Weekly review: Week ending January 30, 2015
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This week was the week of focusing on vegetables. I made Japanese curry with a pickled salad on the side (daikon, cucumber, carrot), shepherd's pie, and pad thai. It was great to have so many vegetable-focused dishes in the fridge. Looking forward to exploring more recipes and building up this habit!
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Blog posts
- Weekly review: Week ending January 23, 2015
- Filling in the occupational blanks
- Sketchnote Hangout: Playing with colour
- Emacs kaizen: helm-swoop and editing
- Writing: Open loops, closed loops, and working with forgetfulness
- Emacs microhabit: Switching windows with windmove, ace-window, and ace-jump
- Read business books more effectively through application, visualization, or reviews
- Learning to work on my own things
- Getting data from Org Mode tables
- Finding a model for my sharing
Sketches
- Emacs
- Learning
- Connecting
- 2015-01-24 Curry udon -- index card #cooking
- 2015-01-24 Curry udon -- index card #cooking
- 2015-01-25 Learning from people -- index card #learning #people
- 2015-01-27 Field's metal -- index card #hacklab
- 2015-01-29 Being okay with unfair -- index card #stoicism
- 2015-01-30 How can I get better at being clever on demand -- index card #emacs
- Goals
- 2015-01-24 Curry udon -- index card #cooking
- 2015-01-25 Learning from people -- index card #learning #people
- 2015-01-25 Learning from people -- index card #learning #people
- 2015-01-25 Learning from people -- index card #learning #people
- 2015-01-27 Field's metal -- index card #hacklab
- 2015-01-27 Field's metal -- index card #hacklab
- Drawing
- Sharing
- Raw book notes
- Experiment
- Cooking
- Life
- 2015-01-25 Learning from people -- index card #learning #people
- 2015-01-27 Field's metal -- index card #hacklab
- 2015-01-27 Field's metal -- index card #hacklab
- 2015-01-29 Being okay with unfair -- index card #stoicism
- 2015-01-29 Being okay with unfair -- index card #stoicism
- 2015-01-30 How can I get better at being clever on demand -- index card #emacs
Link round-up
- Cook Risotto in 3 Minutes and "Ramen-ize" Rice with Baking Soda: Risotto is on my to-cook list.
- Should You Do Intense, Short-Term Projects, or Build Long-Term Habits?: Tips for combining intensity and sustainability.
- Counting Money: Other people tracking personal finance.
- Oleh Krehel: Combining ace-window and windmove with hydra: This is like jazz, jamming with Emacs Lisp. =)
- Career trajectory of the fast-rising star: Got me thinking about Big Ideas.
- Must-have-packages for a newcomer: Handy comments.
- $9 Marketing Stack: A Step-by-Step Setup Guide: Hmm, maybe I should look into ActiveCampaign or something similar. Does a drip e-mail course create enough value for people? I tend to ignore those instead of using them as reminders to work through stuff in manageable chunks, so… Or maybe I should look into prototyping this with Gumroad (since they offer drips now) or setting up a Rails thing?)
- The Difference Between Seeing and Observing: "I think a lot of our failure to notice happens when we’re busy. It happens when we don’t know exactly what’s happening."
- Anatomy of a helm source: How to add a simple Helm source
Focus areas and time review
- Business (33.3h – 19%)
- ☑ Deposit cheque
- ☑ Earn: E1: 1-2 days of consulting
- ☐ Earn: E1: 1-2 days of consulting
- Earn (7.1h – 21% of Business)
- Build (15.2h – 45% of Business)
- Drawing (13.7h)
- Delegation (0.0h)
- Packaging (0.0h)
- Paperwork (0.7h)
- ☑ Look into recently uploaded images
- Connect (10.9h – 32% of Business)
- ☑ Talk to Srid
- Relationships (5.9h – 3%)
- Discretionary – Productive (15.3h – 9%)
- Emacs (5.7h – 3% of all)
- ☑ Improve my mail handling
- ☑ Make graphviz easier with Emacs Lisp
- ☑ Try out Tern
- ☑ Help Sean
- ☑ Make a montage of selected sketches based on their filenames
- ☑ Change my set-descriptions.js to be able to use any blog URLs (archive page, future post, etc.)
- ☑ Pick up cultural access pass from Front and Parliament
- ☑ Reflect on asking questions
- ☑ Apply for passport
- ☑ Invest in bonds in TFSA
- ☑ Process a 10lb bag of potatoes
- ☑ Type in goals
- ☑ Read Intermediate Japanese – chapter 1
- ☑ Read chapter 2
- ☑ Write about open loops
- ☐ Collect words and examples from tweets about Emacs
- ☐ Read chapter 3
- Writing (5.3h)
- Emacs (5.7h – 3% of all)
- Discretionary – Play (3.0h – 1%)
- Personal routines (31.6h – 18%)
- Unpaid work (20.3h – 12%)
- Sleep (58.6h – 34% – average of 8.4 per day)