Press Highlights

• • Luc and his R&D have been discussed in The Sleep Foundation, The Guardian,  The New York Times, The International Business Times of London, Quartz, Women’s Health, Oprah’s magazine (print & online), Vogue, LifeHacker, Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools, Radio-Canada & CBC (countless shows), Popular Science, The Government of Canada’s Canadian Institute of Health Research, Forbes, Inc., etc.
  • The Hook productivity app, mySleepButton® app and Cognitive Productivity books have been featured in numerous websites since their release.
  • Cult of Mac published a rave review  of Hook productivity app, saying “This is such a fantastic, simple idea that it seems like it should be built into every computer“. Hook, now known as Hookmark, is a CogSci Apps® invention designed by Luc and colleagues.

Recent Media Coverage and Events

• • 2024-07-11. Luc P. Beaudoin was interviewed again on  The Omni Show, “The Return of Dr. Luc Beaudoin“.
  • Cognitive shuffle appeared in many publications online, including Women’s Health Magazine in July 2024.
  • 2024-01-29, “Self” published 3 Things to Do When You Can’t Fall Asleep Because You’re Overthinking…Everything.
  • 2024-01-24, Stylist published Cognitive shuffling: this sleep-expert approved technique will help you to navigate night-time anxiety, which also appeared in Apple News.
  • 2024-01-11 Tyla published Five minute ‘cognitive shuffle’ sleep hack that can help you drift off.
  • 2024-01-12 LAD Bible published ‘Cognitive shuffle’ sleep hack can help you get to sleep in ‘no time’
  • 2024-01-12, WION published Having trouble sleeping at night? Try this five-minute hack recommended by experts
  • 2024-01-11, The Irish Mirror published Five-minute sleep hack called ’cognitive shuffle’ can help you drift off in ’no time’
  • 2023-11-23, Mentor Show published Pourquoi Le Remaniement Cognitif Peut-Il Vous Aider À Dormir? (Meaning, how can the cognitive shuffle help you sleep
  • In 2023, Mentalreisen published a German video on the cognitive shuffle, Kognitives Mischen: SCHLAF in MINUTEN ein (Starke Einschlaftechnik) = “Fall ASLEEP in MINUTES (Strong Sleep Technique)”
  • 2023-11-23. The Sleep Foundation published Can’t Sleep? 8 Techniques You Can Do, including the cognitive shuffle and referencing Luc P. Beaudoin.
  • 2023-02-25. Luc P. Beaudoin was expert guest on the Wake Up Call podcast (Polysleep). Airing date TBD.
  • 2023-02-06. mySleepButton and Luc Beaudoin’s cognitive shuffle technique were recommended by Dr. Rebecca Robbins (associate scientist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School) in a Well+Good article written by Kara Jillian Brown.
  • 2022-09-29. Luc P. Beaudoin was interviewed by Jason Osler for CBC Radio nationally syndicated content regarding psychological effects and possible uses of brown noise, in response to an article in The New York Times. This aired in Montreal Oct 1 and is expected to be aired in all provinces.
  • 2022-07-16. mySleepButton was listed amongst the top 5 Best Smartwatch Sleep Tracking Apps to Help You Get a Good Night’s Rest.
  • 2022-07-12. Luc P. Beaudoin was interviewed by Claire Wilson for an article on sleep apps  which also appeared in  Squamish Chief.
  • 2022-05-21. The editorial team of LINFO.RE, a private French TV station, published an article on Beaudoin’s cognitive shuffle. The article however did not correctly report the results.
  • 2022-02-22 Luc P. Beaudoin was guest speaker at a Tinderbox meetup. (Watch the recording). Tinderbox helps you visualize, analyze, and share your ideas.
  • 2022-01-13. Luc P. Beaudoin was interviewed along with Dr. Elliot Lee by Matt Galloway on The Current (c. 25 min interview). The CBC  published an article about the segment on its website. Summary and links here.
  • 2021-12-31. Luc P. Beaudoin was interviewed by Chad Pawson of CBC News  “Looking for self-improvement in the new year? Developing better sleep habits may be your best choice”.
  • 2021-11-09. Luc P. Beaudoin was interviewed by Jane Adie on CBC radio about sleep, insomnolence and mental perturbance.
  • 2021-10-31. Lovely article in a Polish magazine about Beaudoin’s Hook productivity app. It says “Hook is a brilliant solution” (see link on twitter) and showers other praise on it.
  • 2021-10-24. Luc gave the keynote address to SnoozzZfest 2021: “Mind Your Emotions!”. You can purchase a recording of the conference from the SnoozzZfest website.
  • 2021-10-21: Nice article about Beaudoin’s work on sleep: Dr Renée Miller’s sleep tips: the cognitive shuffle and snoozefest.
  • 2021-08-03 Vogue published an article by Hannah Coates. Cognitive Shuffle: The Simple Sleep Technique To Help You Fall Asleep Faster | British Vogue
  • 2021-06-16 Luc’s mySleepButton app was in Lifehacker again: Fall Asleep Faster Using ‘Cognitive Shuffling’.
  • 2020-12-09 David sparks in Linking and Contextual Computing — MacSparky described Hook as a key tool in contextual computing. (Hook was designed by Beaudoin as the world’s first pure contextual computing app.)
  • 2020-11-10 Luc was interviewed by Andrew J. Mason on The Omni Show:  How Luc Beaudoin uses OmniOutliner (and more).
  • 2020-11-01: Luc was interviewed by David Sparks (“MacSparky”) and Stephen Hackett for Mac Power Users #560: Workflows with Luc Beaudoin – Relay FM .
  • 2020-03-26. A long-form article by science journalist Peter Brems was published on the public Belgian Flemish news site. It presents sleep tips for the covid-19 era.  It has a big section on Luc’s research and the cognitive shuffle.
  • 2020-02-06. Luc was interviewed by Neetu Garcha on Global TV BC regarding brain fitness and cognitive productivity.
  • 2019-09-22. Luc was interviewed by Maureen McGrath The Sunday Night Health Show | Global News about sleep issues.
  • 2019-08-30. Luc was interviewed by Monique Polloni @ Radio-Canada (BC and Yukon). He discussed insomnolence and perturbance, two of his scientific (technical) neologisms and concepts at the heart of his R&D on “insomnia” and “emotions”. Summary here. Recording here: Boulevard du Pacifique | ICI Radio-Canada.ca Première.
  • 2019-07-11. Cult of Mac published a rave review by Charlie Sorrel of the new CogSci Apps invention, Hook productivity app, designed by Luc and colleagues, saying “This is such a fantastic, simple idea that it seems like it should be built into every computer“. (Cult of Mac has 2.6M page views/month; and 750k Twitter followers.)
  • 2019-07-13. Luc was interviewed by Radio-Canada (CBC Radio in French) : Le sommeil réparateur: un rêve à dormir debout? More information in English here.
  • 2019-04-01. For a new podcast, Luc Beaudoin was interviewed about sleep by Ryan Takagi, Simon Fraser University rowing coach. Ryan specializes in athletic wellness & performance.
  • 2019-03-19. Leanpub published a Leanpub Front Matter Podcast interview of Luc Beaudoin by Len Epp. They discussed challenges people face organizing digital information, Luc’s two Cognitive Productivity books, the new Hook productivity app and more.
  • 2019-02-08. An article dedicated to Hook was published in LifeHacker today.
  • 2018-06-11. Luc Beaudoin was interviewed on Radio-Canada (CBC) about a recent study on sleep and health across Canadian provinces. Noteworthy is the lack of quotes as Beaudoin refused to read anything in these tables.
  • 2018-04-19. Luc Beaudoin participated in a TV panel on “sleep and aging” hosted by Carmen Ruiz y Laza for Zoomer Media with two other guests.
  • 2018-01-24. Health Magazine, an American magazine focused on women’s health, owned by Time Inc., recommended mySleepButton as one of “9 Things to Do When You Can’t Sleep Because Your Mind Is Racing“. (The only app they recommended). (“one out of every seven Internet users visits a Time Inc. website (more than 26 million unique visitors)”).
  • 2018-01-17. Moneyish , a Dow Jones Group publication, updated “You have to try this scientist’s technique for falling asleep faster” by Catey Hill.
  • 2018-01-13. Australian web site Nine.com.au, a Microsoft partner, published “Feeling insomniac? The ‘cognitive sleep shuffle’ could be a night-time game changer” written by Kimberly Gillan.
  • 2018-01-11. Monica Torres wrote on New York based jobs website, Ladders, “When you fail at counting sheep, try this word game to fall asleep”.
  • 2017-09-20. Luc Beaudoin was interviewed about poor quality sleep and sleep apps by CBC Television (Christine Birak) for The National. Due to an earthquake in Mexico and a Hurricane elsewhere, parts of it were broadcast elsewhere on CBC TV instead and written-up on CBC’s web site.
  • 2017-09-08. Oliver Burkeman penned another Guardian article in which he mentioned “My top recommendation remains the visualisation method known as the “cognitive shuffle”.
  • 2017-08-07. HuffPost published Kelly DiNardo’s article on the cognitive shuffle and mySleepButton.
  • 2017-05-20. Beaudoin’s research, the cognitive shuffle and BoutonDodo/mySleepButton covered in France today: “Troubles du sommeil: un chercheur canadien a trouvé une solution simple“
  • c. 2017-05-19. Inc Magazine’s Jessica Stillman  published “Does Your Restless Mind Keep You Up at Night? Try This Simple Mind Trick” on the cognitive shuffle (which is partly an emotion regulation technique, by the way.)
  • 2017-05-20. Major coverage in France today: Troubles du sommeil : un chercheur canadien a trouvé une solution simple.
  • 2017-05-16. Luc Beaudoin was interviewed by Cory on Roundhouse Radio 98.3 FM. (Audio recording.) He talked about insomnia as an emotion process (perturbance), and hinted at recent enhancements to the cognitive shuffle and his theory of sleep onset/insomnia.
  • 2017-05-08. Chatelaine Magazine: “Can’t sleep? Here’s a new technique that might help”. This is the first article in the popular press/media, we think, that used the term perturbance, that Beaudoin coined in 1992 to refer to a specifically human class of emotional phenomena.  In April, at the University of  Bath, England, and the University of Birmingham, England,  Beaudoin presented a paper co-authored with Drs. Sylwia Hyniewska and Eva Hudlicka  on the concept of perturbance: “Perturbance: Unifying Research on Emotion, Intrusive Mentation and Other Psychological Phenomena with AI.”  (Symposium on Computational Modelling of Emotion: Theory and Application at AISB–2017.)  An extension of this idea will be presented by Beaudoin, Sylwia Hyniewska and Célyne H. Bastien at ISRE-2017. Perturbance will also figure in the papers they are writing about the cognitive shuffle.

• 2017-05-07.”KNOCKED OUT” Lila MacLellan of Quartz (New York) writes an elegant article “A cognitive scientist has devised a drug-free sleep trick for your restless mind“.
• 2017-05-01 to 2017-05-04. Luc P. Beaudoin was interviewed by several radio stations, TV stations and journalists across Canada in English and French (Global TV, SiriusXM, CBC, Radio-Canada, Chatelaine, CJAD 800 in Montreal, etc.). E.g., Tasha Kheiriddin By AM640 (also this podcast of 2017-05-03, she qualified the cognitive shuffle as  “Sleep techniques for lazy people”). Also by c. 16 CBC Radio stations across Canada. (Why? Well this is his contribution to getting the word out about extensions/applications of cognitive science to the unique window into the human mind that is sleep onset. And what easier way is there to visit potentially millions of Canadians coast-to-coast?)
• 2017-04-28. The May issue O Magazine (Oprah’s print magazine) includes an article on Luc P. Beaudoin and the cognitive shuffle by Kelly DiNardo.
• 2017-03-09. Luc was hosted by Read & Trust productivity blogger and Mac software developer, Brett Terpstra for Episode 187 of the Systematic Podcast for a discussion of Productive Cognition.
• 2016-12. Luc was interviewed for an article on sleep, insomnia and the cognitive shuffle for the May issue of Oprah Magazine (annual circulation: 11 million)
• 2016-11-23. The December issue of Women’s Health Magazine (UK) includes an article by Virginia Woodhall on mental wellbeing. The article has a 243-word section about the cognitive shuffle, based on Virginia’s recent interview with Luc. (Globally, WHM reaches 8 million readers annually.)
• 2016-11-07. For Roundhouse Radio’s “Sense of Place” Minelle Mahtani interviewed Luc live this morning about sleep at this time of year.
• 2016-09-28. The official periodical of the Canadian Bar Association, National Magazine, wrote an article discussing Beaudoin and mySleepButton: Insomnia? There’s an app for that.
• 2016-09-26. SharpBrains published an article by Luc on focusing for cognitive productivity.
• 2016-09-08. Phil Melnychuk wrote an article about Luc  for a special issue of Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows News, “Our Community Our People”: “The Science of Thinking“.
• 2016-08-31. We published mySelfQuantifier.
• 2016-07-26. Luc’s research was the feature of an article on Oprah.com.
• 2016-07-20. Aaron Rand (CJAD 800, Montreal) interviewed Luc Beaudoin about the cognitive shuffle. Great questions. (Recording is here.)
• 2016-07-20. Luc Beaudoin was interviewed by Virgin Radio UK  @ 10:30 AM GMT.
• 2016-07-18. Luc Beaudoin was interviewed  on CTV news (a national Canadian news network), where he briefly explains the technique. This link includes the recording (c. 4 min).
• 2016-07-15. The Guardian published an article by Oliver Burkeman that briefly explains the cognitive shuffle and mySleepButton. It’s a good article. We prefer the term “treatment” to “cure”. See mySleepButton’s FAQ, and its advise about “Critical Information Processing”.
• 2016-07-07. mySleepButton was featured in the New York Times as “A Snooze-Worthy App”.

• 2016-06-27: Luc Beaudoin’s R&D was featured in The Globe & Mail, CBC News and GlobalTV , discussing wearable technologies to improve health.
• 2016-06-23: A Forbes magazine article by David DiSalvo featuring Dr. Beaudoin’s research and mySleepButton was published today.
• 2016-06-16. This week, Dr. Luc Beaudoin was interviewed three times: on Radio-Canada (“Phare Ouest”), on News1130, and CFAX (Victoria, Ian Jessop), regarding his research presented at SLEEP-2016 (Denver, CO).
• 2016-06-10. R&D related to mySleepButton was featured by Simon Fraser University.
• 2016-05-02. SharpBrains.com published an article by Luc on cognitive techniques to promote sleep onset.
• Nov 24, 2015. Luc Beaudoin was interviewed by Carol Thorbes on Roundhouse Radio about cognitive productivity and the mySleepButton app for insomnia.
• 2015-03-17: Luc was interviewed by Ian Jessop of  CFAX radio (Victoria) about “Information Overload”/”cognitive overload” (or dealing with the copious amounts of information we receive via the Internet) and cognitive productivity.
• January-March 2015: Luc was interviewed by several news organizations about psychological issues pertaining to sleep, insomnia, time change, and napping. (E.g., Radio-Canada, GlobalTV BC News, CKNW, CFAX).
• May-July 2014: Luc was interviewed about his work on sleep onset (the cognitive shuffle, serial diverse imagining, super-somnolent mentation, etc., and CogSci Apps Corp.’s software: mySleepButton) by several news organizations.
• Leanpub interviewed Luc about Cognitive Productivity. (Podcast available from Leanpub and iTunes.)
• 2013-08-26. Luc was on BC Almanac (CBC Radio 1) with Marc Forsyth and  Chris Kennedy (Superintendent of Schools of the West Vancouver School District in British Columbia).
• 2013-07 and 2013-08 Luc was interviewed by several media outlets and organizations regarding his new book, Cognitive Productivity: Radio-Canada (BC, Monique Polloni), News 1130 (Vancouver, Drew Snider), CJSF 90.1 FM (Vancouver, Frieda Werden), News Talk 770 in Calgary and 630 CHED in Edmonton (John Bolton), 1550 AM Radio (Vancouver, Tajinder Nijjer) Leanpub (Len Epp), Maple Ridge News, Tri-City News.
• 2013-07 Luc interviewed Canadian Juno award winning singer-songwriter, David Francey. They explored cognitive productivity in the artistic realm. The recording is available on this web site.
• Luc wrote a long form post on Canadian director Philippe Falardeau’s regarding his Academy award nominated film, Monsieur Lazhar.