This week was about spending time with W- and J-. W-‘s birthday was on Monday, so we had dimsum with the in-laws. We watched Guardians of the Galaxy this week, too. We spent Friday afternoon helping J- shop for clothes, and we had dinner at a Japanese restaurant we hadn't tried before. Yay lots of time together!

I worked a lot, too. I worked on some nifty prototypes using Javascript, and then I spent some time learning about developing add-ons and apps for Jive. I'm looking forward to doing even more magic with those tools. =)

Next week: more family stuff, a Hacklab members' meeting, and more work. Whee!

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending August 1, 2014
• Sharing cooking adventures
• That moment when time comes together
• Writing incomplete thoughts
• Thinking about leisure activities: noble, advantageous, pleasant
• Learning philosophy at the right time

Link round-up

• What we are using org-mode for: Cool stuff!
• The Power of the Minimum Effective Dose: You often run into diminishing returns when you do a lot of something. If you can still get roughly the same effect even if you cut back a little, that frees up time and attention for other things.
• Blogging, or the lack of it | babinho's weblog: Yay more people writing!
• ​Set Yourself Absurdly Low Goals to Kickstart a Project: I'm totally for setting yourself absurdly small tasks.
• Announcing the brand new Autodesk SketchBook: Upgraded. Looking forward to playing around with the flipbook and the new layers! Fortunately, I saved my custom brushes, so they're easy to re-import and play around with…
• I created a massive Ultimate Guide to Making Money: Neat design for a pre-sales guide.
• Banishing the Shift Key with Key Chord in Emacs: Interesting approach – hit the number key and a key close to it in order to avoid using Shift.

Focus areas and time review

• Business (23.4h – 13%)
  • ☑ Upgrade WordPress
  • ☐ Chat with Scott Torrance regarding publishing
  • ☐ Earn: E1: 2.5-3.5 days of consulting
  • ☐ Try new features in Dragon Naturally Speaking 13
  • Earn (23.2h – 99% of Business)
  • Build (0.0h – 0% of Business)
  • Connect (0.2h – 0% of Business)
• Relationships (16.9h – 10%)
  • ☑ Watch Guardians of the Galaxy, yay!
  • ☐ Attend Hacklab meeting
  • ☐ Work on F3
• Discretionary – Productive (12.8h – 7%)
  • Emacs (0.0h – 0% of all)
    • ☐ Chat with masteringemacs
  • ☑ Get back into drawing things I'm learning about
  • Writing (4.7h)
    • ☑ That moment when time comes together
    • ☑ Thinking about leisure activities: noble, advantageous, pleasant
    • ☑ Turning 31
    • ☑ Writing incomplete thoughts
• Discretionary – Play (12.1h – 7%)
• Personal routines (38.3h – 22%)
• Unpaid work (6.0h – 3%)
• Sleep (58.6h – 34% – average of 8.4 per day)