#์™œ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š”๊ฐ€: ์ด๋งฅ์Šค

์ด ๊ธ€์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€?

ํƒœ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ๊ณ  blogpost๋ผ๊ณ  ์žก์•„๋ณธ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํฌ์ŠคํŠธ๋Š” ์—ฌ๊ธฐ ์•„๋ž˜์— ๋‹ค ๋‹ฌ์•„. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋ฉด ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰์€?

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How Emacs, and tools in general, shape us

In the world of knowledge management, we generally seek to be more efficient, not more productive. As I mention in the article How do I approach personal knowledge management, being more efficient differs from being productive in that the former seeks to achieve the desired results with the minimum possible resources, which in our case is generally time, while the latter goes further and uses the time we have freed up by being efficient to produce more results.

์ง€์‹ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์˜ ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐœ์ธ ์ง€์‹ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์— ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ ‘๊ทผํ•˜๋‚˜์š” ๊ธ€์—์„œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด ์ „์ž๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์ตœ์†Œํ•œ์˜ ์ž์›(์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ๊ฐ„)์œผ๋กœ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์–ป์œผ๋ ค๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, ํ›„์ž๋Š” ๋” ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€ ํšจ์œจ์„ ๋†’์—ฌ์„œ ํ™•๋ณดํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๋ฐ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์—์„œ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋Š” ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

For some time I have had this idea in my head that when using Emacs, and after having overcome the investment of time in the learning curve of its basic features, you may be using a software that gives you the possibility to be very efficient, but generally the time freed up is used to return to it to mold it and experiment with its almost infinite capabilities. I think it would not be wrong to say that the time spent in molding it should be added to the time we spent actually working on whatever we are really working at the time, thus reducing efficiency, and not taken as productivity, since we are not really producing anything.

ํ•œ๋™์•ˆ ์ €๋Š” ์ด๋งฅ์Šค๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ๋•Œ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์˜ ํ•™์Šต ๊ณก์„ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ๊ทน๋ณต ํ•œ ํ›„์—๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ํšจ์œจ์ ์ผ ์ˆ˜์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•๋ณด ๋œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์€ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์„ฑํ˜•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋ฌดํ•œํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ์‹คํ—˜ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์„ฑํ˜•ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์„ ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์†์— ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ฑํ˜•์— ์†Œ์š”๋˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์€ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๊ทธ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์ž‘์—…ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋˜์–ด ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์ด ๋–จ์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์•„๋ฌด๊ฒƒ๋„ ์ƒ์‚ฐํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ„์ฃผ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ ํ•ด๋„ ํ‹€๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

You will agree with me, moreover, that there are productive and efficient people who do not use Emacs, and they are as or more productive than those who do. This is because the tools shape us as much as we shape them.

๊ฒŒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ Emac์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์ƒ์‚ฐ์ ์ด๊ณ  ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๋„ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๋งŒํผ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ์ƒ์‚ฐ์ ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๋™์˜ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋„๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๋งŒํผ ๋„๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ˜•์„ฑํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

For example, if we use Emacs, it is inevitable to spend a certain number of hours per month working on its configuration, and the more adventurous ones among us studying Elisp and creating new features by themselves. However, this is time that we are taking away from working on advancing the projects at hand, unless the project at hand is to modify Emacs. However, if we use a tool over which we have no or limited modification control, we are generally forced to adapt to it, accept it as it works, and mold ourselves to work with it. And, is this inherently bad? I think not, because both Emacs and the other shape us. In one we find ourselves spending a lot of time modifying it so that it behaves exactly as we want it to, while in the other we accommodate to it and go straight to doing the work necessary to carry out our projects. For the most recalcitrant, I must clarify that of course this analysis is not taking into account the level of freedom that each one provides.

์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด, Emacs๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ์— ์ผ์ • ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ ์ž‘์—…์— ํ• ์• ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€ํ”ผํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ชจํ—˜์‹ฌ์ด ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ Elisp๋ฅผ ๊ณต๋ถ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ์ง์ ‘ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‹น๋ฉดํ•œ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๊ฐ€ Emacs๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๋ฉด ์ด ์‹œ๊ฐ„์€ ๋‹น๋ฉดํ•œ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ์ „์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ์ž‘์—…์— ๋นผ์•—๊ธฐ๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ˆ˜์ • ๊ถŒํ•œ์ด ์—†๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ œํ•œ์ ์ธ ๋„๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ ๋„๊ตฌ์— ์ ์‘ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜๋Š” ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๋„๊ตฌ๋กœ ์ž‘์—…ํ•˜๋„๋ก ์ž์‹ ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ณธ์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์œ ๊ฒƒ์ผ๊นŒ์š”? ์ €๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์™œ๋ƒํ•˜๋ฉด ์ด๋งฅ๊ณผ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ˜•์„ฑํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ ์ชฝ์—์„œ๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜๋„๋ก ์ˆ˜์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋งŽ์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์†Œ๋น„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ชฝ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ˆ˜์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰์— ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์ž‘์—…์„ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์ด ๋ถ„์„์€ ๊ฐ์ž์˜ ์ž์œ ๋„๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์„ ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Personally, over time I have come to believe that the right approach for most of us will always be one of effectiveness, but how do we become effective using Emacs, especially when we are just starting to work with it and have to put some effort into getting over the learning curve, if we generally spend the time we gain from its efficiency on continuing to play with it and make modifications?

๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์˜ฌ๋ฐ”๋ฅธ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์€ ํ•ญ์ƒ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ํŠนํžˆ ์ด์ œ ๋ง‰ ์ž‘์—…์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ํ•™์Šต ๊ณก์„ ์„ ๊ทน๋ณตํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ธฐ์šธ์—ฌ์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์–ป์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ณ„์† ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ Emacs๋ฅผ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?

From my point of view, the solution is either to use an alternative tool, or if you have already decided that you want to use Emacs, to do it very gradually. Do not change everything at once to it, but learn new things little by little, always keeping in mind that the tools exist to facilitate our work, not to hinder it. And, like everything in life, the content consumption approach to content should only be to look for information that helps us solve a current problem we are having with it, or a new feature we would like to implement because it would make our job much easier. We should never take an approach of consuming information that shows us new evangelical methods of how to do something that we are already doing, maybe not optimally, but in a way that is right for us. This will usually end up creating a problem for us by consuming a lot of our time and never really integrating into our work routine, because it was introduced artificially, without the objective of covering a real need.

์ œ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ๋ณผ ๋•Œ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์ฑ…์€ ๋Œ€์ฒด ๋„๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ด๋ฏธ Emacs๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๋งค์šฐ ์ ์ง„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ•œ๊บผ๋ฒˆ์— ๋ฐ”๊พธ์ง€ ๋ง๊ณ  ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋„๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์ž‘์—…์„ ๋ฐฉํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ž‘์—…์„ ์šฉ์ดํ•˜๊ฒŒํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์กด์žฌํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ์—ผ๋‘์—๋‘๊ณ  ์กฐ๊ธˆ์”ฉ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ธ์ƒ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€๋กœ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ  ์†Œ๋น„ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹๋„ ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ฒช๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜๋Š” ์ •๋ณด๋‚˜ ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ํ›จ์”ฌ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ค„ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ๊ตฌํ˜„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜๋Š” ์ •๋ณด๋งŒ ์ฐพ์•„์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ฏธ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ผ์„ ์ตœ์ ์˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์ ํ•ฉํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ๋Š” ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์†Œ๋น„ํ•˜๋Š” ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์€ ์ ˆ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ทจํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์ œ ํ•„์š”๋ฅผ ์ถฉ์กฑ์‹œํ‚ค๋ ค๋Š” ๋ชฉ์  ์—†์ด ์ธ์œ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋„์ž…๋œ ์ •๋ณด์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋งŽ์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์†Œ๋น„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์—…๋ฌด ๋ฃจํ‹ด์— ํ†ตํ•ฉ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ์ผ์œผํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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In the world of knowledge management, we generally seek to be more efficient, not more productive. As I mention in the article How do I approach personal knowledge management, being more efficient differs from being productive in that the former seeks to achieve the desired results with the minimum possible resources, which in our case is generally time, while the latter goes further and uses the time we have freed up by being efficient to produce more results.

์ง€์‹ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์˜ ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋” ๋†’์€ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋” ๋†’์€ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐœ์ธ ์ง€์‹ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์— ์ ‘๊ทผํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ• ๋ฌธ์„œ์—์„œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด ์ „์ž๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์ตœ์†Œํ•œ์˜ ์ž์›(์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ๊ฐ„)์œผ๋กœ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์–ป์œผ๋ ค๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, ํ›„์ž๋Š” ๋” ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ™•๋ณดํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๋ฐ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์—์„œ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์ด๋ž€ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋Š” ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

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