Weekly review: Week ending May 2, 2014
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Even more Emacs geekery this week. =) It might be time to reclassify it from Discretionary – Emacs to Business – Build – Emacs or something like that.
Blog posts
- Weekly review: Week ending April 25, 2014
- Reflecting on 10 episodes of Emacs Chats
- Quantified Self: Analyzing 32 months of clothing data
- Thinking about my TODO keywords
- On why frugal me is cool with paying other people to do things
- Getting R and ggplot2 to work in Emacs Org Mode Babel blocks; also, tracking the number of TODOs
Sketches
- 2014-04-26 Helping the Emacs community #emacs
- 2014-04-28 Imagining wild business success - Emacs
- 2014-04-28 Dealing with an ever-growing backlog
- 2014-04-29 Quantified Self Toronto 25 - Sleep (Vanessa), Productivity (Misha), Work life balance (Laurie), Visualization (Evan)
- 2014-04-30 EmacsLife
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Link round-up
- How I Organize Evernote: A Peek Inside My Personal System: Yay detailed explanations. =)
- How To Write “Compelling” Copy When You Don’t Have An Audience.: Good reminder that you can use reviews to get a sense of what people are looking for.
- Create and use life automation bots: Lots of little automation tips
Focus areas and time review
- Business (40.4h – 24%)
[ ]E1: Attend strategy session[ ]Earn: E1: 2.5-3.5 days of consulting[ ]File payroll return[ ]Plan EmacsLife.com: What am I experimenting with?[ ]Post transcript of Iannis Zannos' chat[ ]Record session on learning keyboard shortcuts[ ]Record session with technomancy[ ]Try delegating transcripts to Emacs geeks[ ]Sketchnote a book[ ]Start planning talk for International Lisp Conference[ ]Write myself a cheque and remit the appropriate amounts- Earn (16.2h – 40% of Business)
[X]E1: Rename T groups[X]E1: Work on A[X][#A] E1: Deploy B code
- Build (15.4h – 38% of Business)
- Drawing (2.4h)
- Delegation (6.8h)
[X]Plan for delegation with Alex?[X]Talk to Alex about delegation
- Packaging (4.1h)
- Paperwork (2.1h)
[X]Calculate how much I can pay myself and set up the appropriate transactions[X]Learn more about pay-what-you-want
- Emacs
[X]Try out the Org presentation tools[X]Set up Jekyll on Windows so that I can export from Org[X]Revise Emacs – ERC transcript[X]Organize Emacs resources into starting/improving/enjoying[X]Incorporate @philandstuff's feedback[X]Move list of videos into emacs-notes[X]Move Emacs Chat transcripts to Github?[X]Get a list of Emacs videos[X]Create graphviz map for learning Org Mode for Emacs[X]Copy all of my posts into Org files for offline use[X]Make blog posts available offline[X]Contemplate git or blog posts[X]Build a directory of Emacs-related videos – maybe everything with at least 1000 views.[X]Write about keybinding[X]Add support page to emacs-notes[X]Add more details to reading Emacs Lisp tutorial
- Connect (8.7h – 21% of Business)
[X]Set up chat with masteringemacs[X]Set up chat with Xah Lee[X]Set up chat with Christopher Wellons[X]Add April 2014 videos to Quantified Self blog post[X]Upload April 2014 videos[X]Invite mickeynp (Mastering Emacs) for an Emacs Chat[X]Review new video and post it[X]Go to Quantified Self meetup[X]Revise backlog post for Fridge magazine[X]Record session with Xah Lee
- Relationships (4.7h – 2%)
[X]Set up cherry blossom party[ ]Buy groceries for cherry blossom party
- Discretionary – Productive (17.3h – 10%)
[X]Allocate funds on Kiva[X]Find out how much compost I need to order[X]Making my Emacs-related blog posts available for offline reading[X][#B] Read first chapter of Latin textbook[X]Prepare litter box analysis presentation[ ]Read chapter 2 of Latin textbook- Writing (1.0h)
- Discretionary – Play (9.5h – 5%)
- Personal routines (22.2h – 13%)
- Unpaid work (9.0h – 5%)
- Sleep (68.9h – 41% – average of 9.8 per day)