Weekly review: Week ending December 5, 2014

Posted: Dec 7, 2014 - Modified: May 29, 2019| review, weekly

A combination of being mostly asleep and feeling out of sorts meant that I ended up writing this review on Tuesday instead of Sunday, but I'm backdating it so that it falls into its rightful place in the endless march of posts.

It was a good week, though! I had a great Emacs chat with Karl Voit, picking up lots of ideas for Org Mode and knowledge management. I sketchnoted a book and experimented with colour schemes. I learned more about network analysis and visualization. I helped people on my consulting gig. I made Japanese curry from scratch (I think I've pretty much gotten the hang of that recipe). I finished reading the Minna no Nihongo I textbook out loud, and am now looking for a good source for the second set of books.

One of my personal projects fizzled out, but oh well. C'est la vie. Can't learn unless you take risks. Anyway, the next few weeks should have better momentum!

Blog posts

Sketches

Link round-up

Ian Billett: Tracking My Time, My Life: I should listen to this and pick up ideas.
3 things with 3 things each: Yeah, there's something funny about frameworks…
Sketchnote like a PRO: Anne McColl: Anne's style is similar to mine, although she uses more colours. This is great! I can refer people who are looking for my particular style to her.
How to Pass Your STEM Course Exam: A Hackerspace Guide:
Emacs Chat with Sacha Chua: Karl Voit's notes from our chat
How to Ensure You Get Paid as a Freelancer: Good tips.
Grant Rettke: Notes on ALEC: Literate Emacs config
A database of quiz questions to generate quizzes and solutions: Even more Org Mode awesomeness
Experiences in Self-Determined Learning – available now!: Might check out this Kindle book; hope it's not too abstract. =)

Focus areas and time review

Business (24.6h – 14%)
- Earn (6.8h – 27% of Business)
  - ☑ Prepare invoice for E1
  - ☐ Earn: E1: 1-2 days of consulting
- Build (15.0h – 60% of Business)
  - Drawing (10.6h)
    - ☑ Collect and catalogue different colour techniques
    - ☑ Try different approaches for colouring sketchnotes
      - ☑ Accent text
      - ☑ Background
      - ☑ Flood
      - ☑ Decorations
      - ☑ Toned text
      - ☑ Form an opinion about colour techniques
    - ☑ Colour "Inner Game of Work" sketchnote
  - Delegation (0.0h)
  - Packaging (0.0h)
  - Paperwork (1.4h)
    - ☑ Actually submit tax return
    - ☑ Revisit accounting changes
    - ☑ Review CRA message
  - Quantified Awesome
    - ☑ Investigate library renewal error
    - ☑ Review pull request simplifying Quantified Awesome setup
    - ☑ Add deletes back
    - ☑ Doublecheck that I can add note fields to a record category
  - Blog
    - ☑ Add Javascript for locating a blog post in my outline
    - ☑ Modify WordPress theme so that TOC links use permalinks but still permit efficient scrolling
    - ☑ Draw Sketchnote Army Interview response
    - ☑ Figure out how to reimport comments into Disqus
    - ☑ Fix HTTP upload error on my blog
- Connect (2.8h – 11% of Business)
Relationships (1.4h – 0%)
- ☑ Make gift
Discretionary – Productive (22.3h – 13%)
- Emacs (3.1h – 1% of all)
  - ☑ Emacs Chat: Karl Voit
  - ☑ Learn about edebugging macros
  - ☐ Revise transcript for Emacs Chat: Karl Voit
- Japanese
  - ☑ Work through Minna no Nihongo I
  - ☑ Minna no Nihongo Chapter 21
  - ☑ Minna no Nihongo Chapter 22
  - ☑ Minna no Nihongo Chapter 23
  - ☑ Minna no Nihongo Chapter 24
  - ☑ Minna no Nihongo Chapter 25
- Writing
  - ☑ Revise post about prioritization based on Alan's feedback
  - ☑ Sketch idea for blog link graph
  - ☑ Thinking about how to make better use of Yasnippet in my Emacs workflow
  - ☑ Visualize the connected components in my blog
- Writing (12.6h)
Discretionary – Play (15.1h – 8%)
Personal routines (28.1h – 16%)
Unpaid work (12.2h – 7%)
Sleep (64.3h – 38% – average of 9.2 per day)