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
2. 2013.12.01 How do I see delegation fitting into my life over the next 12 months
3. 2013.12.01 Show post-production notes
4. 2013.12.03 2014 Changes
5. 2013.12.10 December trip memories
6. 2013.12.10 Neko memories
7. 2013.12.12 Decision – HackLab
8. 2013.12.12 Decision – Tacloban
9. 2013.12.12 Plan – Getting started with Emacs Lisp
10. 2013.12.12 Plan – The Lazy Person's Guide to Saving Time with Emacs
11. 2013.12.12 Reflections on writing process
12. 2013.12.12 Sharing plans
13. 2013.12.12 Writing date
14. 2013.12.13 Dealing with feeling scattered as a writer
15. 2013.12.14 Conflicting thoughts about delegation
16. 2013.12.14 Where do I want to go in terms of drawing
17. 2013.12.17 Reviewing my investment decisions in 2013
18. 2013.12.17 Why is my barkada my barkada
19. 2013.12.18 Projects for 2014
20. 2013.12.18 Should I continue with gardening in 2014
21. 2013.12.19 December routines
22. 2013.12.20 Things to bring to the Philippines – What was hard to find in regular supermarkets
23. 2013.12.21 Pieces wanted for time-tracking course
24. 2013.12.21 Plans for time-tracking workshop
25. 2013.12.21 Things to do when away in my head
26. 2013.12.21 Transforming your time data
27. 2013.12.24 Hands – study