This Week I Read – April 21, 2023

10 strange, but proven, tricks to help you focus when working from home : Fast Company – Staying focused and maintaining productivity can be difficult.

Tesla Faces a Tougher Road Ahead in China : WSJ – As rivals jostle to showcase their latest EV models, Elon Musk’s company skips the country’s biggest auto show in years

Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity : whitehouse.gov – The United States faces persistent and increasingly sophisticated malicious cyber campaigns that threaten the public sector, the private sector, and ultimately the American people’s security and privacy. The Federal Government must improve its efforts to identify, deter, protect against, detect, and respond to these actions and actors. The Federal Government must also carefully examine what occurred during any major cyber incident and apply lessons learned. But cybersecurity requires more than government action. Protecting our Nation from malicious cyber actors requires the Federal Government to partner with the private sector. The private sector must adapt to the continuously changing threat environment, ensure its products are built and operate securely, and partner with the Federal Government to foster a more secure cyberspace. In the end, the trust we place in our digital infrastructure should be proportional to how trustworthy and transparent that infrastructure is, and to the consequences we will incur if that trust is misplaced.