Weekly review: Week ending September 12, 2014
Posted: - Modified: | review, weeklyI've been feeling a little under the weather, so I've been taking it easy in order to not jeopardize a few important things coming up. W- is in crunch mode too. Result: the occasional pizza or takeout dinner for J-, which is okay for now because we'll get back into the swing of cooking later on.
Blog posts
- Weekly review: Week ending September 5, 2014
- Gardening update: Reviewing my goals for this year
- Monthly review: August 2014
- Crunch mode
- Figuring out how to deal with sub-optimal times
- Becoming Filipino-Canadian
Sketches
- 2014-09-08 To think, draw, write about
- 2014-09-08 After this sprint or crunch time - imagining ideal days
- 2014-09-09 To think, draw, write about
- 2014-09-10 Programming - What does it mean to be creative
- 2014-09-10 Possible workflow for developing ideas
- 2014-09-10 Index cards
- 2014-09-10 Applying insights from the Alternative Uses Task Test and brainstorming research
- 2014-09-10 Alternative Uses Task test
- 2014-09-12 Things to tweak or try this winter
- 2014-09-12 Noticing my reading habits
- 2014-09-12 Categorical imperatives versus genetic algorithms
Link round-up
- Five Resources for Teaching Yourself Latin: Ooh, neat
- How To Deal With the Decision to Put Down Your Pet: Not for a long time, I hope, but this will eventually be helpful.
- 3 Surprising Interview Questions You Should Ask Every Potential Employee: I like the question about disagreement. I need to test more people's conflict handling skills, since I tend to be low-conflict myself.
- Using Opportunity Cost to Your Advantage: Anticipation is good for frugality.
- Show key binding for commands in helm-execute-extended-command: Oooh. helm-M-x is nifty.
- Being good to each other is so important, guys: So glad W- has great communication skills. =) Hat tip to lifehack.org for the link.
- Implementing an Emacs programming language mode: beyond the basics: Good reminder about things that will make your programming mode feel more Emacs-ish.
Focus areas and time review
- Business (64.8h – 38%)
- Earn (40.0h – 61% of Business)
- ☑ E1: Work on poll improvements
- ☐ Earn: E1: 2.5-3.5 days of consulting
- Build (5.9h – 9% of Business)
- ☑ Upgrade webserver
- ☑ Uprade WordPress to 4.0
- Drawing (1.6h)
- Delegation (0.0h)
- Packaging (0.0h)
- Paperwork (2.2h)
- ☑ Check on Brock Health claim
- ☑ Order TurboTax
- Connect (18.9h – 29% of Business)
- ☑ Help with Helpouts
- ☑ Send Helpouts messages
- Earn (40.0h – 61% of Business)
- Relationships (5.8h – 3%)
- ☑ Help with Hacklab kitchen
- ☑ Work on project K
- ☑ Shop for dishwasher parts
- Discretionary – Productive (3.7h – 2%)
- Emacs (0.0h – 0% of all)
- ☐ Set up Emacs Chats again?
- ☑ Arrange for cheque
- ☑ Apply for cultural access pass
- ☑ Back up phone
- ☑ Clean up phone apps
- ☑ Reflash phone
- ☑ Water the garden
- ☐ Apply for passport
- ☐ Ask two guarantors for passport
- ☐ Get passport pictures
- ☐ Pay Mastercard
- ☐ Pick up cultural access pass from Front and Parliament
- Writing (2.0h)
- Emacs (0.0h – 0% of all)
- Discretionary – Play (0.6h – 0%)
- Personal routines (25.6h – 15%)
- Unpaid work (7.9h – 4%)
- Sleep (59.5h – 35% – average of 8.5 per day)