Monthly review: October 2013
In October, I’ll focus on consulting. In my discretionary time, I’ll focus on lots of drawing and thinking. I want to build that habit of daily visual thinking, and then I’ll use that to learn even more.
And boy, did I ever! I put together a PDF of 105 thoughts from October 2013 that compiled my notes from thinking through different things, and you can see a list (including some small sketches I didn’t include in the PDF) after the blog posts below. Not only did this give me plenty of practice in visual thinking, it also helped me focus and accomplish a lot. I hammered out a pretty decent drawing workflow that made the most of my new gear. I learned a lot about learning. I tidied up. I set up better backups and did some system administration chores I’d been procrastinating. Good stuff indeed.
November is going to be busy but good. I’ve got two projects going on at work, including some animation and voice recording. (That’ll be interesting to sort out with the cats and the heater…) I need to sort out possible tooth surgery for one of our cats and take care of other pet-related matters. We’re working on decluttering and organizing the house. Lots of things going on, and I want to continue doing my daily-ish drawing habit too. Let’s see how it works out!
Blog posts
- Decisions
- The power of no: being completely* unhireable until 2017 (and possibly longer)
- Decision review: Seven months at HackLab
- Cheat uncertainty by sweetening the potential outcomes
- What’s on your back burner?
- When it comes to juggling multiple interests, it helps to limit your expectations
- Growing slowly, adjusting the speed
- Learning
- Drawing
- Sketchnote Lessons: How do you want to grow as a sketchnoter?
- Thinking out loud about how to help other sketchnoters go professional and how to help people get their ideas sketched
- Drawing practice: Daily drawing
- Learning more about illustrating my blog posts
- Visual thinking: build your visual library
- Sketchnote Lesson: Metaphors
- Daily drawing update: So far, fantastic!
- Sharing
- Gardening
- Reviews
Tons of sketches! You can browse through them at sketches.sachachua.com or check them out using this list:
Drawings
- 2013.10.04 Drawing and scanning morning pages
- 2013.10.04 Imagining the future(s)
- 2013.10.04 Legend of Heroes – Trails in the Sky
- 2013.10.04 Low energy versus high energy
- 2013.10.04 Weekly review
- 2013.10.04 What would be my ideal daily drawing setup
- 2013.10.05 Gardening thoughts
- 2013.10.05 How can I help people save time
- 2013.10.05 Logitech H800
- 2013.10.06 Consulting and focus
- 2013.10.06 Daily drawing – thinking on paper
- 2013.10.06 Possible pasts
- 2013.10.06 Weekend cooking
- 2013.10.07 Alan Kay
- 2013.10.07 Delegation
- 2013.10.07 JetPens
- 2013.10.07 Kinds of email
- 2013.10.07 Reflecting on friendships that work well and ones that need figuring out
- 2013.10.07 Sharing circles
- 2013.10.07 Sketchnote Media for thinking the unthinkable
- 2013.10.07 Where are my people gaps
- 2013.10.08 Backburner
- 2013.10.08 Hacklab Dinner – four courses, actually!
- 2013.10.09 Breaking down my visual vocabulary
- 2013.10.09 Cats
- 2013.10.09 Daily drawing updates
- 2013.10.09 Doodles
- 2013.10.09 More thoughts about delegation
- 2013.10.09 My passport misadventures
- 2013.10.09 Thinking about visual outlining
- 2013.10.09 What do I want to learn about learning
- 2013.10.10 Doodles medicine
- 2013.10.10 Late at night
- 2013.10.10 Playing with lettering
- 2013.10.10 Relaxing
- 2013.10.10 Relaxing
- 2013.10.10 Small paper
- 2013.10.10 Small paper
- 2013.10.11 Adjusting the speed
- 2013.10.11 Starting from enough
- 2013.10.11 Weekly review
- 2013.10.13 Watches
- 2013.10.14 Long weekends
- 2013.10.14 Long weekends
- 2013.10.14 Mapping out learning
- 2013.10.14 Mapping what you know
- 2013.10.15 Applying computer science to learning
- 2013.10.15 Current mapping limits and challenges
- 2013.10.15 Reviewing what you’ve learned
- 2013.10.18 Gardening notes
- 2013.10.18 Indexing
- 2013.10.18 Note-taking system
- 2013.10.18 Note-taking techniques
- 2013.10.18 Weekly review
- 2013.10.18 What I want to learn about gardening
- 2013.10.19 How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think
- 2013.10.20 Cooking notes
- 2013.10.21 Fitting multiple thoughts on a page
- 2013.10.21 How can I think on paper more effectively
- 2013.10.21 When do I pause or stop when thinking about something
- 2013.10.22 Different methods for (assisted) learning
- 2013.10.22 How can I tap the value I create
- 2013.10.22 My new sketching and thinking workflow, and mindmap comparisons
- 2013.10.22 Plenty of sleep
- 2013.10.22 What can I do to get more value from online courses
- 2013.10.22 What do I need to do in terms of system administration
- 2013.10.23 Evernote Fujitsu ScanSnap
- 2013.10.23 How can I find the right balance of thinking, learning, doing, and reviewing
- 2013.10.23 How to Ask Questions the Smart Way (Eric S. Raymond)
- 2013.10.23 Sketchnote Bullet Journal (Ryder Carroll)
- 2013.10.23 Thinking About Getting Better at Asking Questions
- 2013.10.24 Asking myself better questions
- 2013.10.24 Current state – backups
- 2013.10.24 Google Helpout
- 2013.10.24 Mindjet 14 vs Freeplane
- 2013.10.24 My processes for reviewing info
- 2013.10.24 Personal information architecture
- 2013.10.24 Quantified Self Toronto
- 2013.10.24 Sharing my mindmap
- 2013.10.24 What topics do I want to make progress in daily or weekly
- 2013.10.25 How I organize and publish my sketches
- 2013.10.25 Weekly review
- 2013.10.25 What do I want to do with my business
- 2013.10.26 Planning for the trip
- 2013.10.27 Time Management for System Administrators – Thomas A
- 2013.10.28 Deployment procedures
- 2013.10.28 Drawing on paper versus drawing on my computer
- 2013.10.28 Mindmapping chat with vitaminsludge
- 2013.10.28 My roadmap to becoming a better geek
- 2013.10.28 Setting up my development environment VMs
- 2013.10.28 Setting up virtual machines with Vagrant
- 2013.10.29 Accelerate your learning through visual thinking
- 2013.10.29 Bike versus subway
- 2013.10.29 Visual Thinkers Toronto
- 2013.10.30 Destructive scans – is it worth cutting apart my books
- 2013.10.30 How can I make the most of purchases
- 2013.10.30 How do I break a large topic down into small questions that I can handle
- 2013.10.30 Playing with style – how do I want to explore
- 2013.10.30 What kinds of thoughts are interesting or useful for me to explore on paper
- 2013.10.30 Why do I prefer bottom-up thinking to top-down thinking
- 2013.10.30 Why does note-taking matter to me
- 2013.10.30 Why does note-taking matter to me – positive
- 2013.10.31 How do I want to tweak four months of tilting the balance towards consulting
- 2013.10.31 Imagining an awesome day
- 2013.10.31 Possibility – Hire or partner with an extrovert to interview people
- 2013.10.31 Reflections on cats
- 2013.10.31 Understanding gaps
- 2013.10.31 What do I want or need to store on my backup drives
- 2013.10.31 What do I want to explore
- 2013.10.31 Why do I prefer asynchronous communication, and what can I do about it
- 2013.11.01 Weekly review