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Yeah, well, thank you for coming in + +00:00:28.560 --> 00:00:33.079 +and especially every time you come with a very well-crafted + +00:00:33.080 --> 00:00:37.279 +talks talking about, you know, what you do with Org Mode, Org + +00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:41.039 +Roam and whatever. And it's really fascinating as someone + +00:00:41.040 --> 00:00:43.479 +who develops and use those tools constantly to see you put + +00:00:43.480 --> 00:00:46.199 +them in action so well. Because you, you know, the way you + +00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:49.719 +talk about your research, it really reminds me on what we + +00:00:49.720 --> 00:00:53.279 +were, sorry, I've got elves talking in my ears and I'm still + +00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:56.639 +not used to it at this point. But it's really nice to see you + +00:00:56.640 --> 00:01:00.359 +put all of this together into a very cohesive way for you to + +00:01:00.360 --> 00:01:03.759 +write. Okay, let me just share my screen and I'll be sharing + +00:01:03.760 --> 00:01:11.879 +the questions. Where is it? All right, take presenter. And I + +00:01:11.880 --> 00:01:18.079 +will be sharing the questions. All right. Can you see my + +00:01:18.080 --> 00:01:24.159 +screen all right? I can, yes. OK, cool. So we move straight to + +00:01:24.160 --> 00:01:26.999 +the question. Let me just check on the time. I think we have + +00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:31.999 +about until 10.20, which is in 17 minutes. So let's take + +00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:35.639 +about 10 to 15 minutes of question time. And if people have + +00:01:35.640 --> 00:01:38.599 +joined on BBB, we'll also be taking questions live. All + +NOTE Q: what does 0573 means in your init. file name? + +00:01:38.600 --> 00:01:44.079 +right. Starting with the first question, what does 0573 + +00:01:44.080 --> 00:01:49.719 +mean in your init file name? So this name is, you can think of + +00:01:49.720 --> 00:01:55.879 +it as a prefix or a stub. It's an index number that I utilize + +00:01:55.880 --> 00:02:01.479 +before a short name that describes the project. So I have all + +00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:06.119 +my projects in my home directory, and I just start typing the + +00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:12.199 +project number or index number. in the terminal and I have + +00:02:12.200 --> 00:02:17.879 +autocompletion available through oh my ZSH package. So I + +00:02:17.880 --> 00:02:21.199 +just hit tab and it autocompletes the name of the project and + +00:02:21.200 --> 00:02:26.319 +pops me into that folder. And so I find this to be very easy for + +00:02:26.320 --> 00:02:30.919 +navigating between projects. As you saw, I work on multiple + +00:02:30.920 --> 00:02:37.399 +projects in a given day and this helps me move about. And I + +00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:45.639 +also use this number at the start of the log file name and at + +00:02:45.640 --> 00:02:50.639 +the start of the manuscript name and the start of the, I also + +00:02:50.640 --> 00:02:54.079 +have an annotated bibliography. So all those files are + +00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:59.359 +identified just in case I accidentally save one to the wrong + +00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:04.639 +folder. I can avoid, I can sort them out later. Great + +00:03:04.640 --> 00:03:09.519 +question. Thank you. Next question, which I think is going + +NOTE Q: What does Zettelkasten mean? + +00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:16.159 +to be a long one. What does Zettelkasten mean? So this means + +00:03:16.160 --> 00:03:20.719 +like, I guess, notebox, something along those lines. You + +00:03:20.720 --> 00:03:24.879 +can think of it as a- Yeah, spitbox usually, that's the word + +00:03:24.880 --> 00:03:29.159 +we use. Thank you. So this is a kind of like a card catalog + +00:03:29.160 --> 00:03:33.359 +system that when it was done on paper, and now it's being done + +00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:38.679 +electronically through various software packages. So in + +00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:43.199 +the Emacs world, org-roam is a one of several alternate + +00:03:43.200 --> 00:03:47.999 +packages that you can use. Prot has the note and there's a + +00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:59.079 +couple others. So, idea is that you create a note, usually a, + +00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:04.239 +ultimately what you want to do is create a nugget of + +00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:09.479 +knowledge from your reading that you've done. and you add it + +00:04:09.480 --> 00:04:15.879 +to this note system in such a way that you can recover it more + +00:04:15.880 --> 00:04:20.159 +easily than what had to be done in the old days with index + +00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:23.719 +cards. + +00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:28.199 +So you set up backlinks and then you can use the search + +00:04:28.200 --> 00:04:34.919 +features in Org Roam to filter and find the notes again in the + +00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:43.079 +future. Org Roam has a wonderful GUI interface where you can + +00:04:43.080 --> 00:04:47.079 +display it as a knowledge graph, essentially, all your + +00:04:47.080 --> 00:04:52.479 +nodes and the backlinks between them. I set mine up in a + +00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:56.639 +rather hierarchical fashion to, at least right now, it's + +00:04:56.640 --> 00:05:01.959 +pretty hierarchical at this point, but it may become more + +00:05:01.960 --> 00:05:07.679 +disorganized over time. But I find it I'm sort of a visual + +00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:12.519 +person. I like mind maps a lot. I find that this visual + +00:05:12.520 --> 00:05:16.919 +display of my Zettelkasten is similar, resembles to a + +00:05:16.920 --> 00:05:22.439 +certain degree, a mind map. + +00:05:22.440 --> 00:05:25.599 +Okay, well, that's a pretty good definition of what + +00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:28.839 +Zettelkasten is, and you also went on to specify what it + +00:05:28.840 --> 00:05:31.599 +means inside Emacs, so thank you. I think that clarifies it + +00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:34.199 +for the two people in the room who still do not know, after + +00:05:34.200 --> 00:05:36.759 +attending four Emacs conferences, what is the + +00:05:36.760 --> 00:05:41.759 +Zettelkasten method. Moving on to the next question, + +NOTE Q: How many papers are you writing at the same time? + +00:05:41.760 --> 00:05:44.399 +how many papers are you writing at the same time? Because I + +00:05:44.400 --> 00:05:47.759 +believe you mentioned that you had concurrent papers being + +00:05:47.760 --> 00:05:51.959 +written during your presentation. So I'm probably working + +00:05:51.960 --> 00:05:57.839 +on, in a given year, somewhere between 10 and 15. How many do I + +00:05:57.840 --> 00:06:03.199 +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 + +00:06:08.640 --> 00:06:13.559 +multiple years. will start working on a paper when I begin, + +00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:16.519 +before I begin the experiments, ideally, because I'm + +00:06:16.520 --> 00:06:23.439 +trying to do hypothesis-driven research. And so that helps + +00:06:23.440 --> 00:06:27.559 +define the scope of the project and limit the number of + +00:06:27.560 --> 00:06:32.959 +rabbit holes I go down. So, but through the nature of the + +00:06:32.960 --> 00:06:36.919 +work, there's a lot of waiting required in my case for + +00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:39.679 +crystals to grow and then the opportunity to collect + +00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:43.879 +diffraction data on the crystals. And then the structures + +00:06:43.880 --> 00:06:48.559 +have to be determined and refined and analyzed and then + +00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:52.799 +deposited, figures have to be made. So a lot of steps are + +00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:57.759 +involved that those take generally span, that work can span + +00:06:57.760 --> 00:07:02.559 +several years. + +00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:09.399 +In a given day, I try to work on two papers, ideally. I haven't + +00:07:09.400 --> 00:07:12.279 +been doing so well lately over the past month. + +00:07:12.280 --> 00:07:19.759 +In the past year, there was a couple of days where I worked on + +00:07:19.760 --> 00:07:24.239 +five papers. There was something like a half dozen where I + +00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:29.159 +worked on four, about 40 days where I worked on three, and I + +00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:33.479 +think there was something like about 100 days where I worked + +00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:40.999 +on two papers a day, about 140 days where I just worked on one. + +00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:45.719 +So my idea is, I've been sort of developing more recently is + +00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:49.159 +that I'll start doing like the generative writing on a paper + +00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:51.959 +at the beginning of the day on the paper project I'm most + +00:07:51.960 --> 00:07:55.439 +excited about. I tried to, I'm a night owl. I tried to do this + +00:07:55.440 --> 00:08:00.519 +work early in the morning when I'm half awake to try to + +00:08:00.520 --> 00:08:03.439 +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 + +00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:21.999 +excited about. And I can go for another 90 minutes to two + +00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:27.719 +hours on that project. So I build up a lot of momentum, and + +00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:31.959 +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 + +00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:42.359 +notes about what was accomplished in the writing log. Then + +00:08:42.360 --> 00:08:47.999 +I'll switch over to the writing log for the project B, and + +00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:51.359 +I'll go to the diary section at the beginning. I'll make a + +00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:57.279 +little to-do list and maybe look at the prior entry in the + +00:08:57.280 --> 00:09:03.199 +diary if I need to reboot my memory. And then I'll move on to + +00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:07.919 +the manuscript and go for 90 minutes or two hours. + +00:09:07.920 --> 00:09:12.479 +Generally, you're only good for somewhere between four and + +00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:15.359 +a half, five and a half hours. If you try to write in a + +00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:17.839 +generative fashion much longer than that, your + +00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:21.279 +productivity goes down quite a bit. You're better off + +00:09:21.280 --> 00:09:24.039 +switching to a completely different activity and then + +00:09:24.040 --> 00:09:30.159 +using your experience doing that writing to essentially + +00:09:30.160 --> 00:09:33.199 +launch background jobs in your subconscious. And so you + +00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:37.479 +will get those ideas in the shower the next morning. + +00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:44.519 +I find it really funny because I also relate. I've also + +00:09:44.520 --> 00:09:48.919 +worked a lot on organization as linked to paper writing but + +00:09:48.920 --> 00:09:53.719 +also to on my work as a developer and it's funny how you refer + +00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:56.999 +to your ability to think about something in very similar + +00:09:57.000 --> 00:09:59.399 +terms to how a computer would think about something. You've + +00:09:59.400 --> 00:10:02.399 +mentioned in your presentation the cost of context + +00:10:02.400 --> 00:10:04.919 +switching between different things but it's also + +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 + +00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:15.359 +it's really fun for me to hear you talk about, oh, I need to + +00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:19.159 +select two topics, but no longer than 90 minutes per topic, + +00:10:19.160 --> 00:10:21.319 +because it's really about maximizing your output for + +00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:25.239 +creativity. And overall, your entire chat, your entire + +00:10:25.240 --> 00:10:28.519 +presentation here is about really maximizing the + +00:10:28.520 --> 00:10:32.959 +engagement that you have between outputs and your + +00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:37.159 +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 + +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 + +00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:53.919 +elsewhere. So that's a great question. Over the past year, I + +00:10:53.920 --> 00:10:59.239 +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 + +00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:25.359 +largely a waste of time. I wish I lived a lot closer to work. + +00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:33.679 +But I use that time to generate ideas. So maybe I'll start my + +00:11:33.680 --> 00:11:40.559 +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 + +00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:40.439 +useful. Unfortunately, I'm not very I'm not away from my + +00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:47.959 +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. |