sacha chua living an awesome life

Between jet lag and family, I haven’t had much time to draw or write these days. Things will settle down eventually. =)

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending November 29, 2013
• Quick show update: Learning Together #01, Helpers Help Out #02
• Setting up virtual machines with Vagrant
• Rock those meeting minutes
• Think about your delta: increasing the difference you want to make
• Update: Developing thoughts further
• Making decisions that don’t matter that much to me

Link roundup

• Ben Simon: Dired, Sweet Dired, in emacs on my Galaxy S3: Hmm, maybe I should get Emacs working on my phone too…
• Living like a student: I still live mostly like a student. Actually, I live even more frugally now than I had as a graduate student, because we cook practically all of our meals, get almost all our books and DVDs from the library, buy clothes second-hand, and have stopped watching movies in theatres. Plus I’m tremendously happier! Randomly-assigned roommates are no match for a totally awesome husband. =)
• An introduction to Magit, an Emacs mode for Git: Excellent tutorial for an excellent mode.
• How I Diversified My Blogging Income Beyond Having All My Eggs in the AdSense Basket: I like the breakdown in this post.

Focus areas and time review

• Business (20.2h – 12%)
  • Earn (2.3h – 10% of Business)
  • Build (11.1h – 58% of Business)
    • Quantified Awesome (0.0h)
    • Drawing (5.2h)
    • Paperwork (0.7h)
  • Connect (6.8h – 31% of Business)
• Relationships (29.9h – 17%)
  • [X] Drop cats off
• Discretionary – Productive (2.0h – 1%)
  • Writing (2.0h)
• Discretionary – Play (0.5h – 0%)
• Discretionary – Travel (38.6h – 22%)
• Personal routines (10.5h)
• Unpaid work (12.7h – 7%)
• Sleep (49.1h – 29% – average of 7.0 per day)

I minimize the number of decisions I care about. What I’m going to do with my life? Big decision worth spending time on. Is something worth it? I can spend hours analyzing the trade-offs. What do I want to eat? I don’t particularly care. I’m trying to avoid decision fatigue. Decisions take up time and willpower. Also, I’m trying to minimize attachment. Everything’s going to be okay.

W- asked me what colour I would like the deck to be. I looked at the dozens of swatches all neatly laid out, and I boggled at him. It’s like when people ask me where I want to eat. Beats me. At least there, I can use a rule of thumb: closest $-$$ place rated at least 3.5 stars on Yelp that’s still open at this time of day and that satisfies everyone’s dietary restrictions.

If I don’t care about the outcome of a decision – if multiple alternatives are not significantly different in terms of their value to me – I’ll tell people I don’t care strongly enough to decide. That way, they don’t mistake a casual opinion for a strongly-held opinion and end up regretting being overruled. If people really want me to participate, I’ll support whatever people suggest, and I’ll help people remember their reasons for or against something. I’ll also ask questions to draw out reasons and make off-the-wall suggestions to add humour.

This is probably not quite what people are looking for. Usually, when people ask for your opinion on something, it’s because they want it.

My default is to not have an opinion. Maybe I should. It’s pretty easy to pick something and then let your brain fill in the reasons for it. People learn more about their choices in the negotiation.

Or maybe I should just have a more structured approach when people ask me about things I don’t have an opinion about. List alternatives, costs, benefits; make diagrams; graph arguments. That way, even if I don’t have an opinion, I can contribute value.

We discussed a few stain options. W- picked one and painted the deck with it. He thought it looked too gray in the sunlight. He stripped it back down and started looking for a different colour. (While I’m easily distracted from finishing my tasks and a big fan of getting things 80% okay, W- is awesome at persistence, and is working on getting around the sunk costs fallacy.)

I don’t mind. It gives me more opportunities to be supportive of projects and experiments, even though I am probably not yet filling the more useful role of the Voice of Reason. I think being able to use the Voice of Reason needs experience anyway. (They say good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions. Not that this was a bad decision; it’s just a different outcome.)

I’m going to be asked for my opinion of or recommendation for many many things in life, especially as I move into my thirties. People assume twenty-somethings don’t know very much, except maybe about tech. Thirty-somethings probably don’t know much either, but are expected to have Opinions. Might as well learn.

How do you handle being asked for your opinion when you haven’t given something much thought?

Comic: Cartoonresource via Shutterstock

More automation! More! More! Also, podcasting is fun, so I’m going to work on delegating more to free up time and attention (and to do things even better.)

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending November 22, 2013
• Emacs Chat: Magnar Sveen (Emacs Rocks)
• How I review my notes
• Google Helpouts update: Helping people learn, thinking about business strategies
• Sketchnote: Visual Thinkers Toronto – Mapping
• Simplifying my event commitments; tips for people looking for event sketchnotes

Sketches

• 2013.11.24 Katamari Forever
• 2013.11.25 How can I make my sketches easier for others to view during a Helpers Help Out show
• 2013.11.25 Mapping what you’re learning
• 2013.11.25 Organizing Evernote
• 2013.11.25 Thinking about tweaking my blog design
• 2013.11.25 What are the ways I add value – How can I replace myself
• 2013.11.26 Plans for 2014
• 2013.11.26 Sketchnote – Visual Thinkers Toronto – Mapping
• 2013.11.27 How can I accelerate my learning
• 2013.11.27 Trust and assistants
• 2013.11.28 Share the opportunities, create jobs
• 2013.11.29 BrainDoodles lesson 1 and 2
• 2013.11.29 BrainDoodles lesson 3 and lesson 4
• 2013.11.29 Building conversational connections on Twitter
• 2013.11.29 Fridays for podcasts
• 2013.11.29 Helpers Helpout 02 – Communicating with Clients Before and After Helpouts
• 2013.11.29 Learning together

Link roundup

• A productivity system I use — The Iceberg Method: Get things out of your head and into something searchable so that you stop worrying about remembering them. A review process is great for remembering what you’ve stashed and what you need to act on. Here’s mine!
• 100 Motivates You to Learn a New Skill in 100 Days: Timelapse videos of the skills you’re developing. Interesting idea.
• ExamTime Gives Students a Place to Post Mind Maps, Notes, and Quizzes: Hooray for more visual learning resources
• 28 and a ½ Ideas for Business Blog Posts: Quick writing prompts
• Center Your Budget Around Buying Freedom Instead of Things: That makes sense to me. People use money to buy stuff. People use money to buy experiences. I like using it to buy and protect freedom.
• End Your Kids’ Nagging and Negotiating with Three Simple Words: Asked and answered! We don’t have that issue in our household, but this might be handy for people with younger kids – or even in grown-up life, maybe?
• Robby Macdonell on Tracking 8,000 Screen Hours
• 5 Fundamentals That Determine How Fast Your Blog Grows: Content, SEO, guest blogging, outreach, stickiness
• Don’t Want to be a Digital Nomad? There Are Other Kinds of Lifestyle Entrepreneur: Doesn’t have to be all about traveling to interesting places. =) I’m more of a staycation person myself…
• The Disillusionment of the Early Career Engineer: Great career tips on dealing with the doldrums
• Wait vs Interrupt Culture: Interesting to see different kinds of culture. I like wait cultures more, and I’m getting better at not interrupting people.
• 5 Tips to Improve Your Study Habits: Handy tips – I’ve shared variants of these tips in my own Helpouts
• Latin LOLCat: Joy: Disce gaudere – Learn to enjoy.

Focus areas and time review

• Business (62.5h – 37%) – Holy cow, that’s where all that time went
  • Earn (23.3h – 37% of Business)
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
  • Build (15.7h – 25% of Business)
    • [X] Hire transcriber
    • Drawing (11.2h)
    • Paperwork (0.0h)
      • [ ] File payroll return
  • Connect (23.5h – 37% of Business)
    • [X] Host Visual Thinkers Toronto
    • [X] Prepare Mapping Your Learning presentation
    • [X] Chat with Xah Lee about Emacs Hangouts
    • [X] Document processes for Helpers Help Out
    • [X] Set up editorial calendar for Helpers Help Out
    • [X] Host Helpers Help Out
    • [X] Host Learning Together
    • [X] Plan Emacs Chats
• Relationships (1.5h – 0%)
  • [ ] Drop cats off
• Discretionary – Productive (0.7h – 0%) – Whoa.
  • Writing (0.0h) – Waah! Really?!
• Discretionary – Play (3.9h – 2%)
• Personal routines (23.9h – 14%) – lots of walking and errands
• Unpaid work (12.5h – 7%)
• Sleep (63.1h – 37% – average of 9.0 per day)

Lots of drawing, and lots of getting ready. =) Also, kicked off first session of Helpers Help Out!

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending November 15, 2013
• My new Google Hangouts On Air checklist, plus upcoming Nov 29 Q&A on learning
• Finding the right balance between thinking, learning, doing, and reviewing
• Google Helpouts update: Building the community
• How to cheat when animating sketches
• Decluttering and reimagining the house

Sketches

Here’s my favourite sketch of the week: =)

Lots of other sketches related to Google Helpouts, study/learning skills, and answering people’s questions.

• 2013.11.16 What am I specifically interested in learning from Helpouts
• 2013.11.17 Current projects and discretionary focus
• 2013.11.17 Google Helpouts and action focus
• 2013.11.17 My current strategy for building awesomeness
• 2013.11.17 Should I sell to people more – If so, how would you like that
• 2013.11.17 Thinking about podcast success
• 2013.11.17 Trip plans
• 2013.11.18 Documenting and delegating your work
• 2013.11.18 Helping your child study
• 2013.11.18 How do I feel about parents asking me if I can help their kids study
• 2013.11.18 How do rich media channels fit into the way I share
• 2013.11.18 Imagining Helpouts futures
• 2013.11.18 What would my ideal e-mail subscription be like
• 2013.11.20 Exploring the idea of advice
• 2013.11.20 How do you find the time to do it all
• 2013.11.20 More thoughts on drawing for others
• 2013.11.20 What would you have done differently – What did you learn and how will you do better
• 2013.11.21 Geek notes – automating bulk web stuff with iMacros
• 2013.11.21 Google Helpouts Business Strategies
• 2013.11.21 I’ve decided to stop caring about pen colour
• 2013.11.21 Not always meta
• 2013.11.21 Tracking personal finance
• 2013.11.21 What would I change if I forced myself to delegate or outsource 10 percent
• 2013.11.21 Why did I start this experiment with semi-retirement
• 2013.11.22 Helpers Helpout – Free and Paid

Link roundup

• How to track everything in your life without going crazy: Sleep, fitness, diet, driving
• 10 unorthodox tips for getting better performance from your blog: Hmm, maybe I should look into page-specific sidebars…
• Quam felix vita transit sine negotiis! How happily a life passes without business!

Focus areas and time review

• Business (57.4h – 34%)
  • Earn (18.3h – 31% of Business)
    • [X] E2: Animate snippets of script 1
    • [X] E2: Edit animations for script 1
    • [X] E2: Edit audio for script 1
    • [X] E2: Re-animate trailer
    • [X] E2: Record audio for script 1
    • [X] E2: Sync animation for script 1c
    • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
  • Build (11.7h – 20% of Business)
    • Drawing (9.8h)
      • [X] Time image processing
      • [X] Convert sketches into blog posts
      • [X] Draw guide to sketchnoting
    • Paperwork (0.0h)
• Connect (27.4h – 47% of Business)
  • [X] Chat with Xah Lee about Emacs Hangouts
  • [X] Helpers Help Out Show #2
  • [ ] Helpers Help Out Show #2
  • [ ] Prepare Mapping Your Learning presentation
• Relationships (6.0h – 3%)
  • [X] Prepare stuff
• Discretionary – Productive (5.2h – 3%)
  • Writing (4.7h)
• Discretionary – Play (4.6h – 2%)
• Personal routines (18.4h – 10%)
• Unpaid work (11.8h – 7%)
• Sleep (64.7h – 38% – average of 9.2 per day)

Lots of Google Helpouts stuff this week! Also lots of drawing of getting started stuff, etc. Next week, more stuff related to Google Helpouts and Emacs hangouts, plus working on animation for a consulting project….

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending November 8, 2013
• Current state of my backups
• Thinking about how to get better at asking questions
• Google Helpouts Update: People like it, so how do we scale this up?
• It’s okay to draw simple visual notes
• Making the most of Standard Time as the days grow shorter

Sketches

Instead of drawing weekly reviews (which are starting to look alike! =) ) I’m going to feature one of my favourite sketches from the week instead.

• 2013.11.15 Helpout Provider Tip – Ask for that 5-star review
• 2013.11.15 Helpout Hints Hangout – page 2
• 2013.11.15 Helpout Hints Hangout – page 1
• 2013.11.14 What do I focus on when drawing visual notes
• 2013.11.14 Making room in my life for more fitness and strength
• 2013.11.14 Introvert tip – Plan your follow-ups so that you can guide the conversation
• 2013.11.14 Integrating paper and digital notes
• 2013.11.14 How can you get started with visual note-taking
• 2013.11.14 Getting started with mind-mapping
• 2013.11.13 What do I get out of drawing
• 2013.11.13 How can I learn Plover Steno
• 2013.11.12 Who are in my tribe – what kinds of people do I click with
• 2013.11.12 People-drawing practice
• 2013.11.12 Learn programming faster
• 2013.11.12 Learn how to talk with developers
• 2013.11.12 How can I make a people katamari
• 2013.11.12 Get started with Ledger
• 2013.11.12 Get started with bulk cooking
• 2013.11.12 Awesome Foundation Toronto part 2
• 2013.11.11 What kind of visual records do you want for your event
• 2013.11.11 The Art of Asking – or, How to Ask and Get What You Want – Sarah Peck
• 2013.11.11 Make your paper notes more searchable (low-tech and hi-tech tips)
• 2013.11.11 How to think about a book while reading it
• 2013.11.11 How to look for sketchnoters and graphic recorders
• 2013.11.11 How to enrich your training with visual summaries
• 2013.11.11 How can you make the most of your event sketches
• 2013.11.10 What would I like my tribe to be like, and who do I want to grow into for them
• 2013.11.10 How do I feel about interacting with people
• 2013.11.10 How can people ask me good questions
• 2013.11.10 Building those conversations
• 2013.11.09 What would bigger be like
• 2013.11.09 What will I change after I reach net worth goal 2
• 2013.11.09 What difference do I want to make
• 2013.11.09 Thinking about the Awesome Foundation Toronto and sketchnoting
• 2013.11.09 More limiting beliefs
• 2013.11.09 If I built this up as a business, what would it be like

Link roundup

• On learning difficult things: Pair up, reread, pay attention to cognition, explain it to someone, don’t book yourself solid
• Don’t talk to (just) me: Company-wide chatrooms and virtual meeting rooms increase serendipity
• Get rich with: the position of strength: Being able to work from abundance is awesome.
• Stay focused on the current task with a “procrastination pad”: Write distractions down so that you can deal with them later (and so that your brain shuts up about them).
• Network better as an introvert with a socialization quota: I do this, although sometimes I let my quota be 0 or mostly online stuff.

Focus areas and time review

• Business (52.2h – 31%)
  • Earn (20.6h – 39% of Business)
    • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • [X] [#A] Sketch and animate trailer
    • [ ] E2: Animate snippets of script 1
    • [ ] E2: Re-animate trailer
    • [ ] E2: Record audio for script 1
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
  • Build (16.7h – 31% of Business)
    • [X] Sort out Evernote authentication
    • Drawing (14.7h)
      • [X] Draw more stick figures
      • [X] Convert sketches into blog posts
    • Paperwork (0.0h)
  • Connect (14.9h – 28% of Business)
    • [X] Start planning Friday evening Hangout session – maybe 29th
    • [ ] TWIH: Copy broadcast URL and add to Event, Helpouts Discuss; share tips, take notes
    • [ ] TWIH: Draft event announcement and communication plan
    • [ ] TWIH: Post Event
    • [ ] TWIH: Quick update, check how things are going; choose topic for next show
    • [ ] TWIH: Research quick tips
    • [ ] Chat with Xah Lee about Emacs Hangouts
    • [ ] Prepare Mapping Your Learning presentation
    • [ ] Rejig 404 page and search page
    • [ ] Set up mailing list for notetaking and learning
• Relationships (4.3h – 2%)
  • [X] Have vaccination information faxed over
  • [X] Reply to the Hattoris
• Discretionary – Productive (5.8h – 3%)
  • [X] Process chat with Magnar – time bookmarks
  • [X] [#A] Reflect on delta
  • Writing (3.6h)
• Discretionary – Play (1.5h – 0%)
  • Started playing new Katamari game
• Personal routines (23.9h – 14%)
• Unpaid work (13.5h – 8%)
• Sleep (67.0h – 39% – average of 9.6 per day)

Super-typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda was a complete mess. My family is okay, but lots of people aren’t. Find out how you can help. In Canada? The Canadian government is matching donations made through Red Cross and other charities. I’m donating in lieu of buying gifts, and we’re going to see about helping out more when we’re in the Philippines next month.

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending November 1, 2013
• Monthly review: October 2013
• Emacs Org Mode Customization Survey
• Mapping what I’m learning
• Experience report/invitation: Pick my brain through Google Helpouts
• Handwriting
• High energy and low energy activities

Link roundup

• Startups Do Not – Repeat, DO NOT – Prepare You to Create Products: This makes sense. Also, I’m probably never going to be in a startup. New business? Maybe. Bootstrap? Sure. Lifestyle? Most likely. But not something that relies on being acquired or going public as the main ways to win.
• Habits that help, wherever you are: Handy rationality checklist. I also like the idea of looking for domain-general skills, which you can learn more about by looking at domain-specific examples…

Sketches

• 2013.11.02 Creating way more value
• 2013.11.02 Google Helpouts Experience Report
• 2013.11.03 My new Google Hangouts workflow
• 2013.11.04 Growing my visual vocabulary
• 2013.11.04 Reimagining the house
• 2013.11.04 Revising my mornings
• 2013.11.05 Additional Helpout observations
• 2013.11.05 How does Google Helpout fit in with my goals
• 2013.11.05 Standard Time – Winter Time
• 2013.11.05 What are some of my limiting beliefs
• 2013.11.05 What do I want to learn on the go
• 2013.11.06 Helping students with study skills
• 2013.11.06 How do I want to respond to requests for sketchnoting
• 2013.11.06 Keeping track of what you want to do
• 2013.11.06 Make the most of lecture classes
• 2013.11.07 Google Helpouts – sold out
• 2013.11.07 House style
• 2013.11.07 It’s okay to talk to yourself
• 2013.11.07 Sketches from Beyond Words
• 2013.11.07 Sketches from Beyond Words, continued
• 2013.11.07 What would a virtual sketchnoting agency look like
• 2013.11.08 How to cheat when animating sketches
• 2013.11.08 How to feel great about your daily to-do list
• 2013.11.08 How would I scale up helping people learn more effectively
• 2013.11.08 Making the most of interruptible time
• 2013.11.08 Manage your energy when learning a lot in one day
• 2013.11.08 More garden plans for 2014
• 2013.11.08 Note-taking tips for meeting minutes
• 2013.11.08 Structure your notes for easy review
• 2013.11.08 Weekly review
• 2013.11.08 What would make me feel comfortable with charging for a Helpout

Oh, I filed taxes on Monday, too!

Focus areas and time review

• Business (55.6h – 33%)
  • Earn (20.2h – 36% of Business)
    • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • [X] [#A] Draw sketch ideas for different “scenes” for the first script
    • [X] [#A] Record audio for trailer
    • [ ] [#A] Sketch and animate trailer
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
  • Build (15.6h – 28% of Business)
    • [X] Set up incremental backups
    • Quantified Awesome (0.0h)
    • Drawing (10.6h)
      • [X] Draw something technical
      • [X] Process October sketches for visual vocabulary purposes
      • [X] Rescan black sketchbook
      • [ ] Convert sketches into blog posts
      • [ ] Draw more emotions
    • Paperwork (1.7h)
      • [X] Call CRA for web access code
      • [X] File T2
      • [X] File payroll return
      • [X] Log depreciation expenses
      • [X] Log taxes paid
  • Connect (19.8h – 35% of Business)
    • [ ] Start planning Friday evening Hangout session – maybe 29th
    • [ ] Set up mailing list for notetaking and learning
• Relationships (8.4h – 4%)
  • [X] Call Bathurst Dupont Animal Hospital
  • [X] Call Bloor West Animal Hospital to see if they can refer to a lower rate
  • [X] Call Fraser
  • [X] Set up project management for house stuff?
  • [X] [#B] Comparison-shop for Luke’s possible dental work
  • [X] Take Luke to Bathurst Dupont Animal Hospital for a second opinion
  • [ ] Have vaccination information faxed over
  • [ ] Prototype box cover cushion
  • [ ] Reply to the Hattoris
• Discretionary – Productive (8.2h – 4%)
  • [X] Look into johnw video problems
  • [X] [#A] Reflect on delta
  • [ ] Process chat with Magnar – time bookmarks
  • Writing (6.3h)
• Discretionary – Play (4.7h – 2%)
• Personal routines (17.3h – 10%)
• Unpaid work (18.3h – 10%)
• Sleep (59.8h – 35% – average of 8.5 per day)

Last month, I wrote:

In October, I’ll focus on consulting. In my discretionary time, I’ll focus on lots of drawing and thinking. I want to build that habit of daily visual thinking, and then I’ll use that to learn even more.

And boy, did I ever! I put together a PDF of 105 thoughts from October 2013 that compiled my notes from thinking through different things, and you can see a list (including some small sketches I didn’t include in the PDF) after the blog posts below. Not only did this give me plenty of practice in visual thinking, it also helped me focus and accomplish a lot. I hammered out a pretty decent drawing workflow that made the most of my new gear. I learned a lot about learning. I tidied up. I set up better backups and did some system administration chores I’d been procrastinating. Good stuff indeed.

November is going to be busy but good. I’ve got two projects going on at work, including some animation and voice recording. (That’ll be interesting to sort out with the cats and the heater…) I need to sort out possible tooth surgery for one of our cats and take care of other pet-related matters. We’re working on decluttering and organizing the house. Lots of things going on, and I want to continue doing my daily-ish drawing habit too. Let’s see how it works out!

Blog posts

• Decisions
  • The power of no: being completely* unhireable until 2017 (and possibly longer)
  • Decision review: Seven months at HackLab
  • Cheat uncertainty by sweetening the potential outcomes
  • What’s on your back burner?
  • When it comes to juggling multiple interests, it helps to limit your expectations
  • Growing slowly, adjusting the speed
• Learning
  • What do I want to learn about learning?
  • Visual book review: How to make a complete map of every thought you think (Lion Kimbro)
  • Next steps for system administration
  • Mindmapping chat with Billy Waters (@vitaminsludge)
  • I don’t write about everything; How do you manage your private notes?
• Drawing
  • Sketchnote Lessons: How do you want to grow as a sketchnoter?
  • Thinking out loud about how to help other sketchnoters go professional and how to help people get their ideas sketched
  • Drawing practice: Daily drawing
  • Learning more about illustrating my blog posts
  • Visual thinking: build your visual library
  • Sketchnote Lesson: Metaphors
  • Daily drawing update: So far, fantastic!
• Sharing
  • Blogging tip: Test your ideas and get more feedback in order to make your posts better
  • Test what you know by sharing
  • Growing this blog
  • Jetpack subscribers: Terribly sorry about the test posts! Disabling, please use Feedburner to subscribe instead
  • Integrating visual outlining into my writing process
• Gardening
  • Gardening plans for 2014
  • Gardening review: 2013
• Reviews
  • Weekly review: Week ending October 4, 2013
  • Weekly review: Week ending October 11, 2013
  • Weekly review: Week ending October 18, 2013
  • Sysad stuff – Weekly review: Week ending October 25, 2013
  • Monthly review: September 2013

Tons of sketches! You can browse through them at http://www.flickr.com/photos/sachac/tags/2013-10 or check them out using this list:

Drawings

1. 2013.10.04 Drawing and scanning morning pages
2. 2013.10.04 Imagining the future(s)
3. 2013.10.04 Legend of Heroes – Trails in the Sky
4. 2013.10.04 Low energy versus high energy
5. 2013.10.04 Weekly review
6. 2013.10.04 What would be my ideal daily drawing setup
7. 2013.10.05 Gardening thoughts
8. 2013.10.05 How can I help people save time
9. 2013.10.05 Logitech H800
10. 2013.10.06 Consulting and focus
11. 2013.10.06 Daily drawing – thinking on paper
12. 2013.10.06 Possible pasts
13. 2013.10.06 Weekend cooking
14. 2013.10.07 Alan Kay
15. 2013.10.07 Delegation
16. 2013.10.07 JetPens
17. 2013.10.07 Kinds of email
18. 2013.10.07 Reflecting on friendships that work well and ones that need figuring out
19. 2013.10.07 Sharing circles
20. 2013.10.07 Sketchnote Media for thinking the unthinkable
21. 2013.10.07 Where are my people gaps
22. 2013.10.08 Backburner
23. 2013.10.08 Hacklab Dinner – four courses, actually!
24. 2013.10.09 Breaking down my visual vocabulary
25. 2013.10.09 Cats
26. 2013.10.09 Daily drawing updates
27. 2013.10.09 Doodles
28. 2013.10.09 More thoughts about delegation
29. 2013.10.09 My passport misadventures
30. 2013.10.09 Thinking about visual outlining
31. 2013.10.09 What do I want to learn about learning
32. 2013.10.10 Doodles medicine
33. 2013.10.10 Late at night
34. 2013.10.10 Playing with lettering
35. 2013.10.10 Relaxing
36. 2013.10.10 Relaxing
37. 2013.10.10 Small paper
38. 2013.10.10 Small paper
39. 2013.10.11 Adjusting the speed
40. 2013.10.11 Starting from enough
41. 2013.10.11 Weekly review
42. 2013.10.13 Watches
43. 2013.10.14 Long weekends
44. 2013.10.14 Long weekends
45. 2013.10.14 Mapping out learning
46. 2013.10.14 Mapping what you know
47. 2013.10.15 Applying computer science to learning
48. 2013.10.15 Current mapping limits and challenges
49. 2013.10.15 Reviewing what you’ve learned
50. 2013.10.18 Gardening notes
51. 2013.10.18 Indexing
52. 2013.10.18 Note-taking system
53. 2013.10.18 Note-taking techniques
54. 2013.10.18 Weekly review
55. 2013.10.18 What I want to learn about gardening
56. 2013.10.19 How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think
57. 2013.10.20 Cooking notes
58. 2013.10.21 Fitting multiple thoughts on a page
59. 2013.10.21 How can I think on paper more effectively
60. 2013.10.21 When do I pause or stop when thinking about something
61. 2013.10.22 Different methods for (assisted) learning
62. 2013.10.22 How can I tap the value I create
63. 2013.10.22 My new sketching and thinking workflow, and mindmap comparisons
64. 2013.10.22 Plenty of sleep
65. 2013.10.22 What can I do to get more value from online courses
66. 2013.10.22 What do I need to do in terms of system administration
67. 2013.10.23 Evernote Fujitsu ScanSnap
68. 2013.10.23 How can I find the right balance of thinking, learning, doing, and reviewing
69. 2013.10.23 How to Ask Questions the Smart Way (Eric S. Raymond)
70. 2013.10.23 Sketchnote Bullet Journal (Ryder Carroll)
71. 2013.10.23 Thinking About Getting Better at Asking Questions
72. 2013.10.24 Asking myself better questions
73. 2013.10.24 Current state – backups
74. 2013.10.24 Google Helpout
75. 2013.10.24 Mindjet 14 vs Freeplane
76. 2013.10.24 My processes for reviewing info
77. 2013.10.24 Personal information architecture
78. 2013.10.24 Quantified Self Toronto
79. 2013.10.24 Sharing my mindmap
80. 2013.10.24 What topics do I want to make progress in daily or weekly
81. 2013.10.25 How I organize and publish my sketches
82. 2013.10.25 Weekly review
83. 2013.10.25 What do I want to do with my business
84. 2013.10.26 Planning for the trip
85. 2013.10.27 Time Management for System Administrators – Thomas A
86. 2013.10.28 Deployment procedures
87. 2013.10.28 Drawing on paper versus drawing on my computer
88. 2013.10.28 Mindmapping chat with vitaminsludge
89. 2013.10.28 My roadmap to becoming a better geek
90. 2013.10.28 Setting up my development environment VMs
91. 2013.10.28 Setting up virtual machines with Vagrant
92. 2013.10.29 Accelerate your learning through visual thinking
93. 2013.10.29 Bike versus subway
94. 2013.10.29 Visual Thinkers Toronto
95. 2013.10.30 Destructive scans – is it worth cutting apart my books
96. 2013.10.30 How can I make the most of purchases
97. 2013.10.30 How do I break a large topic down into small questions that I can handle
98. 2013.10.30 Playing with style – how do I want to explore
99. 2013.10.30 What kinds of thoughts are interesting or useful for me to explore on paper
100. 2013.10.30 Why do I prefer bottom-up thinking to top-down thinking
101. 2013.10.30 Why does note-taking matter to me
102. 2013.10.30 Why does note-taking matter to me – positive
103. 2013.10.31 How do I want to tweak four months of tilting the balance towards consulting
104. 2013.10.31 Imagining an awesome day
105. 2013.10.31 Possibility – Hire or partner with an extrovert to interview people
106. 2013.10.31 Reflections on cats
107. 2013.10.31 Understanding gaps
108. 2013.10.31 What do I want or need to store on my backup drives
109. 2013.10.31 What do I want to explore
110. 2013.10.31 Why do I prefer asynchronous communication, and what can I do about it
111. 2013.11.01 Weekly review