Weekly review: Week ending January 23, 2015

Posted: Jan 25, 2015 - Modified: May 29, 2019| review, weekly

I posted nine blog posts this week, relaxing that once-a-day bottleneck that I've been using for the past few years. Mainly, it's because I want to talk about Emacs more than once a week while still keeping lots of variety so that I can talk about non-tech topics too. Daily readers: Is the volume unmanageable? How can I make this better for you?

On my consulting gig, I leveled up in terms of using Tableau. I think I've gotten the hang of dashboard actions now, and I'm more comfortable using calculated fields for attributes and aggregates. Whee!

This has been a good week for planning ahead and learning from others. The Quantified Self Toronto meetup on Monday got me thinking about an Epic Quest of Awesome, and that spun off a long, thoughtful conversation about questions. I'm looking forward to fleshing that out a bit more over the next few weeks.

Oh, and I finally applied for my passport, picked up my Cultural Access Pass, and took care of a number of other errands. Have day pass, will Get Stuff Done.

The Emacs microhabit I'm going to focus on this week is selecting multiple things in Helm, since that's one of its key features. =)

Blog posts

Weekly review: Week ending January 16, 2015
Minimizing upward or downward skew in your sketchnotes
Improving my evil plans for Emacs
Breaking down the skill of outlining
Developing Emacs micro-habits: Abbreviations and templates
Move your goalposts to get around an inability to finish projects How redefining your projects can help you satisfy a novelty-seeking brain, and how you can deal with interests or experiments that don't have clear ends
Emacs Chat with Steve Purcell
Visualizing the internal citation network of my blog
Filling in the occupational blanks

Sketches

Link round-up

Oleh Krehel: ElTeX – generate full LaTeX documents from Emacs Lisp: Neat markup and approach – complex Emacs Lisp to generate simple LaTeX instead of struggling with defining complex LaTeX macros.
org-mode as a node graph?: Useful comments. I need to use the BLOCKER: property more often, I think.
How to Represent a Year in Numbers: Various annual reviews
The Power of Self-Limiting Messages: And Drawing Straight Lines:
A Powerful Exercise inside Google Analytics to Set You Up for a Successful Year of Blogging:
Emacs for Writing: Trying out org-wc, nanowrimo, and hl-sentence.
punchagan: org-drill for making it stick!: org-drill tweak for prompting for answers

Focus areas and time review

Business (40.9h – 24%)
- Earn (9.3h – 22% of Business)
  - ☑ Deposit cheque
  - ☐ Earn: E1: 1-2 days of consulting
- Build (18.2h – 44% of Business)
  - Drawing (7.1h)
  - Delegation (0.0h)
  - Packaging (0.0h)
  - Paperwork (1.8h)
  - ☑ Fix cucumber for travis
  - ☑ Look into recently uploaded images
- Connect (13.3h – 32% of Business)
  - ☑ Go to Quantified Self Toronto meetup
  - ☑ Post Quantified Self notes
  - ☑ Check out Sketchnote Hangout
  - ☑ Check out #lrnbook
Relationships (3.7h – 2%)
- ☑ Call pharmacy
Discretionary – Productive (21.0h – 12%)
- Emacs (5.9h – 3% of all)
  - ☑ Have Emacs Chat with Steve Purcell
  - ☑ Move my text-scale-increase binding
  - ☑ Check out speed-type
  - ☑ Figure out how to make pivot tables in Org
  - ☑ Figure out how to define abbreviations in Org Mode
  - ☐ Revise transcript for Steve Purcell
  - ☐ Look at Yasnippet doc TODOs
  - ☐ Try out Tern
- ☑ Apply for passport – State "WAITING" from "STARTED" [2015-01-16 Fri 15:51]
- ☑ Redeposit into TFSA
- ☑ Invest in bonds in TFSA
- ☑ Analyze index cards so far
- ☑ Make Epic Quest of Awesome sheet
- ☑ Pick up cultural access pass from Front and Parliament
- ☑ Reflect on asking questions
- ☑ Apply for passport
- ☐ Type in goals
- ☐ Brainstorm ideas for final project
- ☐ Start git directory for drafts
- Writing (8.1h)
Discretionary – Play (6.6h – 3%)
Personal routines (22.8h – 13%)
Unpaid work (14.7h – 8%)
Sleep (58.3h – 34% – average of 8.3 per day)