Weekly review: Week ending February 13, 2015

Posted: Feb 14, 2015 - Modified: May 29, 2019| review, weekly

This week was about trying to get the hang of shopping. I find shopping to be a frustrating process, but I think that's something I can tweak about myself. We were scrambling to get everything in order for a formal-ish dinner at a banquet hall with extended family. My office attire (slacks, a blazer, and a dress shirt) worked fine, but the exercise prompted me to think about my wardrobe and choosing clothes more deliberately.

My work laptop crashed, so that took a bite out of my productivity. I'll check next week to see if they've gotten it sorted out. I used a loaner laptop to get a few more things done, but it would be good to set everything up properly again.

This coming week: hosting an Emacs Hangout, baking for the Repair Cafe to be held at Hacklab, attending a Sketchnote Hangout, and going to a networking event. Lots of talking to people, so I'll try to have lots of quiet time as well.

Blog posts

Sketches

Link round-up

Mini-Retirements, Semi-Retirement, Early Retirement — What’s the Most Awesome Lifestyle?: Interesting point about places changing, too.
Be Willing to Take Risks to Avoid the "Impact Trap": Quote from Andrew Bosworth: "If we aren’t willing to take risks then we are relying entirely on having picked the right hill to begin with. That is a tall order given that we pick our starting position when we have the least information about the landscape." Hmm, good point about local optimization…
Thierry Volpiatto's wonderful zop-to-char, a better, visual replacement of zap-to-char: Hmm, should try this and jump-char out.

Focus areas and time review

Business (33.2h – 19%)
- Earn (10.7h – 32% of Business)
  - ☐ Earn: E1: 1-2 days of consulting
- Build (18.7h – 56% of Business)
  - Drawing (12.9h)
  - Delegation (0.1h)
  - Packaging (0.2h)
  - Paperwork (0.8h)
- Connect (3.8h – 11% of Business)
- ☑ Revisit Google login thing
- ☑ Quantified Awesome: Fix Google login again
Relationships (6.6h – 3%)
- ☑ Have lunch with Gabriel
- ☑ Call my mom and wish her happy birthday
- ☑ Check on @mattl's upcoming visit to Toronto
- ☑ Book haircut
- ☑ Try online shopping
- ☑ Help W- with ntp
Discretionary – Productive (23.7h – 14%)
- Emacs (15.0h – 8% of all)
  - ☑ Figure out a neat way to backdate Org clock entries consistently
  - ☑ Fix Emacs init errors
  - ☑ Refine Emacs code for working with questions
  - ☑ Explore Hydra
  - ☑ Make something that automatically cross-references sketches with blog posts
  - ☑ Make dired action for processing marked files
  - ☑ Create Emacs conference thing
  - ☑ Help Sean with Emacs
  - ☑ Chat with Yi about Emacs
  - ☑ Set up my Vagrant to send mail through Gmail
  - ☑ Try to get Gnus to send mail again on Windows
  - ☑ Try out org-gcal
- ☑ Review Zettelkasten research
- ☑ Scan my sewing pattern catalog
- ☑ Consider pants
- ☑ Upload to Gumroad
- ☐ Read chapter 3 of Intermediate Japanese
- ☐ Make cover for Createspace
- ☐ Upload to Createspace
- ☐ Start git directory for drafts
- Writing (5.9h)
Discretionary – Play (7.1h – 4%)
Personal routines (21.0h – 12%)
Unpaid work (20.6h – 12%)
Sleep (55.8h – 33% – average of 8.0 per day)