Bookending
I recently read a post by Mandy Brown about a best practice that she incorporated into her routine.
She calls it bookending, as in the bookends that open and close the content of a book.
It is an SOP that defines a beginning and an end to the work day. It consists of the following steps:
- At the beginning of your work day, start with a blank sheet of paper or notebook and visualise what the day will look like, before getting into the busyness of emails and notifications.
- At the end of the day, close all the apps, shut down the computer, and review the day.
These simple steps limit and define your workday, especially relevant in a remote work environment.
This concept is something I've seen multiple times, though have not yet fully implemented it.
Many Brown -> Bookending
Sahil Bloom -> Power down ritual
Cal Newport -> Work shut down ritual
Personal reboot
A person is very much like a computer, with a hardware (i.e: body) and a software (i.e: mind).
We can upgrade our hardware by eating better, being active and even and getting prosthetics to improving our abilities. We can also upgrade and improve our software, to achieve this we can keep on learning, adding facts and some could say meditate.
This comparison has led me to believe that sometimes, when things aren’t going as well as they should, a computer must be rebooted. And the same may be true with ourselves, when thing aren’t going great it’s possible that we need to undergo a rebooting process to start fresh.
Nothing too harsh. Just take a few days off, rethink how we do things, evaluate our systems and basically find better ways to go forward.
What is a website?
In the widest sense of the word, a website is a set of words and images placed together in order to share through internet an idea or message from one computer to another.
Simply put, a web site is an assembly of web pages, made of code, broken in one computer, sent in it’s smaller pieces (packets) to another computer, that reads the code, translates it, and Reassembles it. A web page only requires text to be a full working website, if we would like to structure it, we can shape the text using html, if we would like to make ot prettier we can use CSS and we could use Javascript to make it dynamic.
To find a website we use domains (actually subdomains) or IP address, ie the name of a website. In addition we have to have a place to host the content (texts, images, files) of our website that must be connected to the internet at all times so that anyone can access at any time, this is the server or hosting service. The tool that reconstructs the information packages of your website is the browser (chrome, opera, firefox ...)
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