- Visual Book Notes: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals - Oliver Burkeman (2021)
- What did I learn from this experiment with semi-retirement?
- How do I want consulting to fit into my life?
- A reflection on leisure and discretionary time
- Moving past getting things done
- Tweaking my daily routines for that feeling of progress
- From dreams to experiments
- Quiet afternoons and weeks
- Learning from a diversity of ways to live a significant life
- Being extra-kind to myself
- Considering tech and the home
- Starting from a small life
- What do I want to get ready for next?
- Learning to live slowly
- Different dimensions of scaling up
- The 5-year experiment: A conversation with my anxious side, and how sharing time might be better than giving money
- Finding a model for my sharing
- Learning to work on my own things
- Filling in the occupational blanks
- When you feel like you're spending a lot of time on low-impact activities
- Relaxed routines
- Learning slack
- What could I do if I showed up in a bigger way?
- Reducing my consulting
- Thinking about rewards and recognition since I'm on my own
- Recovering from a sprint
- Crunch mode
- Doing more consulting
- Planning ahead for experiments
- Anticipating experiment outcomes
- Nudging the balance toward work
- Thinking about leisure activities: noble, advantageous, pleasant
- Learning from frugal lives of years past
- Planning my next little business
- Quiet days
- Hmm, maybe I'm not slacking off after all
- Reflecting on risk aversion
- Thinking about what I want to do with my time
- Planning ahead for the stories
- Reinvesting time and money into Emacs
- Rethinking my time categories: the blurring of business and discretionary activities
- Working fast and slow
- Experiment update: Mid-term pre-mortem check
- Going fishing for three years
- Reflecting on what I want to contribute to and how interested people might (semi-)work with me
- Reflections on infopreneurship
- Reflection: Two years into my 5-year experiment
- Reflections on learning to be an entrepreneur
- A conversation about writing, and reflections on taskmasters
- Other-work and self-work
- Becoming my own client; also, delegation
- The power of no: being completely* unhireable until 2017 (and possibly longer)
- Reflecting on a month of experimenting with Proper Retirement
- On making big, scary decisions, and how I left an awesome job to do my own thing; or how to be a Builder Lemming
- Thinking about business cards
- Business experience report: Setting up payroll and benefits
- Choosing openness and scale
- How hacking my wants helped me experiment with early retirement
- Things I’m learning about semi-retirement
- Experiment notes: Accounting, sales, and marketing–all the other parts of a business
- Planning my code/development learning
- Accelerating my business learning: setting a goal for a new business every month
- Experience report: Naming my company!
- Experiment pre-mortem: Imagining and dealing with causes of failure
- Taking a month off from consulting
- This is what five years looks like
- Experience report: So much for having a virtual bookstore
- Experience report: Applying for a Harmonized Sales Tax account
- Experience report: Opening the RBC Small Business eAccount
- People-centered entrepreneurship
- Experience report: Renting a business mailbox
- Experience report: Incorporating a federal numbered corporation in Canada
- Thinking about how to experiment with business and what I might want to do
- Getting ready for my next experiment!