Business: What a month for business and learning! I took my first foray into the wonderful world of e-publishing, compiling my favourite posts from the last ten years into a PDF called “Stories from My Twenties”. And people voted with their dollars! Wow. I have to explore this further. Along the way, I discovered that I enjoy writing, editing, and formatting e-books. I’m looking forward to learning even more as I work on an EPUB version, and perhaps even learn how to build an index and other useful tools for reading.

I started up my delegation experiments again, and I’ve been having lots of success with data entry and accounting. I’m looking forward to working with a developer, too. Expanding my capabilities!

Drawing: I haven’t been drawing nearly as much, but I did make it out to three meetups at which I took sketchnotes. I like sketching meetups. I learn, connect with people, and help other people learn. I don’t have to worry as much about copyright issues compared to, say, summarizing a book. I did pick up Camtasia Studio 8, though, so I might use that to start experimenting with sketchcasts.

Plans for next month: In July, I’d like to deliver a talk, sketchnote three more events, learn more about EPUBs, and put together a small graphical ad for my book. I’m also looking forward to learning more about accounting. Whee!

Business:

• The Shy Connector: Thinking about the difficulties people encounter
• Working on getting better at calendars
• Making lists of things I do so that I can learn more about delegation
• Experiment! Stories from My Twenties PDF
• Numbers from rereading more than ten years of my blog
• Making progress on my book of highlights!
• Business update: Four months in!
• Not getting overwhelmed by learning, no siree
• Still working on that shift from services to products

Quantified:

• Quantified Awesome: Back to buying our own fruits and vegetables
• How I track my time, and how I’d like to
• Quantified Awesome: Analyzing my cellphone data

Emacs:

• Emacs: Chatting with John Wiegley about the cool things he does with Emacs
• Making GNU Emacs play well on Microsoft Windows 7
• Emacs braindump from John Wiegley =)
• Using Emacs Org for grocery lists and batch cooking
• Things that I’ve used Emacs for
• Literate programming and my Emacs configuration file

Sketchnotes:

• Sketchnotes: Sandra Emilia Calderaro, Multilingual Kids; Andres D’Imperio, Creative Design (Small Business Network @ Toronto Reference Library)
• #torontob2b: Sean O’Donovan on managing content for lead generation + Q&A with Ben Harrison and Scott Armstrong
• The Virtual Self: Nora Young at Third Tuesday Toronto

Miscellaneous:

• Relearning QWERTY
• Tips for making the most of the Toronto Public Library
• The weekends are just packed

Reviews:

• Weekly review: Week ending June 1, 2012
• Weekly review: Week ending June 8, 2012
• Weekly review: Week ending June 15, 2012
• Weekly review: Week ending June 22, 2012
• Weekly review: Week ending June 29, 2012

• Monthly review: May 2012