This was a good week, rich in people: lots of family things, and wonderful conversations. I'm getting better at seeing and responding to things the way I choose to, and it makes life's surprises better.

Next week: I'd like to build a yoga habit, and I'd like to get even better at reaching out.

Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending March 13, 2015
• How can I make better use of my index card drawing process?
• A reflection on otium
• Thinking about when I enjoy helping people
• Emacs Hangout 2015-03-18 show notes
• The imperfect fungibility of time: thinking about how to use money to accelerate learning

Sketches

• Journal
  • 2015-03-15a Week ending 2015-03-13 -- index card #weekly
  • 2015-03-14a Saturday -- index card #journal
  • 2015-03-15b Sunday -- index card #journal
  • 2015-03-16c Monday -- index card #journal
  • 2015-03-17a Tuesday -- index card #journal
  • 2015-03-18a Wednesday -- index card #journal
  • 2015-03-19a Thursday -- index card #journal
  • 2015-03-20a Friday -- index card #journal
• Learning
  • 2015-03-15c Skills or tools that can be used to improve themselves -- index card #learning #bootstrapping
  • 2015-03-16a The balance between using and improving tools -- index card #learning #bootstrapping
• 2015-03-16b What would make biking even better -- index card #biking
• 2015-03-16d Decision review - Canada -- index card #canada #review #decision
• 2015-03-16e Decision - Slow cooker -- index card #decision #cooking
• 2015-03-18b Where does my discomfort come from -- index card #gap #discomfort
• 2015-03-18c What do I do for self-care -- index card #self-care #happiness #comfort
• 2015-03-18d Ideas for shared activities -- index card #connecting #friendship

Link round-up

• Othismos and the fine structure of mastery: going beyond, embracing the suck
• Adding a new language to Emacs: Good guide to writing a major mode (with syntax highlighting, indentation, flychecking, completion, eldoc info). High-level; follow the links to see code examples.
• Make a week's worth of interesting soups with the never-ending soup pot: I should try this sometime.
• exit 0: Yay, Avdi has declared emancipation!
• The experimental generation of interpersonal closeness: self-disclosure. Hat-tip to Lifehacker Build a friendship faster by sharing secrets
• Library Renewal Partnership: Good to know there's support for establishing and supporting libraries in the Philippines.
• How to recover from habit failure: Small stumbles

Focus areas and time review

• Business (25.2h – 14%)
  • Earn (16.1h – 63% of Business)
    • ☑ Attend comm session
    • ☐ Earn: E1: 1-2 days of consulting
  • Build (2.5h – 9% of Business)
    • Drawing (2.5h)
  • Connect (6.6h – 26% of Business)
• Relationships (19.3h – 11%)
  • ☑ Check on project F4
  • ☐ Hang out with Ewan and Eric on Friday
  • ☐ Drop gift off at Michael and Jen's
• Discretionary – Productive (20.4h – 12%)
  • Emacs (4.2h – 2% of all)
    • ☑ 2015-02-18 Emacs Hangout
    • ☑ Help Sean with Emacs
    • ☐ Hang out with Emacs geeks
  • ☑ Research yoga places
  • Writing (2.8h)
• Discretionary – Play (5.4h – 3%)
• Personal routines (22.0h – 13%)
• Unpaid work (15.6h – 9%)
• Sleep (60.2h – 35% – average of 8.6 per day)