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