Weekly review: Week ending January 23, 2015

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I posted nine blog posts this week, relaxing that once-a-day bottleneck that I've been using for the past few years. Mainly, it's because I want to talk about Emacs more than once a week while still keeping lots of variety so that I can talk about non-tech topics too. Daily readers: Is the volume unmanageable? How can I make this better for you?

On my consulting gig, I leveled up in terms of using Tableau. I think I've gotten the hang of dashboard actions now, and I'm more comfortable using calculated fields for attributes and aggregates. Whee!

This has been a good week for planning ahead and learning from others. The Quantified Self Toronto meetup on Monday got me thinking about an Epic Quest of Awesome, and that spun off a long, thoughtful conversation about questions. I'm looking forward to fleshing that out a bit more over the next few weeks.

Oh, and I finally applied for my passport, picked up my Cultural Access Pass, and took care of a number of other errands. Have day pass, will Get Stuff Done.

The Emacs microhabit I'm going to focus on this week is selecting multiple things in Helm, since that's one of its key features. =)

Blog posts

  1. Weekly review: Week ending January 16, 2015
  2. Minimizing upward or downward skew in your sketchnotes
  3. Improving my evil plans for Emacs
  4. Breaking down the skill of outlining
  5. Developing Emacs micro-habits: Abbreviations and templates
  6. Move your goalposts to get around an inability to finish projects How redefining your projects can help you satisfy a novelty-seeking brain, and how you can deal with interests or experiments that don't have clear ends
  7. Emacs Chat with Steve Purcell
  8. Visualizing the internal citation network of my blog
  9. Filling in the occupational blanks

Sketches

  1. 2015.01.17 Evening tweaks – index card #routines
  2. 2015.01.17 My Evil Plans for Emacs are yielding results – index card #emacs #sharing
  3. 2015.01.17 Playing with the index card format – index card #drawing
  4. 2015.01.17 Thoughts from Sketchnote Hangout – colour – index card #color #drawing
  5. 2015.01.17 Weekend routines – index card #life #routines
  6. 2015.01.18 Digging into my thoughts about emptying one's cup – #emacs #writing
  7. 2015.01.18 Emacs microhabit – Switching windows – index card #emacs #microhabit
  8. 2015.01.18 Journey to Emacs – Beginnings – index card #emacs #beginner
  9. 2015.01.18 Journey to Emacs – stages – index card #emacs
  10. 2015.01.18 Narratives – index card #storytelling #perspective
  11. 2015.01.18 The Sense of Style – index card #book #writing
  12. 2015.01.18 Thinking about evil-mode and Emacs – index card #emacs
  13. 2015.01.19 A good way to track writing revisions – index card #editing #tech
  14. 2015.01.19 Deeper outlines – index card #writing
  15. 2015.01.19 How can I get better at research – index card #learning
  16. 2015.01.19 Imagining an editing experiment – index card #delegation #writing #editing
  17. 2015.01.19 Improving my sharing – index card #writing #sharing
  18. 2015.01.19 Quantified Self Toronto – epic quests, kids, stopwatches, art projects
  19. 2015.01.20 Asking better questions – index card #asking
  20. 2015.01.20 Skill trees – asking questions – index card #skill
  21. 2015.01.20 Skill trees – web – index card #skill #coding
  22. 2015.01.20 Skill trees – writing – index card #skill
  23. 2015.01.20 What do I want from this quest list and skill tree visualization – index card
  24. 2015.01.21 Goal strategies – index card #popular-goals
  25. 2015.01.21 Playing with popular goals – Happiness – index card #popular-goals
  26. 2015.01.21 Popular goals – Fame – index card #popular-goals
  27. 2015.01.21 Popular goals – Health – index card #popular-goals
  28. 2015.01.21 Popular goals – Knowledge or experience – index card #popular-goals
  29. 2015.01.21 Popular goals – Meaning – index card #popular-goals
  30. 2015.01.21 Popular goals – Power – index card #popular-goals
  31. 2015.01.21 Popular goals – Wealth – index card #popular-goals
  32. 2015.01.21 Popular goals – tranquility, equanimity – index card #popular-goals
  33. 2015.01.21 What if I tried on common goals – index card #popular-goals
  34. 2015.01.22 Book – Leading the Life You Want – Friedman 2014 – index card #book
  35. 2015.01.22 Buffet of other goals – index card #goals
  36. 2015.01.22 Goals and skills – index card #goals
  37. 2015.01.22 Imagining a good quest or skill discussion – index card #goals #conversation
  38. 2015.01.22 Thesis projects for 2015 – ideas – index card #sharing #plans
  39. 2015.01.23 Book – Leaving a Trace – Alexandra Johnson – index card #writing #book
  40. 2015.01.23 Passport – mail or pickup – index card #decision
  41. 2015.01.23 Rough notes on goals and questions – for follow up – index card #rough #notes
  42. 2015.01.23 Tech upgrade triggers – index card #decision
  43. 2015.01.23 What would help me enjoy travel – index card

Link round-up

Focus areas and time review

  • Business (40.9h – 24%)
    • Earn (9.3h – 22% of Business)
      • Deposit cheque
      • Earn: E1: 1-2 days of consulting
    • Build (18.2h – 44% of Business)
      • Drawing (7.1h)
      • Delegation (0.0h)
      • Packaging (0.0h)
      • Paperwork (1.8h)
      • Fix cucumber for travis
      • Look into recently uploaded images
    • Connect (13.3h – 32% of Business)
      • Go to Quantified Self Toronto meetup
      • Post Quantified Self notes
      • Check out Sketchnote Hangout
      • Check out #lrnbook
  • Relationships (3.7h – 2%)
    • Call pharmacy
  • Discretionary – Productive (21.0h – 12%)
    • Emacs (5.9h – 3% of all)
      • Have Emacs Chat with Steve Purcell
      • Move my text-scale-increase binding
      • Check out speed-type
      • Figure out how to make pivot tables in Org
      • Figure out how to define abbreviations in Org Mode
      • Revise transcript for Steve Purcell
      • Look at Yasnippet doc TODOs
      • Try out Tern
    • Apply for passport – State "WAITING" from "STARTED" [2015-01-16 Fri 15:51]
    • Redeposit into TFSA
    • Invest in bonds in TFSA
    • Analyze index cards so far
    • Make Epic Quest of Awesome sheet
    • Pick up cultural access pass from Front and Parliament
    • Reflect on asking questions
    • Apply for passport
    • Type in goals
    • Brainstorm ideas for final project
    • Start git directory for drafts
    • Writing (8.1h)
  • Discretionary – Play (6.6h – 3%)
  • Personal routines (22.8h – 13%)
  • Unpaid work (14.7h – 8%)
  • Sleep (58.3h – 34% – average of 8.3 per day)

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