Lots of gardening this week. We bought seedlings for the herbs and vegetables we want to grow this year. Excited!

Also, I had this idea for doing an e-mail-based Emacs Lisp course. I floated the idea and lots of people signed up, so I'm going to be focusing on that over the next month. Whee! =)

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending May 9, 2014
• How to update the Org 7 that comes with Emacs to Org 8 (more configuration! better exports!)
• Small talk tweaks
• Visual book notes: Mastery (Robert Greene)
• Things to do when you aren’t sure what to do with your life
• Planning an e-mail-based course for Emacs Lisp

Sketches

Lots of sketches! Made a concerted effort to think on paper. =)

1. 2014-05-12 How does Emacs fit into my plans and goals #emacs #plans
2. 2014-05-12 How can I take Learn How to Read Emacs Lisp to the next level #emacs #packaging #writing #teaching
3. 2014-05-14 Which three productivity tools would I use if I could use only those for the rest of my life #emacs #productivity
4. 2014-05-14 What am I maximizing for #planning
5. 2014-05-14 Planning an e-mail-based course for Emacs Lisp #emacs #teaching
6. 2014-05-14 Maximizing - continued #planning
7. 2014-05-14 Evaluating Emacs Chat transcript experiments and other delegation #emacs #delegation
8. 2014-05-14 A quiet day at home #life #experiment
9. 2014-05-15 Those awesome moments at work #experiment #work
10. 2014-05-16 How to draw a visual summary of a book #drawing
11. 2014-05-16 A plan for delivering the Emacs Lisp course #emacs #teaching

Link round-up

• Autodesk SketchBook Pro: A Sneak Peek: Nifty. Way more features than I'm currently using (really, I still mostly use the digital equivalent of a tech pen!), but I'll get there some day.
• Dilbert's Scott Adams on Goals: Short-Term is Better Than Long-Term: I've been feeling a little weird about long-term goals lately. This is somewhat similar to my reasoning, but not quite. More thought needed.
• Emacs for developers (thanks to Irreal for the link): Handy links by programming language. See the EmacsWiki as well.
• Podcast Guests: Three Tips to Better Bookings:
• Org-mode is spreading: Pandoc, the universal document converter, now supports (a reasonable subset of) Org-mode: Oooh, interesting. I was looking at Pandoc recently, and if it can take Org as input, that means I lose less information.
• Chunking with Conceptual LEGOs: I like sketching and writing because they help me save state, chunk better, and see relationships.

Focus areas and time review

• Business (34.0h – 20%)
  • Earn: E1: 2.5-3.5 days of consulting
  • [#C] Sketchnote a book
  • Earn (23.9h – 70% of Business)
    • E1: Attend meeting
    • Earn: E1: 2.5-3.5 days of consulting
  • Build (7.8h – 22% of Business)
    • Drawing (5.4h)
    • Delegation (0.0h)
    • Packaging (0.0h)
    • Paperwork (0.9h)
    • Dig up my receipt app and update the records
    • Find out what's going on with my server
    • Fix summarization bug
  • Connect (2.3h – 6% of Business)
    • Free up space for O
• Emacs
  • Follow up with other transcript?
  • Send course e-mail: beginner1, beginner2
  • Take notes on people who are interested in taking course, process course steps
  • Get e-mail sending to work from virtual machine
  • [#A] Brainstorm tasks for X
  • Take notes on people who are interested in taking course, process course steps
  • Send first section to myself and others
  • Prepare for session with technomancy
  • Post show notes
  • Pay invoice for transcript
  • Package beginner1 as a lesson
  • Make checklist of topics, figure out where people are
  • Invite Bodil for Emacs Chat?
  • Incorporate and revise transcript
  • Have Emacs Chat with bbatsov
  • Break Emacs Lisp guide up into an e-mail course
  • Assign EmacsNYC transcript
  • Get Gnus send mail working again
• Relationships (15.3h – 9%)
  • Buy fish for cherry blossom party
  • Celebrate Mother's Day with W-'s family
  • Ping Mom for mother's day
  • Cook bulgogi
  • Help X
  • Think about X
  • [#A] Bake thank-you dessert
• Discretionary – Productive (12.5h – 7%)
  • Buy compost from Home Depot
  • Doodle more plans
  • Figure out how much I need to keep in cash
  • Fix my bike tire
  • Review sach.ac experiment? nic.ac
  • Make RRSP investments
  • Writing (1.3h)
• Discretionary – Play (17.4h – 10%)
• Personal routines (19.6h – 11%)
• Unpaid work (9.2h – 5%)
• Sleep (60.7h – 36% – average of 8.7 per day)