Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending October 11, 2013
• What’s on your back burner?
• Learning more about illustrating my blog posts
• When it comes to juggling multiple interests, it helps to limit your expectations
• Visual thinking: build your visual library
• Growing this blog

Quick notes

• TD Canada Trust WebBroker has a “Switch” option instead of selling and buying mutual funds. That would’ve come in handy…
• Trying out AOMEI Backupper for disk imaging
• Making my own indexes in Evernote looks like it might be helpful
• Evernote backup – AppData\Local\Evernote

Sketches

• Learning:
  • 2013-10-18 Note-taking techniques #notetaking #tips
  • 2013-10-18 Note-taking system #notetaking #tips
  • 2013-10-15 Reviewing what you've learned #learning #reviewing
  • 2013-10-15 Applying computer science to learning #learning
  • 2013-10-15 Current mapping limits and challenges #my-learning #mapping
  • 2013-10-14 Mapping out learning #mapping #organization #learning
  • 2013-10-14 Mapping what you know #mapping #organization #learning
• 2013-10-18 What I want to learn about gardening #gardening #life
• 2013-10-18 Gardening notes #gardening #life
• 2013-10-13 Watches #life
• 2013-10-14 Long weekends #life
• 2013-10-18 Weekly review #weekly #scratch

Link round-up

• How can I delegate to an unreliable person? – Sometimes I worry that I won’t be able to give good enough instructions to make the most of the delegation experiment and not waste each other’s time. These tips might help.
• Becoming less productive and less competitive – Hmm, maybe this lack of normal ambition is… normal. =)
• 20 Things to Do When You Feel Extremely Angry – I don’t usually feel angry or overwhelmed, but it’s good to find ways to deal with it instead of pushing it down. I tend to use analysis and change.
• A Mediocre Day But A Good Week – It’s also good to write about not-so-awesome days.
• Grab Over 500 Free Programming Books from GitHub – Lots of info out there
• Memacs FAQs and Best Practices – Org-compatible metadata from lots of different things? Interesting.
• Make social sharing icons work harder – Hmm, doesn’t make sense to me to put the share stuff right after the headline instead of after the post, but maybe that’s something to test. Any thoughts?
• “Take Care of My Negatives:” Coping with Cancer and Thoughts of Death – My mom tells good stories.
• Imagine being owned by no one – Freedom can be surprisingly achievable
• Boomerang calendar now schedules meetings with others – Ooh, that looks promising

Focus areas and time review

• Business (33.8h – 20%)
  • Earn (15.1h – 44% of Business)
    • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Wednesday half-day
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – every day
  • Build (17.8h – 52% of Business)
    • Quantified Awesome (0.7h)
      • [X] Fix token authentication and quantified.el – Vedat
    • Drawing (9.0h)
      • [ ] Break another ten sketchnotes down into components and file them
      • [ ] Make a PDF with the Emacs sketchnotes
      • [ ] Practise using multiple colours
      • [ ] Rescan black sketchbook
    • Paperwork (0.7h)
      • [ ] Pick up paper T2 from Enterprise Toronto in City Hall
    • [X] Add Evernote to my backup plan
    • [X] Add a Makefile target (copy-to-combat) that copies my webserver backups to the home server
    • [X] Try to get old backup drive working again
    • [ ] Map out Lion Kimbro’s book
  • Connect (0.9h – 2% of Business)
    • [ ] Host Quantified Self Toronto meetup
• Relationships (18.2h – 10%)
  • [X] Celebrate Thanksgiving with W-‘s family
  • [X] Talk to Young Urban Farmers regarding garden
  • [X] Check on passport
  • [X] Look for flights
• Discretionary – Productive (7.8h – 4%)
  • Writing (3.4h)
• Discretionary – Play (2.7h – 1%)
• Personal routines (28.2h – 16%)
• Unpaid work (16.1h – 9%)
• Sleep (60.2h – 35% – average of 8.6 per day)