This week was about shifting my systems and routines a little bit in order to support more learning. I've been thinking about how to build a regular today-I-learned habit as a way to keep myself moving forward a little bit at a time, and have been putting together little tools to make it easier for me to discover and share tidbits.

After reflecting on the various games I'd tried out on the tablet, I uninstalled a whole bunch of games that weren't tickling my brain the way I wanted. I might keep Rising Super Chef around because I like the time management aspect, although I'd also be up for something with less randomness and either more skill or more humour. Possibly some kind of a word or math game, too. Anyway, I've been shifting towards using the tablet for reading Toronto Public Library e-books through OverDrive, browsing the Web (especially for answers to specific questions), and watching videos on Youtube.

I managed to go on a few long walks, despite the cold. I got through quite a lot of reading on the Kindle, too. I need to refresh the selection of items I have on it since I'm at the end of the fiction I'd lined up, but I can always go through the manuals for Emacs and Org Mode.

It was the fourth year mark for my 5-year experiment in semi-retirement, too, so I've been putting together a review covering the past year as well, an overall look at the past four years, and plans for the next year. It's been a good year and a good experiment so far. It's hard to imagine a better way to prepare for the next step. Milestones, yay!

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending February 12, 2016
• 2016-02-15 Emacs News
• Building a today-I-learned habit, and displaying the documentation for random Emacs commands
• Listing random npmjs.com packages updated today

Sketches

• Journal
  • 2016-02-13a Week ending 2016-02-12 -- index card #journal #weekly
  • 2016-02-13g Saturday -- index card #journal
  • 2016-02-14a Sunday -- index card #journal
  • 2016-02-15a Monday -- index card #journal
  • 2016-02-16a Tuesday -- index card #journal
  • 2016-02-17a Wednesday -- index card #journal
  • 2016-02-18a Thursday -- index card #journal
  • 2016-02-19d Friday -- index card #journal
• 2016-02-19b Fourth year evaluation of my 5-year experiment -- index card #experiment #review ref 2014-02-16
• 2016-02-13e Planning my interfaces -- index card #design #devices #mobile ref 2015-05-22d
• 2016-02-17b More thoughts on games -- index card #gaming
• 2016-02-13c Disrupting yourself -- index card #disruption #change
• 2016-02-19a Preparing for a today-I-learned habit -- index card #til #learning
• 2016-02-13b Maintenance mode -- index card #energy #fuzzy
• 2016-02-18c Using time confetti -- index card #time #productivity
• 2016-02-18b Games and open loops -- index card #gaming
• 2016-02-13d Reading and diminishing returns -- index card #reading

Focus areas and time review

• Business (16.9h – 10%)
  • Earn (5.9h – 34% of Business)
    • ☐ Earn: E1: 1-2 days of consulting
  • Build (8.4h – 49% of Business)
    • Drawing (7.0h)
    • Paperwork (0.1h)
      • ☑ File federal annual return
  • Connect (2.6h – 15% of Business)
• Relationships (6.6h – 3%)
  • ☑ Take pictures of stuff from Jen
• Discretionary – Productive (8.6h – 5%)
  • Emacs (2.0h – 1% of all)
    • ☑ Do another Emacs News review
    • ☐ Do another Emacs News review
  • Sewing (0.0h)
  • Writing (4.1h)
  • Coding
    • ☑ See sketches in a range of dates
    • ☑ Authenticate
    • ☑ Make a mini-app for NPM today view
  • Latin
    • ☑ Re-memorize declensions
    • ☑ Memorize pronouns
  • ☑ Consider RRSP contribution
• Discretionary – Play (32.3h – 19%)
• Personal routines (31.2h – 18%)
• Unpaid work (7.4h – 4%)
• Sleep (65.0h – 38% – average of 9.3 per day)