Balancing Blogging with Working

Usually because I generate most of my code I don't have to work *that* hard to make a good living, but taking on the consulting project has meant I've had to focus almost exclusively on billable work at the expense of blogging. However, I've been working with some great developers and doing some really interesting work on the framework, so I was getting my learning fix just from the work.

I've also been doing a lot of work on tracking my time, using pomodoros both to improve focus and to make it easier to track the profitability of the various projects I work on. However, for a while I was really focused on maximizing the billable hours per week. What I'm now going to try is adding some other non-billable targets such as at least 4-5 pomodoro of blogging a week to make sure I keep a balance with the work. It'll be interesting to see how it works out.