More automation! More! More! Also, podcasting is fun, so I'm going to work on delegating more to free up time and attention (and to do things even better.)

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending November 22, 2013
• Emacs Chat: Magnar Sveen (Emacs Rocks)
• How I review my notes
• Google Helpouts update: Helping people learn, thinking about business strategies
• Sketchnote: Visual Thinkers Toronto – Mapping
• Simplifying my event commitments; tips for people looking for event sketchnotes

Sketches

• 2013-11-24 Katamari Forever #game #life
• 2013-11-25 How can I make my sketches easier for others to view during a Helpers Help Out show #tech #helpouts
• 2013-11-25 Mapping what you're learning #learning #organization #mapping
• 2013-11-25 Organizing Evernote #evernote #learning #organization
• 2013-11-25 Thinking about tweaking my blog design #tech #blogging #design
• 2013-11-25 What are the ways I add value - How can I replace myself #delegation #business
• 2013-11-26 Plans for 2014 #plans
• 2013-11-26 Sketchnote - Visual Thinkers Toronto - Mapping #sketchnote #visualtoronto
• 2013-11-27 How can I accelerate my learning #learning
• 2013-11-27 Trust and assistants #delegation
• 2013-11-28 Share the opportunities, create jobs #delegation

Link roundup

• A productivity system I use — The Iceberg Method: Get things out of your head and into something searchable so that you stop worrying about remembering them. A review process is great for remembering what you've stashed and what you need to act on. Here's mine!
• 100 Motivates You to Learn a New Skill in 100 Days: Timelapse videos of the skills you're developing. Interesting idea.
• ExamTime Gives Students a Place to Post Mind Maps, Notes, and Quizzes: Hooray for more visual learning resources
• 28 and a ½ Ideas for Business Blog Posts: Quick writing prompts
• Center Your Budget Around Buying Freedom Instead of Things: That makes sense to me. People use money to buy stuff. People use money to buy experiences. I like using it to buy and protect freedom.
• End Your Kids' Nagging and Negotiating with Three Simple Words: Asked and answered! We don't have that issue in our household, but this might be handy for people with younger kids – or even in grown-up life, maybe?
• Robby Macdonell on Tracking 8,000 Screen Hours
• 5 Fundamentals That Determine How Fast Your Blog Grows: Content, SEO, guest blogging, outreach, stickiness
• Don’t Want to be a Digital Nomad? There Are Other Kinds of Lifestyle Entrepreneur: Doesn't have to be all about traveling to interesting places. =) I'm more of a staycation person myself…
• The Disillusionment of the Early Career Engineer: Great career tips on dealing with the doldrums
• Wait vs Interrupt Culture: Interesting to see different kinds of culture. I like wait cultures more, and I'm getting better at not interrupting people.
• 5 Tips to Improve Your Study Habits: Handy tips – I've shared variants of these tips in my own Helpouts
• Latin LOLCat: Joy: Disce gaudere – Learn to enjoy.

Focus areas and time review

• Business (62.5h – 37%) – Holy cow, that's where all that time went
  • Earn (23.3h – 37% of Business)
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
  • Build (15.7h – 25% of Business)
    • [X] Hire transcriber
    • Drawing (11.2h)
    • Paperwork (0.0h)
      • [ ] File payroll return
  • Connect (23.5h – 37% of Business)
    • [X] Host Visual Thinkers Toronto
    • [X] Prepare Mapping Your Learning presentation
    • [X] Chat with Xah Lee about Emacs Hangouts
    • [X] Document processes for Helpers Help Out
    • [X] Set up editorial calendar for Helpers Help Out
    • [X] Host Helpers Help Out
    • [X] Host Learning Together
    • [X] Plan Emacs Chats
• Relationships (1.5h – 0%)
  • [ ] Drop cats off
• Discretionary – Productive (0.7h – 0%) – Whoa.
  • Writing (0.0h) – Waah! Really?!
• Discretionary – Play (3.9h – 2%)
• Personal routines (23.9h – 14%) – lots of walking and errands
• Unpaid work (12.5h – 7%)
• Sleep (63.1h – 37% – average of 9.0 per day)