March 10, 2012
- Weekly review: Week ending March 9, 2012
- Meetup sketchnotes: The Publishing Side of WordPress, Andy McIlwain
Weekly review: Week ending March 9, 2012
Third week of being on my own, and first week on this consulting engagement. I’m pleasantly surprised at how much I can help. It’s been fantastic. =) I like this, although I’m firm about my decision to spend time developing other ways to earn money.
W- and I spent Saturday evening watching YouTube clips of Victor Borge. He was totally awesome. If you’re into classical music, check him out. If you aren’t, check him out anyway.
I didn’t get as much done this week compared to last week, probably because I shifted my wake-up time two hours earlier and I needed to adjust. I slept around 5 hours less this week than last week: 57 hours compared to about 62 hours, but still a decent 8 hours a day. I worked 41.5 hours on consulting, and I spent a little time planning as well. I need to go back to doing my week-by-week analysis of where I spend time – it will be interesting to see patterns.
From last week’s plans
- Business
[X]Start with enterprise collaboration consulting[-]Business dev: Redesign site landing page and about page[X]Business dev: Create and post more visual book notes[X]Follow up with project O[-]Reach out to Quantified Awesome folks[X]Attend Ruby Hack Night
- Relationships
[X]Attend Maira’s get-together- [C] Attend Annika Martins meetup – skipped in favour of Skype chat with my mom, who ended up being busy
- Exercised with W-
- Chatted with Robert Terpstra
- Talked to Ernesto Ramirez and Eric Blue regarding Quantified Self meetups
- Life
[-]Go for a two-hour walk[-]Plan what I want to learn how to draw- Read quite a few books, took notes
Plans for next week
- Business
- Active
[ ]Project E1: File time[ ]Project E1: Do more consulting
- Connecting
[X]Attend WordPress meetup[ ]Plan site landing page and about page[ ]Participate in U of T panel (Kelly Lyons)[ ]Write testimonials for former colleagues[ ]Attend small business networking get-together at TPL on March 13
- Misc
[ ]Look into project O issue with confirmations[ ]Draw more book notes and share them[ ]Set up business credit card
- Active
- Relationships
[ ]Go on bike ride with W-[ ]Cook batch of food
- Life
[ ]Go for good long walk – maybe Friday? Two hours?
Time analysis
| Activity | Last week | This week | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business | 25.0 | 46.2 | Consulting |
| Discretionary | 54.7 | 29.9 | |
| Personal | 16.1 | 20.0 | |
| Sleep | 61.8 | 57.4 | Shifted to early-morning schedule, too |
| Unpaid work | 10.4 | 14.5 | More commuting |
Meetup sketchnotes: The Publishing Side of WordPress, Andy McIlwain
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At today’s WordPress Toronto meetup, Andy McIlwain shared tips on brainstorming, scheduling, and sharing blog posts in WordPress. The lively discussion brought out lots of other tips, too.
The key thing I took away from the talk was that Evernote is awesome and that I should definitely look into it more. I’m also looking forward to checking out Content Rules for more writing tips and Plinky.com for blog post ideas.
After the talk, I had a fascinating conversation with Robin McRae and Ann Brocklehurst about information architecture and personal knowledge management. Lots to think about. Glad I went!
Check out Andy’s blog post below for slides and full notes. Looking forward to the next meetup!
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