Blog posts

• Emacs, link roundup, books, and more – Weekly review: Week ending August 30, 2013
• How to learn Emacs keyboard shortcuts (a visual tutorial for newbies)
• Sketchnote: Managing Oneself (Peter Drucker)
• 4 steps to a better blog by planning your goals and post types
• Sketchnote lessons: Stick figures
• What keeps you from taking notes? 9 excuses and how to get past them

Other notes

• I updated https://sachachua.com/blog/book-accelerate-your-learning-with-sketchnotes/ with links to the things that are out there already
• We borrowed the Stardust movie from the library. Great watch.

Link round-up

• How can I turn off Google search results indirection? (Lifehacker)
• Time bandits (Pat Thomasson)
• Setting the pattern (The Simple Dollar) – getting the afternoon off to a strong start
• Drawing in class: Rachel Smith at TEDxUFM
• How and how not to buy a house (Mr. Money Mustache) – we’re not planning to move any time soon, but these tips are handy.
• How to plan a sabbatical-style career break (Lifehacker) – these mini-experiments with semi-retirement are becoming more popular, yay
• My top 5 tips to becoming an extreme early retirement expert (Early Retirement Extreme) – I should dig into resources for boat keeping / provisioning to learn more.
• Using color on sketchnotes (The Thinking Canvas) – Kevin Dulle has a neat one-page guide

Focus areas and time review

• Business (21.5h – 12%)
  • Earn (14.5h – 67% of Business)
    • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • [ ] Work on new slides
  • Build (4.8h – 22% of Business)
    • Quantified Awesome (0.0h)
    • Drawing (1.0h)
      • [X] Draw another sketchnote lesson
      • [ ] Package sketchnote lessons as a PWYC PDF
      • [ ] Sketchnote a book
    • Paperwork (0.0h)
      • [X] File payroll return
      • [X] Updated my Quickbooks with Paypal transactions
    • [ ] Rejig 404 page
  • Connect (2.2h – 10% of Business)
    • [X] Send bio to Ryerson
    • [X] Chat with Sedarius about personal knowledge management
    • [ ] Process and upload another QS Toronto video
    • [ ] Sketchnote Third Tuesday Toronto (Mitch Joel)
• Relationships (15.6h – 9%)
  • [X] Hang out with W-‘s family
  • [X] Mend curtain
  • [X] Make an inventory of the spices in our cabinet
  • [ ] Go through Latin Made Simple chapter 1
• Discretionary – Productive (14.2h – 8%)
  • [X] Call MA
  • [X] Follow up on How to retire the cheapskate way
  • [X] Scan receipts
  • [ ] Go to MEC
  • [ ] Practise with stove
  • Writing (9.5h)
• Discretionary – Play (6.7h – 4%)
  • Started playing “The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky”
• Personal routines (24.1h – 14%)
• Unpaid work (18.2h – 10%)
• Sleep (69.0h – 41% – average of 9.9 per day)