It's surprisingly easy to step away from everyday life for a month. We went to the Philippines to visit family and friends. It was an memorable trip: helping cook meals for the typhoon refugees at Villamor, talking about plans with family, hanging out with friends, taking care of paperwork, attending a friend's wedding, going on a 5-day road trip through Northern Luzon, getting lots of little IT things sorted out for my parents… It was wonderful being there for an extended period of time. It felt more like being home.

Blog posts

• Drawing
  • Making the most of paper notes
  • Doodle Thursday: BrainDoodles.net lesson 3 and 4
  • Doodle Thursday: Going through BrainDoodles’ lessons
• Learning and sharing
  • Learning from online role models
  • Rock those meeting minutes
  • Make the most of a day of lectures
  • Check out these getting started guides – suggest more!
  • Read more effectively by asking yourself questions while you read
• Writing
  • Daily blogging and different interests
  • Exploring the idea of advice
  • Update: Developing thoughts further
  • Pens are not the limiting factor for writing
• Tech
  • Sharing Google Docs: One link to edit, one link to view
  • Semi-custom messages with text expanders
  • Automating bulk web stuff with iMacros
  • Decision review: Clipboard managers, and why you should get one
  • Quick show update: Learning Together #01, Helpers Help Out #02
  • Setting up virtual machines with Vagrant
• Life
  • Exploring limiting beliefs
  • On introversion and friendships
  • Think about your delta: increasing the difference you want to make
  • Making decisions that don’t matter that much to me
• Reviews
  • A year of drawing my own content
  • Weekly review: Week ending December 27, 2013
  • Weekly review: Week ending December 20, 2013
  • Weekly review: Week ending December 13, 2013
  • Weekly review: Week ending December 6, 2013
  • Monthly review: November 2013

Sketches

1. 2013-12-01 Drawing for others and drawing for myself - note-taking versus note-making #drawing
2. 2013-12-01 Drawing for others and drawing for myself - note-taking versus note-making #drawing
3. 2013-12-01 Drawing for others and drawing for myself - note-taking versus note-making #drawing
4. 2013-12-03 2014 Changes #plans
5. 2013-12-10 December trip memories #travel
6. 2013-12-10 December trip memories #travel
7. 2013-12-12 Decision - HackLab #decision #connecting
8. 2013-12-12 Decision - HackLab #decision #connecting
9. 2013-12-12 Decision - HackLab #decision #connecting
10. 2013-12-12 Decision - HackLab #decision #connecting
11. 2013-12-12 Decision - HackLab #decision #connecting
12. 2013-12-12 Decision - HackLab #decision #connecting
13. 2013-12-12 Decision - HackLab #decision #connecting
14. 2013-12-13 Dealing with feeling scattered as a writer #writing
15. 2013-12-14 Conflicting thoughts about delegation #delegation
16. 2013-12-14 Conflicting thoughts about delegation #delegation
17. 2013-12-17 Reviewing my investment decisions in 2013 #finance #review
18. 2013-12-17 Reviewing my investment decisions in 2013 #finance #review
19. 2013-12-18 Projects for 2014 #plans
20. 2013-12-18 Projects for 2014 #plans
21. 2013-12-19 December routines #travel
22. 2013-12-20 Things to bring to the Philippines - What was hard to find in regular supermarkets #travel
23. 2013-12-21 Pieces wanted for time-tracking course #quantified
24. 2013-12-21 Pieces wanted for time-tracking course #quantified
25. 2013-12-21 Pieces wanted for time-tracking course #quantified
26. 2013-12-21 Pieces wanted for time-tracking course #quantified
27. 2013-12-24 Hands - study #doodles