Weekly review: Week ending January 16, 2015

Posted: Jan 18, 2015 - Modified: May 29, 2019| review, weekly

This was a good week for writing code: little utilities to help me manage my sketches and Evernote entries, some code for my consulting client, and so forth.

The Emacs microhabit I focused on was switching windows. I found that C-u C-u with ace-window (which I've bound to C-x o) is handy for deleting windows, and binding a windmove-type keymap to the yy keychord is useful for switching windows with my cursor keys.

Next week, I've got an Emacs Chat with Steve Purcell. Looking forward to it!

Blog posts

Link round-up

punchagan: How I learnt to use Emacs' profiler: Org Agenda performance improvements and how to use the profiler.
Japanese Master Craftsmen Dry Fitting Huge, Insanely Complicated Wood Joints: Boggle at the awesomeness.
Michael Fogleman: 2014: A Year of Emacs: Neato! Didn't realize Michael's only been into this for a year. Spaced repetition, hangouts.
Why learning online is better than in-person, and how to make use of your technology: Practical ways to use tech, such as simultaneous editing of parallel Google Docs
Lessons Learned Building A Productized Service: I know a number of freelancers curious about this.
Zoom in / out with style: Emacs – how to define repeatable command keymap. Elegant definition. Must figure out places to use this.
How To Think: Probe thinking, slow down, use mental models, integrate.
Make Your Dreams a Reality with the WOOP Method: Wish, outcome, obstacle, plan.
How to overcome the imposter syndrome and build a 6-figure consulting business – with Noah Fleming:
Yi-Tang's post on learning Jekyll: With time analysis. Awesome. See also Yi-Tang's weekly review – yay, someone else tracking time in Emacs! =)

Sketches

Focus areas and time review

Business (37.0h – 21%)
- Earn (7.1h – 19% of Business)
  - ☐ Earn: E1: 1-2 days of consulting
- Build (20.2h – 54% of Business)
  - Drawing (10.1h)
  - Delegation (0.0h)
  - Packaging (1.9h)
    - ☑ Change sketchnotes to Dropbox
  - Paperwork (0.2h)
  - ☑ Upload image to Flickr using node
  - ☑ Make a cal-heatmap of my Flickr
  - ☑ Simplify Gemfile in order to improve Travis CI performance for Quantified Awesome
  - ☑ Parse XML from Evernote and extract all the journal entries
  - ☐ Fix cucumber for travis
- Connect (9.7h – 26% of Business)
  - ☑ Talk to journalist about Quantified Self
  - ☑ Send resources to journalist
  - ☑ Photograph for Star
  - ☐ Go to Quantified Self Toronto meetup
  - ☐ Check out Sketchnote Hangout
  - ☐ Brainstorm ideas for final project in learning course
  - ☐ Check out #lrnbook
Relationships (1.6h – 0%)
Discretionary – Productive (21.8h – 13%)
- Emacs (1.6h – 0% of all)
  - ☑ Set up next Emacs Hangout and announce on mailing list
  - ☑ Make sure Emacs Chat is set up on iTunes
  - ☑ Set up schedule
  - ☑ Update EmacsWiki:Yasnippet
  - ☑ Blog about most recent Emacs Hangout
  - ☑ [#A] Create Emacs Chat event on Google+ for chat with Steve Purcell
  - ☑ Get node to store Org links, oooh
  - ☐ Finish Avdi's transcript
  - ☐ Revise transcript for Magnar Sveen
  - ☐ Research tidbits for Emacs Chat
  - ☐ Clean up uDemy formatting for Emacs Basics
  - ☐ Have Emacs Chat with Steve Purcell
  - ☐ Contribute to Yasnippet docs
  - ☐ Try out Tern
- Writing (11.2h)
  - ☑ Outline mini-guide for QS small steps
  - ☑ Revise writing post to include images
- ☑ Ask two guarantors for passport
- ☑ Dip into Learning How to Learn course
  - ☑ Complete quiz 3
- ☑ Pick up my lunch
- ☑ Redeposit into TFSA
- ☑ Review dangling sketches and posts
- ☑ Start bibliography Org file
- ☐ Apply for passport
- ☐ Invest in bonds in TFSA
Discretionary – Play (4.7h – 2%)
Personal routines (25.4h – 15%)
Unpaid work (15.0h – 8%)
Sleep (62.5h – 37% – average of 8.9 per day)