Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending March 28, 2014
• Emacs Basics: Call commands by name with M-x (with tips for better completion using ido or helm)
• Frugal Fire 003: Dealing with Pushback
• Figuring out a fair price for outsourcing work
• More Emacs drawings: Dired, moving around
• Experiment update: Mid-term pre-mortem check

Sketches

1. 2014-03-29 Litterbox analysis #quantified
2. 2014-04-01 How do I feel about snippets versus longer podcasts #podcasting #decision
3. 2014-04-01 Figuring out more about what I want to do #planning
4. 2014-04-01 07 - Election day planning and pulling the vote workshop - Graham Mitchell, Michal Hay, Jesse Boateng
5. 2014-04-01 06 - Voter contact workshop - Graham Mitchell, Michal Hay, Jesse Boateng
6. 2014-04-01 05 - Mobilizing Mount Dennis tenants to vote for landlord licensing - Judy Duncan
7. 2014-04-01 04 - Mobilize to Vote 2(tpse)
8. 2014-04-01 03 - What systems can we change - Municipal electoral reform - Desmond Cole, Dave Meslin
9. 2014-04-01 01 - Why is it that people don't vote - Findings from Samara's Democracy Talks - Alison Loat
10. 2014-04-01 01 - Why is it that people don't vote - Findings from Samara's Democracy Talks - Alison Loat
11. 2014-04-02 On thinking about a variety of topics - a mesh of learning #my-learning
12. 2014-04-02 Imagining learning sprints #my-learning
13. 2014-04-02 Evaluating my sharing #sharing #decision
14. 2014-04-03 How can I delegate even more effectively #delegation
15. 2014-04-03 Dealing with the fog of work #experiment #fire

Link round-up

• Geek Feminism: a family cloud: Oooh, so that's how you align things by rank in a graph. Source: https://github.com/Skud/gf-family-tree/blob/master/gfft.dot
• Make gifts for people: Beautiful drawing that resonates with why I want to do my experiment with semi-retirement. =) Hat-tip to Lifehack.
• The Three-Step Strategy to Study Hard Without Burning Out: Good tips for intense study. Concrete study hours with rest time, active vs passive, comfortable and distraction-free environment.
• (E)lisp, how to get started ?: Reddit thread for getting started.
• Got Emacs?: Some interesting Emacs threads and LaTeX news: Follow the link to http://pgfplots.net/ for pretty plots and source code in LaTeX. Also, there's a TeX blog aggregator, which is handy – I picked up a link to adjustbox, which looks useful.
• Ben Simon: Getting Back In Touch With My E-mail Roots – A Little Gmail Integration With Emacs: Ooh. Stunnel looks promising. I've gotten sending mail to work… Now I need to get IMAP to work again. =)
• What, Me Exercise? – Basic exercises with gradual ramping up. Hat-tip to Lifehacker / Simple Dollar for the link.

Focus areas and time review

• Business (57.9h – 34%)
  • Earn (28.2h – 48% of Business)
    • ☑ E1: Load people into comm
    • ☑ Earn – E2: Re-render video 3 if necessary
    • ☑ 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 – E2: Set up video 3?
    • ☐ Earn: E1: 2.5-3.5 days of consulting
  • Build (22.0h – 37% of Business)
    • ☑ Build – Learn: Explore ManyCam
    • ☑ Build – Packaging: Review new cover for Sketchnotes 2013
    • ☑ Build – Quantified Awesome: Always default to creating a note field
    • ☑ Build – Quantified Awesome: Fix 24h goals and range goals
    • ☑ Build – Quantified Awesome: Fix display of totals in daily summary
    • ☑ Upgrade Linode Ubuntu install
    • ☑ Make it easier to cross-link Org
    • ☑ Stop loading d3js
    • ☐ Record session on learning keyboard shortcuts
    • Drawing (5.1h)
      • ☐ Draw "A" page for Emacs ABCs
    • Delegation (1.8h)
      • ☑ Get web development delegation off the ground
    • Packaging (4.6h)
      • ☑ Check on print copy of Sketchnotes 2013
      • ☑ Fix spine for Sketchnotes 2013
      • ☑ Put together print for Sketchnotes 2012
      • ☐ Review Sketchnotes 2012 digital proof
    • Paperwork (4.6h)
      • ☐ File payroll return
  • Connect (7.7h – 13% of Business)
    • ☑ Emacs chat prep: Iannis
    • ☑ Reach out regarding Emacs Google Hangout?
    • ☐ Emacs chat: Iannis Zannos – music
    • ☐ Invite bbatsov for an Emacs Chat
    • ☐ Talk to Tom Marble about Emacs
• Relationships (3.6h – 2%)
  • ☑ Attend W-'s family thing
  • ☑ Cook something during the week
  • ☑ File taxes
  • ☑ Go to Gamfternoon at Hacklab
  • ☑ Help Eric with focus
  • ☑ Raspberry Pi: Learn how to do image analysis to detect changed areas
  • ☑ Write blog post about Raspberry Pi litter box cam
  • ☑ install the libraries I need for simplecv
  • ☐ Check results for project F
• Discretionary – Productive (7.7h – 4%)
  • ☑ Encode litter box data
  • ☑ Go for an hour-long walk
  • ☑ Reflect on fog of work
  • ☑ Reflect on learning sprints
  • ☑ Update evil plans so that it has a little bit of margin
  • Writing (1.0h)
    • ☐ Write about discretionary speed
• Discretionary – Play (3.2h – 1%)
• Personal routines (19.9h – 11%)
• Unpaid work (16.6h – 9%)
• Sleep (61.6h – 36% – average of 8.8 per day)