Weekly review: Week ending May 2, 2014

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Even more Emacs geekery this week. =) It might be time to reclassify it from Discretionary – Emacs to Business – Build – Emacs or something like that.

Blog posts

Sketches

Link round-up

Focus areas and time review

  • Business (40.4h – 24%)
    • [ ] E1: Attend strategy session
    • [ ] Earn: E1: 2.5-3.5 days of consulting
    • [ ] File payroll return
    • [ ] Plan EmacsLife.com: What am I experimenting with?
    • [ ] Post transcript of Iannis Zannos' chat
    • [ ] Record session on learning keyboard shortcuts
    • [ ] Record session with technomancy
    • [ ] Try delegating transcripts to Emacs geeks
    • [ ] Sketchnote a book
    • [ ] Start planning talk for International Lisp Conference
    • [ ] Write myself a cheque and remit the appropriate amounts
    • Earn (16.2h – 40% of Business)
      • [X] E1: Rename T groups
      • [X] E1: Work on A
      • [X] [#A] E1: Deploy B code
    • Build (15.4h – 38% of Business)
      • Drawing (2.4h)
      • Delegation (6.8h)
        • [X] Plan for delegation with Alex?
        • [X] Talk to Alex about delegation
      • Packaging (4.1h)
      • Paperwork (2.1h)
        • [X] Calculate how much I can pay myself and set up the appropriate transactions
        • [X] Learn more about pay-what-you-want
      • Emacs
        • [X] Try out the Org presentation tools
        • [X] Set up Jekyll on Windows so that I can export from Org
        • [X] Revise Emacs – ERC transcript
        • [X] Organize Emacs resources into starting/improving/enjoying
        • [X] Incorporate @philandstuff's feedback
        • [X] Move list of videos into emacs-notes
        • [X] Move Emacs Chat transcripts to Github?
        • [X] Get a list of Emacs videos
        • [X] Create graphviz map for learning Org Mode for Emacs
        • [X] Copy all of my posts into Org files for offline use
        • [X] Make blog posts available offline
        • [X] Contemplate git or blog posts
        • [X] Build a directory of Emacs-related videos – maybe everything with at least 1000 views.
        • [X] Write about keybinding
        • [X] Add support page to emacs-notes
        • [X] Add more details to reading Emacs Lisp tutorial
    • Connect (8.7h – 21% of Business)
      • [X] Set up chat with masteringemacs
      • [X] Set up chat with Xah Lee
      • [X] Set up chat with Christopher Wellons
      • [X] Add April 2014 videos to Quantified Self blog post
      • [X] Upload April 2014 videos
      • [X] Invite mickeynp (Mastering Emacs) for an Emacs Chat
      • [X] Review new video and post it
      • [X] Go to Quantified Self meetup
      • [X] Revise backlog post for Fridge magazine
      • [X] Record session with Xah Lee
  • Relationships (4.7h – 2%)
    • [X] Set up cherry blossom party
    • [ ] Buy groceries for cherry blossom party
  • Discretionary – Productive (17.3h – 10%)
    • [X] Allocate funds on Kiva
    • [X] Find out how much compost I need to order
    • [X] Making my Emacs-related blog posts available for offline reading
    • [X] [#B] Read first chapter of Latin textbook
    • [X] Prepare litter box analysis presentation
    • [ ] Read chapter 2 of Latin textbook
    • Writing (1.0h)
  • Discretionary – Play (9.5h – 5%)
  • Personal routines (22.2h – 13%)
  • Unpaid work (9.0h – 5%)
  • Sleep (68.9h – 41% – average of 9.8 per day)

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