Weekly review: Week ending April 17, 2015

Posted: Apr 20, 2015 - Modified: May 29, 2019| review, weekly

Between dealing with a squirrelly brain and deciding to take it easy, I didn't get very much done this week. Oh! Except for getting the garden started, whee! Anyway, I thought a lot and drew a lot and even sewed a fair bit, so the week actually turned out pretty well.

Next week: more conversations, and continuing to take it easy… I might look into sewing fabric pots, since apparently that's a Thing and it neatly combines three of my interests: gardening, sewing, and experimenting with lasers.

Blog posts

Sketches

Link round-up

Organize and Implement the Information You Learn | Profound Reading: Using what you learn, especially if you do just-in-case learning.
A Step-by-Step System to Meal Plan Like A Wizard – Slow Your Home: Themes help by narrowing your choices.
Adding a Code of Conduct to Open Source Projects: Seems like a good idea.
Org-mode Hydras incoming! · (or emacs: Some Org Mode ideas.
Literate Database Work: Neat technique: Emacs + Org + Babel, databases, and SSH tunnels.
Keeping up with Ruby and Rails in 2015 | False Positives: Resources

Focus areas and time review

Business (23.3h – 13%)
- Earn (10.0h – 43% of Business)
  - ☑ Earn: E1: 1-2 days of consulting
  - ☐ Earn: E1: 1-2 days of consulting
- Build (6.3h – 27% of Business)
  - Drawing (6.1h)
  - Paperwork (0.2h)
- Connect (7.0h – 29% of Business)
  - ☑ Talk to Christina Gonzales about Quantified Self
  - ☑ Ask Eric and Nicholas about Hacklab board thing
Relationships (19.3h – 11%)
- ☑ Work on project
- ☑ Attend RJ's party
Discretionary – Productive (16.5h – 9%)
- Emacs (2.3h – 1% of all)
  - ☑ 2015-04-15 Emacs Hangout
- ☑ Renew domain
- ☑ Sew rest of snaps
- ☑ Cut Marvel fabric
- ☐ Review Createspace
- Writing (2.3h)
Discretionary – Play (11.0h – 6%)
Personal routines (27.0h – 16%)
Unpaid work (9.8h – 5%)
Sleep (61.1h – 36% – average of 8.7 per day)

You can view 4 comments or e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com.

4 comments

Aaron Wolfson

2015-04-22T22:43:00Z

Thanks for the shout-out, Sacha! I had to get out of my comfort zone a bit to write about something that's very much a work-in-progress for me. (Although really, everything is.) Definitely used your blog as inspiration. :)

sachac

2015-04-25T00:44:17Z

It's easy for me to get carried away reading because the Toronto Public Library is super-awesome, so I have to deliberately make myself do stuff with what I'm learning instead of just stashing the ideas in my brain. =) Sometimes it's a matter of sharing my notes (and possibly having interesting conversations afterwards). Sometimes I go and try something out in real life. I love being in a universe where it's so easy to learn from such a diversity of experiences - hooray for books and writers!

Deron@Bos Organization

2015-04-24T17:15:30Z

Sacha, thanks for linking to my meal planning guest post and glad the idea of themes resonates for you. It definitely was a game changer for me and helps me put together plans so much faster & with built in variety.

I've visited your blog before as I remember being intrigued by your sketchnotes in Rohde's book. Great stuff! I've written some posts on how I use sketchnotes as an organizing tool over at my blog. It makes presentations so much memorable and enjoyable too and the presenters are usually really grateful to see them.

sachac

2015-04-25T00:42:23Z

I'm glad that's another shared interest of ours, yay! =) Sketchnotes are awesome, and I love how visual thinking is a great personal tool for organizing and clarifying thoughts as well.

My husband and I have fun playing with themes and alliteration. Lately we've been experimenting more with Japanese recipes. Last week we had Omu-rice Ouwednesday (a bit of a stretch, but it tickles my brain =) ) and Tonkatsu Thursday...