It was a good week for small steps. I've been settling into a new daily routine: a little bit of code, a book, some thinking… In terms of code, I've been focusing on adding D3 visualizations and other smarts to my Angular+Node tracker. I've been reading about thinking and memory, and thinking about what I can build or practice in order to get better at those things. Overall, though, I continue to be taking it easy – letting go of more of my previous commitments, clearing the way for other experiments.

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending June 5, 2015
• Adding calculations based on time to the Org Agenda clock report
• Using Emacs Org Mode tables to calculate doses to buy
• Tweaking my daily routines for that feeling of progress
• Thinking about problem-solving and sequencing
• Growth, experiments, and shifting my preferences

Sketches

• Journal
  • 2015-06-08a Week ending 2015-06-05 – index card #journal #weekly
  • 2015-06-06a Saturday – index card #journal
  • 2015-06-07a Sunday – index card #journal
  • 2015-06-08b Monday – index card #journal
  • 2015-06-09k Tuesday – index card #journal
  • 2015-06-10a Wednesday – index card #journal
  • 2015-06-11b Thursday – index card #journal
  • 2015-06-12j Friday – index card #journal
• Learning / sequencing
  • 2015-06-09e What do I mean by sequencing – index card #learning #problem-solving #sequencing
  • 2015-06-09f How do I develop my own sequencing skills – index card #learning #problem-solving #sequencing
  • 2015-06-09g How can I help other people develop sequencing skills – index card #learning #problem-solving #sequencing
  • 2015-06-09h Sequencing challenges – index card #learning #problem-solving #sequencing #challenges
  • 2015-06-09i Non-programming examples of sequencing – index card #learning #problem-solving #sequencing
  • 2015-06-11a Blackjack implementation sequence – index card #sequencing #problem-solving
  • 2015-06-12f Learning more effectively – index card #kaizen #learning
  • 2015-06-12g Current areas of learning – index card #learning #plans
• Fuzziness
  • 2015-06-07b Just in case, what would I like to do even better next time around – index card #fuzzy
  • 2015-06-07c Absent-mindedly misplacing things – index card #fuzzy #absentmindedness
• Index cards
  • 2015-06-12h 6-month reflection on index cards – index card #index-cards #drawing #zettelkasten #chunking
  • 2015-06-12i Imagining an index card browsing interface – index card #index-card #zettelkasten #browsing #visualization
• Philosophy
  • 2015-06-12b Finding my own balance between desire and detachment – index card #stoicism #philosophy #detachment #desire
  • 2015-06-12c Exploring this distance – index card #stoicism #philosophy #detachment #desire
  • 2015-06-12d When I don't prefer something as much as I think I should – index card #stoicism #philosophy #preference
  • 2015-06-07e The Glad Game – index card #happiness #flexibility #equanimity
• 2015-06-07d Garden – index card #gardening
• 2015-06-08c What could make this even awesomer – index card #life #kaizen
• 2015-06-08d Friends – index card #tv #twenties
• 2015-06-08e What do I want from time visualizations – index card #quantified #visualization #d3
• 2015-06-09a Designing my mornings – index card #kaizen #mornings #life
• 2015-06-09b What do I want to build for my future self – index card #future-self #tech-and-home
• 2015-06-09c Reflecting on the paths not taken – index card #experiment
• 2015-06-09d Reflecting on positive noes – index card #assertiveness
• 2015-06-09j Revamping a speech – index card #editing #presentation #speaking #schoolwork
• 2015-06-11c Designing days around feelings – index card #experiment #life #progress #feelings
• 2015-06-12a Questions to revisit – index card #kaizen #experiment #delegation
• 2015-06-12e Thinking about disrupting myself – index card #experiment #disruption

Link round-up

• 5 reasons not to use your virtual assistant: the Amy scheduling AI looks interesting. It would be neat to check that out when it's more open. Interesting approach (probably hybrid person+AI) and conversational interface. I wonder what I can build and use along those lines…

Focus areas and time review

• Business (23.0h – 13%)
  • Earn (6.0h – 25% of Business)
    • ☑ Earn: E1: 1-2 days of consulting
    • ☐ Earn: E1: 1-2 days of consulting
  • Build (14.2h – 61% of Business)
    • Drawing (9.4h)
    • Paperwork (0.0h)
  • Connect (2.8h – 12% of Business)
• Relationships (10.6h – 6%)
• Discretionary – Productive (11.6h – 6%)
  • Emacs (0.7h – 0% of all)
    • ☑ Reschedule Emacs Lisp Development Tips episode with jwiegley
    • ☐ Announce Emacs Hangout 2015-06-17
    • ☐ Host Emacs Hangout
  • Writing (4.5h)
  • ☑ Get travis working again for quantified awesome
  • ☐ Call with new totals
• Discretionary – Play (20.9h – 12%)
• Personal routines (28.3h – 16%)
• Unpaid work (14.5h – 8%)
• Sleep (59.2h – 35% – average of 8.5 per day)