I got my printed proof for Sketchnotes 2013 from CreateSpace, yay! I'd already started scribbling in the margins, and then Martina insisted on buying it from me because she wanted to go through it during her trip to China. So I've ordered two more copies (one for myself, and a spare), and I'm looking forward to getting them soon.

Lots of talking to people this week: Visual Thinkers Toronto, the Frugal FIRE show, assorted other conversations at HackLab and online. Ooh, and some forays into Python and image processing with simplecv… Next week, I'm sketchnoting a conference, so my schedule is going to be slightly off routine. Should be interesting, though!

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending March 21, 2014
• Emacs Basics: Using the mouse
• Sketchnotes 2013 in print, yay!
• Thinking about how virtual assistants can help me with learning and writing
• Emacs tweaks: Export Org checkboxes using UTF-8 symbols
• Visual book review: Conscious Millionaire: Grow your business by making a difference (JV Crum III)

Sketches

1. 2014-03-24 Sketchnotes 2013 in print, yay #publishing #packaging #createspace
2. 2014-03-24 Litter Box Cam with Raspberry Pi #raspberry #cats
3. 2014-03-24 How do I want to keep track of my goals #goal-factoring #planning #org
4. 2014-03-24 Determining a fair price for outsourced work #delegation #outsourcing
5. 2014-03-24 Connecting - Do I want to become more gregarious #connecting
6. 2014-03-25 TED - Jamie Oliver - Teach every child about food #visualtoronto
7. 2014-03-25 TED - Bran Ferren - To create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering #visualtoronto
8. 2014-03-26 Reflections on akrasia - acting against my better judgment #rationality
9. 2014-03-26 Book - Conscious Millionaire - JV Crum III
10. 2014-03-27 What got me started #my-learning
11. 2014-03-27 Frugal Fire 003 - Dealing with Pushback - Jordan Read, Sacha Chua

Link round-up

• Org Mode cookbook: Example code for Org Babel – Thanks to Irreal for the link to it!
• Shading tutorial in SketchBook Pro: Oh, so that's what Lock Transparency is for! Boggle!
• Review Your Entire Idea File Every Few Months to Keep Ideas Fresh: Good reminder. I should roll this up into my review process.
• Editable Keymap PDF for Emacs: Hmm, I wonder if you can get something going with Org or LaTeX…
• The 3 greatest presentation books of all time. (That have nothing to do with presentations): I like book lists. Haven't read all of these. Will request them from the library.
• Timo Geusch: I didn’t realise Emacs has an elisp repl: Hmm. I should try out ielm.
• Should You Reverse Any Advice You Hear?: You tend to seek out / pay attention to stuff you agree with.
• Difficulties of Challenges: Yay visual scales!
• Gresham’s law of content, tipping content providers, and providing a better compensation model for the internet: Something to experiment with, perhaps? Comments look interesting. Things to think about further…

Focus areas and time review

• Business (45.4h – 27%)
  • ☐ Build – Learn: Explore ManyCam
  • ☐ Build – Quantified Awesome: Fix 24h goals and range goals
  • ☐ Earn – E2: Set up video 3?
  • ☐ Earn – M: Set up M templates
  • ☐ Earn – M: Set up and print invoice
  • ☐ Earn – M: Sketchnote conference
  • ☐ Earn: E1: 2.5-3.5 days of consulting
  • Earn (14.8h – 32% of Business)
    • ☑ E2: Set up video 2
    • ☑ Earn: E1: 2.5-3.5 days of consulting
    • ☑ Make collection of 2013 sketchnotes
  • Build (15.9h – 35% of Business)
    • ☑ Build – Emacs: Record Emacs Basics video on Emacs
    • ☑ Build – Quantified Awesome: Solve ENOENT errors with gems?
    • ☑ Build: Sketch out ideal outcomes
    • ☑ Reach out regarding Emacs Google Hangout?
    • Drawing (7.7h)
    • Delegation (2.4h)
    • Packaging (0.0h)
    • Paperwork (0.0h)
  • Connect (14.6h – 32% of Business)
    • ☑ Connect – podcast: Record third episode
    • ☑ Connect – podcast: Register domain name for personal finance show?
    • ☑ Connect: Co-host Visual Thinkers Toronto meetup?
    • ☑ Connect: Talk to Marty Avery
• Relationships (6.5h – 3%)
  • ☑ File taxes
  • ☑ Get motion detection to work with Raspberry Pi
  • ☑ Go to Gamfternoon at Hacklab
  • ☑ Raspberry Pi: Learn how to do image analysis to detect changed areas
  • ☑ Work on project F
  • ☑ install the libraries I need for simplecv
• Discretionary – Productive (9.8h – 5%)
  • ☑ Consider how I want to distinguish between goals
  • ☑ Reflect on akrasia
  • Writing (5.9h)
• Discretionary – Play (11.2h – 6%)
• Personal routines (24.5h – 14%)
• Unpaid work (7.4h – 4%)
• Sleep (64.0h – 38% – average of 9.1 per day)