Archive - Posts by Year
2025
- Inside the Sleeper’s Mind: The Theory Behind the Cognitive Shuffle
- Omni-links – The Concept You Didn’t Know You Needed
- Apple’s Mac Apps Are Not Sufficiently Link-Friendly: Workarounds Exist for Some
- BSBM is now BSBM+: Clarifying An Advanced Multi-Anchor Meditation that Includes Physiological Sighs
- Blog post address moved
- ✨BSBM Meditation: A Multi-Anchor Practice for Meta-Cognitive Control
- 10 Bookmarking Tools to Choose From
- Updated List of Recommendations for Better Sleep
- Software to Help You Do Deep Work
- How Do you Understand and Regulate your Emotions—With and without Music?
- Week ending 2025-04-21: Non-self, Emotions and Music, AI, mySleepButton 2.0 announced, and More
- Week ending 2025-04-13: Emotions triggered by music, CNN, coaching Rx, and more
- Boyd on the Evolution of Music and Other Forms of Art
- Linkding Bookmarking Integration and More in Hookmark 6.8
- Professor Claude Lamontagne, my friend and mentor, passed away
- Over on mySleepButton.com: My Upcoming Cambridge University Press Book Chapter, Google Play and The New York Times+
- Unbelievable! Where Has The Time Gone? And What Should I Do Here?
2024
2023
- Can Software Accelerate Consciousness?
- Is there more to say about transformative experiences than L.A. Paul’s decision-theoretic perspective captures?
- On The Status Game by Will Storr
- A Reading List for “Cognitive Productivity”?
- Do You Work on Multiple Knowledge-Intense Projects? Here’s Some Inspiration
2022
- Updates to the Manifesto for an IDO Approach to Understanding Ourselves as Autonomous Agents
- Staying on Track: Updates to mySelfQuantifier, Timing and Hook
- Keynote to Human’22 Workshop June 28
- Talking about Hook with Tinderbox Users
- Presenting at Tinderbox Weekly Meetup Saturday Feb. 19, and Other Doings
- The Devil’s Advocate: On the Potential Usefulness of Theistic Myths
- Mental Perturbance and Insomnia in the Pandemic: Ideas and Strategies
- Around the Web: Hook, the Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking and More
2021
- Announcing the Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking: Professors, Developers, and Podcasters Unite for You to Be Able to Focus
- Why the 14-inch M1 (Max) 2021 MacBook Pro is not for me
- Offline Dictation on iPhone: False or Vague Promises by the Manufacturer ?
- The Reincarnation of the Touch Bar
- Mind Your Emotions! SnoozzZfest 2021 Keynote Address
- Je suis (de retour)
- CUP’A and The Future of Text: On Assessing and Selecting Information
- Layering in the Mind-brain and Why It Matters: An Exchange Between Paul Smolensky and Myself
- Reverse Engineering the Human Mind as a Way to Better Understand Ourselves and Each Other
- How Deep Links Can Help You Master a Document
2020
- The Problem with Graduating from University
- Attention! Have you lost it?
- Seven Tips and Some Great Apps for Mastering Knowledge: Technology-enhanced learning
- Answers to Your Cognitive Productivity Questions at Smile
- An integrative design-oriented research approach to autonomous agents
- Homage to Aaron Sloman, Winner of the 2020 APA K. Jon Barwise Prize
- Augmenting Your Use of LaunchBar and Alfred (Launcher Apps) with Hook’s Contextual Retrieval
- Quick Thoughts on Covid-19
- A Q & A Brain Game on Brain Games and Self Improvement
- Can Your Bedtime Thinking Keep You Awake? Or Help You Fall Asleep?
- The Book I Read Last Year that Had the Greatest Impact on Me
2019
- Our Paper in Sleep Medicine Reviews on Pre-sleep Cognitive Activity: A Systematic Review
- Backlog of Comments on CogZest Published
- Limitations of Sleep Tracking Apps and Hardware: Anything New and/or Useful in this Information?
- We Don’t All Write for the Same Reasons
- Draft Manifesto for Integrative Design-oriented Cognitive Science and AI
- What is Not Black and White is Not Necessarily Shades of Grey Either: Watch out for Discontinuities
- Speak French and Want to Learn About Perturbance and Insomnolence?
- Person/ne Exhibition at Griffin Art Projects: Lam Wong Artist in Residence
- We Will Present Three Research Posters at the World Sleep Congress in Vancouver, September 2019
- Track Your Knowledge Work Quickly and Precisely with Timing App and Hook
- Brief Response to Massimo Pigliucci’s Question about Over-ascription of “Consciousness”
- Hook Mac App Hit “Golden Master”—About Hook’s Past, Present and Future
- Francophone Sleep Lovers! Don’t Sleep in on Saturday: Tune into Radio-Canada Interview About Sleep
- Drawing Diagrams in the Head and with Technology: Benefits, Cognitive Mechanisms, Artificial Intelligence, Apps, and Sleep Onset Dreaming
- A Musical Celebration of Spring and Love Chez Nous
- Why Most People Don’t Take as Many Notes as They Should, and What They Can Do About It
- Un samedi printanier musical: Oeuvres de Piaf et autres (chez nous); de Mozart, Morlock et autres (à l’annexe)
- Front Matter Podcast Interview about Cognitive Productivity with macOS and Hook
- On The Relationship-building Proclivities of Human Nature
- Poetweet for Canadian Company
- Hook Productivity: A New CogSci Apps Invention for Mac
- Birth Announcement: Hook Is a New CogSci Apps Invention for Your Cognitive Productivity
- Peripatetic Reflections on Why We Walk While We Talk and Think Deeply
- New Papers Submitted for Publication and Update on My Upcoming Books
- Instead of Designing a Reading List for 2019, Why Not Resolve to Do This?
2018
- Not “Just” a Book by Shirley Glass
- In January 2019, You Will Find Out Why 2019 Will Not Be Like Years Before
- New CogSci Apps Logo: Social Cognitive Productivity
- macOS Mojave Seems to Have Fixed the PDF Rendering Problems I Described Last Year
- A Bit of Art for Value Pluralism
- Overcoming macOS Siri Dictation Problems with the 2018 11″ iPad Pro, 1writer and nvALT
- Psychological Hedonism Meets Value Pluralism: An Integrative Design-oriented Perspective
- Does macOS Load Siri Faster in MacBook Pro with 32-GB of RAM?
- What Causes Grief to Endure? Part 1: Your Turn
- Ask Questions Before Delving (Reading, Watching or Listening to) Knowledge Resources
- Homage to Jacques Brel on the 40-year Anniversary of His Death
- Updated on iBookstore: Cognitive Productivity with macOS
- Whiteboard Etiquette, Paper, Pens and Productivity: Responses to MPU 442 with Joe Buhlig
- Birthday Wishes to a Dear Relative: May You Have Your Chocolate Box and (Secular) Buddha Too
- Sapiosexual Intelligence Requires a Theory of Cognitive Motivation
- Evening and Morning Stoic Meditations Updated with Modern Meta-effectiveness
- On the Need for New Cognitive Motivational Concepts: Response to Julia Galef’s Why We Need a New Word for “Lazy”
- Discontinuities Opening “Quotation” (draft)
- TextExpander Wish List: (Learn) Multiple Abbreviations for the Same Snippet, Plurals, Contacts, Conventions
- Ingenuity Sans Apple SmartBoard: Sweet and Sour Grapes
- Extras for Cognitive Productivity with macOS Book Are Now Available as a Separate Package from Its Leanpub Web Page
- Exploiting Potentially Helpful macOS Messages Conversations Using OmniOutliner
- Cognitive Productivity with macOS Is Now on iBookstore and Amazon Kindle’s Store
- A Book for Our “Post-truth”, “Pre-meta-effectiveness”, Times Launches on June 18
- Nurture Your Fondness and Admiration of Powerful Structuring Ideas
- Creative Off-line Problem-Solving with Cognitive Task Lists
- Announcing the CogSci Apps Website and Other Good Things to Come
- L’indicible et l’essentiel
- Surfing Tips: Using Text Expansion Utilities and Launchers to Quickly Access Project Documents
- Betroffenheit: The Show and the Emotions
- Distraction-Free Information Processing: The “Surf Strategically” Principle of Cognitive Productivity with macOS
- 2018 “Celebration of SFU Authors”
- We(e) Sense-makers
- More Literature on Virtual Machines and Causation, and Some Notes on Research Paths
- Understanding Ourselves and Each Other with Virtual Machine Concepts
- Dear Twitter: Please Learn about CUP’A and Check Out My Publications
- What Inspired Mrs. Robinson and Other Songs in The Graduate?
- Productive Practice Screencasts—Published on YouTube and in Cognitive Productivity with macOS
- Presenting on Wearable Health Technologies at Engage Heart + Lung Health FEST 2018
2017
- Reading with Software is Better than Paper: Principle 5, “Delve Deeply”, of Cognitive Productivity with macOS
- Cyber Monday 50% off Coupons for Cognitive Productivity Books
- How Do You Judge the Helpfulness of Information? And Why Does This Matter?
- Response to Chad Grill’s Article “Reading Books Will Help You Build These 7 Habits”
- First Installment of Cognitive Productivity with macOS® Published on Leanpub!
- Don’t Be Discouraged by Peer Excellence: How Psychology and Cognitive Science Can Contribute to Cognitive Productivity
- Why So Quiet (Again)? 2017 Update and Some Thoughts about Engaging in Multiple Projects
- Work-Arounds to macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) PDF Rendering Problems (Skim)
- Do You Know Your Own Moods? Pointers to a Progressive Research Program on Core Affect
- Fifty Years after Herbert Simon’s Landmark Contribution to Emotion Research: “Motivational and Emotional Controls of Cognition” (1967)
- Spinning a Swirly Solution to Skim’s Slow PDF Content Rendering Issue
- Timing2 App for macOS Is Available—I Highly Recommend It!
- Announcing CogZest’s Advisory Board
- Media Responses to the Cognitive Shuffle: Much Ado about a Research Programme
- On Using Fiction and Non-Fiction When Feeling Guilty
- Interviewed by Brett Terpstra on Systematic
- The Late 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar: Comments on the Mac and My Research to Purchase It
- My 2016 Year in Review
- Announcing the Somnolence+ Initiative: Bringing Sleep Wellness to Communities and Organizations
- Easy on The Inference Trigger, Dear Voting Reader
- Perturbance: Understanding Why Robots Will Have High-Order Emotions Matters to Psychology
2016
- Challenge and Workshop in 12th IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2017)
- How to Quickly Access Your Pinboard Bookmarks Using LaunchBar, TextExpander and Related Apps
- Ways in which Ginger Campbell’s Brain Science Podcast has Transformed Me
- The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff by Ofer Bergman and Steve Whittaker
- Cambridge University Press Pulled its RSS Feeds — Bloggers and Publishers, Please Help Your Readers
- Left is Hiring Technical Staff in Metro-Vancouver Canada for Wave and Yo!
- The Benefits of Corporate Romance: Left is Right for Me
- Making Sense of the Political Situation — for One’s Well Being
- Experiencing and Analyzing Emotions on a Perturbing Election Night
- AISB-2017 (Bath) Symposium: “Computational Modelling of Emotion: Theory and Applications”
- Humanist Meeting On Self-directed Learning with Fiction
- Fiction About Fiction: Dangers and Missed Opportunities in Processing Stories
- What Can You Learn from the Knowledge of Others?
- What Can Be Learned from a Few Good Men that Trump Did Not?
- You’re Luckier than You Think
- Focusing in the Age of Information Technology: Leveraging Gallagher’s Rapt, Carr’s The Shallows, Newport’s Deep Work, and Apps for Cognitive Productivity
- Time-Tracking and OmniFocus: Screencasts for the mySelfQuantifier System
- A Student of Mind in a Community of Excellence
- Two Responses to the Shallows: Deep Work and Cognitive Productivity
- Introducing mySelfQuantifier
- IT Workers Are Not as Inept as Jurgen Appelo Makes Them Out to Be: Response to His Criticism of Leanpub
- Postscript to Cognitive Productivity, and Relation to Cal Newport’s Deep Work Book
- RSS Feeds for Google Scholar, ResearchGate and Academia.edu: Missing Features
- Re-Enter Billy Elliot Stage Left, Exit Britain Stage Right
- Brexit, Cognitive Productivity and the Diffuse Death of Expertise
- Swipe Without Exposing Yourself to Seductive Distractors on iOS
- SharpBrains Article: 5 Ideas to Help Knowledge Workers Increase Lifelong Learning and Productivity
- Is this a Buggy Measure of Divergent Thinking?
- Update on Upcoming Books: Getting Smarter and Discontinuities
- Humean vs. Kantian Approaches to Kantian Mechanisms (Human Mind)
- SharpBrains Article by Luc P. Beaudoin on Sleep Onset
- Marketing Assistant and Software Development Opportunities
- Mind Wandering about Paul R. Fleischman’s Lecture on Features of Meditation: Homeostasis, Meta-management and More
- Trois Tranches de Temps, Publié Après Onegin
- Mata Hari’s Emotions
- Where Should You Place Your Bet? On Developing Working Memory or Many Mental Mechanisms?
- A Key Feature of Genuine Expertise
- AI Readings for Clinical Psychologists and Psychiatrists
- Shedding Some Light on Night Shift in iOS 9.3
- Report on Book Report on Kurt Palka (The Piano Maker, et al.): What if a Great Novel is Worth Re-reading?
- Is It a Good Idea to Enable the iPhone’s Predictive Keyboard and Auto-correction?
2015
- Why Is A Christmas Story — The Musical — So Hilarious? Inside Jokes, The Mating Mind and Mental Spaces We’d Rather Not Explore
- Editing Tables of Contents with PDF Pen Pro: Delving Tips and Screencast
- Are we Doomed to Read with Information Technology?
- Psychology of the Base: Why Do Some Canadians Still Support the Harper Government?
- Is This Information Sufficiently Helpful?
- Romantic Love (Limerence): A Workshop on Emotion
- Papers3 for iPhone and iPad is Now Free: Delve On!
- The Value of TextExpander Snippet Conventions: Web Addresses, Citations, Bibliographical References, Markdown and More
- On the Speed of Accommodating to Potent Ideas: Using one of Ron Burnett’s Knowledge Gems as an Example
- Tea, Zen, Creativity and Taking Mental Notes with the Method of Loci
- Jon Stewart Skewered Stephen Harper on the Daily Show: Illustrating Cognitive Productivity with Twisted Canadian Politics
- More on Accessing PDFs Managed by Papers 3 for Mac
- Papers 3 Wi-Fi syncing, Virtual Disk, File Naming and the 2-Second File Access Rule
- On Having One or More Theories of Emotion: Perturbance and Ur-Emotions
- A Tale of Two Summer Conferences: ISRE-2015 and CogSci 2015
- Promising Research Problems are Like F-16’s
- Presenting the Cognitive Productivity Research Program at CogSci 2015 in Pasadena
- Presenting Preliminary Results on the Cognitive Shuffle at CogSci 2015 in Pasadena
- Try as You Might: Does Checking Email Less Frequently Reduce Stress?
- Meta-effectiveness and Other Important Concepts for Understanding the Development of Competence in Adults
- On Ruminating and Intrusive Thinking…
- Benefitting From Potent Knowledge Gems on Acceptance and Commitment and Other Topics
- Gratitude for an Excellent Web Developer/IT Service Provider
- “Information Overload” and Productivity
- Assessing and Enhancing Knowledge Workers’ Meta-Documentation and Self-Testing: A SSHRC Grant Proposal
- Canada 300 BC and the Passing of Dr. Adam Chowaniec: Developing the Knowledge Economy
- Color and Placement in Designing Promotion Videos: What Has Cognitive Science to Say?
- My 2015 Progress Update (to Feb 15)
- Some Myths and Productive Ideas About Consciousness
- Lovers, Intellectual Loneliness, and an Enigma
- A Cognitive Scientist’s Response to the Dalai Lama’s Criticism of Western Psychology
2014
- Review of Keith Stanovich (2009): What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought
- Readings for a Humanist Meeting on Consciousness
- “Consciousness”: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Questions About the Human Mind
- Luc P. Beaudoin is Now Adjunct Professor of Cognitive Science at Simon Fraser University
- “I Prefer Leanpub” Coupons Celebrating Availability of Cognitive Productivity on Amazon Store as a Kindle Book
- Meta-painting & Science of the Human Mind: An Epistolary Response to Lam Wong’s 21 Elements
- Insomnia Workshops: Designed to Promote Cognitive Productivity
- University Teaching Requires Lovingly Opposing the Student: Claude Lamontagne’s Rationalist Reflexions
- Lean Publishing for Scholars-Why You Should Consider Leanpub
- Response to “Technology’s Productivity Paradox”, Itself a Review of Forrester®’s A Crisis of Attention: Technology, Productivity, and Flow
- A Proactive Review of Nicholas Carr’s Defeatist Book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
- Review of Mortimer Adler’s How to Read a Book — 42 years later
- An OmniOutliner Meta-doc Template for Taking Notes
- How to Take Notes with Technology: Far Beyond the Cornell Method with Cognitive Productivity
- Exhibition of Lam Wong’s Paintings on Relation, Perception and Meaning (Sept. 2- 27, 2014, New Westminster)
- Knowledge Gems from an Expert Author Educed by an Expert Host: Alice Munro Interviewed by Peter Gzowski (1996)
- Nelson Mandela Missed the Time to Think that Prison Provided
- Two Sides of the Same Coin: Pessoa’s Cognitive-Emotional Brain
- Cognitively Potent Software Is Mightier than the Pen in the Hands of Able, Motivated Knowledge Builders: Response to Mueller & Oppenheimer (2014)
- Things I Learned From My Dad — Reflections and Gratitude on Father’s Day
- Response to Tom Monahan’s “If I Were 22: Embrace Your Ignorance”
- Working with a Great Graphic Designer: A Case Study of Extended Cognitive Productivity
- Sleep Onset, The Cognitive Shuffle and Productivity: Our Presentation at the 2014 SFU Learning Together Conference
- Cognitive Productivity and Clinical Psychology
- Announcing mySleepButton – The First Sleep App Based on Cognitive Science (Serial Diverse Imagining, The Cognitive Shuffle and Super-Somnolent Mentation)
- News: CogZest Spins Off CogSci Apps Corp. to Develop and Market Its Software Portfolio
- Release Notes for Cognitive Productivity Book
- Call for Papers: Workshop on Computational Modeling of Cognition-Emotion Interactions: Relevance to Mechanisms of Affective Disorders and Therapeutic Action
- Helping Girls: 4th Annual “Give Her Wings Gala” of the Soroptimist International of the TriCities
- Emotion as Perturbance, Draft of ACT in Three Acts (Performed)
- You Can’t Fully Control Your Own Mind: Affect at Work
- Distraction, Information Technology and Emotion as Perturbance
- Spritz Text Streaming, “Speed Reading” and Cognitive Productivity
- Art (Broadly Speaking)
- Ralph Greer: Reminiscences about a Gentleman and Reflections on Cognitive Aging
- Cognitive Productivity Book Marked Complete on Leanpub
- Voltaire and the Importance of Concepts and Symbolisms to Understand the Human Mind
- Jacques Brel Wrote as He Lived
- Ten Tips for “Getting Things Learned” with Anki, Skim and Cognitive Productivity
2013
- Opening Quotations: Hermann Hesse Displaces Rudyard Kipling and M. C. Esher
- Broad Cognitive Science Deals with Emotion, Motivation and Moods
- AI, Cognitive Science and Understanding: Comments on RS-95 (Gerard O’Brien and The Computational Theory of Mind)
- What’s Wrong with the Kindle App: A Knowledge Delver’s Perspective
- Cognitive Productivity Book: Update to Deliberate Practice Chapter
- Update on Chapter 7 of the Book, Cognitive Productivity
- From Reading to Changing How We Perceive, Think, Feel and Act
- Why Use Potent Cognitive Tools —and How
- David Francey: Productive Singer and Songwriter (Cognitive Productivity Podcast #1)
- Going Back to School with a Productive Mindset
- Productivity Tips for Working Standing Up Using WorkEZ® Light adjustable Monitor Stand from Uncaged Ergonomics and Other Products
- Interview about Benefitting from Information Prosperity
- Arthur Balfour on The Benefits of Reading (1887)
- OS X Mavericks, Tags, OpenMeta and Your Productivity
- Prof. Margaret Boden, Distinguished and Productive Cognitive Scientist, Awarded Gold Medal by Sussex University
- YouTube Video on Cognitive Productivity Book
- Endorsements of Cognitive Productivity Book
- A Smart Father’s Day Gift for Smart Dads
- Cognitive Productivity: An Alternative To Defeatism, Bravado, and General Productivity
- New Cognitive Productivity Book by Luc P. Beaudoin
- Good Things to Come in 2013
- New Book in Peer Review Phase
- What’s Your Problem?
- Benefits of Learning in Depth for Kids and Adults
- The Tenacity of Paper
- Collaborative Productive Practice for Professional and Personal Development
2012
- Why So Quiet?
- Why Use Several OpenMeta Applications?
- Why Managing One’s Reading is Challenging
- An Evening to Celebrate Camaraderie with the Zest of Brel
- How About a Round of Applause?
- How Dictation Benefits Cognitive Productivity
- Inspirational Quotes for Knowledge Workers’ Personal Development
- A Zestful Response to Philippe Falardeau’s Monsieur Lazhar
- A Delphic Pronouncement Regarding Apple’s Upcoming Digital-Textbook Announcement