A week for working and drawing. Learned a lot, yay! Downsides: less sleep, less reading. Will experiment with balance…

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending August 8, 2014
• Monthly review: July 2014
• Turning 31
• Shopping for clothes
• Back to drawing digitally, thanks to Wacom drivers
• Becoming comfortable with simplicity and even discomfort

Sketches

Woohoo! Back.

• 2014-08-12 When Neko meows - #cat
• 2014-08-12 How I program - #consulting #programming #geek
• 2014-08-12 Exercise notes - #exercise
• 2014-08-12 Dealing with physical pain - #philosophy
• 2014-08-13 To know something's distinctiveness - #philosophy
• 2014-08-13 Nudging the balance toward work - #experiment #consulting
• 2014-08-13 Leia traced from picture
• 2014-08-13 Learning more about drawing - #drawing
• 2014-08-13 Discretionary work - #consulting
• 2014-08-13 Call no man happy until he is dead - #philosophy
• 2014-08-15 Luke

Link round-up

• How to Increase Your Daily Word Count by 75%: Play around with your triggers.
• The Economics of Pricelessness: Fascinating.
• Sense-making Skills: Interesting paper with a good summary
• Jump to most recent timestamp in an org document: Quick way to go to a recent note.
• Amaan Penang: Making Data-Driven Financial Decisions: Will listen to this later.
• The Myth of the Intersection of Creativity, Energy, and Time: You don't have to wait for all three things to coincide. You can make pretty good progress without relying on luck.
• Irreal: Sacha Chats with Harry R. Schwartz: Summarizes my chat with Harry about Emacs. =)
• Mind-Blowing 'Live' Digital Painting Sums Up Human Life in Minutes: Nifty speed-painting.
• Pop-Punk Legends Shonen Knife Announce their 1,000th Show: Hmm. They're coming to Toronto, yay!
• Use Org-Mode Links for Absolutely Anything: Neat! Copied. Should define my own tags for quick linking.
• Master “Fusion” Cooking With Three Spices: Combinations to explore. Note the comments.
• 2014 Resolutions Review 06: Unusually Productive!: Nice recap. Experimenting with this a little.

Focus areas and time review

• Business (56.4h – 33%)
  • Earn (39.6h – 70% of Business)
    • ☐ E1: Go to work every day
    • ☐ E1: Meet up with Harold Jarche
  • Build (8.5h – 15% of Business)
    • ☑ Try new features in Dragon Naturally Speaking 13
    • ☑ Upgrade WordPress
    • Drawing (4.8h)
      • ☑ Try new features in Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 7
    • Delegation (1.2h)
      • ☐ Review proofread transcript
    • Packaging (0.0h)
    • Paperwork (2.5h)
      • ☐ File health claims
      • ☑ Investigate separation of accounts for personal delegation
  • Connect (8.3h – 14% of Business)
    • ☑ Chat with Scott Torrance regarding publishing
• Relationships (8.3h – 4%)
  • ☑ Attend Hacklab meeting
  • ☑ Meet up with Ian Garmaise and people he knows
  • ☑ Watch Guardians of the Galaxy, yay!
  • ☑ Work on F3
• Discretionary – Productive (8.1h – 4%)
  • Emacs (0.6h – 0% of all)
    • ☑ Chat with masteringemacs
    • ☐ Help with Emacs
  • ☐ Draw and shade in picture of Neko
  • ☐ Practise drawing faces
  • ☐ [#C] Tracking: Update the number of tasks
  • Writing (5.1h)
    • ☑ Back to drawing digitally, thanks to Wacom drivers
    • ☑ Becoming comfortable with simplicity and even discomfort
    • ☑ Get back into drawing things I'm learning about
    • ☑ Turning 31
• Discretionary – Play (7.7h – 4%)
• Personal routines (23.1h – 13%)
• Unpaid work (9.9h – 5%)
• Sleep (54.5h – 32% – average of 7.8 per day)