This was the week of lots of walking. With my bike out of commission for the moment (need to fix one of the brake lines) and having resolved that walking is actually a really good use of my time, I decided to see how far I could walk with a target of 10,000 steps. I've comfortably beat that target each day I've had it. As it turns out, Hacklab is within that walking range (at least one-way), so that means I can just walk over there on Tuesdays. =)

Other stuff: family get-togethers and conversations, an Emacs hangout, a chat about personal knowledge management, and a new top in cotton lawn…

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending May 8, 2015
• Laser-cutting bias tape in off-cut regions
• From dreams to experiments
• What kind of tribe do I want to build around Quantified Self in Toronto?
• 2015-05-13 Emacs Hangout
• Shifts in my writing
• Laptops and lap cats

Sketches

• Journal
  • 2015-05-11g Week ending 2015-05-08 -- index card #journal #weekly
  • 2015-05-09f Saturday -- index card #journal
  • 2015-05-10a Sunday -- index card #journal
  • 2015-05-11f Monday -- index card #journal
  • 2015-05-12a Tuesday -- index card #journal
  • 2015-05-13l Wednesday -- index card #journal
  • 2015-05-14e Thursday -- index card #journal
  • 2015-05-15f Friday -- index card #journal
• Quantified Self
  • 2015-05-11c What do I want from Quantified Self -- index card #quantified
  • 2015-05-11f Monday -- index card #journal
  • 2015-05-12b Growing in terms of Quantified Self -- index card #quantified
  • 2015-05-14f Things to learn from the actuarial mindset -- index card #quantified #decision-making #mindset
  • 2015-05-14g Considering a Quantified Self talk -- index card #quantified #presentation #plans
  • 2015-05-14h Considering libraries as a unifying story for a Quantified Self talk -- index card #quantified #presentation #plans
• Knowledge management
  • 2015-05-13e Mapping knowledge for yourself and others -- index card #mapping #pkm #sharing
  • 2015-05-13f Mapping what I know -- index card #workflow #blogging #index-cards #mapping #pkm
  • 2015-05-12d What do I want to get from my blog archive, looking back twenty years from now -- index card #blogging #pkm #archive
  • 2015-05-12e What do I want from my archive of index cards -- index card #pkm #archive #drawing #index-cards
• Stoicism
  • 2015-05-12c Stoicism and control -- index card #stoicism #philosophy #control
  • 2015-05-13a Being kind -- index card #kindness #connecting #stoicism
  • 2015-05-13g Stoicism, introversion, and preferred indifferents -- index card #stoicism #introversion #philosophy
• 2015-05-09a When I can't imagine wild success -- index card #vision
• 2015-05-09b Things to learn -- index card #learning
• 2015-05-09c Challenges of exploring tech and the home -- index card #technodomesticity #tech-and-home
• 2015-05-09d Imagining better cooking with Emacs -- index card #tech-and-home #emacs #cooking #technodomesticity
• 2015-05-09e Meal planning -- index card #emacs #cooking
• 2015-05-10b My Evil Plans for making a difference -- index card #plans #experiment #evil-plans
• 2015-05-10c Keeping things close -- index card #sharing #introversion
• 2015-05-10d The best thing I can do with my time -- index card #experiment
• 2015-05-10e Plans, dreams, and experiments -- index card #experiment #mindset
• 2015-05-11a Book - A Beautiful Constraint - Adam Morgan and Mark Barden -- index card #book #raw-book-notes
• 2015-05-11b Garden update -- index card #gardening
• 2015-05-11d Organizing and sharing research -- index card #pkm
• 2015-05-11e Sharp days -- index card #fuzzy
• 2015-05-13b Sharing how I'm doing - challenges -- index card #sharing #challenges
• 2015-05-13d Goals for structured information -- index card #pkm
• 2015-05-13h Sorting through goals for the Emacs conference -- index card #emacs #emacsconf
• 2015-05-13i Balancing remote and in-person Emacs talks -- index card #emacs #emacsconf
• 2015-05-13j Starting from the assumption that other people are smarter than I am -- index card #blogging #sharing #mindset
• 2015-05-13k Fleshing out advice -- index card #blogging #advice #sharing
• 2015-05-14a What do I do that people often balk at -- index card #advice #yeahbut #different
• 2015-05-14b How are short quotes or excerpts useful for me -- index card #blogging #sharing #perspective
• 2015-05-14c What if I focused on learning and sharing as publicly as possible -- index card #sharing
• 2015-05-14d Thinning out my books -- index card #simple-living #decluttering
• 2015-05-15a Things I saw while walking to Hacklab -- index card #walking #hacklab #toronto
• 2015-05-15b Applying present value ideas to my short-term choices -- #discretionary #decision #time
• 2015-05-15c How do I want to grow as a coder -- #coding #growth #plans
• 2015-05-15d Identity, relationships, purpose -- index card #identity
• 2015-05-15e Making walks better -- index card #kaizen #walking

Focus areas and time review

• Business (33.5h – 19%)
  • ☐ Earn: E1: 1-2 days of consulting
  • Earn (6.9h – 20% of Business)
  • Build (20.3h – 60% of Business)
    • Drawing (14.4h)
    • Paperwork (1.0h)
  • Connect (6.4h – 19% of Business)
• Relationships (8.2h – 4%)
  • ☑ Holiday get-together with W-'s family
  • ☑ Hang out with Gabriel
• Discretionary – Productive (18.8h – 11%)
  • Emacs (2.0h – 1% of all)
    • ☑ Work on menu planning in Emacs
  • ☑ Fix subscription page
  • ☑ Research Quantified Self
  • ☑ Sew prepare cotton lawn top
  • ☑ Integrate journal with review
  • ☐ Verify Jen's public key by calling
  • Writing (5.7h)
• Discretionary – Play (7.1h – 4%)
• Personal routines (23.0h – 13%)
• Unpaid work (14.7h – 8%)
• Sleep (62.6h – 37% – average of 8.9 per day)