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+And about, I think we are live. Okay, hi again everyone. And hi
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+Blaine, how are you doing? Fantastic, happy to be here.
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+Yeah, it's good to see you again. We were just reminiscing in
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+a room right now that it's almost been a year exactly since we
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+last spoke because you were at the EmacsConf last year. That's
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+right. This is great fun. Yeah, well, thank you for coming in
+
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+and especially every time you come with a very well-crafted
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+talks talking about, you know, what you do with Org Mode, Org
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+Roam and whatever. And it's really fascinating as someone
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+who develops and use those tools constantly to see you put
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+them in action so well. Because you, you know, the way you
+
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+talk about your research, it really reminds me on what we
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+were, sorry, I've got elves talking in my ears and I'm still
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+not used to it at this point. But it's really nice to see you
+
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+put all of this together into a very cohesive way for you to
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+write. Okay, let me just share my screen and I'll be sharing
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+the questions. Where is it? All right, take presenter. And I
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+will be sharing the questions. All right. Can you see my
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+screen all right? I can, yes. OK, cool. So we move straight to
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+the question. Let me just check on the time. I think we have
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+about until 10.20, which is in 17 minutes. So let's take
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+about 10 to 15 minutes of question time. And if people have
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+joined on BBB, we'll also be taking questions live. All
+
+NOTE Q: what does 0573 means in your init. file name?
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+right. Starting with the first question, what does 0573
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+mean in your init file name? So this name is, you can think of
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+it as a prefix or a stub. It's an index number that I utilize
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+before a short name that describes the project. So I have all
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+my projects in my home directory, and I just start typing the
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+project number or index number. in the terminal and I have
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+autocompletion available through oh my ZSH package. So I
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+just hit tab and it autocompletes the name of the project and
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+pops me into that folder. And so I find this to be very easy for
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+navigating between projects. As you saw, I work on multiple
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+projects in a given day and this helps me move about. And I
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+also use this number at the start of the log file name and at
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+the start of the manuscript name and the start of the, I also
+
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+have an annotated bibliography. So all those files are
+
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+identified just in case I accidentally save one to the wrong
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+folder. I can avoid, I can sort them out later. Great
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+question. Thank you. Next question, which I think is going
+
+NOTE Q: What does Zettelkasten mean?
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+to be a long one. What does Zettelkasten mean? So this means
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+like, I guess, notebox, something along those lines. You
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+can think of it as a- Yeah, spitbox usually, that's the word
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+we use. Thank you. So this is a kind of like a card catalog
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+system that when it was done on paper, and now it's being done
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+electronically through various software packages. So in
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+the Emacs world, org-roam is a one of several alternate
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+packages that you can use. Prot has the note and there's a
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+couple others. So, idea is that you create a note, usually a,
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+ultimately what you want to do is create a nugget of
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+knowledge from your reading that you've done. and you add it
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+to this note system in such a way that you can recover it more
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+easily than what had to be done in the old days with index
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+cards.
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+So you set up backlinks and then you can use the search
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+features in Org Roam to filter and find the notes again in the
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+future. Org Roam has a wonderful GUI interface where you can
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+display it as a knowledge graph, essentially, all your
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+nodes and the backlinks between them. I set mine up in a
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+rather hierarchical fashion to, at least right now, it's
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+pretty hierarchical at this point, but it may become more
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+disorganized over time. But I find it I'm sort of a visual
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+00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:12.519
+person. I like mind maps a lot. I find that this visual
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+display of my Zettelkasten is similar, resembles to a
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+certain degree, a mind map.
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+Okay, well, that's a pretty good definition of what
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+Zettelkasten is, and you also went on to specify what it
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+means inside Emacs, so thank you. I think that clarifies it
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+for the two people in the room who still do not know, after
+
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+attending four Emacs conferences, what is the
+
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+Zettelkasten method. Moving on to the next question,
+
+NOTE Q: How many papers are you writing at the same time?
+
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+how many papers are you writing at the same time? Because I
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+believe you mentioned that you had concurrent papers being
+
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+written during your presentation. So I'm probably working
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+on, in a given year, somewhere between 10 and 15. How many do I
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+get published in a year? Probably anywhere from one to four
+
+00:06:03.200 --> 00:06:08.639
+or five. So these papers often, the work on them spans
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+00:06:08.640 --> 00:06:13.559
+multiple years. will start working on a paper when I begin,
+
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+before I begin the experiments, ideally, because I'm
+
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+trying to do hypothesis-driven research. And so that helps
+
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+define the scope of the project and limit the number of
+
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+rabbit holes I go down. So, but through the nature of the
+
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+work, there's a lot of waiting required in my case for
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+crystals to grow and then the opportunity to collect
+
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+diffraction data on the crystals. And then the structures
+
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+have to be determined and refined and analyzed and then
+
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+deposited, figures have to be made. So a lot of steps are
+
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+involved that those take generally span, that work can span
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+several years.
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+In a given day, I try to work on two papers, ideally. I haven't
+
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+been doing so well lately over the past month.
+
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+In the past year, there was a couple of days where I worked on
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+five papers. There was something like a half dozen where I
+
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+worked on four, about 40 days where I worked on three, and I
+
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+think there was something like about 100 days where I worked
+
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+on two papers a day, about 140 days where I just worked on one.
+
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+So my idea is, I've been sort of developing more recently is
+
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+that I'll start doing like the generative writing on a paper
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+at the beginning of the day on the paper project I'm most
+
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+excited about. I tried to, I'm a night owl. I tried to do this
+
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+work early in the morning when I'm half awake to try to
+
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+overcome my internal editor that inhibits me from writing
+
+00:08:03.440 --> 00:08:09.879
+prose freely. And so the idea is just to get a lot of words out,
+
+00:08:09.880 --> 00:08:14.639
+worry about editing them later. And then after about three
+
+00:08:14.640 --> 00:08:17.999
+hours, I'll switch to the second project that I'm less
+
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+excited about. And I can go for another 90 minutes to two
+
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+hours on that project. So I build up a lot of momentum, and
+
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+then I do the switch. And I find that switch to be relatively
+
+00:08:31.960 --> 00:08:37.359
+easy. So my process will be On project A, make some final
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+notes about what was accomplished in the writing log. Then
+
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+I'll switch over to the writing log for the project B, and
+
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+I'll go to the diary section at the beginning. I'll make a
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+little to-do list and maybe look at the prior entry in the
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+diary if I need to reboot my memory. And then I'll move on to
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+the manuscript and go for 90 minutes or two hours.
+
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+Generally, you're only good for somewhere between four and
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+a half, five and a half hours. If you try to write in a
+
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+generative fashion much longer than that, your
+
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+productivity goes down quite a bit. You're better off
+
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+switching to a completely different activity and then
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+using your experience doing that writing to essentially
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+launch background jobs in your subconscious. And so you
+
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+will get those ideas in the shower the next morning.
+
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+I find it really funny because I also relate. I've also
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+worked a lot on organization as linked to paper writing but
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+also to on my work as a developer and it's funny how you refer
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+to your ability to think about something in very similar
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+terms to how a computer would think about something. You've
+
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+mentioned in your presentation the cost of context
+
+00:10:02.400 --> 00:10:04.919
+switching between different things but it's also
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+00:10:04.920 --> 00:10:08.119
+something that we use in computing when a processor needs to
+
+00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:11.719
+be thinking about something else, well, it has a cost. And
+
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+it's really fun for me to hear you talk about, oh, I need to
+
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+select two topics, but no longer than 90 minutes per topic,
+
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+because it's really about maximizing your output for
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+creativity. And overall, your entire chat, your entire
+
+00:10:25.240 --> 00:10:28.519
+presentation here is about really maximizing the
+
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+engagement that you have between outputs and your
+
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+cognition. And I really find this amazing how down to the T
+
+00:10:37.160 --> 00:10:40.279
+you've managed to do this. And it actually leads me to
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+00:10:40.280 --> 00:10:42.679
+another question which is being asked of you, which is,
+
+NOTE Q: How you capture those ideas when when you are away from Emacs?
+
+00:10:42.680 --> 00:10:45.959
+how do you capture those ideas when you are away from Emacs? And
+
+00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:47.999
+perhaps not only those you have in the showers, but also
+
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+elsewhere. So that's a great question. Over the past year, I
+
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+actually, last January, upon recommendation of a senior
+
+00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:05.399
+colleague, I bought a digital voice recorder for $85 from
+
+00:11:05.400 --> 00:11:10.279
+Sony, and it's the best investment I've made in a very long
+
+00:11:10.280 --> 00:11:16.399
+time. other than my laptop computer, because I then record
+
+00:11:16.400 --> 00:11:21.439
+my thoughts. So I have a half hour commute. And to me, that's
+
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+largely a waste of time. I wish I lived a lot closer to work.
+
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+But I use that time to generate ideas. So maybe I'll start my
+
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+day at home for 90 minutes, worked on paper A, and then I might
+
+00:11:40.560 --> 00:11:44.799
+try to prime my mind about project B, or I might still have
+
+00:11:44.800 --> 00:11:48.199
+ideas that are flowing about project A. And I'll record
+
+00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:51.439
+those in the digital voice recorder. And then when I get to
+
+00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:54.599
+the lab, I'll transfer the audio file to my computer, and
+
+00:11:54.600 --> 00:12:00.159
+I'll transcribe it using a whisper. So I've set up some
+
+00:12:00.160 --> 00:12:03.759
+Python scripts and bash functions to go through and I
+
+00:12:03.760 --> 00:12:10.999
+convert all the sentences into one sentence per line
+
+00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:16.359
+because that's the way I like to write and edit things. And so
+
+00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:19.679
+it does all this pre-processing for me. And I have this
+
+00:12:19.680 --> 00:12:23.279
+transcript that's in pretty good shape. I don't have to do
+
+00:12:23.280 --> 00:12:29.159
+very much editing. And I'll then copy that over and work on
+
+00:12:29.160 --> 00:12:33.079
+it, clean it up, and pluck out the ideas that I think might be
+
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+useful. Unfortunately, I'm not very I'm not away from my
+
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+computer that much. I'm in front of it, 12, 14 hours a day. So
+
+00:12:47.960 --> 00:12:53.039
+when I'm teaching, when I'm in seminar, other committee
+
+00:12:53.040 --> 00:12:58.359
+meetings, traveling, then I'll capture ideas on paper. I
+
+00:12:58.360 --> 00:13:02.399
+don't have a cell phone. I'm trying to be the last human on
+
+00:13:02.400 --> 00:13:07.359
+earth without a cell phone. I think I would be so distracted
+
+00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:12.719
+by a cell phone. Worst person on the planet, I would be
+
+00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:16.399
+totally focused on my cell phone if I had one. So I'm like one
+
+00:13:16.400 --> 00:13:22.999
+of the few people left who can read a map. So I do run into some
+
+00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:26.199
+difficulties hailing taxis and that sort of thing when I'm
+
+00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:30.599
+traveling. So there are some downsides to not having a cell
+
+00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:35.719
+phone, but these days. Yeah, but I think there's a pretty
+
+00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:38.639
+significant upside because, you know, you talk about cell
+
+00:13:38.640 --> 00:13:40.999
+phones here, but before you were talking about the 90
+
+00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:44.799
+minutes of uninterrupted focus on a given topic. And I think
+
+00:13:44.800 --> 00:13:48.359
+plenty of people would be envious of this ability to focus
+
+00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:54.519
+for that long on a topic. And I guess if we are to thread the
+
+00:13:54.520 --> 00:13:57.239
+needle here, well, the lack of cell phone might be for
+
+00:13:57.240 --> 00:14:00.839
+something for this ability to focus. So take of this what you
+
+00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:06.799
+will. True, I am a sucker for the web browser. I can get
+
+00:14:06.800 --> 00:14:11.759
+distracted going down various rabbit holes thanks to
+
+00:14:11.760 --> 00:14:17.279
+Google searches and that sort of thing. Likewise, email is
+
+00:14:17.280 --> 00:14:22.399
+another tension grabber. So, there's those other battles I
+
+00:14:22.400 --> 00:14:27.599
+have to fight too. So, right, that is a huge battle that all of
+
+00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:31.839
+us face is developing focus and being able to maintain
+
+00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:37.159
+focus. Right. So, we have about three more minutes of
+
+00:14:37.160 --> 00:14:39.279
+questions. So, thank you so much already for answering many
+
+00:14:39.280 --> 00:14:43.319
+questions. How about we do a quick fire for the remaining
+
+00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:47.079
+questions and then maybe we will take a question from... from
+
+00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:50.272
+here or in the room. So how about we go for the next one?
+
+NOTE Q: What if an ideas does not belong to any current working manuscript?
+
+00:14:50.273 --> 00:14:51.573
+What if an ID does not belong
+
+00:14:51.574 --> 00:14:55.199
+to any current working manuscript? So I
+
+00:14:55.200 --> 00:14:57.799
+have a sandbox area in the log file.
+
+00:14:57.800 --> 00:15:04.319
+So if it's likely going to be related to something to a
+
+00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:09.119
+certain degree, if the idea is totally unrelated to
+
+00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:12.719
+anything I'm working on, then I will
+
+00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:21.359
+I maintain a 700 through 750 words. I maintain a kind of a
+
+00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:26.719
+external diary and I just capture those kind of ideas there.
+
+00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:31.199
+So, I have access to a web interface to this big text area with
+
+00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:37.079
+nothing in it. And I just dump ideas all day long in there. So,
+
+00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:42.799
+and I save that away. I have that in a big LaTeX document
+
+00:15:42.800 --> 00:15:49.999
+currently on Overleaf. but each day has its own page. And so
+
+00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:53.079
+that information is captured and I can recover it. And maybe
+
+00:15:53.080 --> 00:15:57.599
+it's gonna take me a week, a month, a year to take that idea and
+
+00:15:57.600 --> 00:16:00.279
+think about it. And then eventually I'll get to a point where
+
+00:16:00.280 --> 00:16:04.279
+I have a critical mass of momentum and data and so forth,
+
+00:16:04.280 --> 00:16:08.279
+where I could start a new writing project. But you're right,
+
+00:16:08.280 --> 00:16:11.399
+that is a problem, capturing those ideas and keeping track
+
+00:16:11.400 --> 00:16:16.719
+of them. The Xenocasting can also help with that. Right. OK,
+
+00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:19.159
+so we have time for one more question and I think I'm going to
+
+00:16:19.160 --> 00:16:22.679
+skip this one. You can take all the time you want after we're
+
+00:16:22.680 --> 00:16:25.679
+done with the live show for you to answer in BBB, obviously,
+
+00:16:25.680 --> 00:16:28.319
+and even after the conference. But I'd really like to finish
+
+00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:28.801
+on this one.
+
+NOTE Q: If there were one habit from your process (referencing your extensive flow chart) that you want active learners/professional researchers to adopt, which would it be and why?
+
+00:16:28.802 --> 00:16:31.879
+So, if there were one habit from your process,
+
+00:16:31.880 --> 00:16:35.079
+referencing your extensive flowchart, that you want
+
+00:16:35.080 --> 00:16:37.839
+active learners or professional researchers to adopt,
+
+00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:44.479
+which would it be and why? So,
+
+00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:49.999
+I think just keeping that daily diary, that's the essential
+
+00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:55.239
+part for overcoming the fear of forgetting and the fear of
+
+00:16:55.240 --> 00:16:58.319
+losing momentum. One reason why people don't work on two
+
+00:16:58.320 --> 00:17:02.399
+projects a day is that they fear losing momentum on the first
+
+00:17:02.400 --> 00:17:07.319
+project they're working on. But we often are stuck with
+
+00:17:07.320 --> 00:17:09.999
+working on multiple writing projects, and they're best
+
+00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:13.199
+done over longer periods of time rather than in a hasty
+
+00:17:13.200 --> 00:17:18.679
+fashion. I try to avoid binge writing, although I do my share
+
+00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:23.479
+of that, too. Okay, well, Blaine, thank you so much for all
+
+00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:29.199
+your questions. The stream is going to move to the next chat
+
+00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:31.999
+and talk. We're moving to the next talk of the day, but feel
+
+00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:35.159
+free to stay in a room. For everyone interested in asking
+
+00:17:35.160 --> 00:17:38.479
+more questions to Blaine, the BBB, sorry, BigBlueButton
+
+00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:41.250
+link is available on the website. You can join and ask
+
+00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:43.319
+questions directly to Blaine. And otherwise, we'll make
+
+00:17:43.320 --> 00:17:45.479
+sure that all the remaining questions on the pad get their
+
+00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:48.239
+answer eventually. Thank you so much, Blaine. You're
+
+00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:56.559
+welcome. Bye-bye. Bye.
+
+00:17:56.560 --> 00:18:00.079
+okay I think the stream is moving on. Just making sure. okay. Yes
+
+00:18:00.080 --> 00:18:02.079
+we are moving on to the next stream. So Blaine, I'm going to need to
+
+00:18:02.080 --> 00:18:04.919
+get ready for the next talk. Thank you so much for all your
+
+00:18:04.920 --> 00:18:08.079
+answers and feel free to answer your questions. I'm
+
+00:18:08.080 --> 00:18:11.759
+sorry that i didn't get to fill your question live. It's just
+
+00:18:11.760 --> 00:18:16.599
+there was a lot of questions actually. It was a comment. Okay.
+
+NOTE Off-stream Q&A
+
+00:18:16.600 --> 00:18:24.199
+Yeah, yeah. You mentioned about that you sit all the day in
+
+00:18:24.200 --> 00:18:27.999
+front of computer, right? And I have to say, it's not too
+
+00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:31.439
+different from a bathroom if you get distracted by web
+
+00:18:31.440 --> 00:18:34.919
+browser. I also have the same problem. And one interesting
+
+00:18:34.920 --> 00:18:38.679
+solution I found at some point is that I pry my mind about
+
+00:18:38.680 --> 00:18:44.039
+certain task, I leave my office and I go for a walk while
+
+00:18:44.040 --> 00:18:49.079
+thinking about this. And that really forces to focus
+
+00:18:49.080 --> 00:18:52.839
+because while you're working you have nothing else to do.
+
+00:18:52.840 --> 00:18:56.999
+You cannot go and like go like searching Google and stuff
+
+00:18:57.000 --> 00:19:03.359
+like that. It can really help in some cases.
+
+00:19:03.360 --> 00:19:09.559
+Yeah, I try to. Periodically, I'll try to restart doing the
+
+00:19:09.560 --> 00:19:12.879
+Pomodoro method, where you're supposed to get up every 25
+
+00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:17.959
+minutes and take a break. But that requires a lot of
+
+00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:23.799
+discipline. And it also has, I find I'm more exhausted by
+
+00:19:23.800 --> 00:19:26.879
+following that method at the end of the day. But I think the
+
+00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:30.919
+problem with, well, I think in part- No, no, I don't mean
+
+00:19:30.920 --> 00:19:36.079
+Pomodoro actually. I mean, more like showers. Because when
+
+00:19:36.080 --> 00:19:39.079
+you take a shower, you think about something, right? When
+
+00:19:39.080 --> 00:19:43.159
+you just go for a walk, you again think about it. So this is not
+
+00:19:43.160 --> 00:19:46.119
+a break to take rest. It's a break to think away from
+
+00:19:46.120 --> 00:19:49.039
+computer.
+
+00:19:49.040 --> 00:19:54.239
+And you prime yourself, your brain by... picking something
+
+00:19:54.240 --> 00:19:56.719
+to work on. So I have a project, I think, like certain
+
+00:19:56.720 --> 00:20:01.079
+questions I want to think about. I sometimes take my, like a
+
+00:20:01.080 --> 00:20:05.319
+piece of paper with me. And then when I walk, I like take
+
+00:20:05.320 --> 00:20:10.279
+notes. You can record voice in your case. And like half an
+
+00:20:10.280 --> 00:20:15.239
+hour and you can really generate ideas.
+
+00:20:15.240 --> 00:20:18.519
+I have been doing a similar thing. I will take a clipboard.
+
+00:20:18.520 --> 00:20:24.799
+Maybe I'll have, um, Some blank pages where I'll write, jot
+
+00:20:24.800 --> 00:20:29.799
+down ideas as I walk. I'll go for like a half hour, hour-long
+
+00:20:29.800 --> 00:20:33.879
+walk and also read a paper sometimes, and in the process of
+
+00:20:33.880 --> 00:20:39.159
+reading, I get ideas.
+
+00:20:39.160 --> 00:20:45.159
+The clipboard though is socially less acceptable. It
+
+00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:49.359
+reminds people of their gym teacher, I think, or their
+
+00:20:49.360 --> 00:20:53.799
+marine drill sergeant, and they give me all kinds of weird
+
+00:20:53.800 --> 00:20:59.279
+looks. Even though they're walking and reading their cell
+
+00:20:59.280 --> 00:21:03.759
+phone, looking down at their cell phone, they give me weird
+
+00:21:03.760 --> 00:21:08.599
+looks for looking down at a clipboard as I walk. So there's
+
+00:21:08.600 --> 00:21:16.719
+that weird aspect to it. It's kind of hilarious.
+
+00:21:16.720 --> 00:21:21.479
+Thank you very much for the comment. Yeah, hopefully it's
+
+00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:24.799
+helpful. Because I really struggled about this web browser
+
+00:21:24.800 --> 00:21:28.346
+in the past. Not so much these days. Very good.
+
+00:21:28.347 --> 00:21:57.279
+That's good to hear.
+
+00:21:57.280 --> 00:21:57.639
+I asked,
+
+00:21:57.640 --> 00:22:06.519
+when I write notes, I've noticed like with the
+
+00:22:06.520 --> 00:22:10.360
+Getting Things Done and the Zettelkasten, I like to separate them
+
+00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:14.759
+out. And beyond that, I also like to separate them out on
+
+00:22:14.760 --> 00:22:19.959
+daily things and the global things. So that, for instance,
+
+00:22:19.960 --> 00:22:24.719
+your Zettelkasten, a daily would be like a journal. If you
+
+00:22:24.720 --> 00:22:29.599
+separate it out, It gives a lot of tension of, oh, well, if
+
+00:22:29.600 --> 00:22:33.119
+it's just a stray thought, I'll write it into my journal if I
+
+00:22:33.120 --> 00:22:36.959
+don't know where it goes. If I can think of a permanent place
+
+00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:41.479
+for it to go, it goes into the Zettelkasten. Same thing with,
+
+00:22:41.480 --> 00:22:44.599
+and then with like the getting things done is like, I don't,
+
+00:22:44.600 --> 00:22:48.159
+you start with like a fresh sheet of paper every single day or
+
+00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:54.639
+note or whatever. You ever done, you have tricks like that
+
+00:22:54.640 --> 00:22:59.359
+that you've noticed? So I'm sort of doing something similar
+
+00:22:59.360 --> 00:23:04.279
+through this. Well, to be honest, I like at the start of the
+
+00:23:04.280 --> 00:23:07.399
+day, I actually will just do sort of a brain dump of what
+
+00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:11.879
+happened the day before, just to try to get writing again.
+
+00:23:11.880 --> 00:23:16.959
+And these days, because of carpal tunnel syndrome, I'll use
+
+00:23:16.960 --> 00:23:22.159
+a voice speech to text to generate that initial text. And I'm
+
+00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:28.479
+just trying to, build up momentum of generating words. And
+
+00:23:28.480 --> 00:23:35.559
+so I capture, but I'm also adding to that document
+
+00:23:35.560 --> 00:23:40.719
+throughout the day. And so that is available through the web
+
+00:23:40.720 --> 00:23:47.279
+browser. I have a tab open to 750 words all the time. There's
+
+00:23:47.280 --> 00:23:51.719
+an alternate to it that is called Write Honey, that somebody
+
+00:23:51.720 --> 00:23:55.919
+in Berlin started, because they benefited so greatly from
+
+00:23:55.920 --> 00:23:58.679
+this practice. They have made it available for free,
+
+00:23:58.680 --> 00:24:05.039
+apparently for life. And so there's no word limit, whereas I
+
+00:24:05.040 --> 00:24:10.599
+have a grandfathered version of 750 words, and I have a word
+
+00:24:10.600 --> 00:24:15.519
+limit of 5,000 words. I rarely hit it. It's nice to know that
+
+00:24:15.520 --> 00:24:20.599
+right honey doesn't have that limit. So, that's how I'm
+
+00:24:20.600 --> 00:24:26.199
+capturing things. And then, so some of that text winds up
+
+00:24:26.200 --> 00:24:32.279
+being moved into my log file or even sometimes into the
+
+00:24:32.280 --> 00:24:37.799
+manuscript.
+
+00:24:37.800 --> 00:24:42.079
+So maybe a little less organized than the getting things
+
+00:24:42.080 --> 00:24:47.559
+done approach with the dailies and then the refiling
+
+00:24:47.560 --> 00:24:54.319
+process. So I don't do any refiling. I want to file once. I
+
+00:24:54.320 --> 00:24:58.079
+don't want to file a second time or have to go back and handle
+
+00:24:58.080 --> 00:25:03.319
+something a second time. So that's my rationale for the
+
+00:25:03.320 --> 00:25:08.159
+approach I take. I'm not using it. I've had various
+
+00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:12.759
+iterations of systems I've used, but I think my favorite one
+
+00:25:12.760 --> 00:25:15.559
+for like getting things done is actually not using
+
+00:25:15.560 --> 00:25:18.799
+Org Agenda, just like making a blank sheet and kind of doing
+
+00:25:18.800 --> 00:25:24.039
+like a template where it's just like, and separating my
+
+00:25:24.040 --> 00:25:28.119
+tasks out into three categories, like core tasks, like, and
+
+00:25:28.120 --> 00:25:32.279
+rule of thumb is like, if it's beyond three, it's too much too
+
+00:25:32.280 --> 00:25:36.359
+many. And like core tasks, secondary tasks and unplanned
+
+00:25:36.360 --> 00:25:39.759
+tasks. So these, those three categories, like for
+
+00:25:39.760 --> 00:25:42.039
+instance, the core task, if it's greater than three, it's
+
+00:25:42.040 --> 00:25:46.999
+too many. That way is like, when you look back, then you can
+
+00:25:47.000 --> 00:25:51.439
+see, like, if I got my core tasks done, I did really good. or if
+
+00:25:51.440 --> 00:25:56.879
+I got a lot of secondary tasks but not my core tasks done, I got
+
+00:25:56.880 --> 00:25:58.873
+side reactions with things that don't matter.
+
+00:25:58.874 --> 00:26:00.674
+If I got a lot of unplanned tasks,
+
+00:26:00.640 --> 00:26:03.679
+I could look at those unplanned tasks to see, oh yeah, okay,
+
+00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:07.639
+that was fine. Okay, the day didn't go as
+
+00:26:07.640 --> 00:26:14.999
+planned, but it was, yeah. That's an excellent suggestion.
+
+00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:20.119
+I generally just And I ended up long of a to-do list. It's
+
+00:26:20.120 --> 00:26:25.079
+impossible to accomplish in a day. Then I just like
+
+00:26:25.080 --> 00:26:29.799
+furnaces. Another trick that I liked was I also put like that
+
+00:26:29.800 --> 00:26:34.719
+under like a week. Cause it makes more sense to do it under a
+
+00:26:34.720 --> 00:26:39.079
+week. And then I'd have like subheadings under that, like,
+
+00:26:39.080 --> 00:26:45.079
+you know, so week day. Um, then I'd have those three
+
+00:26:45.080 --> 00:26:48.599
+categories for each of the tasks and then kind of as an
+
+00:26:48.600 --> 00:26:51.719
+unofficial day at the end, I just like have a staging area for
+
+00:26:51.720 --> 00:26:56.199
+all tasks. So I just kind of, then I just, I want to be using org
+
+00:26:56.200 --> 00:27:00.319
+agenda. So then I just be moving up and down, you know, cause
+
+00:27:00.320 --> 00:27:03.199
+you could, cause you're able to rearrange stuff in org mode
+
+00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:08.079
+so easily. I don't know if there's a good way of, that's been
+
+00:27:08.080 --> 00:27:11.919
+my favorite iteration
+
+00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:20.759
+of doing it. So I wrote a little function that pops in the
+
+00:27:20.760 --> 00:27:25.439
+to-dos that are specific to a particular project in the log
+
+00:27:25.440 --> 00:27:31.359
+file for that project.
+
+00:27:31.360 --> 00:27:36.599
+And then I add the log file name to the list of org files that
+
+00:27:36.600 --> 00:27:41.919
+Org Agenda searches, so those to-dos will show up. But my
+
+00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:46.199
+list is too long, and that becomes overwhelming. So I'll
+
+00:27:46.200 --> 00:27:51.399
+just assign a to-do heading to the top item in my to-do list to
+
+00:27:51.400 --> 00:27:54.479
+try to, but maybe it should be three. That would be a
+
+00:27:54.480 --> 00:27:58.479
+reasonable compromise.
+
+00:27:58.480 --> 00:28:03.879
+That's a good idea.
+
+00:28:03.880 --> 00:28:12.879
+So you're doing weekly planning then? I can show up. I was.
+
+00:28:12.880 --> 00:28:16.879
+This is, yeah, this was, yeah. What ended up making me stop is
+
+00:28:16.880 --> 00:28:20.439
+I didn't know how to make a template of it. And I, I ended up
+
+00:28:20.440 --> 00:28:25.879
+getting annoyed by manually changing the days every single
+
+00:28:25.880 --> 00:28:29.759
+time and naming like my files and stuff like that. If I Maybe
+
+00:28:29.760 --> 00:28:34.159
+if I did it now, I could figure out how to program it or if I
+
+00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:36.439
+spent enough time, but that's what I think eventually made
+
+00:28:36.440 --> 00:28:42.479
+me stop doing it. So there's a, um, you can make a snippet for
+
+00:28:42.480 --> 00:28:45.640
+the week and then you could have code in the snippet that
+
+00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:51.519
+would generate the dates automatically. Um, So I have like
+
+00:28:51.520 --> 00:28:56.599
+for my daily entry, I have a snippet called entry and then I
+
+00:28:56.600 --> 00:29:02.079
+hit tab and our control or whatever to insert the snippet and
+
+00:29:02.080 --> 00:29:07.919
+that has the current date already entered. So I skip that, I
+
+00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:13.479
+don't have to deal with that. So I think you could probably
+
+00:29:13.480 --> 00:29:18.639
+feed what you want to accomplish to a copilot, for example,
+
+00:29:18.640 --> 00:29:21.801
+being copilot. I've been using Bing Copilot
+
+00:29:21.802 --> 00:29:25.833
+for the past three or four months to return
+
+00:29:25.834 --> 00:29:29.227
+Elisp code that works 90% of the time.
+
+00:29:29.228 --> 00:29:34.399
+I've been pretty impressed. And it's free. So no
+
+00:29:34.400 --> 00:29:43.119
+API key required. It runs. So I guess I installed the Bing
+
+00:29:43.120 --> 00:29:49.362
+Copilot plugin in the Google Chrome.
+
+00:29:49.363 --> 00:29:50.199
+And that's what I've been using.
+
+00:29:50.200 --> 00:30:00.807
+Yeah, I can show you my screen if
+
+00:30:00.808 --> 00:30:05.852
+you want to see what the screen looks like.
+
+00:30:05.853 --> 00:30:06.839
+I can email you the template. I kind of have it saved as a
+
+00:30:06.840 --> 00:30:12.639
+template. I've got to find it, though. Let's see.
+
+00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:17.439
+Not exactly set up to.
+
+00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:44.159
+Alright, so. I
+
+00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:50.159
+don't know if you can see this well enough, but...
+
+00:30:50.160 --> 00:30:59.599
+Yeah, let's make it bigger. Can you see that at all? I can see a
+
+00:30:59.600 --> 00:31:01.279
+little bit of it. Yeah, it's kind of blurry.
+
+00:31:01.280 --> 00:31:07.399
+Alright, well. But then you just do that right there. So it's
+
+00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:13.239
+all color coded. I, so I get a sense of, uh, uh, what the kind of
+
+00:31:13.240 --> 00:31:18.599
+greenish blue lines must be or days, I guess, or. Okay. Well,
+
+00:31:18.600 --> 00:31:22.639
+right. There's like, so you can see like startup show two
+
+00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:27.519
+levels. Then I have like numbers right there. So right on one
+
+00:31:27.520 --> 00:31:30.919
+day you have like the core tasks, there's three out of four
+
+00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:37.119
+done. Then I have like secondary and unplanned and then.
+
+00:31:37.120 --> 00:31:42.079
+Yeah, that's just the general idea
+
+00:31:42.080 --> 00:31:50.319
+So that this is you raise you know the so the dilemma I face of
+
+00:31:50.320 --> 00:31:55.119
+course is that I have maintain like a to-do list and our
+
+00:31:55.120 --> 00:31:58.799
+project specific and then there's the all the other things I
+
+00:31:58.800 --> 00:32:04.439
+have to do and So there should be like some The org agenda
+
+00:32:04.440 --> 00:32:09.879
+should be a way of being able to pull the two sets together, I
+
+00:32:09.880 --> 00:32:10.319
+guess.
+
+00:32:10.320 --> 00:32:16.959
+I had broken up my,
+
+00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:25.359
+well, I had way too many to-do lists stored in various
+
+00:32:25.360 --> 00:32:25.919
+places.
+
+00:32:25.920 --> 00:32:32.199
+And so that's a problem, I guess, when you have too many
+
+00:32:32.200 --> 00:32:37.359
+to-dos and the org Agenda becomes overwhelming and sort of
+
+00:32:37.360 --> 00:32:44.479
+discourages Yeah, I figure that the general task on that is
+
+00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:49.199
+like I start writing things up. I get more and more items.
+
+00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:52.319
+I'll make a master to-do list. Oh my master to-do list has too
+
+00:32:52.320 --> 00:32:58.759
+many items. Let me throw it out Well, there's another name
+
+00:32:58.760 --> 00:33:01.559
+for that kind of list you could you know called a grass
+
+NOTE Time Power
+
+00:33:01.560 --> 00:33:06.959
+catcher list. So Charles Hobbs was this, he wrote a book in
+
+00:33:06.960 --> 00:33:16.079
+the 80s called Time Power. And he had like, you know, so he was
+
+00:33:16.080 --> 00:33:22.679
+one of these time management gurus. And so, let's
+
+00:33:22.680 --> 00:33:26.519
+see, you get the name of some, like Tony Robbins and,
+
+00:33:26.520 --> 00:33:34.879
+I forget the name of the other guy, that's Brian Tracy. So
+
+00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:39.119
+that they have kind of pushed the same kind of similar
+
+00:33:39.120 --> 00:33:43.279
+approaches. But Charles Hobbs had a very more organized
+
+00:33:43.280 --> 00:33:46.679
+approach, I think, and more disciplined. And he identified
+
+00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:49.439
+that kind of list as a grass catcher list, where you have a
+
+00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:52.839
+list of items that you think you might want to do, but you
+
+00:33:52.840 --> 00:33:57.359
+haven't prioritized them yet. And you haven't scheduled
+
+00:33:57.360 --> 00:34:03.199
+them yet. but they need a safe place to be stored. When time
+
+00:34:03.200 --> 00:34:06.199
+permits, the idea was you would pull items off that grass
+
+00:34:06.200 --> 00:34:10.599
+catcher list and move it into a to-do item that you will
+
+00:34:10.600 --> 00:34:18.079
+schedule and commit to getting done. That was the idea,
+
+00:34:18.080 --> 00:34:20.999
+separating them between core tasks, secondary tasks,
+
+00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:24.119
+unplanned tasks, because your whole day can't be planned.
+
+00:34:24.120 --> 00:34:27.919
+Right, right. You have things you have to do that are
+
+00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:31.319
+unscheduled that come through your door or land in your
+
+00:34:31.320 --> 00:34:35.239
+inbox or land in your email. You've got to do them. And then
+
+00:34:35.240 --> 00:34:38.799
+core tasks, I don't know, like to-do lists, their whole
+
+00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:43.279
+point is. So for instance, like journal and Zettelkasten
+
+00:34:43.280 --> 00:34:46.679
+are kind of, and like that's global lists versus the daily
+
+00:34:46.680 --> 00:34:49.399
+lists are kind of. done a little differently. With
+
+00:34:49.400 --> 00:34:53.639
+Zettelkasten, it's organic. Things build up. If you make a
+
+00:34:53.640 --> 00:34:56.359
+note, it's great. If you don't, if it has a small amount,
+
+00:34:56.360 --> 00:35:00.479
+that's great. Have a small note. With a daily to-do, you want
+
+00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:05.199
+to use it to make decisions. That's the idea of having the
+
+00:35:05.200 --> 00:35:08.639
+core task and the secondary task separate because the whole
+
+00:35:08.640 --> 00:35:12.719
+thing about it is, I wanna use this to eliminate what I'm
+
+00:35:12.720 --> 00:35:15.759
+going to do. It's to choose what I'm going to do, like the core
+
+00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:19.839
+tasks. Because if I can get my core tasks, I can be happy with
+
+00:35:19.840 --> 00:35:26.519
+my previous days. And then I would probably start using
+
+00:35:26.520 --> 00:35:30.639
+agenda a lot more if I was more consistent with using like
+
+00:35:30.640 --> 00:35:34.439
+these as like weekly files. I don't know. But then the whole
+
+00:35:34.440 --> 00:35:37.559
+goal thing is just like, let me see what I wanna populate the
+
+00:35:37.560 --> 00:35:43.879
+day list with. So how many core tasks wind up spanning
+
+00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:47.359
+multiple days because they're such big projects?
+
+00:35:47.360 --> 00:35:54.519
+I would need more time using the system before I'd figure
+
+00:35:54.520 --> 00:35:59.679
+something like that out. As I said, I'm not using it right
+
+00:35:59.680 --> 00:36:04.759
+now, but that has been my favorite iteration of using these.
+
+00:36:04.760 --> 00:36:13.519
+So within the core tasks, do you assign priorities? So the
+
+00:36:13.520 --> 00:36:20.279
+way I would translate this a little bit would be like in this
+
+00:36:20.280 --> 00:36:24.999
+method that Charles Hobbs had, he had a category for the
+
+00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:29.399
+items that you really have to get done, and they're really
+
+00:36:29.400 --> 00:36:34.119
+important. And so they get a priority of A. And then the
+
+00:36:34.120 --> 00:36:39.519
+secondary tasks would get a priority of B. But then within
+
+00:36:39.520 --> 00:36:42.079
+the A category, you would number them like one through
+
+00:36:42.080 --> 00:36:45.039
+three, I guess. All right, so this would be part of the
+
+00:36:45.040 --> 00:36:49.079
+purpose of separating the daily list or like the weekly list
+
+00:36:49.080 --> 00:36:51.719
+from the global list. So for instance, your global list,
+
+00:36:51.720 --> 00:36:55.679
+you'd say, I want this project that will take a long duration
+
+00:36:55.680 --> 00:37:00.639
+of time. But your daily list would just say, I want to work on
+
+00:37:00.640 --> 00:37:05.039
+it today, even if I don't get it done today. Like, I want to
+
+00:37:05.040 --> 00:37:11.399
+work on it today. then maybe you can link like for instance
+
+00:37:11.400 --> 00:37:16.239
+that your daily list to that global list or something along
+
+00:37:16.240 --> 00:37:20.479
+those lines. But that would be I think a good answer to that
+
+00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:24.719
+type of problem because yeah, the daily list is like
+
+00:37:24.720 --> 00:37:30.999
+supposed to be for that day, not for, Like for instance, you
+
+00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:34.679
+start out clean, you make the list like that would probably
+
+00:37:34.680 --> 00:37:38.599
+be your first task for the week is what do I want for the week?
+
+00:37:38.600 --> 00:37:41.639
+Then you have some tasks that you do with staging. And then
+
+00:37:41.640 --> 00:37:43.799
+like for instance, since you look at it as a whole week at a
+
+00:37:43.800 --> 00:37:47.559
+time, you're able to rearrange it and say, these are the
+
+00:37:47.560 --> 00:37:51.159
+things I wanna get done this week. This is what I really wanna
+
+00:37:51.160 --> 00:37:53.639
+get done on this day. This is what I don't care about on this
+
+00:37:53.640 --> 00:37:53.959
+day or yeah.
+
+00:37:53.960 --> 00:38:03.079
+Another person that kind of, and this is kind of related,
+
+00:38:03.080 --> 00:38:05.559
+there's this idea of
+
+00:38:05.560 --> 00:38:14.039
+of time blocking. So obviously, three tasks, core tasks,
+
+00:38:14.040 --> 00:38:18.839
+maybe they're going to take three or four hours each or two or
+
+00:38:18.840 --> 00:38:23.919
+three. And you can assign blocks of time in your schedule to
+
+00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:30.039
+get them done. And often, what happens is they take longer
+
+00:38:30.040 --> 00:38:33.799
+than you expect. And you have to extend the blocks. Calvin
+
+00:38:33.800 --> 00:38:39.359
+Newport has a that's a kind of approach he advocates is you
+
+00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:43.519
+and I think the power to that is you're you. you're mapping
+
+00:38:43.520 --> 00:38:48.599
+out, you know, you're allocating the time to do these things
+
+00:38:48.600 --> 00:38:52.679
+and you're seeing how you actually, how much time things
+
+00:38:52.680 --> 00:38:56.119
+actually take. And then you, so you wind up adjusting in the
+
+00:38:56.120 --> 00:39:00.079
+future. And the idea is with this approach is do it on paper.
+
+00:39:00.080 --> 00:39:03.559
+And then you have to like, uh, if something takes longer,
+
+00:39:03.560 --> 00:39:06.599
+that pushes everything else down. You just wind up
+
+00:39:06.600 --> 00:39:12.799
+redrawing your schedule for the day, uh, manually. And, um,
+
+00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:17.399
+So it's kind of laborious, and that labor is supposed to
+
+00:39:17.400 --> 00:39:21.799
+inhibit you from spending too much time on a project. As you
+
+00:39:21.800 --> 00:39:24.959
+know, you've got the pain of redrawing everything if you
+
+00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:27.919
+spend too much time on the first project.
+
+00:39:27.920 --> 00:39:36.999
+Yeah, there was a, let's see. It's whatever you strategy you
+
+00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:40.359
+want to do. Like for instance, to me, it's like doing it this
+
+00:39:40.360 --> 00:39:45.519
+way makes me say, I want to focus on like what matters. Then
+
+00:39:45.520 --> 00:39:49.239
+it'll tell me if I feel good about that day, depends on what
+
+00:39:49.240 --> 00:39:52.759
+algorithm, what level and what type of strategy you're
+
+00:39:52.760 --> 00:39:56.119
+using. If you're using time blocking, you're optimizing
+
+00:39:56.120 --> 00:40:02.879
+for each level of time block where I'm, where's like, And you
+
+00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:09.359
+can combine the approaches. It'd be trickier. But like, now
+
+00:40:09.360 --> 00:40:12.919
+let's see. I was listening to a talk with Jordan Peterson.
+
+00:40:12.920 --> 00:40:15.159
+One of the things he said that really resonated with me is
+
+00:40:15.160 --> 00:40:19.119
+like, you wanna use a calendar, but the first rule of using a
+
+00:40:19.120 --> 00:40:24.599
+calendar is don't let the calendar tyrannize you. Because
+
+00:40:24.600 --> 00:40:27.999
+like the first thing you wanna do whenever you use a calendar
+
+00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:33.039
+is schedule every single minute of the day Now you don't have
+
+00:40:33.040 --> 00:40:37.279
+any room for if any task overruns at all. And after a couple of
+
+00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:42.719
+tests, you're like, I don't want to do this anymore. I rebel.
+
+00:40:42.720 --> 00:40:49.879
+I'm going to throw it out. So one kind of combination is
+
+00:40:49.880 --> 00:40:53.799
+through this Pomodoro method I mentioned earlier, where
+
+00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:57.719
+you would sort of like block out, say, two hours. You work for
+
+00:40:57.720 --> 00:41:02.199
+like 25 minutes, take a little, break for up to five minutes
+
+00:41:02.200 --> 00:41:07.279
+and get back to work. And then after two hours, you're to take
+
+00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:11.119
+like a 15 minute break in the morning. In the afternoon, you
+
+00:41:11.120 --> 00:41:14.599
+might even let that break run longer and you might only have
+
+00:41:14.600 --> 00:41:19.279
+three work sessions between breaks. So because you're
+
+00:41:19.280 --> 00:41:24.319
+going to be more run down in the afternoon. And so you build in
+
+00:41:24.320 --> 00:41:26.919
+some
+
+00:41:26.920 --> 00:41:31.639
+into your schedule, some flex like, okay, that's supposed
+
+00:41:31.640 --> 00:41:34.439
+to be a break time, but you know, maybe some urgency comes up
+
+00:41:34.440 --> 00:41:37.999
+and you got to deal with, um, and you have to break out of this,
+
+00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:44.039
+uh, Pomodoro technique. So, uh, that, that, that's one way
+
+00:41:44.040 --> 00:41:48.799
+of kind of scheduling in some, uh, flexibility is through
+
+00:41:48.800 --> 00:41:54.399
+the breaks at Peterson's[??], right. Right. That... I can't, I
+
+00:41:54.400 --> 00:41:59.239
+can't... I don't schedule to that kind of detail. That's just
+
+00:41:59.240 --> 00:42:00.039
+too oppressive.
+
+00:42:00.040 --> 00:42:05.399
+Well, neither do I, but it's like that, like I, that's, I
+
+00:42:05.400 --> 00:42:09.119
+don't try to, to me, the much more interesting question that
+
+00:42:09.120 --> 00:42:12.479
+I tried to do is like, let's try to make sure I do the important
+
+00:42:12.480 --> 00:42:15.199
+things. Cause if I do those, my life would probably move a lot
+
+00:42:15.200 --> 00:42:19.319
+quicker. If I get, if I choose a couple items that I really
+
+00:42:19.320 --> 00:42:22.239
+want and am able to consistently do them, I think my life
+
+00:42:22.240 --> 00:42:26.319
+would bastically start improving. Not necessarily if I can
+
+00:42:26.320 --> 00:42:28.879
+play the game of optimizing every hour.
+
+00:42:28.880 --> 00:42:36.879
+Maybe that could be, and it's a place to start rather, and I
+
+00:42:36.880 --> 00:42:39.079
+think it'd be the most effective place to start. And if I got
+
+00:42:39.080 --> 00:42:42.719
+better at using it all the time, perhaps I'd be playing
+
+00:42:42.720 --> 00:42:46.999
+optimizing every hour game. But this is the game I think
+
+00:42:47.000 --> 00:42:52.719
+would be best bang for buck for me to optimize now. What
+
+00:42:52.720 --> 00:42:56.039
+you're trying to optimize for is accomplishing these core
+
+00:42:56.040 --> 00:43:03.559
+tasks, getting them done as quickly as possible, or as
+
+00:43:03.560 --> 00:43:10.559
+effectively as possible, and as effectively as you need, or
+
+00:43:10.560 --> 00:43:15.359
+whatever your goal is. But yeah, focusing on that rather
+
+00:43:15.360 --> 00:43:19.679
+than the scheduling, I think. Plus, a core task could be, I
+
+00:43:19.680 --> 00:43:26.119
+don't know, catch up on all my house chores, or let, or do a
+
+00:43:26.120 --> 00:43:28.879
+specific one if it's really big or like, I don't know, it's
+
+00:43:28.880 --> 00:43:32.159
+whatever you want it to be. It's like, you can make them
+
+00:43:32.160 --> 00:43:37.559
+bigger or smaller depending on, on how you word them and
+
+00:43:37.560 --> 00:43:40.919
+everything. Cause like, if you say cap, capture all of your
+
+00:43:40.920 --> 00:43:44.879
+house chores up for like one week and you haven't done
+
+00:43:44.880 --> 00:43:47.279
+anything, that's probably a little too ambitious.
+
+00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:56.439
+That's right. Yeah, well, a lot of. Yeah.
+
+00:43:56.440 --> 00:44:03.039
+I spend, I don't know, at least 15 minutes, half an hour at the
+
+00:44:03.040 --> 00:44:07.119
+beginning of the day, sort of my my planning and sort of my
+
+00:44:07.120 --> 00:44:12.359
+initial writing session is involves a bit of planning and
+
+00:44:12.360 --> 00:44:20.399
+there's always. A lot more time. So generally, depending on
+
+00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:21.279
+the nature of your work,
+
+00:44:21.280 --> 00:44:28.119
+it can take up to 15% of your time. It can take quite a bit of
+
+00:44:28.120 --> 00:44:33.919
+time. And I think people don't really acknowledge that as
+
+00:44:33.920 --> 00:44:39.039
+part of your work is planning. And it can take a significant
+
+00:44:39.040 --> 00:44:39.839
+amount of time.
+
+00:44:39.840 --> 00:44:44.799
+Yeah, that's what I was meaning though is like the very first
+
+00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:48.119
+thing I think people generally always try to do with the
+
+00:44:48.120 --> 00:44:51.279
+scanners like look at how productive I can be let's schedule
+
+00:44:51.280 --> 00:44:55.319
+every single minute up and it's like You're not gonna want to
+
+00:44:55.320 --> 00:45:00.519
+do that for very long and it's not gonna work out And what you
+
+00:45:00.520 --> 00:45:06.359
+were saying about The pomodoro technique one of the core
+
+00:45:06.360 --> 00:45:11.919
+Let's see, one of the benefits could be described of another
+
+00:45:11.920 --> 00:45:16.879
+benefit I've seen of like multiple habits books is if you
+
+00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:19.599
+start multiple small habits where you try to do them
+
+00:45:19.600 --> 00:45:23.319
+consistently, you give yourself an opening to where if you
+
+00:45:23.320 --> 00:45:28.279
+get into the flow state, you can do a lot more of it. Like, I
+
+00:45:28.280 --> 00:45:31.759
+don't know, let's say you got a habit of, I don't know, just
+
+00:45:31.760 --> 00:45:36.519
+write a journal entry. You're a journal entry of like at
+
+00:45:36.520 --> 00:45:39.279
+least two lines. I don't know that could very easily turn to
+
+00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:42.759
+like three paragraphs and if you have like a whole bunch of
+
+00:45:42.760 --> 00:45:46.279
+Like the pomodoro technique it could be like stubs to allow
+
+00:45:46.280 --> 00:45:47.639
+you to do more stuff
+
+00:45:47.640 --> 00:45:54.319
+Where are they in spur to allow inspiration to allow you to
+
+00:45:54.320 --> 00:45:57.239
+generate inspiration and then capture it when it strikes if
+
+00:45:57.240 --> 00:45:58.759
+the mood fancies you
+
+00:45:58.760 --> 00:46:08.319
+Yeah, so that's kind of an issue with the Pomodoro
+
+00:46:08.320 --> 00:46:13.839
+technique. So, one idea is that you just, if you really have
+
+00:46:13.840 --> 00:46:19.359
+to break out, because the idea is too big to put on the back
+
+00:46:19.360 --> 00:46:24.359
+burner and hold in place, then you do have to break out of the
+
+00:46:24.360 --> 00:46:30.039
+Pomodoro and go, you know, jot down a quick note or three
+
+00:46:30.040 --> 00:46:30.719
+paragraphs.
+
+00:46:30.720 --> 00:46:36.839
+but like how much... You don't get to count that as a
+
+00:46:36.840 --> 00:46:40.679
+Pomodoro. You have to like reset your count because you've
+
+00:46:40.680 --> 00:46:48.759
+broken it. I mean, according to that method, it's
+
+00:46:48.760 --> 00:46:52.879
+kind of rigid. It's a different algorithm optimizing for
+
+00:46:52.880 --> 00:46:55.479
+different things. And this may just be like a by-product,
+
+00:46:55.480 --> 00:47:00.759
+but this could be very easily like a core advantage that may
+
+00:47:00.760 --> 00:47:05.599
+or may not be the core reason that you were using it but didn't
+
+00:47:05.600 --> 00:47:08.719
+realize it, and may not be something that it's optimizing
+
+00:47:08.720 --> 00:47:17.399
+for. So
+
+00:47:17.400 --> 00:47:22.159
+are you developing a Emacs package then with your template?
+
+00:47:22.160 --> 00:47:30.319
+No. As I said,
+
+00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:36.319
+My next steps where I think would make it work a lot better is
+
+00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:39.999
+if I figured out some way of automatically filling out the
+
+00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:45.439
+dates or maybe automatically adding the file per week into
+
+00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:51.999
+and out of Org Agenda. That would be my next steps. I think if I
+
+00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:55.719
+did that, it would have a much greater chance of becoming
+
+00:47:55.720 --> 00:48:01.879
+part of my workflow at all times. Yeah, I bet you could do it
+
+00:48:01.880 --> 00:48:08.439
+pretty Something I got to work with the help of copilot. I'm
+
+00:48:08.440 --> 00:48:14.959
+not a wizard yet at Emacs Lisp, but I find that copilot is
+
+00:48:14.960 --> 00:48:26.439
+quite helpful.
+
+00:48:26.440 --> 00:48:32.799
+Yeah, their AIs are definitely interesting.
+
+NOTE Do you use a lot of TeX inside Org Mode?
+
+00:48:32.800 --> 00:48:38.279
+So. do you ever use any, uh, a lot of TeX inside of org mode?
+
+00:48:38.280 --> 00:48:49.639
+No, mostly because I know that like I could try to learn it,
+
+00:48:49.640 --> 00:48:57.639
+but I just don't have a need for it. So yeah. And then also like
+
+00:48:57.640 --> 00:49:05.279
+I remember learning, when I learned HTML, I like writing
+
+00:49:05.280 --> 00:49:08.519
+HTML more than like, for instance, Word, because it was a lot
+
+00:49:08.520 --> 00:49:14.959
+more transparent, like a plain text document is, and kind of
+
+00:49:14.960 --> 00:49:20.159
+wrote the ordered list, unordered list, in such a way that it
+
+00:49:20.160 --> 00:49:25.599
+kind of looked similar to the page. But I find that I like Org
+
+00:49:25.600 --> 00:49:26.439
+Mode more than,
+
+00:49:26.440 --> 00:49:35.479
+HTML because, well, it's optimized for, like, my writing
+
+00:49:35.480 --> 00:49:38.479
+and consumption and overall use case rather than, like,
+
+00:49:38.480 --> 00:49:43.359
+optimizing it for somebody else to view, which I generally
+
+00:49:43.360 --> 00:49:45.039
+don't have as much.
+
+00:49:45.040 --> 00:49:52.799
+But, so, like, I don't know. Org Mode is what I'm going to end
+
+00:49:52.800 --> 00:49:57.879
+up using the most, so. I just want to use LaTeX enough.
+
+00:49:57.880 --> 00:50:00.999
+Although I'd be interested in learning LaTeX snippets
+
+00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:06.519
+inside of Org Mode for like the math stuff, but then again, I
+
+00:50:06.520 --> 00:50:13.479
+just never have to type it. So my attitude towards Org Mode
+
+00:50:13.480 --> 00:50:18.199
+changed radically over the summer. I was avoiding it
+
+00:50:18.200 --> 00:50:25.439
+somewhat before and then when I realized I can keep all the
+
+00:50:25.440 --> 00:50:33.279
+great aspects of LaTeX and still use all the great features
+
+00:50:33.280 --> 00:50:39.959
+of Org Mode. So I view now, I think of Org Mode as a wrapper
+
+00:50:39.960 --> 00:50:44.559
+around LaTeX. I know it's not really that, but by thinking
+
+00:50:44.560 --> 00:50:49.159
+about it that way, uh, it's much more palatable to me to, uh,
+
+00:50:49.160 --> 00:50:54.679
+uh, just go, uh, commit to doing as much as possible in org
+
+00:50:54.680 --> 00:50:58.559
+mode. So I've been, that's what I've been doing. Um, this
+
+00:50:58.560 --> 00:51:01.839
+fall is just, uh, every document I started as an org file.
+
+00:51:01.840 --> 00:51:09.959
+I imagine I would like it if I knew it, it's just because I,
+
+00:51:09.960 --> 00:51:13.319
+because I imagine it would feel to me like HTML, or it's just
+
+00:51:13.320 --> 00:51:18.519
+like, Yeah, I can write it, I can format it the way I want to.
+
+00:51:18.520 --> 00:51:24.439
+This is just guesses from my experience with HTML. I can read
+
+00:51:24.440 --> 00:51:27.679
+the source code of it and kind of get an idea of how it will look
+
+00:51:27.680 --> 00:51:30.919
+like, but I just...
+
+00:51:30.920 --> 00:51:36.799
+It's like if you're gonna use the Linux terminal, but you're
+
+00:51:36.800 --> 00:51:41.639
+gonna use it for an hour a week every... Yeah, an hour a week.
+
+00:51:41.640 --> 00:51:45.199
+It's just like, it's just not enough time to dedicate to
+
+00:51:45.200 --> 00:51:48.279
+learn it for to start paying off. That's right. And you can
+
+00:51:48.280 --> 00:51:52.559
+always export your org file to an HTML file.
+
+00:51:52.560 --> 00:51:56.079
+Yeah.
+
+00:51:56.080 --> 00:52:06.039
+But the org file is what I stare at 95% of the time or more. I
+
+00:52:06.040 --> 00:52:10.519
+only use a PDF. So I export to PDF generally. And when I export
+
+00:52:10.520 --> 00:52:16.239
+to HTML, it's very cool. I like looking at the document in the
+
+00:52:16.240 --> 00:52:20.879
+web browser. I like navigating it. But I generally will
+
+00:52:20.880 --> 00:52:24.879
+export it to PDF so I can print it out when I'm traveling to
+
+00:52:24.880 --> 00:52:30.439
+carry out editing. But that's just a small, tiny fraction of
+
+00:52:30.440 --> 00:52:34.039
+the time that I'm actually working with the document. So
+
+00:52:34.040 --> 00:52:38.119
+most of the time it's in org mode. You know, maybe it doesn't
+
+00:52:38.120 --> 00:52:44.199
+look as pretty as in, you know, uh, HTML, but it's, uh, it's so
+
+00:52:44.200 --> 00:52:48.679
+such a pleasure to work in because of the way you can reorder
+
+NOTE Org Mode versus Markdown
+
+00:52:48.680 --> 00:52:55.119
+lists, you know, create headlines. So what about org mode
+
+00:52:55.120 --> 00:52:57.719
+versus Markdown? Cause I know when, cause when I looked at
+
+00:52:57.720 --> 00:53:00.559
+org mode versus Markdown, I was like, yeah, more stuff
+
+00:53:00.560 --> 00:53:05.039
+supports Markdown, but. Org mode has more stuff built into
+
+00:53:05.040 --> 00:53:10.519
+it, like the calendar and agenda stuff. And it's obvious
+
+00:53:10.520 --> 00:53:14.559
+what this is supposed to be in org mode. And Emacs has got the
+
+00:53:14.560 --> 00:53:18.919
+best client. I use Emacs. And I think it's got a better syntax
+
+00:53:18.920 --> 00:53:23.319
+than Markdown. You've got stuff like Obsidian and Notes.
+
+00:53:23.320 --> 00:53:30.959
+And what about the Markdown? So Markdown, I use it a lot on
+
+00:53:30.960 --> 00:53:35.479
+GitHub repositories for the readme files. Sometimes I'll
+
+00:53:35.480 --> 00:53:38.959
+do them in org, but generally just go with the GitHub
+
+00:53:38.960 --> 00:53:44.159
+Markdown. But tables are still kind of a pain in Markdown,
+
+00:53:44.160 --> 00:53:48.719
+whereas tables are such a pleasure to build in org mode,
+
+00:53:48.720 --> 00:53:52.959
+because you have that dynamic adjusting of the column width
+
+00:53:52.960 --> 00:53:59.239
+as you make entries that become wider. And it's so easy to add
+
+00:53:59.240 --> 00:54:04.159
+columns. And it's so hard to add columns. It's much harder in
+
+00:54:04.160 --> 00:54:12.479
+Markdown and in LaTeX. It's more of a pain to add new columns.
+
+00:54:12.480 --> 00:54:16.919
+So the table aspect, that, to me, was one of the killer
+
+00:54:16.920 --> 00:54:20.439
+features. And then the other killer feature, of course, is
+
+00:54:20.440 --> 00:54:24.159
+the literate programming or interactive programming. So
+
+00:54:24.160 --> 00:54:26.559
+interactive computing that you can do where you have a code
+
+00:54:26.560 --> 00:54:30.639
+block and then you can execute it and have the output show up
+
+00:54:30.640 --> 00:54:35.159
+right below the code block. And
+
+00:54:35.160 --> 00:54:40.839
+org modes support for that kind of interactive computing is
+
+00:54:40.840 --> 00:54:46.039
+I'm not aware of anything more sophisticated, because you
+
+00:54:46.040 --> 00:54:50.799
+could have parallel sessions. You could have four Python
+
+00:54:50.800 --> 00:54:55.039
+sessions going, each of them labeled differently. And
+
+00:54:55.040 --> 00:54:57.519
+they're all walled off from each other. They don't see each
+
+00:54:57.520 --> 00:55:07.079
+other. Or you can have different programming languages. So
+
+00:55:07.080 --> 00:55:11.039
+you can do polyglottic
+
+00:55:11.040 --> 00:55:14.359
+programming where you have... Maybe Python's generating a
+
+00:55:14.360 --> 00:55:18.239
+table, and then that table gets, you decide you want to plot
+
+00:55:18.240 --> 00:55:24.199
+it using R, or you want to use ggplot2 and R to plot it, so that
+
+00:55:24.200 --> 00:55:29.719
+table gets fed into R in the next code block down, and then
+
+00:55:29.720 --> 00:55:33.559
+below it, you get a graph made in R, or you can make it in new
+
+00:55:33.560 --> 00:55:39.559
+plot, or you could, or some other, or you could move it into a
+
+00:55:39.560 --> 00:55:47.399
+LaTeX code block, plot the data in with Tikz,
+
+00:55:47.400 --> 00:55:52.719
+or you could move it into Clojure and use one of the
+
+00:55:52.720 --> 00:55:56.399
+Clojure plotting programs. Just kind of limitless what you
+
+00:55:56.400 --> 00:56:00.119
+can do in terms of recombining the best of different
+
+00:56:00.120 --> 00:56:01.599
+programming languages.
+
+00:56:01.600 --> 00:56:09.239
+Yeah, let's see. The literate DevOps are really good talks
+
+00:56:09.240 --> 00:56:13.359
+and subjects to get into this type of stuff. And they give a
+
+00:56:13.360 --> 00:56:17.119
+very good example of some tips on how to do this. You start
+
+00:56:17.120 --> 00:56:20.359
+writing in the previous or past tenses, though. You got the
+
+00:56:20.360 --> 00:56:23.719
+answer already, and then your notes are already formatted
+
+00:56:23.720 --> 00:56:28.559
+out as you're doing it for after the fact. And like, one thing
+
+NOTE Raku
+
+00:56:28.560 --> 00:56:32.679
+I like doing a lot is using the Raku language as a calculator,
+
+00:56:32.680 --> 00:56:37.239
+because I can just type in math as normal and it all works.
+
+00:56:37.240 --> 00:56:44.919
+I've tried that. Yeah, you can just say like, I don't know, 25
+
+00:56:44.920 --> 00:56:49.559
+times four with, and you can put like parentheses in it. I'm
+
+00:56:49.560 --> 00:56:55.039
+not exactly, I haven't used it very heavily. Oh, it also
+
+00:56:55.040 --> 00:57:01.839
+supports Unicode. So if you wanted to have
+
+00:57:01.840 --> 00:57:07.319
+the not equals sign, the Unicode not equals sign, it will
+
+00:57:07.320 --> 00:57:12.919
+actually do that. Cool. Or like the division sign. I don't
+
+00:57:12.920 --> 00:57:22.759
+know how it will do it. Yeah. But yeah. And then using that in,
+
+00:57:22.760 --> 00:57:28.239
+I also wrote a shell script where it would just help me do a
+
+00:57:28.240 --> 00:57:31.879
+calculation. I was trying to do a business calculation
+
+00:57:31.880 --> 00:57:35.359
+where I was, and I'd have variable names and I ended up
+
+00:57:35.360 --> 00:57:39.319
+writing the, in the parentheses I'd have enters, returns,
+
+00:57:39.320 --> 00:57:42.319
+and then just a variable name with like a dollar sign, kind of
+
+00:57:42.320 --> 00:57:45.799
+like how you'd have in the shell. And I outputted every
+
+00:57:45.800 --> 00:57:47.479
+single line that I had in the enter.
+
+00:57:47.480 --> 00:57:54.479
+six or 10 variables in this paragraph, the paragraph
+
+00:57:54.480 --> 00:57:57.759
+spanned, I don't know, like four lines or something like
+
+00:57:57.760 --> 00:58:01.039
+that. Maybe, yeah, something, I think it was along those
+
+00:58:01.040 --> 00:58:04.599
+lines. And I was just thinking of like what this would be in
+
+00:58:04.600 --> 00:58:07.879
+something else, just like, it was a lot nicer. Yeah, I had
+
+00:58:07.880 --> 00:58:10.879
+like equations for the variable, like in like one line, but
+
+00:58:10.880 --> 00:58:13.839
+when I wrote that, what my output should be is like, like I
+
+00:58:13.840 --> 00:58:16.359
+wasn't putting all of these like, you know, string join,
+
+00:58:16.360 --> 00:58:21.159
+string join, string join, It looked relatively close to
+
+00:58:21.160 --> 00:58:25.239
+what my terminal output would be, and then a later iteration
+
+00:58:25.240 --> 00:58:29.039
+I found on this was, let's write what I'm going to put into the
+
+00:58:29.040 --> 00:58:36.119
+command line, made a couple changeable variables in it, and
+
+00:58:36.120 --> 00:58:40.039
+then I can see my results, and that ended up being very nice.
+
+00:58:40.040 --> 00:58:44.199
+Ended up being nicer than the shells. Yeah, ended up
+
+00:58:44.200 --> 00:58:45.959
+enhancing that shell script that I wrote.
+
+00:58:45.960 --> 00:58:50.919
+That's a Raku calculator.
+
+00:58:50.920 --> 00:58:57.759
+Uh, it's the Raku programming language, which I was just
+
+00:58:57.760 --> 00:59:02.479
+using it, which I was just using as, which I'll just use as
+
+00:59:02.480 --> 00:59:06.079
+just straight up that calculator. Cause I'll do like,
+
+00:59:06.080 --> 00:59:11.999
+because it supports math well enough that I, like I, yeah,
+
+00:59:12.000 --> 00:59:17.239
+you can put like 25 divided by four and it doesn't start
+
+00:59:17.240 --> 00:59:24.439
+doing, what's the word, modular fractal, the double math,
+
+00:59:24.440 --> 00:59:28.079
+like it,
+
+00:59:28.080 --> 00:59:28.639
+if it's,
+
+00:59:28.640 --> 00:59:34.439
+the double math where it's like negative .2 versus like
+
+00:59:34.440 --> 00:59:40.399
+minus one, or sometimes it'll do optimized computer math
+
+00:59:40.400 --> 00:59:43.999
+where it doesn't give you the right answer, why people will
+
+00:59:44.000 --> 00:59:44.639
+like Mathematica.
+
+00:59:44.640 --> 00:59:56.439
+So, how do you, do you access it through, in org mode then?
+
+00:59:56.440 --> 01:00:05.199
+I'll do it in that. Sometimes I just fire up a Raku shell, but
+
+01:00:05.200 --> 01:00:09.159
+one of the biggest things I'll fire up a Raku shell for is like
+
+01:00:09.160 --> 01:00:17.399
+just, um, what's oh just recently I was just like doing it for
+
+01:00:17.400 --> 01:00:20.399
+some math and like how many people how much money will I have
+
+01:00:20.400 --> 01:00:24.559
+to spend on Christmas oh I've got I'm gonna buy this gift it's
+
+01:00:24.560 --> 01:00:33.799
+gonna cost this much and then I've got so let's I think 15
+
+01:00:33.800 --> 01:00:37.959
+times four because it's no 60 divided by four because it was a
+
+01:00:37.960 --> 01:00:42.919
+four pack And then times, and then I put it in parentheses,
+
+01:00:42.920 --> 01:00:47.519
+oh, four plus like two plus two, because like of the
+
+01:00:47.520 --> 01:00:49.119
+families, each of the units, and I just started doing it that
+
+01:00:49.120 --> 01:00:53.479
+way. And I put them all in a parentheses. And then at the end of
+
+01:00:53.480 --> 01:00:55.959
+this spit out the numbers, like, so I could just use the
+
+01:00:55.960 --> 01:00:58.279
+parentheses without thinking about, you know, like, oh,
+
+01:00:58.280 --> 01:01:02.679
+I'm actually in a programming language. No, I just kind of
+
+01:01:02.680 --> 01:01:07.279
+wrote it like I was in algebra, algebra, not in,
+
+01:01:07.280 --> 01:01:11.359
+not finding some special program, not finding a
+
+01:01:11.360 --> 01:01:14.999
+calculator, because it's easy for me to file up a terminal.
+
+01:01:15.000 --> 01:01:20.439
+Then I open that up, and it all just works. Plus, I also got a
+
+01:01:20.440 --> 01:01:22.639
+full programming language behind it if I ever need it.
+
+01:01:22.640 --> 01:01:33.679
+I wasn't aware that it utilizes standard math notation
+
+01:01:33.680 --> 01:01:37.279
+rather than the Polish math notation that we use in ELISP.
+
+01:01:37.280 --> 01:01:42.839
+Um, that's interesting because it's, it's in the list
+
+01:01:42.840 --> 01:01:45.279
+family of programming languages.
+
+01:01:45.280 --> 01:01:54.399
+Yeah. It's like, Hey, I can use, I can actually use my math
+
+01:01:54.400 --> 01:01:57.879
+knowledge. I can use the order of operations.
+
+01:01:57.880 --> 01:02:00.879
+Yep.
+
+01:02:00.880 --> 01:02:07.999
+I just wish that when I was in high school, they started
+
+01:02:08.000 --> 01:02:10.239
+telling me how to practically use this rather than me
+
+01:02:10.240 --> 01:02:14.119
+discover it years later when I'm out of it. Yeah.
+
+01:02:14.120 --> 01:02:27.399
+Well, I probably better move along to attend the other
+
+01:02:27.400 --> 01:02:32.839
+talks. All right. So it's been great talking to you, Plasma
+
+01:02:32.840 --> 01:02:35.159
+Strike. Yep, you too.