Weekly review: Week ending November 1, 2013
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Great week for geeking out! Lots of system administration tasks checked off. =) Next week, time to focus on the "right side of the brain" – building visual vocabularies, animating sequences, and so on.
Blog posts
- Sysad stuff – Weekly review: Week ending October 25, 2013
- Gardening plans for 2014
- Next steps for system administration
- Mindmapping chat with Billy Waters (@vitaminsludge)
- I don’t write about everything; How do you manage your private notes?
- Integrating visual outlining into my writing process
- How I organize and publish my sketches
Other notes
- vagrant-vbguest helps keep guest additions up to date
- Looks promising: Devstructure Blueprint lets you reverse-engineer Puppet or Chef config from an existing system. https://github.com/devstructure/blueprint
- Excel: Columns are number instead of letters? Tools – Options – General – Uncheck the R1C1 reference style
Link roundup
- Early Retirement Extreme: One More Year Before Comfort: "There is only so much safety money can provide, so working to accumulate more money to provide more safety is irrational." Good to keep that in mind. I tend to be frugal,
- Reconsider the vertical order when making lists: Non-linearity for the win!
- Going Paperless: A Framework for Searching in Evernote: Otherwise, Evernote becomes the place where information goes to be forgotten.
- Recurring expenses versus one time expenses: Crunching the numbers for better decisions… I'm getting a little better at doing some of these calculations in my head. =)
Sketches
- 2013-10-26 Planning for the trip #travel
- 2013-10-27 Time Management for System Administrators - Thomas A #sketchnote
- 2013-10-28 Deployment procedures #tech
- 2013-10-28 Drawing on paper versus drawing on my computer #drawing
- 2013-10-28 Mindmapping chat with vitaminsludge #mindmapping
- 2013-10-28 My roadmap to becoming a better geek #tech #plans
- 2013-10-28 Setting up my development environment VMs #tech #vagrant
- 2013-10-28 Setting up virtual machines with Vagrant #tech #vagrant
- 2013-10-29 Accelerate your learning through visual thinking #learning
- 2013-10-29 Bike versus subway #decision #life #exercise
- 2013-10-29 Visual Thinkers Toronto #visualtoronto #sketchnote
- 2013-10-30 Destructive scans - is it worth cutting apart my books #reading #decision
- 2013-10-30 How can I make the most of purchases #decision #business
- 2013-10-30 How do I break a large topic down into small questions that I can handle #my-learning
- 2013-10-30 Playing with style - how do I want to explore #drawing
- 2013-10-30 What kinds of thoughts are interesting or useful for me to explore on paper #my-learning
- 2013-10-30 Why do I prefer bottom-up thinking to top-down thinking #my-learning
- 2013-10-30 Why does note-taking matter to me #notetaking #my-learning
- 2013-10-30 Why does note-taking matter to me - positive #notetaking #my-learning
- 2013-10-31 How do I want to tweak four months of tilting the balance towards consulting #experiment
- 2013-10-31 Imagining an awesome day #life
- 2013-10-31 Possibility - Hire or partner with an extrovert to interview people #business #idea
- 2013-10-31 Reflections on cats #life #cat
- 2013-10-31 Understanding gaps #learning
- 2013-10-31 What do I want or need to store on my backup drives #tech #backup
- 2013-10-31 What do I want to explore #plans
- 2013-10-31 Why do I prefer asynchronous communication, and what can I do about it #connecting
Focus areas and time review
- Business (50.9h – 30%)
- Earn (22.1h – 43% of Business)
[X]Earn: Consulting – E1[ ]Earn: Consulting – E1[ ]E2: Draw sketch ideas for different "scenes"[ ]E2: Record audio for trailer[ ]E2: Sketch and animate trailer
- Build (22.3h – 43% of Business)
- Quantified Awesome (0.0h)
[X]Analyze yearly consumption[X]Sort clothes by name by default
- Drawing (6.2h)
[X]Draw something technical[X]Package October sketches as a PDF – https://gumroad.com/l/eevz[ ]Break another ten sketchnotes down into components and file them
- Paperwork (2.2h)
[X]File HST return[ ]File T2
- System administration
[X]Set up WP caching[X]Set up from-scratch Vagrant scripts[X]Set up incremental backups[X]Get vagrant working on desktop again[X]Make sure correct image is committed to git
- Quantified Awesome (0.0h)
- Connect (6.5h – 12% of Business)
[X]Host Visual Thinkers Toronto[X]Try out Google Helpouts[X]Submit more listings for Google Helpouts[X]Chat with Magnar Sveen about Emacs
- Earn (22.1h – 43% of Business)
- Relationships (9.9h – 5%)
[X]Set up project management for house stuff?[X]Sort out drive with W-[ ]Reply to the Hattoris[ ][#B] Comparison-shop for Luke's possible dental work
- Discretionary – Productive (10.9h – 6%)
[X]Look into johnw video problems[X]Rescan black sketchbook[ ]Process chat with Magnar – time bookmarks[ ][#A] Reflect on delta- Writing (5.4h)
- Discretionary – Play (1.5h – 0%)
- Personal routines (18.0h – 10%)
- Unpaid work (14.7h – 8%)
- Sleep (62.2h – 37% – average of 8.9 per day)