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o [X] Tidy up
Preparation 23 Including
January 2011 o [-] Tidy up my computer, too: hours disassembling washer
backup, reorganize, clean and dryer
o [X] Plan garden Work 19 Took some sick time
Weekly review: Week ending December
31, 2010 Plans for next week hours
http://sachachua.com/blog/p/22022
January 1, 2011 - Categories: weekly Work Routines 16
From last week’s plans hours
o [] Work on Project M:
Documentation, tidying up Social 8
Work hours
o [] Work on Project S: Clean things
o [X] Work on Project M: Make up
sure users have permissions to do Writing 2.5
things o [] Idea Lab: Run Idea Lab hours
o [X] Work on Project S: Clean o [] Illustrate networking tips Travel 2 I’ve been using some of
things up hours this for writing time,
Relationships too
o [X] Idea Lab: Process responses
o [] Look into cooking or cleaning
o [-] Illustrate networking tips Break 2
assistance
hours
Relationships
Life Exercise 1.25
o [-] Hike or bike with W- hours
o [] Get well
o [-] Write more cards
o [] Hire a virtual assistant again Learning 0.75
o Had Maira’s family over hours
Time analysis
o Had New Year’s Eve dinner with
Driving 0.75
W-’s family Dec 25 to December 31
practice hours
Life Time totals messed up because I didn’t track as Untracked 39.75
much over the holidays, but here’s a guesstimate: hours
o [-] Get MobileOrg Android
patches into mergeable state Sleep 53 ~ 7 hours per day
hours Tweaking my time-tracking…
o [X] Review and revise plan,
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To import the contacts into Google Contacts, go o [X] Work on Project M: o Started teaching myself the piano
to Google Mail and click on Contacts. Click Documentation, tidying up again
on Import and choose your file. After some time
o [X] Work on Project S: Clean o Sketched my goals for 2011.
and some fiddling, you can get that synchronized
things up
onto your Android or iPhone. o Posted my book notes and
o [X] Idea Lab: Run Idea Lab improved my book workflow.
I haven’t thought about syncing, but I’m trying to
o [X] Illustrate networking tips o Posted a Kijiji ad looking for a
keep my BBDB as The Master File for Contacts
piano teacher
anyway, as it’s so much more flexible than any o Learned how to hack Drupal
other contact database I’ve tried. (Although messaging and notifications Plans for next week
gist.com is pretty cool and I do like the Android’s o Found out my Lotusphere 2011
merging of photos, contact info, and updates…) session got accepted Work
There was some work on synchronizing BBDB o Had team lunch with Jennifer o [] Finish up on project S
with the Palm, so that might be a possibility. Nolan, Johnny Patterson and o [] Start testing project M
Elena Neroslavskaya
Enjoy! o [] Fix my Lotus Notes
Relationships o [] Look into Lotusphere
Weekly review: Week ending January 7, o [-] Look into cooking or cleaning
assistance Relationships
2011
http://sachachua.com/blog/p/22035 o Watched Bride and Prejudice with o [] Get around to hosting a get-
January 8, 2011 - Categories: weekly W- and J- (hooray library DVDs) together, maybe a game night
o Read Pride and Prejudice and o [] Plan May trip
Relearning the piano. It’s interesting. I can
remember playing better than this. Now I’m re- Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls
Life
learning how to play these pieces, going, “Ahh. o … and in general, enjoyed all sorts
That feels familiar. And then there should be this of things Austen o [] Get back into sewing: work on
bit over here – yes, that’s right.” On the other black dress
hand, I read notes a little bit faster now than I Life o [] Post more book notes
did before.
o [X] Get well Time analysis
Getting well. A persistent cough and some o [X] Hire a virtual assistant again Sleep 73.6 ~ 11 hours per day,
sniffles, but definitely better than last week. hours thanks to good
From last week’s plans o Watched Bottle Shock, also from
the library – that was fun weekends
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encompassing three not-entirely-necessary After all, when you’ve gotten to the vicinity of 10k Life
strolls involving two libraries, a drugstore, and with another trip to the library (and another
o [] Get back into sewing: work on
one supermarket. But it was worth it: several armful of books), you might as well keep going.
black dress – postponed
bags of books, a package of dental floss, a pantry
restocked with instant noodles, and the Do you use a pedometer to track your walks? o [X] Post more book notes
satisfaction of seeing what it’s like to walk the What are you learning?
o Enjoyed a week of pandesal
recommended 12,000 steps.
Photo (c) 2009 Tambako the Jaguar – Creative o Achieved small goal of walking
I headed out for the second half of my walk right Commons Attribution No Derivatives 12k steps in one day
after we wrapped up a project. The euphoria was
Plans for next week
making me buzz too much to write, so I decided
to take good long walk. Weekly review: Week ending January 14,
2011 Work
The streets here are wide and well-lit, and our http://sachachua.com/blog/p/22043 o [] Wrap up project M
neighbourhood is wonderfully walkable. The January 15, 2011 - Categories: weekly
largest park in Toronto is a few blocks from our From last week’s plans o [] Document case studies
house, although I more often walk to the library o [] Write about lessons learned
and to Bloor West Village. Near work, Work
o [] Apply to open seats
underground passages let me wander about
o [X] Finish up on project S
while hiding from winter. o [] Follow up on Lotusphere
o [X] Start testing project M
o [] Draw networking guide for
I enjoy walking. Even when winter’s giving me
o [X] Fix my Lotus Notes conferences
the sniffles, it’s still fun. Sometimes I think of
Elizabeth Bennet walking from Longbourn to o [X] Look into Lotusphere o [] Chat with Vikram Kalkat
Netherfield (three miles, or a mile less than what regarding Web 2.0
o Outlined talk on learning on the
I walked today), except in better shoes and more
network
comfortable clothes (but not anywhere near as Relationships
awesome a hat).
Relationships o [] Have get-together
Tracking has certainly influenced my behaviour. o [X] Get around to hosting a get- o [] Help with J-’s Little Big Planet
I’ve taken to using Walttend Lite to track my together, maybe a game night party
steps because it can correctly track on my Google
Nexus One even when the screen is off. None of o [-] Plan May trip – read lots of
guidebooks Life
the other pedometer apps I tried could do that,
so Walttend it is. Once I was out there, it was o Picked up microscope slides for J- o [] Get through busy week
easy to talk myself into going just a little bit o [] Post more book notes!
further so that I could check off my 12,000 goal. o Helped J- with homework on
bullying/harrassment](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/blog-2011-111211145821-phpapp02/85/2011-sachachua-com-19-320.jpg)
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Change: I should do more of this. Maybe if I — Boy, did we ever learn a lot from that. I
focus on remembering how fun it was to hang out posted more sketchnotes, networking
with my friends in the Philippines, that will How about you? What do you do for fun? What tips, Emacs news, and career reflections, too.
motivate me to build more friendships here too. are the costs and pay-offs? What would you like
Simplifying my get-togethers might lead to my to change? Plans for January:
actually having regular monthly get-togethers.
Setting aside specific blocks of time to be social The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics o Work
will also help me work around my introvert of an Irrational World [] Finish Project M
tendencies. 2008 Tim Harford
ISBN 978-0-385-66387-8 [] Finish Project S
— [] Start new project
2011-01-19 Wed 06:20
Looking at this, I suppose I could scale back on o Relationships
reading, baking/cooking, planning, and [] Host get-together
reviewing my finances. Monthly review: December 2010
http://sachachua.com/blog/p/22054 [] Send delayed holiday
I can integrate organizing into my daily routines January 20, 2011 - Categories: monthly cards
better. [] Get into the habit of
Update: fixed year, thanks! meeting people
I can work on remembering or increasing the
pay-offs for meeting people and making Forgot I hadn’t done one of these for December. o Life
presentations. Good thing I’ve been getting my to-do capture [] Improve my routines:
system sorted out again. In November’s review, I set aside time for drawing,
Then I can set aside blocks of time that I can use said: sewing, and making
for drawing, sewing, or making presentations, What will December look like? Lots of good presentations
and another regular block of time for meeting work, more productivity experiments, maybe
people or investing in relationships. some Android hacking, a few social get- [] Post goals
togethers, and onwards to another great year.
When summer comes again, gardening can take Reviews
the place of some walking, and biking will take We did most of the work on Project M and o Weekly review: Week ending
the place of my subway commute. Project S, both Drupal projects for non-profits December 3, 2010
Woodworking/building furniture is also who had received grants from IBM. I
spending time with W-, so that should be okay. experimented with changing what day my week o Weekly review: Week ending
starts on,making taho, illustrating cards, December 10, 2010
Thinking about this and writing things down and Android use. Lots of Android hacking, too. o Weekly review: Week ending
helps me tweak the balance. Oh, and we disassembled and reassembled a new December 18, 2010
washing machine and dryer, and both worked!](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/blog-2011-111211145821-phpapp02/85/2011-sachachua-com-25-320.jpg)
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Click on the image for a slightly larger version. Weekly review: Week ending January 21, o Baked lasagna and shared it with
2011 Morgan and Cathy
http://sachachua.com/blog/p/22058
January 22, 2011 - Categories: weekly Life
Oh boy. Between the M and S projects wrapping o [X] Get through busy week
up, Lotusphere preparations, and general o [-] Post more book notes!
scrambling, life is going to be pretty busy for the
next three weeks. Must make time to get plenty o Attended Quantified Self meetup.
of sleep. Shared my grocery tracking and
From last week’s plans time tracking experiences.
Posted sketchnotes.
Work o Posted rational economic theory
analysis of things I do for fun ;)
o [X] Wrap up project M
o Started using Keep Track on the
o [X] Document case studies
(See the full image on my blog) Android to track values
o [-] Write about lessons learned (productivity, energy, happiness)
Topics: neurotropics, step counting, tracking
o [X] Apply to open seats o Downloaded pre-certified
through low-cost devices (mylifestracks.com
StudioTax 2010 (keener!)
doesn’t seem to work – correct URL?) o [X] Follow up on Lotusphere –
I’m going! Plans for next week
I also shared my time tracking, grocery tracking,
o [-] Draw networking guide for
and price book. People found the batch Work
conferences – more progress
cooking stuff interesting. =) Here are the slides I
used: o [X] Chat with Vikram Kalkat o [] Finish deliverables for Project
Quantified Self Toronto #3: Sacha Chua – regarding Web 2.0 M
Tracking time, groceries, prices, etc. o [] Get my Lotusphere plans
o Registered for Lotusphere;
View more presentations from Sacha Chua. together
booked hotel and flight
See past notes: second meetup, first meetup. o [] Prepare Lotusphere BoF
Check out more sketchnotes, more sketches, or Relationships resources on working with the
more things about the quantified self. Learn Lotus Connections API
o [-] Have get-together – postponed
about upcoming Quantified Self Toronto events to Feb o [] Finish pre-conference
on Meetup – see you at the next one! networking tips slides
o [X] Help with J-’s Little Big
Planet party
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o [] Connect with coworkers I resolved to spend less time writing and more
Last
Hour time drawing. Today was difficult. I had too
o [] Be extra-wonderful to W- Category wee Notes
s many stories to tell, too many thoughts to catch.
k
Life
Break 12.0 16.5 Mostly eating-
o [] Survive even busier week related; will
o [] Book a massage for some time break this out
after I get back from Lotusphere? separately
Time analysis Social 10.1 13.2 Quantified Self
Last meetup,
Hour hanging out
Category wee Notes
s with W- and J-
k
Sleep 61.6 61.1 8.8 hours of Exercise 7.7 6.6
sleep a day;
Writing 7.3 7.2
the constant
battle of the Travel 2.9 2.8 My thoughts flitted about, escaped. Drawing was
satisfaction of
frustrating. I felt inarticulate. And yet, slowly, I
waking up Learning 2.7 0.9 started to be able to breathe with it.
early, the need
to avoid sleep Outsourceabl 0.8 0.3
deprivation, e
and the
interestingnes
I’m going to try limiting my writing time further,
s of evening
and cutting a little bit back on sleep. Also
life
experimenting with breaking routines down into
Work 46.4 40.7 Overtime more detail.
dealing with
project wrap-
up Sketches: What index cards are teaching
me about drawing
Routines 16.0 18.4 Cooking: 1.6 http://sachachua.com/blog/p/22063
hours, tidying: January 23, 2011 -
But then, an afternoon later, I found myself
0.5 hours Categories: highlight, presentation, sketches
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If you’re having a hard time getting a Pre-conference networking tips for the Work
credit card, get a secured credit card first, Instructional Technology Strategies
o [X] Finish deliverables for Project
then use that to build your credit history. Conference
M
When I started, I got the TD Green Visa http://sachachua.com/blog/p/22072
card. I deposited some money and that January 28, 2011 - o [X] Get my Lotusphere plans
deposit was used to secure the card. Once Categories: conference, connecting, highlight, net together
you qualify for a better card, you can working, sketches, speaking, tips o [X] Prepare Lotusphere BoF
switch to something like PCFinancial Instructional Technology Strategies resources on working with the
Mastercard (equivalent of 1% rewards) or Conference: The Shy Connector’s Guide to
Lotus Connections API
MBNA Enrich (3% cashback on groceries, Getting Ready for Conference
1% on regular purchases). Awesomeness o [X] Finish pre-conference
View more presentations from Sacha Chua. networking tips slides
Compare prices online. Buying textbooks
o Helped build Drupal site for
or other things? Check ebay.ca and other This is for http://itsc.oetc.org . Thanks to Darren internal coordination of
sites before buying things in person. You Hudgins for the nudge to make this! marketing materials for AIS
can often find significant discounts Canada – yay for being able to
online, too, and shipping is reliable. Look quickly build things using Drupal!
for free or cheap stuff on craigslist.ca or Weekly review: Week ending January 28,
kijiji.ca, or join a Freecycle group. 2011 o Talked to two groups about Idea
http://sachachua.com/blog/p/22073 Labs
Keep some savings in a checking account January 29, 2011 - Categories: weekly
o Booked travel arrangements for
as an emergency fund / buffer and the Lotusphere
rest in a high-interest savings account. I’m typing this weekly review outside an empty
Don’t overload yourself with credit card meeting room at the Walt Disney World Dolphin
Hotel, where Lotusphere will be held this year. Relationships
debt. Pay off your credit card every
month, if you can, and plan your It’s definitely conference season. o [X] Connect with coworkers
spending so that you don’t have to live
I’d been taking a lower-key approach to o [X] Be extra-wonderful to W-
paycheck to paycheck.
presenting this year, so I don’t have too many (taking off for a week)
Enjoy life. =) There will probably always conference commitments planned. I had fun o Accepted accommodation plans
be things and people you will miss, but sketching pre-conference networking tips for for Kathy and John’s wedding in
maybe Toronto can become a second ITSC using index cards. the Netherlands
home.
Definitely an early bed time tonight. Plenty of Life
—- work this week.
Plans for last week o [X] Survive even busier week
What other tips would you add?](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/blog-2011-111211145821-phpapp02/85/2011-sachachua-com-33-320.jpg)
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o [-] Book a massage for some time
Last Last
after I get back from Lotusphere? Category Hours Notes Category Hours Notes
week week
o Connected with Toronto
newcomer from Philippines Sleep 55.3 61.6 7.8 hours of Sewing 3.6
sleep a day
Plans for next week Travel 2.8 2.9
Work 40.4 46.4 Some
Work breathing Writing 1.8 7.3
o [] Help at Lotusphere as a room time between
projects Learning 1.2 2.7
monitor
o [] Potentially host a BoF on the Social 12.8 10.1 Outsourceable 0.8
Connections API
Drawing 12.8 Maybe half of What have I learned?
o [] Learn from Lotusphere this counts as
presentations (content and work
technique) Rational economics is useful for modifying your
own behavior.
Routines – 8.7 13.9
Relationships general If I spend my weekend afternoons or weekday
o [] Connect with IBMers, partners, evenings drawing or sewing instead of writing, I
Routines – 3.7 1.6
and clients at Lotusphere can get into the flow and make a lot of progress.
cooking
Life Routines – 2.5 0.5 It’s satisfying to check off things I’ve been
tidying procrastinating.
o [] Do time analysis of conference
time On the other hand, it’s hard to resist writing,
Prep – 0.7
Can I still get ~8 hours of planning because thoughts are buzzing around in my head.
sleep a day? Drawing helps a little with that.
Prep – laundry 1.7
What’s exercise like? Maybe I’ll try doing only one day of alternate
o [] Eat salads. See if I can order Prep – general 5.1 focus each week. That might give me some space.
half-portions. Although I’m not sure if it’s the confounding
Break 9.0 12.0 effect of a conference – I always get a little buzzy
Time analysis around conferences. It’s like adapting to a new
Exercise 4.0 7.7 4 days with time signature or tempo.
Last at least 10k
Category Hours Notes
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Clients are interested in collaboration and on links in e-mail right now, so full embedded
have lots of adoption insights. We’re transactions might encounter resistance or might
February 2011 starting to see interesting case studies from open up new phishing holes. Project Vulcan is
clients. In addition to reporting excellent returns worth watching.
on their investments, clients shared qualitative
Lotusphere 2011 wrap-up People are already doing interesting
feedback, such as stories of pilot groups who
http://sachachua.com/blog/p/22074 things with the Lotus Connections
couldn’t imagine giving up the tools. Successful
February 4, 2011 - clients used executive support, communication API. Embedding Lotus Connections content /
Categories: conference, highlight, ibm, lotus, not plans, mentoring, metrics, incentives, role interactions into other websites, adding more
es models, and other techniques to help people information to Lotus Connections, using
make new forms of collaboration part of the way different authentication mechanisms… people
This was my first Lotusphere, and it was a blast. people worked. sketchnotes from the birds-of-a- are rocking the API. The compliance API that’s
Lotus has such an active, passionate, experienced feather session on adoption coming soon will help people do even more with
community around it. Heading to the conference, Lotus Connections interactions, too.
my goals were: LotusLive is awesome. LotusLive currently
includes web conferencing and parts of Lotus The next version of Lotus Connections
[X] Learn more about Lotus Connections Connections. LotusLive Labs includes a technical will be even cooler. I’m particularly excited
adoption and APIs preview of LotusLive Symphony (collaborative about the idea blogs and the forum
document/spreadsheet editing), Slide Library, improvements, which seem tailor-made for the
[X] Learn about IBM’s strategy and
and Event Maps. (I wish I’d seen Event Maps kind of collective virtual brainstorming we’ve
innovations
when I was planning my Lotusphere been doing in Idea Labs. Idea blogs are
[X] Get a sense of the ecosystem around attendance!) Granted, Google Docs has been straightforward – a blog post or question with
Lotus (partners, clients, etc.) around for longer than LotusLive Symphony, but comments that can be voted up or down – but
[X] Meet people and make personal I’m curious about the ability to assign sections they’ll go a long way to enabling new use cases.
for editing or review. Forums will also have question/answer/best
connections
answer support.
[X] Brainstorm and share insights Activity streams and embedded
[X] Show my appreciation for the cool experiences are going to change the Sametime Unified Telephony rocks. I need
work people do inbox. I don’t know when this is going to go into to find out how to get into that. I like click-to-call
people’s everyday lives, but the idea of being able ringing everyone’s preferred devices, easy
[X] Learn more about conferences and to act on items right from the notifications will be teleconferences, and rules for determining phone
presentations pretty cool – whether it’s in an enriched mail forwarding.
[X] Fulfill my room monitor client like Lotus Notes or a web-based activity
stream that might be filtered by different Lotus Notes and Domino are getting even
responsibilities
attention management algorithms. It’ll be more powerful. XPages looks pretty cool. I’ll
Here’s what I took away from the sessions and interesting to figure out the security implications leave the rest of the commentary on this to other
BoFs I attended: of this, though. It’s already a bad practice to click bloggers, as my work doesn’t focus enough on](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/blog-2011-111211145821-phpapp02/85/2011-sachachua-com-35-320.jpg)
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Here’s what I need to do for post-conference A story of pi tons of geek moments, and I’m lucky to meet so
wrap-up: http://sachachua.com/blog/p/22076 many people who relish being geeky. Life is good.
February 4, 2011 - Categories: geek
[X] Go through my index cards and write 2011-02-04 Fri 21:52
additional notes A trivia question related to pi and my teammate’s
[] Contact people I met and follow up on subsequent recitation of pi to ten digits reminded
me of this memory which I may not yet have On appearance and bias: thoughts from
conversations the Nerd Girls panel at Lotusphere 2011
shared here.
[] Catch up with work mail http://sachachua.com/blog/p/22077
[] Catch up with personal mail — February 5, 2011 -
Categories: highlight, reflection, women
[] Write further reflections It was an evening get-together with several
o [] Time analysis friends in the roofdeck garden of our home in the
Philippines. After dinner, the conversation
o [] Appearance and bias turned to geek superpowers, the little specialties
o [] IBM and women in technology and quirks we’d developed over time. The friend
on my left started reciting the digits of pi. To my
o [] Reflections on careers, loyalty, surprise, the friend on my right joined in – the
story, and alternatives same pace, the same digits, and I in the middle
o [] Presentation reflections (time entranced by this melody of tenor and baritone.
for questions, presentation style, They went to about 100 digits head to head, then
rapport, morning sessions?) one dropped out; the other continued to 200
digits or so. It was as sublime a concert as I have
[] Plan my next steps ever listened to.
Other Lotusphere 2011 wrap-ups you —
might like: Chris Connor, David Greenstein,
One of the topics of great interest during the
Luis Benitez (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day If you’re curious, you might want to check out the Nerd Girls panel at Lotusphere 2011 was that of
5), Andy Donaldson, Marc Champoux (… where Wikipedia page on piphilology – the creation and appearance. How important is grooming?
are the female bloggers’ writeups?) use of techniques for remembering pi. What about first impressions?
See also: Lotusphere social aggregator, Planet — People shared the usual advice: Dress
Lotus, Twitter search for #ls11, Twitter/blog
appropriately. Be yourself. Neatness counts.
archive Like the way beauty often brings pleasure to
viewers, my reaction to intellectual displays is Like the way I skip fluffy guest posts full of
2011-02-04 Fri 16:04 closer to “Oooh, that’s awesome” than to “You cliches, I try to avoid sharing the same thoughts
have way too much free time.” W- and I have you’ll find everywhere else. So I found myself](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/blog-2011-111211145821-phpapp02/85/2011-sachachua-com-37-320.jpg)
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bias with my husband, though, whom I think is education and culture and the availability of Work
very handsome, and with whom I have the leisure time and the ability of people to access
o [X] Help at Lotusphere as a room
license to look at as much as I’d like; but I always this technology.
monitor
make it clear that I love him for much greater
reasons.) It isn’t easy to separate all these factors, and I o [X] Potentially host a BoF on the
may never be able to do it completely. There’s a Connections API
Likewise, there’s dealing with that bit of shame in it too, when I realize how many of
o [X] Learn from Lotusphere
reactive judging of people who frown a lot, society’s messages I’ve internalized into these
presentations (content and
people with weaker postures, people who are quick impressions of other people.
technique)
overweight, people who dress inappropriately… I
work to separate negative perceptions and reality I want to make better decisions. I want to
so that I can make better decisions. There’s be able to see the best in people, unclouded by Relationships
ableism, sexism, ageism, racism, and a million the preconceptions I carry. I might never be able o [X] Connect with IBMers,
unnamed stories we tell ourselves without to eliminate my biases, but I can recognize them partners, and clients at
examining them closely. and slow down when they might be in play. If I Lotusphere
slow down and understand, for example, how my
You can eliminate the visual aspect first impressions colour my decisions, then I can Life
through teleconferences, but that doesn’t clarify my reasons and reject invalid ones.
solve the problem. We joke about everything o [X] Do time analysis of
sounding smarter when said in a British accent, You’ll find plenty of books about how to groom conference time
but accent stereotypes do influence judgment. yourself for particular kinds of success. Wouldn’t Can I still get ~8 hours of
I’m glad that accents are getting more mixed up it be interesting to build a society where this sleep a day?
now, what with people mixing cultures and matters less?
people getting cross-trained in different accents. What’s exercise like?
It helps challenge that bias. Then there’s Colander photo (c) 2010 Ben Hosking – Creative o [-] Eat salads. See if I can order
confidence and pitch and vocabulary and Commons Attribution License 2.0 half-portions. – Mostly, but I
fluency… really like having hot meals. Buffet
2011-02-05 Sat 08:40 was okay because I could eat
Paying attention to and adjusting for all smaller portions.
these biases is partly why I like the move
towards virtual connections, particularly Weekly review: Week ending February 4, Plans for next week
during the beginning. If I can’t see or hear 2011
people, I can more easily focus on what they say. http://sachachua.com/blog/p/22078 Work
However, the Internet replaces one set of biases February 5, 2011 - Categories: weekly o [] Start on new project involving
with another. Instead of being influenced by Facebook and Rails
Plans from last week
appearance, I’m biased by how articulate
someone is – and that’s tangled up in class and](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/blog-2011-111211145821-phpapp02/85/2011-sachachua-com-39-320.jpg)
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o [] Work on ITSC blog post,
Last Last
keynote presentation Category Hours Notes Category Hours Notes
week week
o [] Post more Lotusphere-related
reflections 6:25, 6:08, work
o [] Work on Deeper Insights 6:51, 6:53;
presentation on social learning catch-up Drawing 12.8
12:43 on
o [] Work on Remote Presentations Friday
that Rock presentation Routines – 3.7
cooking
o [] Possibly sign up for consulting Work 59.9 40.4 Lots of
course conference Routines – 2.5
time tidying
Relationships
Travel 19.6 2.8 Two flights, a Prep – 0.7
o [] Catch up with tasks at home
number of planning
o [] Give Maira some of the spices hotel shuttles
o [] Organize get-together Prep – 1.7
Social 14.8 12.8 Hanging out laundry
Life with
Lotusphere
[] Share more reflections from Sewing 3.6
o folks
Lotusphere
Learning 1.2
o [] Open up investing TFSA with Routines – 7.8 8.7
Waterhouse general
Outsourceable
o [] Review my goals and upcoming
Prep – general 4.0 5.1
projects
Observations: I got a decent amount of sleep
Time analysis Break 3.8 9.0 during the conference. As expected, work
Last expanded into the time I normally spend writing
Category Hours Notes Writing 3.6 1.8 or hanging out with W- and J-. I spent most of
week
the travel time writing, listening to audiobooks,
Sleep 53.8 55.3 Conference Exercise 0.5 4.0 A lot of watching movies (RED, The Social Network), and
sleep length: walking got napping.
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I walked around 16k steps a day (up from my 12k [-] Host get-together – Postponed to Weekly review: Week ending December
goal; there was one day I walked over 20k steps). February 31, 2010
My shoes weren’t the best for walking. They’re
[-] Send delayed holiday cards – Oops! Weekly review: Week ending January 7,
flat, but they didn’t have the padding of tennis
2011
shoes or hiking boots. The cushioning insoles [-] Get into the habit of meeting people –
helped, though. No blisters. Still looking for Must work on this Weekly review: Week ending January 14,
office-ready flat shoes with good support. 2011
Life
Weekly review: Week ending January 21,
2011
Monthly review: January 2011 [X] Improve my routines: set aside time
http://sachachua.com/blog/p/22079 for drawing, sewing, and making Weekly review: Week ending January 28,
February 6, 2011 - Categories: monthly presentations 2011
[-] Post goals – Wrote goals, haven’t Monthly review: December 2010
2011 was off to a great start. Lots of Drupal work, posted them
a conference, and a new project lined up. I Sketches
started an internal project using Drupal 7, which Plans for February:
is pretty cool. I got into the rhythm of making Sketchnotes: Gretchen Rubin, Happiness
bread every week and of baking larger batches of Work Project book tour
food to share. I made time for some things I’d
been procrastinating, and I had fun. I’ve been Pre-conference networking tips for the
[] Work on new project Instructional Technology Strategies
reading more books that analyze everyday life,
and I’ve been having fun using those perspectives [] Put together talks for Deeper Insight, Conference
to examine my life. Good stuff. Remote Presentations That Rock, and the Sketchnotes from Quantified Self Toronto
ITSC meetup #3
Plans for January: [] Mentor more people Sketches: If you want to make the most of
Work your next conference, you should blog
Relationships
Sketches: What index cards are teaching
[X] Finish Project M [] Organize get-together me about drawing
[X] Finish Project S [] Get visa and arrange travel details Unbaffled
[-] Start new project – Finished the
month with Lotusphere, lined up a Life Reflections
project for return
[] Write up more reflections Moving my book notes online
Relationships Tweaking fun and nudging myself out of
Reviews procrastination](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/blog-2011-111211145821-phpapp02/85/2011-sachachua-com-41-320.jpg)
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leaving behind your body, possessions, friends, Remote Presentations That Rock Becoming Sisters
family, and everything else, you can also leave
May and December In Your Back Pocket: The Benefits of Plan
your own lifeline of books. These are the outlines
B to Z
for the The Written Life
beneficial books that you did not have the time to Stoic Optimism
More than a Number: Creating a Happy
write in this lifetime, so that others can put their Career in a Big Company The Abundance of Time
minds to work on the creation of these books.
Being Real Online: How to be a Person,
2011-02-11 Fri 06:10
What are the books and book ideas I want to Not Just a Brand
leave behind?
Worth It or Not: Analyzing Your
Decisions and Improving Your Plans Weekly review: Week ending February 11,
Livin’ la Vida Emacs: More than a Text 2011
Editor The Elephant and the Bee http://sachachua.com/blog/p/22086
Work Better Together: an Individual’s Persuasion: Using Rhetoric, Argument, February 12, 2011 - Categories: weekly
Guide to Collaboration Tools and Negotiation in Everyday Life
From last week’s plans
The Shy Connector’s Guide to Social How Wonderful Can It Be?: A Life of
Networking Continuous Improvement Work
Sketch Notes: Visual Notetaking On Fire: Bringing Passion to Work and o [-] Start on new project involving
Life Facebook and Rails
The Bright Side of Life
Still Life with Cats o [-] Work on ITSC blog post,
Photography with a Difference
Geek in Love keynote presentation
Take the First Circus
A Classic Education o [X] Post more Lotusphere-related
Bookworm: Making the Most of Reading reflections
Life, Limited: Freedom, Creativity, and
Sharing What You Know Happiness through Limits o [-] Work on Deeper Insights
With My Own Hands: Adventures in presentation on social learning
It’s All Part of the Story
Cooking, Gardening, Sewing, and other o [-] Work on Remote Presentations
Domestic Arts Ineluctable: A Life of Words that Rock presentation
Sharing to Learn: How to Write, Draw, Living by the Numbers o [C] Possibly sign up for consulting
and Speak Your Way to Understanding Most Things Right course – skipping this for now
Lunch is in the Freezer: Batch-cooking In Between Worlds: Stories of o Learned how to use estimating
Tips and Recipes Immigration worksheet
The Happiness Habit A Few Pages Ahead o Talked to Boz about productivity](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/blog-2011-111211145821-phpapp02/85/2011-sachachua-com-46-320.jpg)
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o Worked on newsletter tool Plans for next week Life
o Estimated and scoped projects, o [] Write about things I’m working
yay! Work on improving
o Got back into Ruby on Rails, o [] Clarify scope and prepare o [] Get through busy week
prototyped a project estimates for other Drupal or
Rails projects Time analysis
Relationships o [] Work on Facebook/Rails Tried new routine: wake up early-ish, have
project breakfast, do personal stuff or work, switch to
o [X] Catch up with tasks at home
o [] Work on newsletter tool – fix work, have lunch, work, have dinner, tidy up, go
o [-] Give Maira some of the spices to bed. This meant not doing anything that
bugs, implement requests
– will do that today required a lot of thought or creativity in the
o [] Look into AIS IP address bug evenings, and moving those activities to the
o [X] Organize get-together
with simple_access> morning instead.
o Celebrated my mom’s 65th
o [] Put together ITSC presentation Last
birthday Category Hours Notes
and blog post week
o Looked for some experiences to
o [] Sketch Remote Presentations
share with people (movie, opera)
That Rock revision Sleep 62:36 53.8 8.9 hours
[] Outline Org-mode talk average
Life o
o [X] Share more reflections from Work 47:17 59.9 Got carried
Relationships
Lotusphere away
o [] Give spices to Maira; cook prototyping
o [-] Open up investing TFSA with
Louisiana-style shrimp and
Waterhouse – will do that on
Monday o [] Watch The King’s Speech with estimating
W-
o [-] Review my goals and upcoming Social 13:00 14.8 Chinese New
projects o [] Possibly get people together for Year dinner
opera with W-’s
o Experimented with lower-key
daily routine; need to mix in more o [] Prepare paperwork for Dutch family
social interaction or shared visa
experiences? Writing 11:03 3.6 Assorted
o [] Go to Dutch embassy
o Brainstormed books I would like reflections
o [] Meet Mike Nurse
to write/read some way
o [] Chat with David Singer](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/blog-2011-111211145821-phpapp02/85/2011-sachachua-com-47-320.jpg)
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I might build in more revision into http://sachachua.com/blog/p/22106 o Finally sent in Lotusphere
my writing routines, so I can get February 19, 2011 - Categories: weekly expenses
better at writing and I can express things
even more clearly and concisely. This From last week’s plans
Relationships
could be the second post in a day if I don’t
have any conversation follow-ups. If I’m Work o [X] Give spices to Maira; cook
disciplined about limiting my writing Louisiana-style shrimp
o [-] Clarify scope and prepare
time and just doing quick descriptions of estimates for other Drupal or o [X] Watch The King’s Speech
other stories/ideas I want to write about, Rails projects – Current pipeline with W-
then this could also be the time I spend handled o [-] Possibly get people together for
reviewing those and fleshing those out.
o [-] Work on Facebook/Rails opera – postponed to next week
I’m going to try to show more of project – waiting for paperwork
those here-and-now moments o [X] Prepare paperwork for Dutch
instead of just keeping them in the o [X] Work on newsletter tool – fix visa
backlog. It’s probably inconsequential bugs, implement requests o [X] Go to Dutch embassy
that I feel happy about the grass peeking o [X] Look into AIS IP address bug o [X] Meet Mike Nurse
through the patchy snow. I like it, and I with simple_access>
want to get better at writing not only o [X] Chat with David Singer
about tips, but about life. =) o [X] Put together ITSC
presentation and blog post Life
I’ll channel the rest of my darn-I-
want-to-write-about-that-too o [X] Sketch Remote Presentations
o [X] Write about things I’m
frustration into drawing and other That Rock revision working on improving
communication skills I want to o [-] Outline Org-mode talk – will
practice. o [X] Get through busy week – not
work on next week actually that hectic, yay!
Sounds like a plan. o Added standalone wiki support to
Plans for next week
community toolkit – for Debra
Have you come across this blog through a Johnson
Work
search? Do you read this blog regularly? Do you o Added generic newsletter support
subscribe to updates (thanks!)? What would to community toolkit – for Darrel o [] Sketch ITSC keynote by David
make it work better for you? What have you seen Rader Zach
working on other personal blogs? o [] Give ITSC keynote on
o Added template file support to
community toolkit – for Darrel networking
Weekly review: Week ending February 18, Rader o [] Learn about ECM and web
2011 o Did some quick illustrations services](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/blog-2011-111211145821-phpapp02/85/2011-sachachua-com-62-320.jpg)
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o [] Follow up on documents of
This Last This Last
understanding Catego Delt Catego Delt
wee wee Notes wee wee Notes
[] Put together Idea Lab resources ry a ry a
o k k k k
Relationships Break 4.8 5.2 -0.4 e-mail
o [] Go to Second City with recent
hires and friends Drawing 0.6 -0.6 Travel 1.5 3.4 -1.9 Some
commuting
o [] Host tea get-together 1pm our
Exercise 4.7 5.7 -1.0 Including trip to
place Saturday Feb 26
Dutch embassy Work 40.4 47.3 -6.9 Proposals,
o [] Watch Die Fledermaus CommunityTool
(http://toronto-opera.com) Learnin 0.6 1.8 -1.2 kit,
g presentations
o [] Watch Madame Butterfly
(http://toronto-opera.com)
Prep – 0.4 0.4 Writing 12.5 11.1 1.4
o [] Send birthday cards general
o [] Try making a beet smoothie or
Still hitting snooze in the mornings. It’s hard in
Tex-mex lasagna Routine 1.8 4.4 -2.6
winter and a warm bed. I’ve asked W- to help me
s–
stick with my resolve to get up in the morning,
Life cooking
and may experiment with returning to the other
o [] Enjoy extended weekend: week’s routine of having a very light evening.
spend focused time revising, Routine 6.3 7.8 -1.5
drawing, presenting, cooking, and s– Lots of time invested into building relationships,
tidying up general following up on my previous reflections on
friendship. Good use of time – instead of doing
o [] Experiment with giving Routine 3.8 5.1 -1.3 extra work in the evenings, I used that time to
presentation through Zipcast s– reach out instead. Looking forward to doing
(Remote Presentations That Rock, tidying more drawing and cooking over the next few
Monday?) days.
Time analysis Sleep 65.3 62.6 2.7 9.3 hours
average
Experiment for the week: more social stuff. Met Waking up: looking at my data
people, had mentoring chats, reached out Social 25.9 12.0 13.9 Skype, http://sachachua.com/blog/p/22109
through e-mail, etc. Starbucks, and February 20, 2011 -
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In other news, I think I’ve figured out my studio o Accepted invite to tweetchat with o [X] Enjoy extended weekend:
setup: bounce the daylight-balanced lamps off Paul Gillen (#infoboom) on the spend focused time revising,
the ceiling (low setup) or use umbrella reflectors value of blogging drawing, presenting, cooking, and
(fancy setup), position the folding background in tidying up
o Got started on blogging
front of the cabinet to hide the My Little Cthulhu
presentation o [X] Experiment with giving
doll and other distracting things, and broadcast
presentation through Zipcast
away. Now if I can figure out where to put a small o Revised Remote Presentations
(Remote Presentations That Rock,
hairlight… That Rock
Monday?)
o Put together resources for the
o Upgraded to 512MB web server
value of blogging
Weekly review: Week ending February 25, for my blog, tweaked blog text
2011
Relationships Plans for next week
http://sachachua.com/blog/p/22126
February 26, 2011 - Categories: weekly o [X] Go to Second City with recent
Work
hires and friends – treated Linda
From last week’s plans
Ristevski o [] Deliver “Remote Presentations
That Rock”
Work o [] Host tea get-together 1pm our
place Sunday Feb 27 (actually part o [] Work on ECM project
o [X] Sketch ITSC keynote by David of next week’s review)
Zach o [] Get things going with Drupal
o [-] Watch Die Fledermaus project
o [X] Give ITSC keynote on (http://toronto-opera.com) –
networking o [] Prepare other presentations
Postponed to next week
and resources
o [X] Learn about ECM and web o [C] Watch Madame Butterfly
services o [] Do IBM #infoboom tweetchat
(http://toronto-opera.com)
on how to get more value from
o [X] Follow up on documents of o [X] Send birthday cards blogging
understanding
o [X] Try making a beet smoothie o [] Post the rest of series on getting
o [X] Put together Idea Lab or Tex-mex lasagna more value from blogging
resources
o Had salad with Gabriel Mansour
o Exported Social Business Jam Relationships
discussions into spreadsheets and o Worked on connecting with blog
commenters o [] Host tea get-together
did a lot of data analysis –
collaborating with Brandon o [] Reach out to new blog
Anderson, Michael Muller Life commenters](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/blog-2011-111211145821-phpapp02/85/2011-sachachua-com-73-320.jpg)
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Life Good week!
This Last
[] Experiment with fixed-time Delt
o Category wee wee Notes
wakeups a
k k Get More Value from Blogging, part III:
o [] Draw more Sharing Makes the Blog Go ‘Round
Routines 10.5 6.3 4.2 http://sachachua.com/blog/p/22127
o [] Write monthly review – general
February 26, 2011 - Categories: blogging, tips
Time analysis
Routines 2.4 3.8 -1.4 Paul Gillin invited me to do a tweetchat on the
Experiment for the week: more social stuff. Met – tidying professional and personal value of blogging on
people, had mentoring chats, reached out March 3, 2011 (2pm-3pm EST, #infoboom).
through e-mail, etc. Sleep 55.7 65.3 -9.6 Going to bed When I brainstormed some of the things I’d like
This Last when I feel to talk about, I ended up with a big list: not just
Delt tired the value I get from blogging, but also tips for
Category wee wee Notes
a how you can build that too. I hope you enjoy this
k k
Social 27.0 25.9 1.1 blog series! You can also see other resources in
Break 3.7 4.8 -1.1 this series.
Travel 0.6 1.5 -0.9
After two posts on the individual value you can
Drawing 4.7 4.7 Remote get from blogging, you might be thinking, “Sacha,
Presentation Work 37.4 40.4 -3.0 Family Day
holiday, you can get those benefits from a private journal
s, ITSC too. So why blog?” Now we get into the social
ITSC
presentation benefits of blogging: how you can use it to create
Exercise 3.3 4.7 -1.4 value and connect. Even if no one reads your blog
but you, you can get started with sharing, and
Personal 1.7 1.7 Writing 7.1 12.5 -5.4
then go from there.
Learning 0.6 -0.6 This week I tried getting up whenever it felt 1. Direct
natural to wake up, and going to sleep whenever
Preparatio 5.0 0.4 4.6 I felt tired. The result was a gentle introduction How do you get people to read your
n to the day, and a lot of good, focused work in the posts? Sometimes it’s just a matter of telling
evening. them about it. If you’re starting out, you might be
Routines 8.9 1.8 7.1 Big batch of worried that no one will come across your blog
– cooking lunches, I’m going to try that again this week, this time posts. Even if you’ve got regular visitors, people
vegan picking a time to wake up and sticking with it. might miss out on posts that you know they’ll
appetizers Aside from a really early wake-up on Monday, I find useful. If you know people who may be
should be able to keep a regular wake-up time.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/blog-2011-111211145821-phpapp02/85/2011-sachachua-com-74-320.jpg)
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I can deal with this. My manager thinks I can March 3, 2011 (2pm-3pm EST, #infoboom).
handle it. IBM has a great support network and When I brainstormed some of the things I’d like
March 2011 I’ve got plenty of mentors. I’m learning a lot from to talk about, I ended up with a big list: not just
the other people on the team. It’s going to be the value I get from blogging, but also tips for
Dealing with intimidating projects okay. And at the end of the day, I’ll learn how to how you can build that too. I hope you enjoy this
work with a pretty decent-sized IBM software blog series! You can also see other resources in
http://sachachua.com/blog/p/22129 stack, integrate with lots of middleware, work this value of blogging series.
March 1, 2011 - Categories: career, ibm, work with complex web services, and maybe even turn
things that scare me into things that I enjoy. You might feel awkward in the beginning, but
I’m working on my first big IBM project, trust me, all that writing practice from your blog
something that goes beyond Perl scripts and Here’s what I’m planning to do: will pay off. Blogging is a great way to figure out
Drupal websites. My manager thinks it will be a not only what you want to say, but how you want
good assignment for me. The component [] Install Rational Software Architect and to say it. Better communication skills will help
diagram looks like alphabet soup, and I haven’t learn how to use it to view project you at work and in life!
worked with any of the pieces before. It’s designs.
intimidating. [] Learn how to use Rational Software 1. Writing
Architect for web services.
Open source projects like Drupal or Rails don’t Blogging helped me fall in love with
scare me as much, even though they require a lot [] Figure out what I need to learn for writing. I got frustrated in school, writing
of figuring out and hacking as well. I think it’s Websphere Application Server or book reports and essays that didn’t really
because I’m confident that I can figure things out Websphere Portal to make the web matter. When I started blogging, I
from the source or from the Internet, and services happen. discovered the joy of writing for myself
because I can hold more of it in my head. This [] Stay sane throughout the process. =) and others. It turned out to be a lot of fun,
project will involve quite a few IBM components, and now writing is one of my favourite
and I can’t work with, understand, or even 2011-03-01 Tue 16:26 activities. It pays off at work, too.
remember everything. It’s big.
Tips:
But I know this feeling of incipient panic, and Get More Value from Blogging, part V:
I’ve dealt with worse before. It’s the same feeling Communication Matters o Practise outlining or
I got as a teaching assistant at the University of http://sachachua.com/blog/p/22130 mindmapping your blog posts. As
Toronto, doubting myself because I was helping you get better at planning your
people learn something I was just learning about March 1, 2011 -
Categories: blogging, highlight, tips, web2.0, writ posts, you’ll be able to write them
myself. I remember feeling uncertain. I more quickly.
remember feeling like an impostor. I felt ing
like giving up. Then my department chair set me o Review your old posts and revise
straight, and I made it through. Paul Gillin invited me to do a tweetchat on the them. Figure out what you keep
professional and personal value of blogging on](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/blog-2011-111211145821-phpapp02/85/2011-sachachua-com-79-320.jpg)
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and ideas, and I post snippets on a regular basis Archive of potential material. Better ROI and We’re thinking of doing another tweetchat with
or by plan. reach. Invitations. Also, feedback on content, #infoboom in three months. In the meantime, if
delivery, and technology. Continuous you have any questions, thoughts, suggestions,
When someone sends you a question by e- improvement. Confidence. Connection. or tips, please feel free to share them through
mail, do you often post answer to blog and comments, blog posts, and Twitter! Would you
send them link? @infoBOOM Many bloggers are too focused on the like to host a conversation about a topic I’m
Shift e-mail conversations to blog posts when audience and less about the personal passionate about? Let’s talk about it!
possible. Widens the conversation, reaches more value they receive. @KevinMGreen
people, saves more time. Tons of immed. indiv.
value.http://sachachua.com/blog/p/22119 New Get More Value from Blogging, part VI:
You do write about a lot of topics. Do you bloggers, take heart, even if no one reads Let’s Get Down to Business
ever worry that you lack expertise in these you! #infoboomsc http://sachachua.com/blog/p/22132
areas? @infoBOOM March 4, 2011 -
When you’re learning, that’s the best time to Can you tell one or two stories of Categories: blogging, business, career, highlight,
write. Don’t wait until you’re an expert and remarkable things that happened to you tips, web2.0, work, writing
you’ve forgotten. because of your blogging? @infoBOOM
Miscellaneous Got job created for me Paul Gillin invited me to do a tweetchat on
(http://sachachua.com/blog/p/6456), found the professional and personal value of
When you started your blog, did you set mentors (http://sachachua.com/blog/p/6928)… blogging yesterday. When I brainstormed some
goals on spec. milestones (traffic, of the things I’d like to talk about, I ended up
subscribers)? @kaeppler Sacha, would love for you to share with a big list: not just the value I get from
Early: class notes, Emacs snippets, things to insights on how you use blogging to blogging, but also tips for how you can build
remember. Didn’t care about traffic or narrate your work @elsua that too. I hope you enjoy this blog series! You
subscribers, but happy I helped. Still don’t focus Blogging is a great way to understand complex can also see other resources in this value of
on traffic or subscribers, although honoured to issues. It also helps shape culture of knowledge- blogging series.
see them. It’s not about numbers, it’s about sharing – many benefits!
people.
Is there one blog post that stands out as 1. ROI
[…] Was "living an awesome life" your particularly memorable to you? And
first blog at all? @kaeppler why? @infoBOOM Blog your work to increase your return on
It’s actually just an alternative name for It’s like asking me what my favourite book is. ;) investment or effort by remembering more
sachachua.com – livinganawesomelife.com is Lots of context-sensitive favourites. A recent effectively and by reaching more people.
easier to remember/spell. ;) highlight: http://sachachua.com/blog/p/22017,
but that could be because I cut my finger in the How much time do you spend solving problems
You’ve written that blogging has made you process. ;) similar to what you’ve encountered before,
a better presenter. How? @infoBOOM answering questions you’ve already answered
Practice in figuring out what to say, how to say it. before, or remembering information you need to](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/blog-2011-111211145821-phpapp02/85/2011-sachachua-com-83-320.jpg)
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Remote Presentations That Rock, March 19, Work o Helped with study group
2011, 12pm-1pm
o [X] Deliver “Remote o Got my TD Waterhouse account
EST http://www.slideshare.net/sachac/meeting
Presentations That Rock” sorted out (kinda)
Want to get better at reaching, teaching, and
inspiring people through online presentations? o [X] Work on ECM project Plans for next week
Find it challenging to connect with people or o [-] Get things going with Drupal
continue the conversation? Use these seven tips project Work
to create and deliver remote presentations that
rock. o [X] Prepare other presentations o [] Work on critsit involving AJAX
Add to and resources and PHP
o [X] Do IBM #infoboom tweetchat o [] Start building web services
on how to get more value from using Websphere Application
blogging Server
Get More Value from Blogging, March 26,
2011, 12pm- o [-] Post the rest of series on o [] Shepherd the Rails project
1pm, http://www.slideshare.net/sachac/meeting getting more value from blogging through legal approval process
– Almost done
How can you make blogging pay off for you Relationships
better, personally and professionally? Pick up o Back into programming, yay! Got
tips and ask questions in this session! AJAX/PHP project started. o [] Meet up with Cate Huston and
Add to Maggie Zhou
Relationships o [] Help with study group
o [X] Host tea get-together o [] Book flights
o [X] Reach out to new blog
Can you think of other people who might find commenters – well, mostly old Life
these presentations useful? blog commenters o [] Try more Zipcast experiments
What else would you like to learn more about? o Checked out Liberty Village o [] Practise driving
Toastmasters
o [] Write about tweetchats and
Weekly review: Week ending March 4, Life presentations
2011 o [] Work on plans
http://sachachua.com/blog/p/22134 o [-] Experiment with fixed-time
wakeups Time analysis
March 5, 2011 - Categories: weekly
o [X] Draw more
From last week’s plans
o [X] Write monthly review](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/blog-2011-111211145821-phpapp02/85/2011-sachachua-com-86-320.jpg)
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Experiment for the week: more social stuff. Met This is great stuff, and exactly what I should be
This Last
people, had mentoring chats, reached out Category Delta Notes learning. Can’t wait!
week week
through e-mail, etc.
From last month’s plans:
This Last to office
Category Delta Notes
week week several Work
times
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Remote Presentations That Rock, and the
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first
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so it was a lot of fun. =)
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Monthly review: February 2011 projects
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March 6, 2011 - Categories: monthly Relationships
Routines – 2.3 8.9 -6.6 Living off
cooking leftovers, February was an interesting month at work. Lots [X] Organize get-together
efficiency of presentations, for one – that’s the easy part.
yay =) [X] Get visa and arrange travel details
Lotusphere was quite an experience, too. I’ve
started helping with estimates, scoping projects, Learned new recipes
Routines – 7.6 10.5 -2.9 preparing paperwork, and learning new
general platforms. This is the longest I’ve worked at IBM Life
without being heads-down on one or two
Routines – 7.8 2.4 5.4 projects. Instead, I’m juggling the plans for [X] Write up more reflections
tidying several. My manager isn’t stressed out about this,
Experimented with Zipcasts, tweetchats,
so I’m not stressing out about it either.
and other ways to share what I know
Sleep 58.5 55.7 2.8
When it rains, it pours. If these proposals go
Plans for March:
Social 29.2 27.0 2.2 Tea party through, they’ll probably sign at roughly the
same time. Some of them are flexible and some
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of them have tighter timelines, so March and
Travel 7.5 0.6 6.9 Went up
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work
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on Websphere Application Server yourself
A story of pi
[ ] Create and deliver more presentations How I Learned to Stop Worrying and
On appearance and bias: thoughts from
Love the Webinar: Energy, Interaction,
[ ] Finish blog series on blogging the Nerd Girls panel at Lotusphere 2011
and ROI
Working on estimates
Relationships From zero to hero: a newbie’s guide to
learning and building a reputation along Thinking about personal random moment
the way studies
[ ] Host another get-together
LinkedIn tip: Customize your profile URL Hackbuzzbuzzbuzz
[ ] Build a set of people to call once a
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[ ] Practise driving The Immediate Benefits of Thought On presenting, anxiety, and moving
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Life The Compounding Value of an Archive More about getting 27″ washers and
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[ ] Refine my plans Sharing Makes the Blog Go ‘Round On friendship and becoming more social
[ ] Start seedlings Get More Value from Blogging, part IV: Book: Daddy Long Legs, and letters
Connecting with People
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Decision review: Limiting my blog to one
Monthly review: January 2011 post a day How I spent my Family Day weekend
Weekly review: Week ending February 4, Posted revised “Remote Presentations
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After they told me how their teacher had sprung I’m so glad we’re doing this. I wonder how we o [-] Write about tweetchats and
a brainteaser on them (24, 68, 101, 214, …), I can share more of what we’re doing, maybe help presentations
shared this one: 31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31… They more kids and parents gain confidence too…
o [X] Work on plans
solved it after a hint, and looked very excited
about the idea of possibly stumping their 2011-03-11 Fri 20:56 o Gave GTALug presentation on Org
teachers. And then there’s this other one they left mode
the house with: 3, 3, 5, 4, 4, 3, 5, 5, 4, 3, 6, … Plans for next week
Weekly review: Week ending March 11,
“I didn’t know how a math study group could be 2011
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how.” She had joined us a little early to find out March 12, 2011 - Categories: weekly o [ ] Work on critsit involving AJAX
what it was like. Her son was practically begging and PHP
us for a chance to do the multiplication tables, so From last week’s plans
we did another round of them, with the grown- o [ ] Deploy web services onto
ups joining in too. =) Work Websphere Application Server in
test environment
o [X] Work on critsit involving
What’s it like hosting a study group at our place? AJAX and PHP o [ ] Create stub web services,
We aren’t like the tutors I remember from home: maybe integrate with DB2
the quiet one who helped my sister with math o [X] Start building web services
and other subjects, or the ones who came to our using Websphere Application o [ ] Sort out work priorities for
house to help us with Chinese. W- and I have Server April
tons of fun teaching. We come up with examples o [X] Shepherd the Rails project
and exercises, throw in all sorts of zany ideas, Relationships
through legal approval process
sneak in advanced material as well as o [ ] Catch up with mail, networks
confidence-building reviews. Relationships o [ ] Help with study group
I really like the small group format. I can bring o [X] Meet up with Cate Huston and o [ ] Make pie for Pi Day
even more energy to that than I remember from Maggie Zhou
my days of teaching computer science in o [X] Help with study group Life
university, and I can modify the lessons and
exercises faster. It’s like the thrill of an especially o [X] Book flights o [ ] Finish value of blogging series
interactive presentation, except that I get to o [ ] Write about tutoring math
actually see what people do with the ideas in the Life
end. I can see the aha! moments happen, see o [ ] More Zipcast experiments:
o [X] Try more Zipcast experiments what if I treat them like office
progress week after week.
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o [ ] Write about tweetchats and the value I get from blogging, but also tips for
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what I want out of them Delt how you can build that too. I hope you enjoy this
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a blog series! You can also see other resources in
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this value of blogging series.
Time analysis
general included
tidying time 1. Making your goals real
Had a focused week at work (critical projects
plus lots of other things going on), but still Writing about your goals can be scary. You might
managed to keep it within reasonable hours. Routines – 1.6 7.8 -6.2 feel that people will laugh at your goals, or that
Found some time to apply digital painting tips I tidying they’ll embarrass you if you don’t achieve them.
picked up from the Web. Shifted travel time and You might worry about sounding over-ambitious,
social time to preparing for presentations. Sleep 59.0 58.5 0.6 or not ambitious enough.
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Category wee wee Notes
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group entry. When you write about what you want in
Break 3.0 1.3 1.7 life, why you want it, and how you can get to that
Travel 5.1 7.5 -2.4 point, that path becomes clearer. When your
goals dim and your willpower fades, you can
Drawing 1.2 1.2
Work 40.8 40.2 0.6 inspire yourself by reviewing your notes,
reminding yourself of your goals and why they
Exercise 2.2 3.8 -1.6 matter.
Writing 4.8 4.8 0.0
Personal 6.1 1.6 4.5 Preparing Tips: Set a goal for yourself. Write about it. Write
presentation about why it matters to you. Write about your
s Get More Value from Blogging, Part VII: plans for achieving your goal. Review your notes
Inspiring Yourself and Inspiring Others when you need a burst of energy.
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March 13, 2011 -
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cooking more time other people who have similar goals. Look for
for Paul Gillin invited me to do a tweetchat on the blogs that inspire you. If you share your
breakfasts professional and personal value of blogging. reflections through blog posts of your own,
When I brainstormed some of the things I’d like linking to the posts or people who’ve inspired
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This document summarizes a blog post from 2011 about getting value from blogging. It discusses several immediate benefits of blogging, including direct connections with readers, finding information through search engines, browsing other blogs, and learning from others. It also covers connecting with people by deepening relationships, showing appreciation, reaching out, and having great conversations. Finally, it mentions getting value from blogging through return on investment, questions and answers, reputation building, jobs and careers, transparency, culture, and accountability.
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