet is stone, scissors, cloth.

9. Reading is for writing, learning is for use. Writing is broadly written: blogging, writing code, and so on. Only in this way can reading be effectively turned into output. Learning is to use, because any learned knowledge, sentiment, if not to use, not to practice, it will always be sentiment, never really flow into your heart, become your strength.

It is said that people who are 30 years old have to go to bed early and get up early to work best. Good night, ladies and gentlemen. I hope this text will help you.