Weekly review: Week ending May 23, 2014
Posted: - Modified: | weeklyThere's something that needs tweaking. I feel a little off-balance mentally. Hmm…
Blog posts
- Weekly review: Week ending May 16, 2014
- Three productivity tools
- Emacs Chat: Bozhidar Batsov
- Mental hacks for slower speech
- Cobbling together a semi-auto-responder using Emacs, Gnus, and org-contacts
- How to draw a visual summary of a book
- Writing for myself
Sketches
Link round-up
- Eric James Michael Ritz: My Favorite Emacs Packages Out of One-Hundred: Should do something like this.
- MELPA Stable: Hmm, interesting.
- A guide for writing reproducible research papers – Emacs: Nice! Hat-tip to Irreal for the link.
Focus areas and time review
- Emacs
[X]Add objectives to beginner2[X]Announce guide for learning Emacs Lisp[X]Assign EmacsNYC transcript[X]Break guide up into parts that can be focused on for 15-60 minutes[X]Take notes on people who are interested in taking course, process course steps[X]Follow up with other transcript?[X]Have Emacs Chat with bbatsov[X]Invite Bodil for Emacs Chat? – need to follow up[X]Listen to EmacsNYC videos[X]Pick chunk size for sections[X]Send course e-mail: beginner1, beginner2[X]Share reading Emacs config video[X]Package beginner2 as a lesson[X][#A] Brainstorm tasks for X[X]Get mplayer working with emms on Windows[X]Write about how to read Emacs Lisp[ ]Host chat with Christopher Wellons
- Business (26.6h – 15%)
- Earn (17.3h – 64% of Business)
[X]E1 Attend training[X]E1: Update names[X]Earn: E1: 2.5-3.5 days of consulting
- Build (5.1h – 19% of Business)
[X]Read IATUR journal in depth[X]Write about semi-auto-responder[X]Find out what's going on with my server- Drawing (2.5h)
- Delegation (0.4h)
[X]Brainstorm more tasks, more, more, more!
- Packaging (0.0h)
- Paperwork (1.0h)
- Connect (4.3h – 15% of Business)
[X]Draft title, abstract, bio[X]Cancel speaking engagements
- Earn (17.3h – 64% of Business)
- Relationships (3.6h – 2%)
[X]Attend Peter's housewarming party[X]Book appointment for June 2[X]Buy mangoes for cherry blossom party[X]Cook bulgogi[X]Think about X[X]Bake thank-you dessert
- Discretionary – Productive (23.2h – 13%)
[X]Buy compost from Home Depot[X]Fix my bike tire[X]Make RRSP investments[X]Review sach.ac experiment? nic.ac[X]Writing for myself[ ][#C] Tracking: Update the number of tasks- Writing (3.6h)
- Discretionary – Play (8.1h – 4%)
- Personal routines (37.8h – 22%)
- Unpaid work (8.7h – 5%)
- Sleep (60.7h – 36% – average of 8.7 per day)