Blog posts

• Sketchnotes, commitments, cooking, plans, blogging – Weekly review: Week ending September 20, 2013
• Ten years of learning how to cook
• Setting up dynamic DNS with Tomato and Namecheap, and limiting SSH
• Poll: Planning a weekly topic-focused blog – what would you like to read more about?
• The learning machine: How I turn what I learn into blog posts
• Sketchnote Lessons: Adding Emphasis
• Growing authority

Quick notes from this week

• Figured out that my Plover problem was because I’d remapped Backspace in Autohotkey. Got that working again!
• Remapping Left-Ctrl to Backspace is pretty handy.
• HST/GST on meals and entertainment are usually 50% claimable. It seems easier to split this for each transaction – guide
• Inkscape was choking on my bitmap tracing, but Potrace 64-bit worked just fine. Now I don’t have to buy Illustrator to scale up or rearrange my sketchnotes. =D
• Added version 2 of How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners – Oooh, PosteRazor lets me test-print large images and create poster mockups, yay! about -L he El about
• The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: How to Achieve More Success with Less Stress (Elizabeth Grace Saunders) has a detailed chapter on routines and processes.

Link roundup

• The Tension (and Relationship) Between Creating and Consuming: Need to balance – you can go overboard creating, too. I read a lot more than I write, and that and life fuels my writing.
• How Speakers, Authors & Trainers Use Interactive-Visuals: Types and examples
• The First Step Out of Consumerism: The benefits of buying used whenever possible
• It’s All In The Habits: How I Live Cheap and Create My Own Freedom: Yay for frugal habits! I have pretty much the same habits, except I don’t drive at all. =)
• DPP041: Writing Stupid eBooks, Leveraging Spreadsheets, and More: Don’t write an e-book for the sake of writing an e-book
• Why Evernote Isn’t as Streamlined as It’s Made Out to Be: Always good to be aware of and test the limits. Besides, cute graphic.
• This Checklist Helps You Make Sure Your Investments Are on Track: Yay one-page visual summaries and cheat sheets! I like the style of this one.
• Meal Planning for Busy Families: We’re still working on making weekly meal plans a habit. Usually it’s a combination of leftovers for the first few days and then some other cooking during the week, with the freezer supplying lunches and the occasional dinner.
• What’s On Your “Someday” List and How Long Has it Been Lingering There?: I occasionally review my list of goals and guiltlessly shelve the things I’m not as interested in.

Focus areas and time review

• Business (40.6h – 24%)
  • Earn (21.7h – 53% of Business)
    • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Monday half-day
    • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Wednesday half-day
    • [X] Follow up with B
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Monday half-day
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Wednesday half-day
  • Build (13.3h – 32% of Business)
    • Quantified Awesome (0.0h)
    • Drawing (6.0h)
      • [X] Work on a hi-res version of Learn Emacs
    • Paperwork (2.6h)
      • [X] Adjust HST on meals and entertainment expenses
      • [X] Investigate depreciation expenses
      • [ ] File payroll return
    • [X] Put together mini business cases for different possible investments
    • [X] Scanner – $455.99
    • [X] Turbotax 2012
    • [X] Pilot Hi-Tec-C 0.4
    • [X] Find my power adapter
  • Connect (5.6h – 13% of Business)
    • [X] Create help wanted page
    • [X] Go to Hacklab members meeting
    • [X] Host Visual Thinkers Toronto meetup
    • [X] Prepare limitations presentation
• Relationships (9.6h – 5%)
  • [X] Go for a walk
  • [X] Go to MEC
  • [X] Copy emergency numbers
  • [X] Try reconstituting dehydrated food
  • [X] Repack new things
• Discretionary – Productive (12.7h – 7%)
  • [X] Call DC with go or no go decision
  • [X] Replace inner tube
  • Writing (0.3h)
• Discretionary – Play (12.7h – 7%)
• Personal routines (20.9h – 12%)
• Unpaid work (14.7h – 8%)
• Sleep (60.8h – 36% – average of 8.7 per day)