January 7, 2010

The best surprise of December was the response I got to my post on What can I help you learn? Looking for mentees. I’m looking forward to developing the relationships I started from there, and to meeting many more people in the future.

Limiting my blog to mostly one post a day turned out to be a great idea. Prioritizing my post queue was fun and interesting. Here were my favourite posts for the month.

Year-end is a good time for reviews and plans, and I posted a few thoughts:

• Lessons from 2009 and plans for 2010
• What will you stop doing?
• Learning plan for 2010

More reflections on what I do and why:

• I write because I cannot waste time
• What do I delegate, and why?
• Copious free time? Carefully protected!
• A toolbox of questions

On perspectives:

• Happy-do, epiphanies, and relentless improvement 
• My week starts with Mondays, and other ways perspective influences life

Sketches:

• Informed Judgment, Terrence Hickey
• Notes from VizThink video on Visual Notetaking 101
• Visual notes – Gary Vaynerchuk and Democamp Toronto 24
• Living in the sweet spot

Geek stuff:

• Process: Using Activities to organize workshop-related information
• Lotus Connections Communities topics+replies feeds to OPML
• Behind the scenes: Livin’ la Vida Emacs

In January 2010, I’m looking forward to:

• Reconnecting with friends in the Philippines (Hi! Catch me before January 16)
• Completing my permanent residency application and bringing my cat over
• Braindumping as much as I can at work and in life