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+# Lead your future with Org
+Andrea
+
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+
+The world is full of possibilities. A person life is rather short
+though, and one can easily end up carry on without focus.
+
+In this short talk I want to share how Org mode empowers me into
+organizing and monitoring my tasks to make sure I am working towards
+achieving my vision.
+
+The emphasis of the talk is on defining a direction, monitoring the
+progress towards your planned destination, and keeping a trail of your
+actions to review and set up a healthy feedback loop.
+
+Tools for the job that I will (at least) mention: Org files, Org
+agenda, Org archive, org-ql, and Org-roam.
+
+<!-- from the pad --->
+
+- Actual start and end time (EST): Start 2020-11-28T13.17.07; End:
+  2020-11-28T13.25.25
+
+# Questions
+
+## For how many years have you used Org?
+7ish. I started during my PhD because it was the easiest to fit
+in. And programming in OCaml was so nice in there :)
+
+# Notes
+- Andrea: I will reply questions inline, and you can reach me on IRC
+  (username: \`andrea)
+- Tagging tasks with tags like 10yr, 5yr (how many days that task will
+  have impact on life / future).
+- The table-like weekly reviews may also be produced with org-ql
+  dynamic blocks: <https://github.com/alphapapa/org-ql#dynamic-block>
+- Blog: <https://ag91.github.io>
+  - <https://ag91.github.io/blog/2020/09/27/org-agenda-and-your-future-or-how-to-keep-score-of-your-long-term-goals-with-org-mode/>
+
+<a name="transcript"></a>
+# Transcript
+
+Welcome to my talk, Lead Your Future with Org. Who am I? I'm Andrea. I
+work as a Scala software engineer somewhere in the Netherlands, and I
+inherited my passion for Emacs from my PhD supervisor. From that
+moment on, I got in synergy with it. You can find more about me and my
+interests at https://ag91.github.io. That is the place where I keep my
+blog and I blog on a weekly basis. Let's get into the bulk of the
+talk.
+
+Why I needed a vision. The main, main problem is that I have too many
+interests. I like a lot of things, and these things take time. Then I
+have too little time to do other things that are very important as
+well. And so I need priority. And the vision in my mind is both an
+ambition, something that I want to do with my life, and at the same
+time, it's a way to focus my efforts and get rid of some stuff that
+fundamentally is not something I really care so much about. Even if
+you come up with a vision and so with a smaller scope of things that
+you want to do, even then, you have to take this ambition of yours,
+this vision, and disassemble it in very small steps. Org Mode is very
+good at taking care of this because you can keep track of TODOs in Org
+Mode.
+
+So let me show you how I keep an agenda that also keeps track of my
+vision. For this talk, I have a running example. Vision will be "I
+want to bring joy to people." and "I want to live in synergy with the
+planet." Okay, so, given these two visions, let's open the agenda. You
+will see on the right that now I have some tasks, both on Tuesday and
+on Friday. Things to notice is that we said one of our visions is
+synergy with the planet, so some tasks are annotated on the left with
+this category and some with "Bring joy to people." In this way, you
+can distinguish where are my... In this day, where my effort is going
+in this day.
+
+The other thing is the specification of these tasks, and then at the
+end, you can notice a tag on the right that is essentially a guess of
+how long this task will have an effect over the future. So, for
+example, installing solar panel onto my roof is going to have an
+effect of 10 years over my life, if I manage to achieve that. That is
+my rough guess. You will notice that the ones that have a bigger
+amount, so 10 years over the 5 year one, because I order my day so
+that the tasks that are more important or that I believe are more
+effective over my future, I sort them so that they appear at the top.
+In this way, I can basically decide, okay, today, what should I...
+Find a video on Youtube, but I should take into consideration when I
+look at my agenda that I've traded that small fun for today with
+something that could have had an effect over a longer period of time.
+
+Let me show you how I also exploit the facilities that Org Mode comes
+with. I will... I have two templates available to me. I will choose
+one. The first thing that it asks to me is "How long will this affect
+your life?" So I like ... It will affect a long time, if I manage to
+produce only for myself. So I choose 10 years. And then I specify the
+task. So, "Learn how to keep bees." I collect this task. It will now
+appear in the middle because 10 years is between 20 years and 5 years.
+So I know that if I put some effort in learning how to keep bees, I
+should be quite happy for today. Okay. So, say that I do it, say that
+that's it... Once I've done this task, how can I be... 
+
+How do I know how much progress I am doing? The way I can do that is
+by retrospecting weekly or monthly about the successes or the progress
+that I am doing. How I do it is simply by running this kind of snippet
+that shows me that for this month, I have done three tasks for
+bringing joy to people and three tasks for synergy with planet. This
+is useful because you can repeat it and it will be appended, so every
+time you run it again, you can compare if you are... how you are
+working towards your goal and if you're focusing more on bringing joy
+to people or if you're focusing more on synergy. Balance the effort. 
+
+A thing that I want to share that I think will be useful to you is
+this function I use that I made for myself to create these statistics.
+It's a wrapper around the very enjoyable library org-ql, which allows
+you to query and group headings, do analysis on headings, or
+restructuring and view headings in a SQL fashion. The syntax is very
+similar to SQL. You can manipulate your headings and visualize them or
+just get statistics as I have done here. 
+
+Finally, for this talk, say that you are doing progress, that progress
+most likely will generate some useful knowledge for yourself. My way
+to store this knowledge is through org-roam, another interesting mode
+that is very... that is becoming very relevant and known today. The
+idea is that I simply... If I learn how to make, how to install solar
+panels, that can be useful knowledge. I can link to some other
+knowledge that I have and so create my own knowledgebase, and save it
+for later use. My later use is typically, in this case, my blog. In
+here, I have a few notes that are basically a synthesis of knowledge
+that I have collected doing my tasks towards my vision. 
+
+With this, this is all I wanted to show you for this talk. You can
+follow me on my blog at https://ag91.github.io . That is also where I
+am going to share a version of this Org Mode file that allows you
+basically to create the same kind of configuration I have here, and
+you can create an instance by running this snippet of Emacs in which
+you can just run this example. An extended example I will also add, to
+just play around safely with this kind of configuration. So enjoy the
+rest of the conference. Catch you later! Nice to meet you!