This week was the week of focusing on vegetables. I made Japanese curry with a pickled salad on the side (daikon, cucumber, carrot), shepherd's pie, and pad thai. It was great to have so many vegetable-focused dishes in the fridge. Looking forward to exploring more recipes and building up this habit!

Blog posts

1. Weekly review: Week ending January 23, 2015
2. Filling in the occupational blanks
3. Sketchnote Hangout: Playing with colour
4. Emacs kaizen: helm-swoop and editing
5. Writing: Open loops, closed loops, and working with forgetfulness
6. Emacs microhabit: Switching windows with windmove, ace-window, and ace-jump
7. Read business books more effectively through application, visualization, or reviews
8. Learning to work on my own things
9. Getting data from Org Mode tables
10. Finding a model for my sharing

Sketches

• 2015-01-24 Curry udon -- index card #cooking
• 2015-01-24 How can I learn from observation feedback -- index card #learning #people
• 2015-01-24 Imagining awesomeness at learning from people -- index card #learning #people
• 2015-01-24 Mixed feelings about learning from people -- index card #learning #people
• 2015-01-24 Thinking about collecting experiences -- index card #goals #experiences
• 2015-01-25 Learning from people -- index card #learning #people
• 2015-01-25 On the other hand - travel -- index card #travel #learning #cooking
• 2015-01-25 Phrasing goals - past, future, present -- index card #goals #planning #language
• 2015-01-25 Planning how to level up in cooking -- index card #cooking #learning #plans
• 2015-01-25 Walking in High Park -- index card #relax
• 2015-01-26 Book - How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci -- index card #raw #book
• 2015-01-26 Contemplating businesses -- index card #experiment #business
• 2015-01-26 Emacs microhabit - multiple selection in Helm -- index card #emacs #helm
• 2015-01-26 Shepherd's pie -- index card #cooking
• 2015-01-26 What would make my Emacs experience better -- index card #kaizen #emacs
• 2015-01-27 Field's metal -- index card #hacklab
• 2015-01-27 Financial goals -- index card #finance
• 2015-01-27 Resetting my mental state -- index card #emotions
• 2015-01-27 Thinking about a goal graph -- index card #visualization #planning #goals
• 2015-01-27 What makes these conversations different -- index card #connecting
• 2015-01-28 Cheesy vegan alfredo -- index card #cooking
• 2015-01-28 Colour update -- index card #drawing #colour #color
• 2015-01-28 I tend to think in circles around a topic -- index card #self-directed-learning #learning #questions
• 2015-01-28 What areas of knowledge do I want to organize -- index card #writing #pkm
• 2015-01-28 Winter vegetables to explore -- index card #cooking
• 2015-01-29 Being okay with unfair -- index card #stoicism
• 2015-01-29 Cats are surprisingly social -- index card #life #cats
• 2015-01-29 Imagining a Big Idea -- index card #legacy
• 2015-01-29 Imagining the legacy of a big idea -- index card #legacy
• 2015-01-29 Not clever on demand -- index card #helping
• 2015-01-29 What are some things that far-future-kindred-spirit might find useful -- index card #legacy
• 2015-01-30 How can I get better at being clever on demand -- index card #emacs
• 2015-01-30 Imagining digital index cards -- index card #drawing
• 2015-01-30 Leaving money on the table -- index card #consulting #experiment #balance
• 2015-01-30 Org Mode jumping to tasks -- index card #emacs #org
• 2015-01-30 Sunlight in a cafe -- index card #cafe #light

Link round-up

• Cook Risotto in 3 Minutes and "Ramen-ize" Rice with Baking Soda: Risotto is on my to-cook list.
• Should You Do Intense, Short-Term Projects, or Build Long-Term Habits?: Tips for combining intensity and sustainability.
• Counting Money: Other people tracking personal finance.
• Oleh Krehel: Combining ace-window and windmove with hydra: This is like jazz, jamming with Emacs Lisp. =)
• Career trajectory of the fast-rising star: Got me thinking about Big Ideas.
• Must-have-packages for a newcomer: Handy comments.
• $9 Marketing Stack: A Step-by-Step Setup Guide: Hmm, maybe I should look into ActiveCampaign or something similar. Does a drip e-mail course create enough value for people? I tend to ignore those instead of using them as reminders to work through stuff in manageable chunks, so… Or maybe I should look into prototyping this with Gumroad (since they offer drips now) or setting up a Rails thing?)
• The Difference Between Seeing and Observing: "I think a lot of our failure to notice happens when we’re busy. It happens when we don’t know exactly what’s happening."
• Anatomy of a helm source: How to add a simple Helm source

Focus areas and time review

• Business (33.3h – 19%)
  • ☑ Deposit cheque
  • ☑ Earn: E1: 1-2 days of consulting
  • ☐ Earn: E1: 1-2 days of consulting
  • Earn (7.1h – 21% of Business)
  • Build (15.2h – 45% of Business)
    • Drawing (13.7h)
    • Delegation (0.0h)
    • Packaging (0.0h)
    • Paperwork (0.7h)
    • ☑ Look into recently uploaded images
  • Connect (10.9h – 32% of Business)
    • ☑ Talk to Srid
• Relationships (5.9h – 3%)
• Discretionary – Productive (15.3h – 9%)
  • Emacs (5.7h – 3% of all)
    • ☑ Improve my mail handling
    • ☑ Make graphviz easier with Emacs Lisp
    • ☑ Try out Tern
    • ☑ Help Sean
    • ☑ Make a montage of selected sketches based on their filenames
    • ☑ Change my set-descriptions.js to be able to use any blog URLs (archive page, future post, etc.)
  • ☑ Pick up cultural access pass from Front and Parliament
  • ☑ Reflect on asking questions
  • ☑ Apply for passport
  • ☑ Invest in bonds in TFSA
  • ☑ Process a 10lb bag of potatoes
  • ☑ Type in goals
  • ☑ Read Intermediate Japanese – chapter 1
  • ☑ Read chapter 2
  • ☑ Write about open loops
  • ☐ Collect words and examples from tweets about Emacs
  • ☐ Read chapter 3
  • Writing (5.3h)
• Discretionary – Play (3.0h – 1%)
• Personal routines (31.6h – 18%)
• Unpaid work (20.3h – 12%)
• Sleep (58.6h – 34% – average of 8.4 per day)