Weekly review: Week ending February 21, 2014

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This week, I focused on delegation and design. Lots of updates to my blog design, yay! =) Next week, I want to dig deeper into making useful technical resources, and to making sure my technical assistant has good stuff to work on.

Blog posts

Sketches

  1. 2014-02-19 What am I looking for in terms of editing blog posts #editing #writing
  2. 2014-02-19 Website goals - #blogging #wordpress #web-design
  3. 2014-02-19 Teaching people to fish, selling fish, fishing for yourself #experiment #sharing #my-learning #teaching #confederates #community
  4. 2014-02-19 Imagining wild success for this experiment #experiment
  5. 2014-02-19 Actually, I enjoy web design and development #geek #web-design

Huh. That's weird. Really? Five sketches? And yet 9.6 hours tracked under "Drawing," and a generally relaxed week. I wonder what happened there. I think part of it was that I spent more time doing web design this week, and conceptualization got filed under drawing too. 

Link round-up

Focus areas and time review

  • Business (54.4h – 32%)
    • Earn (15.0h – 27% of Business)
      • [X] Deposit cheque
      • [X] Earn: E1: 2.5-3.5 days of consulting
      • [ ] E1: Apply wall
      • [ ] E2: Re-record and re-animate new segments
      • [ ] Earn: E1: 2.5-3.5 days of consulting
    • Build (33.6h – 61% of Business)
      • Drawing (9.5h)
        • [X] Draw the next step for Emacs-related sketches
        • [ ] Make darker grid and release SVG
      • Delegation (7.4h)
        • [X] Delegation: Delegate some writing-related tasks
        • [X] Delegation: Interview tech applicants
        • [X] Delegation: Interview more tech applicants
        • [ ] Delegation: Document process for setting up a public conversation
        • [ ] Invest time into technical delegation
      • Packaging (0.5h)
      • Paperwork (1.9h)
        • [X] File federal annual return
      • Coding (12.0h)
        • [X] Choose a responsive framework
        • [X] Build – Coding: Add trails to my website
        • [X] Build – Coding: Make sachachua.com more responsive myself
        • [X] Build – Coding: Set up my local dev environment again
      • [X] Experiment with better microphone – clearer-ish audio, more convenient?
      • [X] Make baby-steps guide for Org Mode and TODOs
      • [X] Outline "Baby Steps Guide to Managing Your Tasks with Org Mode"
      • [X] Flesh out "Baby Steps Guide to Managing Your Tasks with Org Mode" a little
      • [X] Move to larger drive – AOMEI restore worked fine
      • [X] Set up a system for backing up my backup drive to the computer downstairs
      • [ ] Build – Emacs: Make a guide to Dired
      • [ ] Build – Emacs: Prettify baby steps guide to Org Mode
    • Connect (5.8h – 10% of Business)
      • [X] Connect: Chat with Evan about visual thinking
      • [X] Connect: Chat with Greg about Emacs
      • [X] Connect: Check what's going on with the Quantified Sandbox
      • [X] Connect: Hang out with Matthew and learn more about d3js at HackLab
      • [X] Follow up on conversations
      • [ ] Have general hangout about learning
  • Relationships (0.2h – 0%)
    • [X] Work on project with W-
  • Discretionary – Productive (14.7h – 8%)
    • [X] Go for eye exam
    • [X] Reflect on two-year mark for experiment
    • [ ] Deposit USD
    • Writing (7.5h)
  • Discretionary – Play (6.9h – 4%)
  • Personal routines (23.1h – 13%)
  • Unpaid work (6.1h – 3%)
  • Sleep (63.5h – 37% – average of 9.1 per day)

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