Weekly review: Week ending September 5, 2014
Posted: - Modified: | review, weeklyLots of work and helping out at Hacklab. =) Oh, and Canadian citizenship, yay! It didn't feel like I got that much sleep this week, but my numbers say I did. Hmm.
Blog posts
- Weekly review: Week ending August 29, 2014
- What to do during open days
- Learning with the end in mind
- Emacs Chat: Mickey Petersen
- Planning ahead for experiments
- Doing more consulting
Sketches
- 2014-08-30 Open loops
- 2014-08-30 On discipline, or alternatives to
- 2014-09-04 Suboptimal Sacha
- 2014-09-04 Excellent Sacha
- 2014-09-05 Becoming Filipino-Canadian
Link round-up
- Internal Developer Training: Doing It Right: Good plan for developing developers.
- 20 Simple and Oishii Japanese 30-Minute Recipes: On a Japanese cooking kick. Will try some of these recipes soon.
- How to Fall Off the Wagon: Interesting model relating different self-improvement paradigms.
- Fredkin's Paradox Explains Why You Waste Time On Meaningless Decisions: Great! That thing I wrote about has a name. =)
- Emacs Lisp Style Guide: Yay style. Gotta practise this.
- Income Resilience (Surviving A 20% Paycut): Yay safety nets and resilience.
- Joy of Revision: You can find your story/thought by figuring out what it isn't. Hat tip to How Revising Rewards Mistakes for link.
- Building A Simple Cross-Browser Offline To-Do List With IndexedDB And WebSQL: Hmm, should look into this.
- Harness Your Mind's "Future Self" Bias to Make Better Decisions: Be kind to your future self. =) (Future Sacha and I get along quite well.)
- Refactoring single page app: Story + graphs!
- Acceptance Tests at a Single Level of Abstraction: Good reminder to clean up tests.
- ColorPalette: For Emacs. Pretty.
- Daring to Realize My Master Goals: Hmm, might be good to think in terms of master works.
- Evernote Platform Awards: Education Nominees: Interesting applications that integrate with Evernote.
- How to Get JavaScript to Work in a WordPress Page: Good to know.
- Sketchnoting 101: How To Create Awesome Visual Notes: Neat guide.
Focus areas and time review
- Business (54.4h – 32%)
- Earn (39.4h – 72% of Business)
- ☑ Doublecheck setInterval vs setTimeout, whoops
- ☑ E1: Demo
- ☑ E1: Work on polls
- ☐ Earn: E1: 2.5-3.5 days of consulting
- Build (4.4h – 8% of Business)
- Drawing (2.0h)
- Delegation (0.0h)
- Packaging (0.0h)
- Paperwork (2.4h)
- ☑ Check on Brock Health claim
- ☑ Order TurboTax
- ☐ File payroll return
- ☑ Upgrade webserver
- Connect (10.5h – 19% of Business)
- ☑ Send Helpouts messages
- ☐ Help with Helpouts
- Earn (39.4h – 72% of Business)
- Relationships (10.7h – 6%)
- ☑ Cook at Hacklab?
- ☑ Follow up with Eric re cleaning, kitchen
- ☑ Help with Hacklab kitchen
- ☑ Pick up dishwasher and drop it off at Hacklab
- ☑ Talk to my mom regarding dividends
- ☐ Work on project K
- Discretionary – Productive (5.2h – 3%)
- Emacs (2.0h – 1% of all)
- ☑ Review Emacs Chat transcript
- ☑ Apply for Ontario photo ID
- ☑ Prepare papers for citizenship ceremony
- ☑ Attend citizenship ceremony
- ☑ Apply for cultural access pass
- ☑ Back up phone
- ☑ Clean up phone apps
- ☑ Reflash phone
- ☑ Sort out credit cards
- ☑ Tidy up dying plants
- ☐ Arrange for cheque
- ☐ Ask two guarantors for passport
- ☐ Get passport pictures
- ☐ Pay Mastercard
- ☐ Pick up cultural access pass from Front and Parliament
- Writing (1.8h)
- Emacs (2.0h – 1% of all)
- Discretionary – Play (3.7h – 2%)
- Personal routines (22.0h – 13%)
- Unpaid work (11.4h – 6%)
- Sleep (60.7h – 36% – average of 8.7 per day)