Lots 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
• 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)
• 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)