Review: Week ending January 2, 2015

Posted: - Modified: | review, weekly

This week was about making little improvements. We installed weather-stripping to stop the drafts under the exterior walls. We added more lights to the basement, including an undercabinet light at my desk. I organized the tangle of USB cables plugged into a hub behind my monitor, tucking them into a box with a few input and output holes so that there's less visual clutter. I also set up my Cintiq 12WX again. Using it to draw book sketchnotes is more pleasant than using my tablet PC. I wrote some Emacs Lisp to help me with my monthly reviews, and some Javascript to add blog links to more than a hundred of my sketches. I set up a Tasker scene to help me track my time on QuantifiedAwesome.com with just two clicks. Fun!

I posted my annual review. I think my focus for 2015 is going to be on little improvements and micro-habits. Getting really good at that will likely have all sorts of benefits.

Next week, W- will be back at work, and I'll probably spend Thursday consulting. The rest of the time, I'm looking forward to revising transcripts, sketching books, and planning my next series of 2-4 week experiments.

Blog posts

Sketches

Link round-up

Focus areas and time review

  • Business (12.6h – 7%)
    • Earn (2.4h – 19% of Business)
      • Earn: E1: 1-2 days of consulting
    • Build (4.8h – 38% of Business)
      • Drawing (2.9h)
        • Sketchnote So Good They Can't Ignore You
        • Sketchnote The Checklist Manifesto
      • Delegation (0.0h)
      • Packaging (0.0h)
      • Paperwork (0.0h)
        • File payroll return
      • Fix forgot password process
    • Connect (5.4h – 42% of Business)
  • Relationships (39.5h – 23%)
  • Discretionary – Productive (11.6h – 6%)
    • Emacs (2.1h – 1% of all)
      • Revise transcript for Magnar Sveen
      • Revise transcript for Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson
      • Reach out to possible Emacs Chat people
    • Get Org Mode to talk to my Vagrant VM
    • Make something that updates my Flickr photo descriptions in bulk
    • Write Emacs Lisp code for monthly review
    • Get passport pictures
    • Apply for passport
    • Pick up cultural access pass from Front and Parliament
    • Writing (7.9h)
  • Discretionary – Play (12.3h – 7%)
  • Personal routines (23.4h – 13%)
  • Unpaid work (8.8h – 5%)
  • Sleep (59.9h – 36% – average of 8.6 per day)

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