Weekly review: Week ending February 25, 2011

Posted on February 26th, 2011 by Sacha Chua

From last week’s plans

Work
- [X] Sketch ITSC keynote by David Zach
- [X] Give ITSC keynote on networking
- [X] Learn about ECM and web services
- [X] Follow up on documents of understanding
- [X] Put together Idea Lab resources
- Exported Social Business Jam discussions into spreadsheets and did a lot of data analysis – collaborating with Brandon Anderson, Michael Muller
- Accepted invite to tweetchat with Paul Gillen (#infoboom) on the value of blogging
- Got started on blogging presentation
- Revised Remote Presentations That Rock
- Put together resources for the value of blogging

Relationships
- [X] Go to Second City with recent hires and friends – treated Linda Ristevski
- [X] Host tea get-together 1pm our place Sunday Feb 27 (actually part of next week’s review)
- [-] Watch Die Fledermaus (http://toronto-opera.com) – Postponed to next week
- [C] Watch Madame Butterfly (http://toronto-opera.com)
- [X] Send birthday cards
- [X] Try making a beet smoothie or Tex-mex lasagna
- Had salad with Gabriel Mansour
- Worked on connecting with blog commenters

Life
- [X] Enjoy extended weekend: spend focused time revising, drawing, presenting, cooking, and tidying up
- [X] Experiment with giving presentation through Zipcast (Remote Presentations That Rock, Monday?)
- Upgraded to 512MB web server for my blog, tweaked blog text

Plans for next week

Work
- [X] Deliver “Remote Presentations That Rock”
- [X] Work on ECM project
- [X] Get things going with Drupal project
- [X] Prepare other presentations and resources
- [X] Do IBM #infoboom tweetchat on how to get more value from blogging
- [X] Post the rest of series on getting more value from blogging

Relationships
- [X] Host tea get-together
- [X] Reach out to new blog commenters

Life
- [X] Experiment with fixed-time wakeups
- [X] Draw more
- [X] Write monthly review

Time analysis

Experiment for the week: more social stuff. Met people, had mentoring chats, reached out through e-mail, etc.


Category	This week	Last week	Delta	Notes
Break	3.7	4.8	-1.1
Drawing	4.7		4.7	Remote Presentations, ITSC
Exercise	3.3	4.7	-1.4
Personal	1.7		1.7
Learning		0.6	-0.6
Preparation	5.0	0.4	4.6
Routines – cooking	8.9	1.8	7.1	Big batch of lunches, vegan appetizers
Routines – general	10.5	6.3	4.2
Routines – tidying	2.4	3.8	-1.4
Sleep	55.7	65.3	-9.6	Going to bed when I feel tired
Social	27.0	25.9	1.1
Travel	0.6	1.5	-0.9
Work	37.4	40.4	-3.0	Family Day holiday, ITSC presentation
Writing	7.1	12.5	-5.4

This week I tried getting up whenever it felt natural to wake up, and going to sleep whenever I felt tired. The result was a gentle introduction to the day, and a lot of good, focused work in the evening.

I’m going to try that again this week, this time picking a time to wake up and sticking with it. Aside from a really early wake-up on Monday, I should be able to keep a regular wake-up time.

Good week!

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zadcha

Hi Sacha,

how do you do your time-analysis ? what do you use to write all this stuff ? notebook tabletPC smartphone ?
http://sachachua.com Sacha Chua

I’ve been using Time Recording on my Android phone to track the time I spend on different activities, and that’s been working well so far. As for writing everything else, I use Org-mode in Emacs on my Lenovo X61T tablet.

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