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diff --git a/2020/subtitles/emacsconf-2020--10-lead-your-future-with-org--andrea.sbv b/2020/subtitles/emacsconf-2020--10-lead-your-future-with-org--andrea.sbv deleted file mode 100644 index 1718ca36..00000000 --- a/2020/subtitles/emacsconf-2020--10-lead-your-future-with-org--andrea.sbv +++ /dev/null @@ -1,348 +0,0 @@ -0:00:00.220,0:00:03.400 -Welcome to my talk, Lead Your Future with -Org. - -0:00:03.400,0:00:04.680 -Who am I? - -0:00:04.680,0:00:05.680 -I'm Andrea. - -0:00:05.680,0:00:10.060 -I work as a Scala software engineer somewhere -in the Netherlands, and I inherited my passion - -0:00:10.060,0:00:12.340 -for Emacs from my PhD supervisor. - -0:00:12.340,0:00:15.050 -From that moment on, I got in synergy with -it. - -0:00:15.050,0:00:19.830 -You can find more about me and my interests -at https://ag91.github.io. - -0:00:19.830,0:00:27.150 -That is the place where I keep my blog and -I blog on a weekly basis. - -0:00:27.150,0:00:29.449 -Let's get into the bulk of the talk. - -0:00:29.449,0:00:31.679 -Why I needed a vision. - -0:00:31.679,0:00:34.360 -The main, main problem is that I have too -many interests. - -0:00:34.360,0:00:37.740 -I like a lot of things, and these things take -time. - -0:00:37.740,0:00:44.000 -Then I have too little time to do other things -that are very important as well. - -0:00:44.000,0:00:46.430 -And so I need priority. - -0:00:46.430,0:00:51.750 -And the vision in my mind is both an ambition, -something that I want to do with my life, - -0:00:51.750,0:00:59.220 -and at the same time, it's a way to focus -my efforts and get rid of some stuff that - -0:00:59.220,0:01:03.350 -fundamentally is not something I really care -so much about. - -0:01:03.350,0:01:09.400 -Even if you come up with a vision and so with -a smaller scope of things that you want to - -0:01:09.400,0:01:17.150 -do, even then, you have to take this ambition -of yours, this vision, and disassemble it - -0:01:17.150,0:01:19.310 -in very small steps. - -0:01:19.310,0:01:28.950 -Org Mode is very good at taking care of this -because you can keep track of TODOs in Org - -0:01:28.950,0:01:29.950 -Mode. - -0:01:29.950,0:01:36.740 -So let me show you how I keep an agenda that -also keeps track of my vision. - -0:01:36.740,0:01:40.250 -For this talk, I have a running example. - -0:01:40.250,0:01:42.990 -Vision will be "I want to bring joy to people." - -0:01:42.990,0:01:45.730 -and "I want to live in synergy with the planet." - -0:01:45.730,0:01:49.740 -Okay, so, given these two visions, let's open -the agenda. - -0:01:49.740,0:01:59.560 -You will see on the right that now I have -some tasks, both on Tuesday and on Friday. - -0:01:59.560,0:02:04.560 -Things to notice is that we said one of our -visions is synergy with the planet, so some - -0:02:04.560,0:02:13.010 -tasks are annotated on the left with this -category and some with "Bring joy to people." - -0:02:13.010,0:02:16.730 -In this way, you can distinguish where are -my... - -0:02:16.730,0:02:20.100 -In this day, where my effort is going in this -day. - -0:02:20.100,0:02:27.950 -The other thing is the specification of these -tasks, and then at the end, you can notice - -0:02:27.950,0:02:42.690 -a tag on the right that is essentially a guess -of how long this task will have an effect - -0:02:42.690,0:02:43.750 -over the future. - -0:02:43.750,0:02:53.970 -So, for example, installing solar panel onto -my roof is going to have an effect of 10 years - -0:02:53.970,0:02:57.180 -over my life, if I manage to achieve that. - -0:02:57.180,0:03:01.230 -That is my rough guess. - -0:03:01.230,0:03:08.180 -You will notice that the ones that have a -bigger amount, so 10 years over the 5 year - -0:03:08.180,0:03:15.879 -one, because I order my day so that the tasks -that are more important or that I believe - -0:03:15.879,0:03:21.540 -are more effective over my future, I sort -them so that they appear at the top. - -0:03:21.540,0:03:26.420 -In this way, I can basically decide, okay, -today, what should I... - -0:03:26.420,0:03:36.379 -Find a video on Youtube, but I should take -into consideration when I look at my agenda - -0:03:36.379,0:03:42.379 -that I've traded that small fun for today -with something that could have had an effect - -0:03:42.379,0:03:45.890 -over a longer period of time. - -0:03:45.890,0:04:03.909 -Let me show you how I also exploit the facilities -that Org Mode comes with. - -0:04:03.909,0:04:05.190 -I will... - -0:04:05.190,0:04:07.830 -I have two templates available to me. - -0:04:07.830,0:04:09.330 -I will choose one. - -0:04:09.330,0:04:13.970 -The first thing that it asks to me is "How -long will this affect your life?" - -0:04:13.970,0:04:20.660 -So I like ... It will affect a long time, -if I manage to produce only for myself. - -0:04:20.660,0:04:23.400 -So I choose 10 years. - -0:04:23.400,0:04:24.750 -And then I specify the task. - -0:04:24.750,0:04:29.080 -So, "Learn how to keep bees." - -0:04:29.080,0:04:30.080 -I collect this task. - -0:04:30.080,0:04:35.870 -It will now appear in the middle because 10 -years is between 20 years and 5 years. - -0:04:35.870,0:04:40.860 -So I know that if I put some effort in learning -how to keep bees, I should be quite happy - -0:04:40.860,0:04:41.979 -for today. - -0:04:41.979,0:04:43.060 -Okay. - -0:04:43.060,0:04:50.470 -So, say that I do it, say that that's it... - -0:04:50.470,0:04:52.490 -Once I've done this task, how can I be... - -0:04:52.490,0:04:58.000 -How do I know how much progress I am doing? - -0:04:58.000,0:05:07.100 -The way I can do that is by retrospecting -weekly or monthly about the successes or the - -0:05:07.100,0:05:09.520 -progress that I am doing. - -0:05:09.520,0:05:14.949 -How I do it is simply by running this kind -of snippet that shows me that for this month, - -0:05:14.949,0:05:23.350 -I have done three tasks for bringing joy to -people and three tasks for synergy with planet. - -0:05:23.350,0:05:30.300 -This is useful because you can repeat it and -it will be appended, so every time you run - -0:05:30.300,0:05:38.040 -it again, you can compare if you are... how -you are working towards your goal and if you're - -0:05:38.040,0:05:43.830 -focusing more on bringing joy to people or -if you're focusing more on synergy. - -0:05:43.830,0:05:45.990 -Balance the effort. - -0:05:45.990,0:05:51.850 -A thing that I want to share that I think -will be useful to you is this function I use - -0:05:51.850,0:05:55.789 -that I made for myself to create these statistics. - -0:05:55.789,0:06:04.509 -It's a wrapper around the very enjoyable library -org-ql, which allows you to query and group - -0:06:04.509,0:06:13.650 -headings, do analysis on headings, or restructuring -and view headings in a SQL fashion. - -0:06:13.650,0:06:19.120 -The syntax is very similar to SQL. - -0:06:19.120,0:06:25.390 -You can manipulate your headings and visualize -them or just get statistics as I have done - -0:06:25.390,0:06:26.390 -here. - -0:06:26.390,0:06:36.540 -Finally, for this talk, say that you are doing -progress, that progress most likely will generate - -0:06:36.540,0:06:39.950 -some useful knowledge for yourself. - -0:06:39.950,0:06:46.050 -My way to store this knowledge is through -org-roam, another interesting mode that is - -0:06:46.050,0:06:54.759 -very... that is becoming very relevant and -known today. - -0:06:54.759,0:06:56.020 -The idea is that I simply... - -0:06:56.020,0:07:08.470 -If I learn how to make, how to install solar -panels, that can be useful knowledge. - -0:07:08.470,0:07:15.800 -I can link to some other knowledge that I -have and so create my own knowledgebase, and - -0:07:15.800,0:07:19.020 -save it for later use. - -0:07:19.020,0:07:25.160 -My later use is typically, in this case, my -blog. - -0:07:25.160,0:07:31.630 -In here, I have a few notes that are basically -a synthesis of knowledge that I have collected - -0:07:31.630,0:07:34.550 -doing my tasks towards my vision. - -0:07:34.550,0:07:39.440 -With this, this is all I wanted to show you -for this talk. - -0:07:39.440,0:07:47.490 -You can follow me on my blog at https://ag91.github.io -. That is also where I am going to share a - -0:07:47.490,0:07:55.370 -version of this Org Mode file that allows -you basically to create the same kind of configuration - -0:07:55.370,0:08:02.950 -I have here, and you can create an instance -by running this snippet of Emacs in which - -0:08:02.950,0:08:04.790 -you can just run this example. - -0:08:04.790,0:08:11.890 -An extended example I will also add, to just -play around safely with this kind of configuration. - -0:08:11.890,0:08:13.300 -So enjoy the rest of the conference. - -0:08:13.300,0:08:14.460 -Catch you later! - -0:08:14.460,0:08:15.650 -Nice to meet you! - |