W- and I have been preparing the concrete floor in the laundry area, scraping off paint and old flooring. We've also been mudding and sanding the drywall in the downstairs bathroom. It's tiring work, but also good exercise and a good use of vacation time. Next week will be

Oh! This week was great for packaging. I copied my Makefile for EPUB and PDF generation, tweaked it a little bit, and published Emacs Chat transcripts. I also exported my 2014 blog archive (at least so far) as an EPUB so that I could re-read all of it in preparation for my yearly review. The format worked really well. I should tweak it and release it, just in case people feel like flipping through that. Besides, it'll be handy for my archives anyway.

Next week will be more flooring and drywall, I think. So less drawing and writing, more family time, but that works too. =)

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending December 12, 2014
• Sketched Book: The Stoic Art of Living: Inner Resilience and Outer Results – Tom Morris
• Connecting to previous thoughts and covering more ground
• Learning more effectively by exploring various unknowns
• Emacs Hangout #3: Emacs can read your mind
• Figuring out what to read by figuring out what you want to become or make or do

Sketches

• 2014-12-13 Sketched Book - Start With Why - Simon Sinek
• 2014-12-14 Sketched Book - Write Faster Write Better - David A Fryxell

Link round-up

• Evernote just released a new premium feature called Context, in which it shows relevant information: Maybe this will make it a little more like Devonthink for writing? We'll see if it tempts me away from Org when I'm drafting. =)
• Endless Parentheses: New on Elpa and in Emacs 25.1: let-alist: Looks useful.
• Get Better at Getting Better: The Kaizen Productivity Philosophy: Good tips.
• Create Animations in PDFs with LaTeX, orgmode: Oh, PDFs can do animated GIFs? Interesting. And LaTeX has a command for that? Neat.
• You gotta love when your content planning becomes content: Yay doodles, and also yay tips about social networking. Nice!
• org-mode + Python + git in a graduate engineering course: Sooooo cooool. See also: video, Git repository: git://techela.cheme.cmu.edu/course (https://twitter.com/johnkitchin/status/546014869922013184)
• Frugality Without Sacrifice: I think part of the reason I like personal finance is that I enjoy math. =) This makes frugality practically a hobby.
• How to Deconstruct Your Projects Into Truly Minimum Viable Products: Useful trick – think of your initial design as version 3, then scale it back.
• Different Kinds of Difficulty: Good questions for finding out what kind of difficulty you're up against.
• Tracking My Learning Progress: Becoming a better diarist: I should reflect on and describe my processes for taking notes, reflecting, and reviewing. =)
• Stop sending email broadcasts: Hmm. I've been thinking about setting up a drip e-mail campaign manager instead of signing up for a service.
• Emacs Refactor: Supports Emacs Lisp, Javascript, Ruby, and other languages. Hat-tip to Grant Rettke for the link.
• Switching to MELPA Stable: Why, How, What I Learned: MELPA Stable looks like it will play more nicely with other repositories, since the versions are not timestamps.
• Cartoons can make your event go viral on Twitter (unlike graphic recording): Hmm. Might be good to play around with cartoons and punchlines.

Focus areas and time review

• Business (31.9h – 18%)
  • Earn (11.4h – 35% of Business)
    • ☑ Look into IE8 Standards Mode-related bug
    • ☑ Earn: E1: 1-2 days of consulting
    • ☐ Earn: E1: 1-2 days of consulting
  • Build (14.1h – 44% of Business)
    • Drawing (10.2h)
      • ☑ Sketchnote Write Faster Write Better
    • Delegation (0.0h)
    • Packaging (1.4h)
      • ☑ Convert blog to EPUB
      • ☑ Package EPUB
      • ☑ Package ZIP
      • ☑ Review transcript for Carsten Dominik
      • ☑ Convert How to Read Emacs Lisp to nicely-formatted EPUB
      • ☑ Set up EPUB workflow for Read Lisp, Tweak Emacs
      • ☐ Revise transcript for Magnar Sveen
    • Paperwork (0.9h)
    • ☑ Request Writing on Both Sides of the Brain
    • ☑ Clean up disk space
  • Connect (6.4h – 20% of Business)
    • ☑ Write announcement for Emacs Hangout
    • ☑ Patch https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package to mention :ensure t
    • ☑ Re-enter comments into Disqus
• Relationships (5.0h – 2%)
  • ☑ Bring bubble wrap to Hacklab
  • ☑ Buy LG WH16NS40 internal BluRay drive for W-
• Discretionary – Productive (19.9h – 11%)
  • Emacs (7.9h – 4% of all)
    • ☑ Set up Emacs tools for sketchedbooks
  • Japanese
    • ☑ Collect words and examples from tweets about Emacs
    • ☑ Go through Basic Japanese
    • ☑ Go through Japanese for Busy People II
    • ☑ Write about my goals for studying Japanese
  • Writing (4.4h)
• Discretionary – Play (12.0h – 7%)
• Personal routines (26.1h – 15%)
• Unpaid work (11.3h – 6%)
• Sleep (61.8h – 36% – average of 8.8 per day)