Weekly review: Week ending May 29, 2015
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Less sleep this week, but I used the mornings for coding, so it worked out okay. I realized that building tools for my future self is an excellent use of my time, so I've been thinking about what kinds of systems can help me during future fuzzy-brainness. Taking it easy otherwise.
Blog posts
- Weekly review: Week ending May 22, 2015
- Thinking about adaptive menus for tracking
- Building tools for myself: grocery receipt tracking
- Various cooking-related notes
- Leaning into absent-mindedness
- A constant observer
Sketches
- Journal
- 2015-05-25a Week ending 2015-05-22 -- index card #journal #weekly
- 2015-05-23a Saturday -- index card #journal
- 2015-05-24a Sunday -- index card #journal
- 2015-05-25c Monday -- index card #journal
- 2015-05-26a Tuesday -- index card #journal
- 2015-05-27a Wednesday -- index card #journal
- 2015-05-28a Thursday -- index card #journal
- 2015-05-29d Friday -- index card #journal
- Fuzziness
- 2015-05-24d Accept or hack fuzziness -- index card #fuzzy
- 2015-05-24e Working with surface thoughts -- index card #fuzzy #drawing #thinking
- 2015-05-25d Things I could use cognitive support for -- index card #fuzzy
- 2015-05-28b Absent-mindedness -- index card #research #fuzzy
- 2015-05-28c Different models of absent-mindedness -- index card #fuzzy #research
- 2015-05-28d Imagining adaptations for absent-mindedness -- index card #fuzzy
- 2015-05-28e Sneak previews of life -- index card #fuzzy
- Quantified Self
- 2015-05-25f Simple grocery receipt tracker -- index card #pda #quantified #groceries
- 2015-05-26c How do I want to use library-related data -- index card #reading #quantified #library
- 2015-05-26e Plan for tomorrow's coding session -- index card #pda #coding #quantified #visualization
- 2015-05-29b What do I want to see in my grocery data -- index card #quantified #groceries
- 2015-05-25e Easy habit tracker -- index card #pda
- 2015-05-27b What do I want from this upcoming QS talk -- index card #speaking #plans
- 2015-05-26b Where should I keep my token logic -- index card #pda #coding #angular #node
- 2015-05-24b Reasons for me to draw -- index card #drawing
- 2015-05-24c Walking around the neighbourhood -- index card #exercise #walking
- 2015-05-25b Japanese cheesecake -- index card #cooking
- 2015-05-26d Considering barcodes -- index card #pda
- 2015-05-27c Getting better at cooking -- index card #kaizen #cooking #learning
- 2015-05-29a Feelings about public speaking -- index card #speaking
- 2015-05-29c Plans for this afternoon -- index card #daily
Link round-up
- Firestarter: automated testing and more in Emacs: easy per-file/dir after-save hooks
- Japan's amazing automated restaurants: yay tech
- r/emacs: What are some packages/features that solved a problem you didn't even know you had?: useful comments
Focus areas and time review
- Business (37.6h – 22%)
- Earn (8.2h – 21% of Business)
- ☐ Prepare invoice
- ☐ Earn: E1: 1-2 days of consulting
- Build (29.4h – 78% of Business)
- Drawing (7.2h)
- Paperwork (0.0h)
- ☑ Fix key renaming in record data
- ☑ Set up PDA environment
- ☑ Make an Angular page that displays buttons for recording my most common tasks
- ☑ Explore CouchDB
- ☑ List all the categories below the recommended one
- ☑ Create quick way to track grocery items
- ☑ Provide quick command feedback
- ☑ Match partially
- ☑ Handle authentication on the server side
- ☑ Fix select
- ☑ Distinguish substring and exact
- ☑ Fix command handling
- ☑ Clean up data
- Connect (0.0h – 0% of Business)
- Earn (8.2h – 21% of Business)
- Relationships (3.7h – 2%)
- Discretionary – Productive (5.0h – 2%)
- Emacs (0.0h – 0% of all)
- ☑ Renew sach.ac
- ☐ Review Createspace
- ☐ Verify Jen's public key by calling
- Writing (2.9h)
- Discretionary – Play (27.9h – 16%)
- Personal routines (26.4h – 15%)
- Unpaid work (11.6h – 6%)
- Sleep (55.7h – 33% – average of 8.0 per day)