Things I'm learning

TODO Learn how to combine Jasmine and Angular

DONE Go through a QUnit tutorial

DONE Go through a Jasmine tutorial

describe("PrettyDate.format", function() {
    function checkDate(name, then, expected) {
        it(name, function() {
            expect(prettyDate.format('2008/01/28 22:25:00Z', then)).toEqual(expected);
        });
    }
    checkDate("should display recent times", '2008/01/28 22:24:30Z', 'just now');
    checkDate("should display times within a minute", '2008/01/28 22:23:30Z', '1 minute ago');
    checkDate("should display times within an hour", '2008/01/28 21:23:30Z', '1 hour ago');
    checkDate("should display times within a day", '2008/01/27 22:23:30Z', 'Yesterday');
    checkDate("should display times within two days", '2008/01/26 22:23:30Z', '2 days ago');
});
describe("PrettyDate.update", function() {
    function domtest(name, now, first, second) {
       it(name, function() {
           loadFixtures('test_fixture.html');
           var links = document.getElementById('qunit-fixture').getElementsByTagName('a');
           expect(links[0].innerHTML).toEqual('January 28th, 2008');
           expect(links[2].innerHTML).toEqual('January 27th, 2008');
           prettyDate.update(now);
           expect(links[0].innerHTML).toEqual(first);
           expect(links[2].innerHTML).toEqual(second);
       });
    }

     domtest("prettyDate.update", '2008-01-28T22:25:00Z', '2 hours ago', 'Yesterday');
     domtest("prettyDate.update, one day later", '2008-01-29T22:25:00Z', 'Yesterday', '2 days ago');

});

DONE Write about beginner steps for testing

STARTED Find an easy way to look up Japanese when typing into Emacs

DONE Find an e-book for learning Japanese and put it on my laptop & tablet

DONE Find a Japanese plain past tense practice tool

DONE Find a Tableau e-book and put it on my laptop/tablet

DONE A-B-A test: Without, with, without deadlines

DONE Make a list of questions I'm curious about

DONE Ask questions in public

DONE Set up conversations

DONE Share notes/transcripts

Learn from historical figures

• Note-taking
  
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Michael Faraday http://www.academia.edu/442248/Faradays_Notebooks_the_Active_Organization_of_Creative_Science
    • Diaries, idea books, loose slips, retrieval sheets, work sheets; paste-ups, indexes; amanuensis; common-place book
  • Locke - real-time index
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Improvement of the Mind (Isaac Watts)

TODO Tracking: Update the number of tasks   lowenergy routine

(defun sacha/org-count-tasks-by-status ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((counts (make-hash-table :test 'equal))
        (today (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d" (current-time)))
        values output)
    (org-map-entries
     (lambda ()
       (let* ((status (elt (org-heading-components) 2)))
         (when status
           (puthash status (1+ (or (gethash status counts) 0)) counts))))
     nil
     'agenda)
    (setq values (mapcar (lambda (x)
                           (or (gethash x counts) 0))
                         '("DONE" "STARTED" "TODO" "WAITING" "DELEGATED" "CANCELLED" "SOMEDAY")))
    (setq output
          (concat "| " today " | "
                  (mapconcat 'number-to-string values " | ")
                  " | "
                  (number-to-string (apply '+ values))
                  " | "
                  (number-to-string
                   (round (/ (* 100.0 (car values)) (apply '+ values))))
                  "% |"))
    (if (called-interactively-p 'any)
        (insert output)
      output)))
(sacha/org-count-tasks-by-status)

library(ggplot2)
dates <- strptime(as.character(data$Date), "%Y-%m-%d")
tasks_done <- as.numeric(data$DONE)
tasks_uncancelled <- as.numeric(data$Total) - as.numeric(data$CANC.)
df <- data.frame(dates, tasks_done, tasks_uncancelled)
plot = ggplot(data=df, aes(x=dates, y=tasks_done)) + geom_line(color="#009900") + geom_point() + geom_line(aes(y=tasks_uncancelled), color="blue") + geom_point(aes(y=tasks_uncancelled))
print(plot)

library(ggplot2)
dates <- strptime(as.character(data$Date), "%Y-%m-%d")
tasks_remaining <- as.numeric(data$Total) - as.numeric(data$CANC.) - as.numeric(data$DONE)
df <- data.frame(dates, tasks_remaining)
plot = ggplot(data=df, aes(x=dates, y=tasks_remaining, ymin=0)) + geom_line(color="#009900") + geom_point()
print(plot)

DONE Track cat data   @home routine

(progn
 (browse-url "https://docs.google.com/a/sachachua.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsLpkeSVIjRYdE40bU13V3I5YV9XMlA3bW5XaVB4Tmc&usp=drive_web#gid=0")
(browse-url-firefox "http://192.168.1.11/webcam"))

DONE Use the structured debriefing framework for one occasion, then reflect on it

Work up to delegating 30 hours of work a week

• DONE Consider encouraging current assistants vs adding more assistants
  

  :Effort: 0:15

  • Sticking with current team
    • Decent skills
    • Need more pushing, perhaps, since I'm too nice and I allow people to pick instead of assigning tasks? Try getting the hang of assigning tasks first.
  • Adding more people
    • Could possibly run into task starvation
    • But more skills! Coding? Emacs Lisp?
    • Learn how to manage the assistants I have first, before greedily adding more.
• DONE Add more tasks to delegation board in Trello
  

  :Effort: 0:30

• DONE Examine unscheduled tasks for things that can be delegated
  

  :Effort: 0:30

  Nothing! Really? Weird…

CANCELLED Document three processes each week

DONE Borrow yoga DVD and try half an hour every other day

CANCELLED Sign up for a class series (8 weeks?)

DONE Try two spice combinations

DONE Planning: Figuring out good questions to explore and resources/experiments for those questions

• DONE If I focus on just-in-time learning (instead of scheduled courses or recurring membership), then I will use the momentum to directly apply the lessons and I won't feel guilty about unused resources
  
• DONE If I name the things I'm learning about and map them to categories, then I can look up my notes and visualize the accumulation
  
• DONE If I track experiments in Org Mode, then good ideas won't slip through the cracks and I will be deliberately observing effects and making progress   month
  

  <2014-01-05 Sun>–<2014-02-05 Wed> Duration: 1 month Previous state: Flickr Conclusion: GOOD.

SOMEDAY Learning from people

CANCELLED Finding and filling gaps

To share

Writing

• DONE Pretend that I am confident
  

DONE Collecting questions and sharing answers/tips

SOMEDAY Organizing and collating

SOMEDAY Finding and filling gaps

DONE Podcasting, video

DONE Hangouts

DONE Helpouts

• DONE When I offer 30-minute Helpouts for Emacs, then this will be enough time to comfortably explore someone's configuration
  

SOMEDAY Personal updates (see Connecting)

To share

DONE Using colour for emphasis, structure, and visual variety

• DONE If I draw with blue and black as my default workflow, then I can add shading with a light blue or light yellow highlight to add more depth and interest to my sketches
  
  • 2014-01-11: Pretty all right. Will continue.
  • Previous: Drew with red and black; used to draw with blue and black, but decided not to because I didn't have the pens handy. Will change to always carrying the pens in my belt bag.
  • If false: Blue is hard to see at a glance, and switching and colouring are less fun. SCHEDULED: <2014-01-05 Sun>–<2014-01-11 Sat>
• DONE If I draw with red and black, then my sketchnotes will be more visually structured while still keeping post-processing simple
  
  • Previous: All black or all blue; sometimes computer-coloured
  • If false: Thumbnails are still difficult to distinguish; feeling vs all-black sketches; feeling vs blue-and-black sketches like

  Blue	Flickr	Blog
  Red	Flickr	Blog

  • [2014-01-05]: If I use red, I usually have to colour-correct it in Autodesk Sketchbook Pro so that it doesn't look pink. I haven't figured out how to automate this yet, since Autodesk Sketchbook Pro neatly allows me to avoid correcting grayscale items. Per image, it's a few clicks and a drag. Leaning towards blue again. Red is more fun, though.

  Evaluated over three days: <2014-01-03 Fri>–<2014-01-05 Sun>

• DONE If I spend at least one day a week drawing on my computer, then I will improve my workflow and get a better sense of my needs
  

DONE Figures, hands, faces :low-energy:

SOMEDAY Depth :low-energy:

DONE Visual vocabulary :low-energy:

DONE Metaphors :low-energy:

To share

DONE Establishing a winter exercise routine

• DONE If I play with exercise (ex: zombie survival mode), then I can make it fun enough to do 3x a week
  

  Biking is fun. At home - strength exercises while playing?

DONE House

• DONE If we let Leia out in the basement on non-litterbox-accident days, then the number of accidents will be less than three times a month   quarter
  

  [2014-01-05 Sun]–[2014-04-05 Sat] Started [2013-01-05] (three-day isolation protocol whenever she has tummy problems)

  Previous: Bathroom almost all day except when we're there to monitor

• DONE If we don't turn on special heating downstairs, the cats will still be fine   month
  

  If false: The cats are shivering or they catch cold <2014-01-05 Sun>–<2014-01-11 Sat>

• DONE If I establish a weekly routine with daily vacuuming, then I will clean more regularly   week
  
  • If false: I drop the schedule after a week
  • Previous: Occasional weekend cleaning <2014-01-05 Sun>–<2014-01-12 Sun>

  Yeaaaah… right.

• DONE If I embrace research and comparison shopping as an opportunity to geek out more, then I will feel less overwhelmed and more edified
  
  • 2013-01-06: Vacuum
• DONE If I spend time maintaining the things I like, then I can make them last longer than I expected
  
  • 2013-01-06: Boots
• If I invest in amending the soil and I stop trying to balance the cost (treat it like a hobby instead of as grocery-replacement), then I'll enjoy growing basil, tomatoes, and bitter melon
  

  Garden

DONE Minimalism, quality

DONE More recipes

Stoicism

• DONE Track negative feelings
  

  <2014-01-26 Sun>–<2014-02-26 Wed>

  http://sachachua.com/blog/2014/01/simplifying-with-stoicism-examining-negative-feelings/

  [2014-01-26]	Went for a two-hour walk in the snow. Was fine.
  [2014-01-27 Mon]	Paper cut. No problem.
  [2014-01-28 Tue]	Worked with Java. Not frustrated.
  [2014-02-09]	Anxious about potential side-effects.

• DONE Identify attachments
  
• DONE Identify what I can control
  
• DONE Practise negative visualization
  

To share

DONE Creating collections and courses

DONE Delegation

• DONE If I identify a large list of tasks to outsource AND I set aside time to train and document, then I will benefit from having the tasks regularly taken care of, and this will be more reassuring than stressful
  
• Hypothesis: I can manage 30 hours of useful delegated work each week
  

  <2014-01-26 Sun>–<2014-02-26 Wed>

  Duplicate of Work up to delegating 30 hours of work a week

SOMEDAY Partnering

To share

DONE Learning more about people online, and sharing more of myself

DONE Asking for help

DONE Games

SOMEDAY Social updates (personal stories, etc.)

SOMEDAY Conferences

DONE Hacklab

• DONE If I mentally commit to going to Hacklab at least one full day a week, then I'll appreciate more of the benefits of going there   month
  

  Previous: I try to go once a week, but I often talk myself out of it because it's cold or I'm not sure if anyone will be there (Fridays? Mondays?)

To share

DONE Drawing and writing things to help people learn basic and intermediate topics

DONE Org improvements

DONE Emacs/package contributions

To share

Entrepreneurship

• DONE Defining the problem
  
• DONE Validating ideas
  
• DONE Planning my next mini-experiments
  
• CANCELLED Experimenting with microstock illustrations
  
• DONE Decision review: Starting my own business
  
• DONE Learning about business
  
• DONOE What I've learned about service businesses
  
• DONE Learning about product businesses
  
• CANCELLED Amazon affiliate update
  
• DONE Business and my personal learning network
  

Sales

• DONE How to not be overwhelmed by opportunities and to-dos
  
  • target: one conference
• CANCELLED Writing sales letters
  
• DONE Reaching out for that initial conversation
  
• DONE Following up on conversations
  
• DONE Closing the sale
  
• DONE Refining my message
  
• DONE Sketchnoting my sales letter
  
• DONE Experience report: Connecting with agencies
  
• DONE Experience report: Connecting with organizers
  

Marketing

• DONE Developing an editorial calendar for my business blog
  
• CANCELLED Experience report: Finding trade publications
  

Skills

• Summarizing is hard
  
• Learning how to summarize
  
  • newspaper game
• DONE What's new in Rails
  

  :Effort: 2:00

  :QUANTIFIED: 0:30

• DONE Adding tests to Quantified Awesome
  

  :Effort: 4:00

• DONE How to draw abstract concepts
  
• DONE Developing a colour scheme
  
• DONE How to listen and draw at the same time
  
• DONE Sketchnote compilation
  
• DONE Organizing sketchnotes
  
• DONE Animation workflow
  
• DONE Learning plan: Sketchnotes
  
• DONE Revising my sketchnotes
  
• DONE Planning how to learn: Whiteboard animations
  
• DONE Getting the hang of drawing sketchnotes
  

Reading

• Metaphor and Emotion :opportunity-fund:
  

  http://www.amazon.com/Metaphor-Emotion-Language-Interaction-ebook/dp/B000SEUPH6/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1372988059&sr=8-1&keywords=metaphor+and+emotion $7.95 rent for a month $17.60 Kindle $36.87 Paperback

• TODO Request books from the library focusing on one of the topics
  
• DONE Planning my business reading list
  
• DONE Reviewing my book notes
  

Delegation

• DONE How I hire people on oDesk
  
• DONE Learning from how other people delegate
  
• DONE Imagining wild success: delegation
  
• DONE Delegating scheduling to a virtual assistant
  
• DONE Using Trello to visually track delegated tasks
  
• DONE Planning ahead in terms of people
  
• DONE Writing down your processes
  
• DONE Evaluating assistants
  

Connecting

• CANCELLED Get a rich e-mail summary of your agenda
  
• DONE Personal contact relationship management
  
• DONE Helping people get started
  
• DONE Making the most of meetups
  
• DONE The shy connector: choosing your events
  
• DONE The shy connector: taking notes
  
• DONE The shy connector: following up
  
• DONE Getting better at following up
  
• DONE Working on being more social
  
• DONE My meetup workflow
  
• DONE Spending on people
  

Paperwork

• DONE Reducing stress around accounting
  

Others

• 52 visual book reviews
  

  30 items - 57%
  1. 2012-02-29 Book - 6 Secrets to Startup Success - John Bradberry.png
  2. 2012-03-04 Book - The Start-up of You - Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha.png
  3. 2012-03-06 Book - How to Read a Book - Mortimer J. Adler, Charles van Doren.png
  4. 2012-03-19 Book - Critical Inquiry - Michael Boylan.png
  5. 2012-03-19 Book - Getting to Yes - Roger Fisher, William Ury, Bruce Patton.png
  6. 2012-03-21 Book - Enough - Patrick Rhone.png
  7. 2012-03-21 Book - Thank You for Arguing - Jay Heinrichs.png
  8. 2012-05-09 Book - 100-dollar Startup - Chris Guillebeau.png
  9. 2012-09-04 Book - Help Your Kids Get Better Grades - Gary E.png
  10. 2012-12-04 Book - Visual Problem-solving - Dan Roam.png
  11. 2012-12-11 Book - Best Practices Are Stupid - Stephen M. Shapiro.png
  12. 2012-12-11 Book - The Sketchnote Handbook - Mike Rohde.png
  13. 2012-12-28 Book - Blue Ocean Strategy - W Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne.png
  14. 2012-12-28 Book - Running Lean - Ash Maurya.png
  15. 2012-12-29 Book - The Art of Pricing - Rafi Mohammed.png
  16. 2012-12-30 Book - Cool Time - A Hands-on Plan for Managing Work and Balancing Time - Steve Prentice.png
  17. 2013-05-01 Book - Red Thread Thinking - Debra Kaye, Karen Kelly.png
  18. 2013-06-28 Book - Leading Out Loud - Terry Pearce.png
  19. 2013-07-05 Book - The First 20 Hours - How to Learn Anything.png
  20. 2014-01-28 Book - Decode and Conquer - Lewis Lin.png
  21. 2014-03-26 Book - Conscious Millionaire - JV Crum III.png
  22. 2014-04-16 Book - Mastery - Robert Greene.png
  23. 2014-12-01 Sketched Book - The Inner Game of Work - W Timothy Gallwey.png
  24. 2014-12-10 Sketched Book - The Stoic Art of Living - Inner Resilience and Outer Results - Tom Morris.png
  25. 2014-12-12 Sketched Book - Just Fucking Ship - Amy Hoy and Alex Hillman.png
  26. 2014-12-13 Sketched Book - Start With Why - Simon Sinek.png
  27. 2014-12-14 Sketched Book - Write Faster Write Better - David A Fryxell.png
  28. 2014-12-25 Sketched Book - Take Charge of Your Talent - Three Keys to Thriving in Your Career, Organization, and Life - Don Maruska and Jay Perry.png
  29. 2014-12-31 Sketched Book - The Checklist Manifesto - How to Get Things Right - Atul Gawande.png
  30. 2015-01-03 Sketched Book - So Good They Can't Ignore You - Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love - Cal Newport.png
  

  (let ((count 0)
        (files
         (directory-files directory nil pattern)))
    (format "%d items - %d%%\n%s" 
            (length files)
            (/ (* 100.0 (length files)) target)
            (mapconcat
             (lambda (x)
               (setq count (1+ count))
               (format "%d. %s" count (replace-regexp-in-string strip "" x)))
             files
             "\n")))
  

• CANCELLED 365 presentations
  
• DONE Experience report: 1-year anniversary
  
• DONE Figuring out what to spend on
  
• DONE On job titles
  
• DONE Improving my bike ride
  
• DONE Combinations of skills
  
• CANCELLED Planning a presentation 20 seconds at a time
  
• DONE Planning for emergencies
  
• DONE Decision review: Tablet PC
  
• DONE Developing more flexible skills
  
• CANCELLED Looking forward to tablet development
  

Cooking

• Exploring ingredients
  
  • DONE Cooking: Warm lentil salad with sausages
    
  • CANCELLED Celeriac soup
    
  • DONE The quest for quinoa
    
  • DONE Barley beginnings
    
  • CANCELLED Swiss chard surprises
    
  • DONE Salad days
    
  • CANCELLED Lentil and sausage salad
    
• Exploring techniques
  
  • CANCELLED Cooking with the rice cooker
    
  • CANCELLED Making our own siumai
    
  • DONE Quiche quiche quiche quiche
    
• DONE List: Frozen lunches and other bulk meals
  

Gardening

• CANCELLED Growing lentils
  

Organizing

• DONE Organizing my notes with Evernote and Emacs
  

Spending time together

• DONE Spending time with friends
  
• DONE Spending time with W-
  
• CANCELLED Taking more pictures
  
• CANCELLED Sending more letters
  
• DONE Learning more about friends
  

Learning new skills

• SOMEDAY Getting started with Cantonese
  
• SOMEDAY Cantonese: Learning jyutping
  
• SOMEDAY Cantonese: Phrases at home
  
• SOMEDAY Random Cantonese sentences
  
• DONE Getting started with Latin
  
• SOMEDAY Latin: Phrases at home
  

Helping out

• CANCELLED Meetup marketing: Developing a communications plan
  

Exercise

• CANCELLED Decision: Krav maga gym membership?
  

Emacs

• DONE Learning Emacs keyboard shortcuts
  
• DONE Learning from others: Emacs and your personal learning network
  
• DONE Playing games in Emacs
  
• DONE Organizing my Org Mode archive
  
• DONE Org-babel and why it's good to mix code and explanation
  
• CANCELLED Tracking people with org-contacts
  

Wordpress and web development

• CANCELLED Custom post types and book reviews
  
• CANCELLED Custom post types and search
  
• CANCELLED NextGen Gallery and search
  
• DONE Things I like about other people's websites
  

Personal finance

• DONE Managing your money with uneven income
  
• DONE Managing my personal and business finances
  

Planning

• DONE 2013 in review
  
• CANCELLED Tag clouds for planning
  
• DONE Planning how to learn
  
• DONE Premortems and wild success stories
  
• DONE What I feel brilliant at
  
• DONE Making my own opportunities
  

Quantified

• DONE Analyze a year of clothing data
  

  :Effort: 2:00

  :QUANTIFIED: Quantified

• CANCELLED Building a price book
  

  :Effort: 2:00

• DONE A year of grocery update
  
• CANCELLED Looking at my application use
  
• CANCELLED Taking more pictures
  
• DONE Learning plan: Data analysis
  
• DONE Examining my morning routine
  

Writing

• CANCELLED The hundred-item list
  
• DONE Organizing what I know
  
• DONE Brainstorming lists
  
• CANCELLED The power of long lists
  
• DONE Improving my writing systems
  
• SOMEDAY Collecting stories and quotes
  
• SOMEDAY Writing everywhere
  
• DONE What I like writing about
  

Other

• DONE Remembering to make time for yourself
  
• CANCELLED Decision review: Shed
  
• DONE Getting started with weekly reviews
  
• CANCELLED Decision review: mobile phone decisions
  
• CANCELLED Decision review: Asus Infinity TF700
  
• DONE Make better decisions with emotions
  
• DONE Without the excuse of time
  
• CANCELLED List: Ways I use my tablet
  
• SOMEDAY Learning R
  
• SOMEDAY APIdventures: Google Mail
  
• SOMEDAY APIdventures: Meetup
  
• SOMEDAY APIdventures: Twitter
  
• SOMEDAY APIdventures: Evernote
  
• SOMEDAY Learning plan: Android
  
• DONE How I read
  
• SOMEDAY Meditations in everyday moments
  
• SOMEDAY Looking for patterns
  
• SOMEDAY Relaxing
  

[X] Relationships

• [X] Planning and decision-making: Learn by making decisions
  
  • ☑ Decided to start business after checking with family
  • ☑ Sort out upcoming plans
• [X] Cultivating relationships with family: Learn by reaching out
  
  • ☑ Establish regular habit of chatting with my mom over Skype
• [X] Cultivating connections online: Learn by reaching out
  
  • ☑ Find role models online
  • ☑ Build a cohort online
• [X] Making time for friends: Learn by reaching out
  
• [X] Local tech events: Learn by finding out about events and attending them
  
• [X] Shared interests
  
  • [X] Once-a-month cooking: Learn by doing
    
  • [X] Dealing with community-supported agriculture: Learn by doing
    
  • [X] Tutoring: Learn by doing and reading
    

[X] Drawing: Learn by doing and by being inspired by other people

• [X] Drawing with more colours
  
• [X] Organizing information visually
  
• [X] Drawing figures
  
• [X] Illustrating life, tips
  
• [X] Taking, organizing, and sharing more pictures
  

[X] Writing: Learn by doing and reading

• [X] Writing about life and things I'm learning
  
  • Goal: Write notes and pointers to memories so that I can remember and share stories
  • Current: 0.9 hours a day
  • Estimate: 80 hours, part of discretionary buffer time as well
• [/] Writing family stories
  
  • Goal: Help capture and share some of our family stories
  • Estimate: 40 hours
• [/] Organizing stories
  
  • Goal: Build a system for collaboratively working on and organizing stories
  • Estimate: 40 hours
• [X] Organizing notes
  
  • Goal: Make it easy for me (and possibly other people) to browse my notes by topic or explore a knowledge map
  • Estimate: 40 hours
• [X] Putting together an e-book that will be useful to at least one other person
  
  • Goal: Learn how to package information so that I can scale up
  • Estimate: 80 hours

[X] Business

• [X] Incorporate
  
• [X] Set up finances
  
• [X] Work with clients
  
• [C] Work with an accountant to file a return
  
• [X] Earn at least $100 online
  

[X] Self-tracking / personal informatics: Learn with Quantified Awesome

• [X] Goal tracking
  
  • Goal: Visual way to keep track of how much I work each week, how much I sleep, how much time I spend on focused learning, etc.; also, customizable questions to help me change my behaviour
  • Estimate: 16 hours

  Built this into dashboard, yay!

• [X] Visualization
  
  • [X] Time
    
    • Goal: Overall view of how I spent my time in a month or in a year, so that I can shift my time patterns
    • Estimate: 16 hours
  • [X] Goals
    
    • State "DONE" from "" [2012-01-13 Fri 11:08]

    :Modified: 1326470907

    • Goal: See goal tracking
    • Estimate: 16 hours
  • [X] Use - tried it with groceries
    
    • Goal: Identify things worth spending money or time on based on past use and satisfaction
    • Estimate: 16 hours
• [/] Behavioural change
  
  • Goal: Get better and better at life by structuring each month as an experiment
  • Estimate: 48 hours
• [/] Applying automated testing to life
  
  • Goal: Stop more things from falling through the cracks by developing automated tests (ex: checking balances, etc.)
  • Estimate: 16 hours
• [/] Accommodating other people's patterns
  
  • Goal: Build systems that other people can use so that I can help them and so that I can learn from how they live
  • Estimate: 80 hours
• SOMEDAY HTML5 development - changed from Android development
  
  • Goal: custom app for tracking and reporting, so that I can keep an eye on my goals and collect/analyze more data
  • Estimate: 80 hours

Tools: Learn by doing

• [X] Take advantage of improvements in Emacs and Org-mode
  
  • Goal: Make the most of the tools I use
  • Estimate: 16 hours
• [X] Learn how to make the most of Org-mode outlines - maybe use this for knowledge representation?
  
  • Goal: Get to know Emacs Org Mode thoroughly so that I can use it to organize and publish what I know
  • Estimate: 8 hours
• [X] Other tools that can take advantage of extra CPU and memory
  
  • Goal: Find apps or packages that can help me work even more effectively
  • Estimate: 26 hours

  Speech recognition

• [X] Org and synchronization between multiple computers
  
  • Goal: Get this sorted out so that I don't accidentally lose any information
  • Estimate: 4 hours
• [X] [#C] Web service integration
  
  • Goal: Interact with Quantified Awesome from Emacs so that I can meld Org and QA
  • Estimate: 16 hours

Delegation / elimination: Learn by doing

• [-] Delegating some chores?
  
• [X] Simplifying stuff and routines
  

Consulting / services

• [X] Determining needs: Learn with engagements
  
• [X] Social business consulting - in progress
  
• [-] Business writing
  
• [X] Illustration - in progress
  
• CANCELLED Social analytics: Learn with work engagements
  

Development

• Front-end and web design
  
  • 2012-04-01: Still on the list, but lowered the priority
  • [-] More JQuery + AJAX for richer interactions?: Learn with work projects
    

    Not estimated because this is part of work

  • [X] CSS and frameworks: Learn with work projects
    

    Not estimated because this is part of work

    • Project C: Sass, Compass, CSS3 (January 2012)
  • [X] Basic information architecture: Learn with Quantified Awesome
    
    • Goal: Figure out a mobile and web interface that fits the way I (and maybe other people) live
    • Estimate: 40 hours
• Launching
  
  • [X] Testing ideas: Learn with Quantified Awesome
    
    • Goal: Test ideas and see which ones might be useful to people; build networks
    • Estimate: 40 hours
    • 2012-04-01: Some people using it already
  • [X] Launching with minimal or no defects: Learn with work projects
    
    • 2012-04-01: No further progress specifically planned for this year; focusing on non-development projects
  • [X] Launching personal projects: Learn with Quantified Awesome
    
    • Goal: Make life better for at least one other person
    • Estimate: 80 hours
    • 2012-04-01: Some people using it already
• [P] Projects
  
  • 2012-04-01: Demoted to focus on drawing, writing, and consulting
  • [-] Agile development: I want to get better at planning and executing agile projects
    
  • [X] Documentation: I want to take better notes so that I can support projects more effectively
    
• DONE Testing
  
  • 2012-04-01: No further progress specifically planned for this year
  • [X] 100% test coverage
    
    • Goal: Get used to building more slowly and reliably
    • Estimate: 40 hours; rest included in development
  • [X] Selenium and other front-end tests
    
    • Learned how to write Selenium IDE and Selenium RC tests
  • [X] Behaviour-driven development: Learn with work projects, Quantified Awesome
    
    • Goal: Learn how to express behaviour clearly and concisely so that I can specify my own apps
• [P] Rails: Learn with Quantified Awesome
  
  • 2012-04-01: Demoted Rails development in order to focus on drawing and writing
  • Previous goal: I want to learn more about Rails because I want to get better at building systems to support the way I want to live, and because I enjoy using it.
  • [-] Rails 3.1: I want to take advantage of new features while building Quantified Awesome
    
    • Goal: Use Quantified Awesome to answer my questions about how I spend my time, what I use, and how I want to grow
    • Estimate: 80 hours
  • [-] Mongo and other data stores
    
    • Goal: Work with data that does not easily fit SQL data models
    • Estimate: 20 hours
  • [-] APIs: I want to integrate my web apps with lots of other tools, and allow for integration
    
    • Goal: Add a native Android app and an Emacs interface; possibly integrate Twitter, my blog, and other websites for more data / questions
    • Estimate: 80 hours
  • [-] Performance tuning: I want to make sure my systems can handle the requests I want it to.
    

    Not estimated because this is part of work

  • [-] Security testing: I want to be more confident in the applications I build.
    

    Not estimated because this is part of work

• CANCELLED Drupal
  
  • 2012-04-01: Demoted Drupal development in order to focus on drawing and writing
  • [ ] Installation profiles and code packaging: Learn with work projects
    
  • [ ] Testing
    
  • [ ] Drupal 7
    
• CANCELLED Android development
  
  • DONE Set up my development environment again
    
    • State "DONE" from "TODO" [2011-12-16 Fri 18:54]

    :Modified: 1324079663

  • DONE Get Quantified Awesome to show up on my Android
    
    • State "DONE" from "TODO" [2011-12-16 Fri 18:54]

    :Modified: 1324079665

  • DONE Accept a file from Tap Log Records
    
    • State "DONE" from "TODO" [2011-12-16 Fri 20:34]

    :Modified: 1324085675

    <intent-filter>
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
    <data android:mimeType="*/*" />
    </intent-filter>
    

  • DONE Display a value from the file from Tap Log Records
    
    • State "DONE" from "TODO" [2012-01-13 Fri 11:07]

    :Modified: 1326470850

  • DONE Display the total work time
    
    • State "DONE" from "TODO" [2012-01-13 Fri 11:07]

    :Modified: 1326470857

  • DONE Display the total work time this week
    
    • State "DONE" from "TODO" [2012-01-13 Fri 11:07]

    :Modified: 1326470858

  • DONE Display yesterday's statistics for sleep and discretionary time
    
    • State "DONE" from "TODO" [2012-01-13 Fri 11:07]

    :Modified: 1326470859

  • DONE Build simple text input
    
    • State "DONE" from "TODO" [2012-01-13 Fri 11:07]

    :Modified: 1326470864