Weekly review: Week ending March 13, 2015
Posted: - Modified: | review, weeklyLots of sewing (14.5 hours!). Taking it easy, in general. Social stuff, too: catching up with friends, going to parties…
Blog posts
- Weekly review: Week ending March 6, 2015
- Monthly review: February 2015
- Sketched Book – The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right – Atul Gawande Checklists can help you work around faulty memory, distraction, and skipped steps. In this book, Atul Gawande draws on insights from medicine, construction, finance, and other areas to help you develop more effective checklists.
- Getting better at writing other-directed posts
- Emacs Org Mode and the power of plain text
- Enjoy the prep work
- Future pull and the power of imagination
Sketches
- Journal
- 2015-03-07b Saturday -- index card #journal
- 2015-03-08b Sunday -- index card #journal
- 2015-03-09a Monday -- index card #journal
- 2015-03-10a Tuesday -- index card #journal
- 2015-03-11f Wednesday -- index card #journal
- 2015-03-12a Thursday -- index card #journal
- 2015-03-13a Friday -- index card #journal
- 2015-03-07a Week ending 2015-03-06 -- index card #weekly #review
- 2015-03-08a Monthly review - February 2015 -- index card #monthly
- Sewing
- 2015-03-08c Getting better at cooking -- index card #cooking
- 2015-03-10 Taking skills into my loosely-held identity -- index card #plans #identity
- 2015-03-10b Reflecting on drawing targets -- index card #drawing #target #quota
- 2015-03-10c Dealing with things outside my control -- index card #life #stoicism #control #response
- 2015-03-10d Life with three cats -- index card #life #cats #seeing #perspective #moment
- 2015-03-11a How can I get better at asking questions -- index card #questions #kaizen
- 2015-03-11b On requests that are a stretch -- index card #response #focus #commitment #no #impostor
- 2015-03-11c What temptations divert me from my path -- index card #distraction #temptation #resistance
- 2015-03-11d How can I structure these types of days -- index card #limbo #routines
- 2015-03-11e What kind of backup or file organization do I want -- index card #backup #tech
- 2015-03-12b On cats and laps -- index card #life #cats
- 2015-03-12d How would I like to make better use of subway time -- index card #commuting #kaizen #subway
- 2015-03-12e Writing about the same things -- index card #writing
- 2015-03-13b What do I track, and what do I plan to -- index card #quantified #plans
Link round-up
- Illustrated Index Cards: Great use of index cards in class.
- Becoming less productive and less competitive: Moving from a world of competition to a world of abundance.
- The How and Why of taking notes: I enjoy reading about other people's workflows.
- ‘A Free Book: Stoic Notes by Rymke Wiersma’: Added to my reading list.
Focus areas and time review
- Business (26.7h – 15%)
- Earn (11.5h – 42% of Business)
- ☑ Send comm slide
- ☐ Attend comm session
- ☐ Earn: E1: 1-2 days of consulting
- Build (12.4h – 46% of Business)
- Drawing (11.0h)
- Delegation (0.0h)
- Packaging (0.0h)
- Paperwork (1.3h)
- Connect (2.9h – 10% of Business)
- Earn (11.5h – 42% of Business)
- Relationships (9.1h – 5%)
- ☑ Do paperwork for mom
- ☐ Check on project F4
- Discretionary – Productive (18.4h – 10%)
- Emacs (1.0h – 0% of all)
- ☐ 2015-03-18 Emacs Hangout
- ☐ Help Sean with Emacs
- ☑ Buy ETFs in SDRSP account
- Writing (2.8h)
- Emacs (1.0h – 0% of all)
- Discretionary – Play (6.8h – 4%)
- Personal routines (40.0h – 23%)
- Unpaid work (18.9h – 11%)
- Sleep (71.0h – 42% – average of 10.1 per day)