Weekly review: Week ending January 9, 2015

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This was the first week back from vacation. It had a good balance of writing (2 days), coding (2 days), and consulting (1 day). I wrote a couple of long posts that you'll see over the next few weeks. I fixed some bugs on Quantified Awesome, and I used the Flickr API to remove duplicates and link photos with my blog posts. Fun!

I started a new habit of drawing my thoughts on at least five index cards each day. It's a good way to get my brain going in the morning. After scanning them, I split them by topic into piles on my desk. It's an easy way to see where my thoughts are building up so that I can pull them together into blog posts.

I filed some tax-related paperwork, too: my second T4, and my first T5. I'm looking forward to finding out whether I've figured this all out correctly once the other tax slips come in.

Also, it was J-'s birthday, so we had sushi and cheesecake. Yay!

Blog posts

Sketches

  1. 2015.01.03 Making better use of basement – index card
  2. 2015.01.03 Making better use of kitchen – index card
  3. 2015.01.03 Making better use of phone – index card
  4. 2015.01.03 Sketched Book – So Good They Can't Ignore You – Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love – Cal NewportBlogged
  5. 2015.01.03 Social – index card
  6. 2015.01.03 Social bookmarking – index card
  7. 2015.01.03 Why Emacs – index card
  8. 2015.01.04 Automating text – index card
  9. 2015.01.04 Rhythm for learning – index card
  10. 2015.01.04 Thinking in terms of an exchange of time – index card
  11. 2015.01.04 What kind of difference do I want to make, and for whom – index card
  12. 2015.01.05 A reflection on diminishing returns versus compounding growth – index card
  13. 2015.01.05 Developing my imagination and initiative – index cardBlogged
  14. 2015.01.05 Different ideas about mastery – index card
  15. 2015.01.05 Figuring out the technical details of this idea or visual archive I want – index card
  16. 2015.01.05 How can I get better at summary posts – index card
  17. 2015.01.05 Managing my idea pipeline – index cardBlogged
  18. 2015.01.05 Quick idea studies – index cardBlogged
  19. 2015.01.05 Seeing opportunities for abbreviations and text automation – index card
  20. 2015.01.05 Surprise experiment, self-directed life – index card
  21. 2015.01.05 Thinking about my archive – index cardBlogged
  22. 2015.01.05 What can I learn from artists about learning – index cardBlogged
  23. 2015.01.05 Why studies for drawing or writing thoughts – index cardBlogged
  24. 2015.01.06 Abbrevations – index card
  25. 2015.01.06 Competence and mastery – index card
  26. 2015.01.06 Figuring out information flow – index card
  27. 2015.01.06 Is this enough for me – index card
  28. 2015.01.06 Phrases – index card
  29. 2015.01.06 Planning my safety nets – index card
  30. 2015.01.06 Safe, a little better, comfortable – index card
  31. 2015.01.07 Code insertion – index card
  32. 2015.01.07 Mapping the connections in my blog – index card
  33. 2015.01.07 Real Work – index card
  34. 2015.01.07 Sketched Book – The Progress Principle – Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work – Teresa Amabile, Steven Kramer
  35. 2015.01.07 Templates – index card
  36. 2015.01.07 Text transformation as part of expansion – index card
  37. 2015.01.08 How to use what you read – index card
  38. 2015.01.08 Imagining Emacs hangouts – index card
  39. 2015.01.08 Imagining coaching or guiding others – index card
  40. 2015.01.08 Learning as an event – index card
  41. 2015.01.08 Team-building activities – index card
  42. 2015.01.09 Cross-pollination of ideas – index card
  43. 2015.01.09 Take notes while you read books – index card
  44. 2015.01.09 Time is greater than money – index card
  45. 2015.01.09 What am I learning more about, and how can people help – index card
  46. 2015.01.09 What do I do on my non-consulting days – index card

Link round-up

Focus areas and time review

  • Business (36.8h – 21%)
    • Earn: E1: 1-2 days of consulting
    • Revise transcript for Magnar Sveen
    • Earn (6.7h – 18% of Business)
      • Prepare invoice
    • Build (24.4h – 66% of Business)
      • Drawing (10.3h)
        • Organize my sketches for 2014
        • Post The Obstacle Is The Way to blog
      • Delegation (0.0h)
      • Packaging (1.8h)
      • Paperwork (5.8h)
        • File T5 for 2014
        • File T4 for 2014
      • Parse XML from Evernote and extract all the journal entries
      • Remove duplicates from Flickr list
      • Fix csa_foods
      • AJAXify clothing log
      • Fix the menu on small screens
      • Change error message since I don't get notified about stuff
      • Clear up Documents/Documents confusion
      • Re-cross-reference blog posts with Flickr. What's a nice, sustainable way of doing this?
    • Connect (5.7h – 15% of Business)
      • Talk to journalist about Quantified Self
      • Find contact information and timezone
  • Relationships (7.7h – 4%)
    • Check protocol and copy dates
  • Discretionary – Productive (26.4h – 15%)
    • Emacs (1.3h – 0% of all)
      • Revise transcript for Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson
      • Blog about most recent Emacs Hangout
      • Developing Emacs micro-habits: Text automation
    • Get passport pictures
    • Scan passport
    • Apply for passport
    • Pick up my lunch
    • Writing (16.8h)
      • Smooth out image workflow for writing
  • Discretionary – Play (9.7h – 5%)
  • Personal routines (20.7h – 12%)
  • Unpaid work (8.4h – 5%)
  • Sleep (58.2h – 34% – average of 8.3 per day)

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