It turned out to be course selection time for Grade 11 and 12, so we spent the week discussing options. Intense stuff. J- does well in science, tech, and math courses, so we're leaning towards those types of courses. I'm setting up various (paid!) work tasks to give her a flavour of the kinds of skills people are looking for, too. If she can pick up computer programming skills through robotics and web development, she'll probably be well-suited for co-op and university programs.

That took just about all of our brainspace for the past week. I have to catch up on planning, writing, and creating. It was time well spent, though.

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending February 21, 2014
• Thinking about the design of my blog
• Audio comparison: Blue Yeti vs headset, webcam microphone, video
• WordPress: Make a sequence of posts easier to navigate with Organize Series
• Delegation: “How can I trust people?”
• Reflections on infopreneurship
• What you’re really there to learn in computer science

Sketches

1. 2014-02-24 Yes, but how do you make money #experiment #business
2. 2014-02-24 Reminding myself of freedom #freedom #experiment
3. 2014-02-24 Emacs tips - use Dired to manage files #dired #emacs
4. 2014-02-24 Aha, a plan for the things I want to write #experiment
5. 2014-02-26 Thinking about delegation and projects #delegation
6. 2014-02-27 Writing #goals #writing
7. 2014-02-27 Thinking of tasks I can assign to J- to help her build her skills #delegation
8. 2014-02-27 Map for getting the hang of Emacs movement #emacs #map #guide
9. 2014-02-27 Learning from people #goals #my-learning
10. 2014-02-27 How can I make it easy to print collections of my sketches #packaging #sharing
11. 2014-02-27 Development #goals #coding
12. 2014-02-27 Design #goals #design
13. 2014-02-27 Delegation #goals #delegation
14. 2014-02-27 Automation #goals #automation
15. 2014-02-27 Art #goals #drawing
16. 2014-02-28 What outcomes do I care about #experiment
17. 2014-02-28 Are there ways for organizations to help me scale #experiment

Link round-up

• Talk to Yourself Using "You" or Your Name for Better Introspection: Something I often do. Turns out there's research about it.
• The Cactus and the Weasel: Degenerate variants of foxes and hedgehogs
• Writing your book with orgmode and publishing it on Leanpub: Yay writing! The repository looks like an interesting bodel.
• Awkward Business Conversations: How To Say No To A Potential Client: Useful template, and a good series of blog posts.
• Do Your Own Taxes for More Control Over Your Financial Future: It's tax season, and the slips are coming in. I'm weird–I actually enjoy crunching the numbers. It's great to be able to run different scenarios. I used last year's numbers to estimate how much I should pay myself in salary in order to minimize taxes, and it looks like the numbers worked out just about right. Maybe next year I'll even figure out how to pay myself dividends…
• How Leila Janah Is Redirecting A $200B+ Industry: Anatomy Of Success: I like this idea of giving back through outsourcing. I think of my delegation as transferring cash and skills – great way to help out.

Focus areas and time review

• Business (55.5h – 33%)
  • Earn (18.4h – 33% of Business)
    • [X] Deposit cheque
    • [X] E1: Apply wall
    • [X] E2: Re-record and re-animate new segments
    • [X] Earn: E1: 2.5-3.5 days of consulting
    • [ ] Earn: E1: 2.5-3.5 days of consulting
    • [ ] Figure out why MOVs stopped having audio
  • Build (22.5h – 40% of Business)
    • Drawing (7.2h)
    • Delegation (5.3h)
    • Packaging (7.7h)
    • Paperwork (1.2h)
    • [X] Create PDF for Sketchnotes 2013
    • [X] Delegation: Interview more tech applicants
    • [X] File federal annual return
    • [X] Invest time into technical delegation
    • [X] Make darker grid and release SVG
    • [X] Package Sketchnotes 2013 – http://sach.ac/sketchnotes2013
    • [X] Reflect on what difference I want to make in the world
    • [ ] Build – Emacs: Make a guide to Dired
    • [ ] Build – Emacs: Prettify baby steps guide to Org Mode
    • [ ] Delegation: Add more web research and other basic tasks
    • [ ] Delegation: Document process for setting up a public conversation
  • Connect (14.7h – 26% of Business)
    • [X] Connect: Chat with Evan about visual thinking
    • [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] Have general hangout about learning
    • [ ] Connect: Talk to Brian Sharwood about Free Geek
    • [ ] Connect: Work on slides for blogging excuses – Denise
    • [ ] Connect: Talk to Mel about delegation
• Relationships (3.8h – 2%)
• Discretionary – Productive (6.3h – 3%)
  • [X] Go for eye exam
  • [X] Reflect on two-year mark for experiment
  • [X] Test org-clock-jump-to-current-clock
  • Writing (4.9h)
• Discretionary – Play (7.7h – 4%)
• Personal routines (23.7h – 14%)
• Unpaid work (12.9h – 7%)
• Sleep (58.7h – 34% – average of 8.4 per day)