sacha chua living an awesome life

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending March 22, 2013
• Debugging my brain: typos (write-os?) in my sketchnotes
• Emacs Chat: Carsten Dominik
• Emacs: Use function keys for custom keyboard shortcuts
• Quantified Self Toronto: Where the Time Went
• Getting ready for the Emacs Conference
• After Emacs Conf 2013; ideas for Sunday and Monday
• Quantified Self time-tracking: Choosing your buckets

Accomplished this week

• Business
  • Earn
    • Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • Send invoice for SR
    • Follow up on payment for presentation design
    • Prepare invoice and agreement
    • Discuss requirements for curriculum sketches
    • Follow up with U
  • Connect
    • London trip
      • Pack carry-on backpack
      • Print out travel documents
      • Pack bags
      • Travel to London
      • Arrange for GBP
      • Flesh out Emacs talk
    • Quantified Self Toronto
      • Explore Excel 2013
      • Give presentation on time results
      • Co-host Quantified Self meetup
      • Copy March 27 2013 videos
    • Co-host Visual Thinkers Toronto meetup
    • Produce Emacs interview with Carsten Dominik
  • Build
    • Debug typos
    • Call TJ Miron about accounting
• Relationships
  • Attend LessWrong get-together
  • Buy 2 bottles of maple syrup?
  • Prepare something for Rachel Lane’s going-away party
  • Prepare vegetarian dish
  • Help Emma Logue with baking
  • Go to Rachel Lane’s going-away party
  • Go to superpower league potluck
  • Greet John Grimme happy birthday
  • Talk to Carsten Dominik about Emacs
  • Visit Steve Crawford
• Life
  • Return library books
  • Suspend library holds

Plans for next week

• Business
  • Earn
    • [ ] Go to E1 get-together
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • [ ] Work on SR edits
  • Connect
    • [ ] Attend Visual Thinkers call
    • [ ] Process March 27 2013 videos
    • [ ] Process an Emacs Conf video and post it
    • [ ] Pack for going home
  • Build
    • [ ] Sketch Culture Blueprint book
    • [ ] Sketchnote a book
    • [ ] Write about London trip
• Relationships
  • [ ] Drop by HackLab.to on Wednesday?
  • [ ] Drop by HackLab.to on Friday
  • [ ] Reschedule with Cena Mayo
• Life
  • [ ] Reenable library holds
  • [ ] Study for the Canadian citizenship test

Time review

• Business: 24.3 hours (E1: 8.8, Connect: 5.7, Drawing: 1.9, Coding: 0.4)
• Discretionary: 49.7 hours (Emacs: 7.6, Social: 20.4, Writing: 3.1)
• Personal: 23.0 hours (Routines: 11.8)
• Sleep: 59.4 hours – average of 8.5 hours per day
• Unpaid work: 10.5 hours (Cook: 4.6)

Lots and lots of drawing this week. =) Sketchnoted a conference, made a print, had lots of fun.

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending March 15, 2013
• The Sketchnote Challenge: Those Algorithms That Govern Our Lives (Kevin Slavin)
• Hacking my way around networking
• Identifying my reactions to stress
• Deliberate performance
• Quantified Awesome feedback
• Listening to the clues about what’s working well: writing
• Emacs chat: Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson

Accomplished this week

• Business
  • Earn
    • E1: comics, prototyping, theme
      • Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
      • Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • Follow up with U
    • I3
      • Collaboraction Building Blocks: Learning Exchange March 20
      • Sketchnote CollaborAction event
      • [#A] Add person to Dropbox
      • [#A] Add #CollaborAction hashtag to all templates
      • Mount poster on foamcore
      • Prepare template for CollaborAction event
      • Prepare files and tweets for CollaborAction event
      • Prepare invoice for final amount
      • Print poster
      • Buy foamcore from Staples
      • Get refund from Staples
      • Drop off poster
  • Build
    • I5
      • Review individual questions and add more images
      • Make other small edits
    • Paperwork
      • Ask CRA about QST
      • Write about what I want in terms of accounting support
      • Contact Allan Fefergrad about accounting
      • Contact TJ Miron about accounting
      • Get my blog search to work again
      • Purchase ClipMate licence
    • Drawing
      • Take the sketchnote challenge
      • Download Culture Blueprint book
      • [#B] Listen to last course in scribing
  • Connect: Emacs
    • Talk to Carsten Dominik about Emacs
    • Add more detail to present section of Emacs talk
• Relationships
  • Make a batch of beef bulgogi with banchan
  • Export OGG and MP3 of chat with Thomas about Emacs
  • Talk about upgrading rice cooker and wok, donate previous to Hacklab
  • Write about fight/flight/freeze and tend-and-befriend
  • See about making donation to Hacklab
  • Visit Steve Crawford
• Life
  • Declutter

Plans for next week

• Business
  • Earn
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • [ ] Go to E1 get-together
    • [ ] Prepare invoice and agreement
    • [ ] Discuss requirements for curriculum sketches
    • [ ] Follow up with U
  • Connect
    • [ ] Co-host Quantified Self meetup
    • [ ] Co-host Visual Thinkers Toronto meetup
    • [ ] Pack bags
    • [ ] Arrange for GBP
    • [ ] Travel to London
    • [ ] Flesh out Emacs talk
    • [ ] Produce Emacs interview with Carsten Dominik
  • Build
    • [ ] Sketchnote strategy book
    • [ ] Write about planning a sketch out on index cards
    • [ ] Sketch Culture Blueprint book
    • [ ] Sketchnote a book
    • [ ] Debug typos
    • [ ] Make a sketchnote describing Emacs hooks
• Relationships
  • [ ] Prepare vegetarian dish
  • [ ] Go to superpower league potluck
  • [X] Help Emma Logue with baking
  • [ ] Prepare something for Rachel Lane’s going-away party
  • [ ] Go to Rachel Lane’s going-away party
  • [ ] Drop by HackLab.to on Monday
  • [ ] Drop by HackLab.to on Wednesday?
  • [ ] Attend LessWrong get-together?
  • [ ] Buy 2 bottles of maple syrup?
• Life
  • [ ] Sort out library books

Time review

• Business: 34.2 hours (E1: 16.2, Connect: 4.5, Drawing: 1.3, Illustration: 8.4, Coding: 0.6)
• Discretionary: 24.1 hours (Emacs: 4.0, Social: 3.5, Writing: 4.8)
• Personal: 19.4 hours (Routines: 11.0)
• Sleep: 66.2 hours – average of 9.5 hours per day
• Unpaid work: 24.1 hours (Commuting: 5.7, Cook: 10.3, Tidy: 1.5)

Still lots of sniffles, but at least I got to bike a few times this week! =) This week involved a lot of illustration, from drawing comics to designing hand-drawn presentations to making a poster. Fun! I’m starting to get the hang of this.

Oh, and I got my UK visa, so all systems are go for my trip to the Emacs Conference on March 30. (Emacs!) Well, almost all systems – I still have to make my talk!

Next week: even more drawing!

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending March 8, 2013
• Managing uncertainty
• Sketchnotes: Building my visual vocabulary
• Learn Emacs Lisp by reading Emacs Lisp
• Less Wrong meetup notes: Goal factoring, fight-or-flight, and comfort zones
• Passion and uncertainty

Accomplished this week

• Business
  • E1
    • Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • Draft comic for search for project E1
  • SR
    • Review Powerpoint
    • SR Meet for sketchnoting
    • Send invoice to SR
  • MT
    • MT Sketchnote talk based on transcript
  • M
    • Interview A about M?
    • [#A] Review materials for M
    • [#A] Set up invoice for sketchnoting and illustration
  • Write about visual vocabulary process
  • Emacs
    • Chat with johndcook
    • Chat with Thomas
  • Visual Thinkers Toronto
    • Post meetup details on blog
• Relationships
  • Recover from bad cold – still in progress
• Life
  • Work on project R
  • Produce video of chat with Thomas

Plans for next week

• Business
  • E1
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • [ ] Attend get-together on Friday
  • CollaborAction
    • [ ] Prepare template for CollaborAction event
    • [ ] Prepare files and tweets for CollaborAction event
    • [ ] Sketchnote CollaborAction event
    • [ ] Mount poster on foamcore
    • [ ] Buy foamcore from Staples
    • [ ] Print poster
  • Reading
    • [ ] Download Culture Blueprint book
    • [ ] Sketch Culture Blueprint book
  • Drawing and visual thinking
    • [ ] Take the sketchnote challenge
    • [ ] Write about planning a sketch out on index cards
    • [ ] Co-host Visual Thinkers Toronto meetup
    • [ ] [#B] Listen to last course in scribing
  • Paperwork
    • [ ] Follow up with U
    • [ ] Write about what I want in terms of accounting support
    • [ ] Contact Allan Fefergrad regarding accounting
  • Emacs
    • [ ] Add more detail to present section of talk
    • [ ] Talk to Carsten Dominik about Emacs
• Relationships
  • [ ] Make a batch of beef bulgogi with banchan
  • [ ] Drop by HackLab.to on Monday
  • [ ] Drop by HackLab.to on Wednesday
  • [ ] Drop by HackLab.to on Friday
  • [ ] Less Wrong: Write about fight/flight/freeze and tend-and-befriend
  • [ ] Attend LessWrong get-together
  • [ ] Visit Steve Crawford, maybe bring lunch
  • [ ] Visit Emma Logue – maybe Friday?
• Life
  • [ ] Study for the Canadian citizenship test
  • [ ] Declutter

Time review

• Business: 47.4 hours (E1: 14.1, Connect: 3.3, Drawing: 7.9, Illustration: 11.8)
• Discretionary: 34.9 hours (Emacs: 1.3, Writing: 6.5)
• Personal: 33.0 hours (Routines: 16.4)
• Sleep: 66.0 hours – average of 9.4 hours per day (darn cold…)
• Unpaid work: 9.5 hours (Commuting: 2.8, Cook: 1.9, Tidy: 0.3)

I had a bad cold this week, but I think I’m on the mend thanks to lots of chicken soup. Next week, I’m going to focus on drawing.

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending March 1, 2013
• Emacs Chat with Avdi Grimm (Org-mode, Ruby, etc.)
• Monthly review: February 2013
• Got Emacs questions? Let’s try Emacs tutoring / pair programming!
• Visual book review: To Sell is Human (Daniel Pink)
• Taking advantage of a bad cold

Accomplished this week

• Business
  • Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
  • Connect
    • Send R email
    • Draft e-mail for R
    • Prepare for graphic recording meeting with client M
    • Meet with client M about graphic recording
    • Post Quantified Self Tip #2
    • Convert Avdi Grimm interview to OGG
    • Export MP3 of chat with Avdi Grimm
    • Write blog post about chat with Avdi Grimm
  • Build
    • Doublecheck that I have a full backup of my Linode site on home server
    • Copy adphoto files to home server
    • Review the Bikablo books
    • Upgrade the packages on my server for security
    • Address timeout errors
• Relationships
  • Watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • Work on project R
  • Visit Steve Crawford
  • Prepare our tax returns
  • Host tea party
• Life
  • Declutter
  • Check out Final Fantasy XIII

Plans for next week

• Business
  • Earn
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • [ ] Draft comic for search for project E1
    • [ ] Review materials for M
    • [ ] Follow up with U
    • [ ] Set up invoice for sketchnoting and illustration
    • [ ] Interview A about M?
  • Build
    • [ ] Write about visual vocabulary process
    • [ ] Listen to last course in scribing
  • Connect
    • [ ] Make a sketchnote describing Emacs hooks
    • [ ] Add more detail to present section of talk
    • [ ] Talk to Thomas about Emacs
    • [ ] Go to Less Wrong meetup on Tuesday?
• Relationships
  • [ ] Drop by HackLab.to on Friday
  • [ ] Work on project R
  • [ ] Visit Steve Crawford, maybe bring lunch
  • [ ] Visit Emma Logue
• Life
  • [ ] Book flight
  • [ ] Recover from bad cold

Time review

• Business: 24.7 hours (E1: 6.2, Connect: 7.8, Drawing: 1.1)
• Discretionary: 38.1 hours (Social: 6.2, Writing: 6.8)
• Personal: 26.3 hours (Routines: 19.9)
• Sleep: 66.2 hours – average of 9.5 hours per day
• Unpaid work: 11.8 hours (Commuting: 3.2, Cook: 2.5, Tidy: 0.1)

Lots of cooking this week! I spent the weekend making nine different banchan recipes, and it really paid off in terms of yummy beef bulgogi lunches with varied appetizers. Yay!

I did a lot of writing, too. I like doing that. And drawing. =) And I got to talk to lots of interesting people! Life is good.

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending February 22, 2013
• Decision update: HackLab.TO
• Lists and actions: Learning how to hack my way around the impostor syndrome
• Appreciating people
• Rediscovering Emacs features, or what to do after you get carried away installing packages

Accomplished this week

• Business
  • Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
  • Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
  • Drawing
    • Sketchnote a book
    • Map some artist styles
    • Add people to Visual Thinkers Toronto mailing list
    • Co-host Visual Thinkers Toronto meetup
    • Work on building my visual vocabulary
    • Follow up with U
    • Practise drawing faces
    • Clip more images
  • Emacs
    • Prepare for pair programming session – want to talk through Emacs configuration, tool setup
    • Research how people are using Emacs
    • Emacs talk
    • Write lots of blog posts
• Relationships
  • Talk to Oliver Barthel about sketchnotes
  • Drop by HackLab.to on Friday
  • Talk to Avdi about his Emacs setup
  • Cook a lot of food
  • Set up tea for Saturday
• Life

Plans for next week

• Business
  • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
  • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
  • [ ] Co-host Quantified Self Toronto meetup: 3/6 (Wed)
  • [ ] Prepare for graphic recording meeting with client M
  • [ ] Meet with client M about graphic recording
  • [ ] Listen to last course in scribing
  • [ ] Sketchnote a book
  • [ ] Emacs: Add more detail to present section of talk
• Relationships
  • [ ] Drop by HackLab.to on Monday
  • [ ] Drop by HackLab.to on Wednesday
  • [ ] Drop by HackLab.to on Friday
  • [ ] Check out neuroscience lecture?
  • [ ] Visit Emma Logue
  • [ ] Visit Stephen Crawford
  • [ ] Work on project R
  • [ ] Watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • [ ] Check out Final Fantasy XIII
• Life
  • [ ] Set up dentist appointment
  • [ ] Write about anxiety and self-talk
  • [ ] Write blog post about chat with Avdi Grimm
  • [ ] Study for the Canadian citizenship test
  • [ ] Declutter

Time review

• Business: 39.9 hours (E1: 13.8, Connect: 10.2, Drawing: 14.9)
• Discretionary: 31.3 hours (Emacs: 13.6, Writing: 4.0)
• Personal: 14.4 hours (Routines: 10.9)
• Sleep: 60.1 hours – average of 8.6 hours per day
• Unpaid work: 22.3 hours (Commuting: 3.9, Cook: 11.2)

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending February 15, 2013
• Business experience report: Passing my first annual resolutions
• Transcript of my chat with Mike Rohde (The Sketchnote Podcast) on digital sketchnoting
• Things I learned from the GenArtHackParty
• Seeing the futures

Accomplished this week

• Business
  • Earn
    • E1: Tuesday and Thursday
  • Sketchnotes
    • [#C] Find videos of people sketchnoting, projected in real-time
    • Import Eva-Lotta Lamm’s sketchnotes
    • Sketchnote a book
  • Development
    • Find out why I’m getting gateway timeouts
    • Set up my Android development environment again
    • Fix UTF8 problems on my blog
  • Connect
    • Set up pair programming session with Avdi
    • Attend GenArtHackParty seminars
    • Quantified Self
      • Set up Quantified Self Toronto communication
      • Copy Quantified Self Toronto videos again
      • Post transcript for Arthur Gron’s talk
    • Pecha Kucha
      • Practise presentation
      • Send Vivien PechaKucha info
    • UK visa
      • Finish online application
      • Go to visa appointment
      • Get visa photo
    • Call to discuss details
  • Paperwork
    • File annual resolutions
    • File federal annual return
• Relationships
  • Make Anki flashcards for Hacklab members and pictures
  • Set up tea party
  • Go to HackLab on Wednesday
• Life
  • Write letters

Plans for next week

• Business
  • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
  • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
  • [ ] Sketchnote a book
  • [ ] Map some artist styles
  • [ ] Prepare for pair programming session – want to talk through Emacs configuration, tool setup
  • [ ] Talk to Avdi about his Emacs setup
  • [ ] Follow up with U
  • [ ] Draft talk
  • [ ] Sketch past talks?
• Relationships
  • [ ] Drop by HackLab.to on Monday
  • [ ] Drop by HackLab.to on Wednesday
  • [ ] Drop by HackLab.to on Friday
  • [ ] Set up tea for Friday
  • [ ] Cook a lot of food
• Life
  • [ ] Set up dentist appointment
  • [ ] Study for the Canadian citizenship test
  • [ ] Declutter

Time review

• Business: 40.5 hours (E1: 15.0, Connect: 19.9, Drawing: 2.1, Coding: 0.3)
• Discretionary: 33.1 hours (Emacs: 1.8, Social: 4.4, Writing: 9.3)
• Personal: 17.7 hours (Routines: 12.4)
• Sleep: 63.3 hours – average of 9.0 hours per day
• Unpaid work: 13.2 hours (Commuting: 7.3, Cook: 2.8, Tidy: 1.9)

Blog posts

• Developing a sense of time with Tasker alerts on my Android phone
• Starting from scratch with Windows 8
• Dealing with professional envy
• Dealing with presentation block
• Dealing with distractions

Accomplished this week

• Business
  • Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
  • Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
  • Talk to Stephen Friedman about sketchnotes
  • Talk to Naomi Fein about sketchnotes
  • Send Vivien information
  • Renew my mailbox
  • Participated in GenArtHackParty, learned how to work with paper.js and d3js
  • Worked on UK visa application for Emacs conference
• Relationships
  • Cook yakiudon
  • Have coffee with Myles
  • Make snow fort!
  • Go to appointment
• Life
  • Set up event page for Visual Thinkers Toronto

Plans for next week

• Business
  • [ ] Consulting – E1: Tuesday, Thursday
  • [ ] Map some artist styles
  • [ ] File annual resolutions
  • [ ] File Ontario annual return
  • [ ] Sketchnote a book
  • [ ] Practise presentation for Pecha Kucha
  • [ ] Present at Pecha Kucha Toronto
  • [ ] Get visa photo
  • [ ] Draft Emacs talk
  • [ ] Sketch past ENT101 talks?
• Relationships
  • [ ] Copy Quantified Self Toronto videos again
  • [ ] Go to HackLab on Wednesday
• Life
  • [ ] Go to visa appointment
  • [ ] Declutter
  • [ ] File federal annual return http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cd-dgc.nsf/eng/cs03958.html
  • [ ] Study for the Canadian citizenship test

Time review

• Business: 38.9 hours (E1: 16.7, Connect: 7.9, Drawing: 1.0)
• Discretionary: 44.9 hours (Social: 2.2, Writing: 3.3)
• Personal: 16.6 hours (Routines: 10.6)
• Sleep: 56.7 hours – average of 8.1 hours per day
• Unpaid work: 11.0 hours (Commuting: 6.0, Cook: 1.6)