This week, I focused on delegation and design. Lots of updates to my blog design, yay! =) Next week, I want to dig deeper into making useful technical resources, and to making sure my technical assistant has good stuff to work on.

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending February 14, 2014
• Monthly review: January 2014
• Test-driven learning
• What the LEGO Movie and programming are helping me learn about delegation
• Reflection: Two years into my 5-year experiment
• Free/pay-what-you-want resources for sketchnoting with Autodesk Sketchbook Pro
• Don’t be afraid of mistakes when delegating

Sketches

1. 2014-02-19 What am I looking for in terms of editing blog posts #editing #writing
2. 2014-02-19 Website goals - #blogging #wordpress #web-design
3. 2014-02-19 Teaching people to fish, selling fish, fishing for yourself #experiment #sharing #my-learning #teaching #confederates #community
4. 2014-02-19 Imagining wild success for this experiment #experiment
5. 2014-02-19 Actually, I enjoy web design and development #geek #web-design

Huh. That's weird. Really? Five sketches? And yet 9.6 hours tracked under "Drawing," and a generally relaxed week. I wonder what happened there. I think part of it was that I spent more time doing web design this week, and conceptualization got filed under drawing too. 

Link round-up

• Incomplete list of hobbies that could earn money: I like picking interests that are either cost-neutral or productive: coding, cooking, writing, reading… I haven't figured out how to make gardening work for me yet, but there's always next year. =)
• Back to Basics?: One of the benefits of keeping paper notes is that you run into the footprints of your past self. I've gotta figure out how to do this sort of thing with my digital notes too…
• Selling Bubble Gum For A Living: Behind-the-scenes look at cultivating connection through autoresponders. I'm still iffy about it, though.
• Finding and solving problems | Azimuth: Tactics for posing clear, crisp research problems: learn a lot, keep synthesizing, look in the gaps, talk to lots of people. Lists! I totally resonate with the part about keeping lists around. And breaking down problems.
• Levels of Excellence | Azimuth: From the same blog. Interesting pointer to a paper by Daniel Chambliss ("The mundanity of excellence").
• Daily Writing — Track Your Progress!: Yay tracking. =) Also, interesting stats: "The majority of authors make less than $1000 a year, and the vast majority (even including only those authors who have been traditionally published) make less than $30K/year." Mmm. Actually, that's not too bad.
• Progressquest your career: I'm an explorer as well, and maaaybe a bit of a munchkin. ;)
• Spend 10 Minutes Doing This Every Day and You Could Transform Your Blogging: Look at other people's blogs and pick up ideas. Has a good list of questions to guide your review.
• Lifehacker: The Index: Another example of an index for a really large blog.

Focus areas and time review

• Business (54.4h – 32%)
  • Earn (15.0h – 27% of Business)
    • [X] Deposit cheque
    • [X] Earn: E1: 2.5-3.5 days of consulting
    • [ ] E1: Apply wall
    • [ ] E2: Re-record and re-animate new segments
    • [ ] Earn: E1: 2.5-3.5 days of consulting
  • Build (33.6h – 61% of Business)
    • Drawing (9.5h)
      • [X] Draw the next step for Emacs-related sketches
      • [ ] Make darker grid and release SVG
    • Delegation (7.4h)
      • [X] Delegation: Delegate some writing-related tasks
      • [X] Delegation: Interview tech applicants
      • [X] Delegation: Interview more tech applicants
      • [ ] Delegation: Document process for setting up a public conversation
      • [ ] Invest time into technical delegation
    • Packaging (0.5h)
    • Paperwork (1.9h)
      • [X] File federal annual return
    • Coding (12.0h)
      • [X] Choose a responsive framework
      • [X] Build – Coding: Add trails to my website
      • [X] Build – Coding: Make sachachua.com more responsive myself
      • [X] Build – Coding: Set up my local dev environment again
    • [X] Experiment with better microphone – clearer-ish audio, more convenient?
    • [X] Make baby-steps guide for Org Mode and TODOs
    • [X] Outline "Baby Steps Guide to Managing Your Tasks with Org Mode"
    • [X] Flesh out "Baby Steps Guide to Managing Your Tasks with Org Mode" a little
    • [X] Move to larger drive – AOMEI restore worked fine
    • [X] Set up a system for backing up my backup drive to the computer downstairs
    • [ ] Build – Emacs: Make a guide to Dired
    • [ ] Build – Emacs: Prettify baby steps guide to Org Mode
  • Connect (5.8h – 10% of Business)
    • [X] Connect: Chat with Evan about visual thinking
    • [X] Connect: Chat with Greg about Emacs
    • [X] Connect: Check what's going on with the Quantified Sandbox
    • [X] Connect: Hang out with Matthew and learn more about d3js at HackLab
    • [X] Follow up on conversations
    • [ ] Have general hangout about learning
• Relationships (0.2h – 0%)
  • [X] Work on project with W-
• Discretionary – Productive (14.7h – 8%)
  • [X] Go for eye exam
  • [X] Reflect on two-year mark for experiment
  • [ ] Deposit USD
  • Writing (7.5h)
• Discretionary – Play (6.9h – 4%)
• Personal routines (23.1h – 13%)
• Unpaid work (6.1h – 3%)
• Sleep (63.5h – 37% – average of 9.1 per day)