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Not “Just” a Book by Shirley Glass
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In January 2019, You Will Find Out Why 2019 Will Not Be Like Years Before
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New CogSci Apps Logo: Social Cognitive Productivity
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macOS Mojave Seems to Have Fixed the PDF Rendering Problems I Described Last Year
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A Bit of Art for Value Pluralism
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Overcoming macOS Siri Dictation Problems with the 2018 11″ iPad Pro, 1writer and nvALT
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Psychological Hedonism Meets Value Pluralism: An Integrative Design-oriented Perspective
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Does macOS Load Siri Faster in MacBook Pro with 32-GB of RAM?
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What Causes Grief to Endure? Part 1: Your Turn
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Ask Questions Before Delving (Reading, Watching or Listening to) Knowledge Resources
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Homage to Jacques Brel on the 40-year Anniversary of His Death
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Updated on iBookstore: Cognitive Productivity with macOS
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Whiteboard Etiquette, Paper, Pens and Productivity: Responses to MPU 442 with Joe Buhlig
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Birthday Wishes to a Dear Relative: May You Have Your Chocolate Box and (Secular) Buddha Too
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Sapiosexual Intelligence Requires a Theory of Cognitive Motivation
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Evening and Morning Stoic Meditations Updated with Modern Meta-effectiveness
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On the Need for New Cognitive Motivational Concepts: Response to Julia Galef’s Why We Need a New Word for “Lazy”
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Discontinuities Opening “Quotation” (draft)
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TextExpander Wish List: (Learn) Multiple Abbreviations for the Same Snippet, Plurals, Contacts, Conventions
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Ingenuity Sans Apple SmartBoard: Sweet and Sour Grapes
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Extras for Cognitive Productivity with macOS Book Are Now Available as a Separate Package from Its Leanpub Web Page
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Exploiting Potentially Helpful macOS Messages Conversations Using OmniOutliner
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Cognitive Productivity with macOS Is Now on iBookstore and Amazon Kindle’s Store
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A Book for Our “Post-truth”, “Pre-meta-effectiveness”, Times Launches on June 18
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Nurture Your Fondness and Admiration of Powerful Structuring Ideas
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Creative Off-line Problem-Solving with Cognitive Task Lists
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Announcing the CogSci Apps Website and Other Good Things to Come
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L’indicible et l’essentiel
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Surfing Tips: Using Text Expansion Utilities and Launchers to Quickly Access Project Documents
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Betroffenheit: The Show and the Emotions
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Distraction-Free Information Processing: The “Surf Strategically” Principle of Cognitive Productivity with macOS
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2018 “Celebration of SFU Authors”
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We(e) Sense-makers
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More Literature on Virtual Machines and Causation, and Some Notes on Research Paths
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Understanding Ourselves with Virtual Machine Concepts
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Dear Twitter: Please Learn about CUP’A and Check Out My Publications
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What Inspired Mrs. Robinson and Other Songs in The Graduate?
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Productive Practice Screencasts—Published on YouTube and in Cognitive Productivity with macOS
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Presenting on Wearable Health Technologies at Engage Heart + Lung Health FEST 2018
2017
2016
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Challenge and Workshop in 12th IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2017)
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How to Quickly Access Your Pinboard Bookmarks Using LaunchBar, TextExpander and Related Apps
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Ways in which Ginger Campbell’s Brain Science Podcast has Transformed Me
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The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff by Ofer Bergman and Steve Whittaker
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Cambridge University Press Pulled its RSS Feeds — Bloggers and Publishers, Please Help Your Readers
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Left is Hiring Technical Staff in Metro-Vancouver Canada for Wave and Yo!
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The Benefits of Corporate Romance: Left is Right for Me
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Making Sense of the Political Situation — for One’s Well Being
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Experiencing and Analyzing Emotions on a Perturbing Election Night
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AISB-2017 (Bath) Symposium: “Computational Modelling of Emotion: Theory and Applications”
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Humanist Meeting On Self-directed Learning with Fiction
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Fiction About Fiction: Dangers and Missed Opportunities in Processing Stories
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What Can You Learn from the Knowledge of Others?
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What Can Be Learned from a Few Good Men that Trump Did Not?
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You’re Luckier than You Think
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Focusing in the Age of Information Technology: Leveraging Gallagher’s Rapt, Carr’s The Shallows, Newport’s Deep Work, and Apps for Cognitive Productivity
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Time-Tracking and OmniFocus: Screencasts for the mySelfQuantifier System
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A Student of Mind in a Community of Excellence
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Two Responses to the Shallows: Deep Work and Cognitive Productivity
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Introducing mySelfQuantifier
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IT Workers Are Not as Inept as Jurgen Appelo Makes Them Out to Be: Response to His Criticism of Leanpub
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Postscript to Cognitive Productivity, and Relation to Cal Newport’s Deep Work Book
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RSS Feeds for Google Scholar, ResearchGate and Academia.edu: Missing Features
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Re-Enter Billy Elliot Stage Left, Exit Britain Stage Right
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Brexit, Cognitive Productivity and the Diffuse Death of Expertise
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Swipe Without Exposing Yourself to Seductive Distractors on iOS
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SharpBrains Article: 5 Ideas to Help Knowledge Workers Increase Lifelong Learning and Productivity
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Is this a Buggy Measure of Divergent Thinking?
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Update on Upcoming Books: Getting Smarter and Discontinuities
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Humean vs. Kantian Approaches to Kantian Mechanisms (Human Mind)
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SharpBrains Article by Luc P. Beaudoin on Sleep Onset
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Marketing Assistant and Software Development Opportunities
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Mind Wandering about Paul R. Fleischman’s Lecture on Features of Meditation: Homeostasis, Meta-management and More
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Trois Tranches de Temps, Publié Après Onegin
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Mata Hari’s Emotions
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Where Should You Place Your Bet? On Developing Working Memory or Many Mental Mechanisms?
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A Key Feature of Genuine Expertise
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AI Readings for Clinical Psychologists and Psychiatrists
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Shedding Some Light on Night Shift in iOS 9.3
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Report on Book Report on Kurt Palka (The Piano Maker, et al.): What if a Great Novel is Worth Re-reading?
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Is It a Good Idea to Enable the iPhone’s Predictive Keyboard and Auto-correction?
2015
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Why Is A Christmas Story — The Musical — So Hilarious? Inside Jokes, The Mating Mind and Mental Spaces We’d Rather Not Explore
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Editing Tables of Contents with PDF Pen Pro: Delving Tips and Screencast
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Are we Doomed to Read with Information Technology?
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Psychology of the Base: Why Do Some Canadians Still Support the Harper Government?
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Is This Information Sufficiently Helpful?
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Romantic Love (Limerence): A Workshop on Emotion
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Papers3 for iPhone and iPad is Now Free: Delve On!
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The Value of TextExpander Snippet Conventions: Web Addresses, Citations, Bibliographical References, Markdown and More
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On the Speed of Accommodating to Potent Ideas: Using one of Ron Burnett’s Knowledge Gems as an Example
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Tea, Zen, Creativity and Taking Mental Notes with the Method of Loci
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Jon Stewart Skewered Stephen Harper on the Daily Show: Illustrating Cognitive Productivity with Twisted Canadian Politics
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More on Accessing PDFs Managed by Papers 3 for Mac
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Papers 3 Wi-Fi syncing, Virtual Disk, File Naming and the 2-Second File Access Rule
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On Having One or More Theories of Emotion: Perturbance and Ur-Emotions
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A Tale of Two Summer Conferences: ISRE-2015 and CogSci 2015
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Promising Research Problems are Like F-16’s
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Presenting the Cognitive Productivity Research Program at CogSci 2015 in Pasadena
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Presenting Preliminary Results on the Cognitive Shuffle at CogSci 2015 in Pasadena
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Try as You Might: Does Checking Email Less Frequently Reduce Stress?
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Meta-effectiveness and Other Important Concepts for Understanding the Development of Competence in Adults
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On Ruminating and Intrusive Thinking…
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Benefitting From Potent Knowledge Gems on Acceptance and Commitment and Other Topics
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Gratitude for an Excellent Web Developer/IT Service Provider
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“Information Overload” and Productivity
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Assessing and Enhancing Knowledge Workers’ Meta-Documentation and Self-Testing: A SSHRC Grant Proposal
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Canada 300 BC and the Passing of Dr. Adam Chowaniec: Developing the Knowledge Economy
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Color and Placement in Designing Promotion Videos: What Has Cognitive Science to Say?
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My 2015 Progress Update (to Feb 15)
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Some Myths and Productive Ideas About Consciousness
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Lovers, Intellectual Loneliness, and an Enigma
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A Cognitive Scientist’s Response to the Dalai Lama’s Criticism of Western Psychology
2014
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Review of Keith Stanovich (2009): What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought
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Readings for a Humanist Meeting on Consciousness
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“Consciousness”: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Questions About the Human Mind
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Luc P. Beaudoin is Now Adjunct Professor of Cognitive Science at Simon Fraser University
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“I Prefer Leanpub” Coupons Celebrating Availability of Cognitive Productivity on Amazon Store as a Kindle Book
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Meta-painting & Science of the Human Mind: An Epistolary Response to Lam Wong’s 21 Elements
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Insomnia Workshops: Designed to Promote Cognitive Productivity
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University Teaching Requires Lovingly Opposing the Student: Claude Lamontagne’s Rationalist Reflexions
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Lean Publishing for Scholars-Why You Should Consider Leanpub
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Response to “Technology’s Productivity Paradox”, Itself a Review of Forrester®’s A Crisis of Attention: Technology, Productivity, and Flow
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A Proactive Review of Nicholas Carr’s Defeatist Book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
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Review of Mortimer Adler’s How to Read a Book — 42 years later
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An OmniOutliner Meta-doc Template for Taking Notes
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How to Take Notes with Technology: Far Beyond the Cornell Method with Cognitive Productivity
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Exhibition of Lam Wong’s Paintings on Relation, Perception and Meaning (Sept. 2- 27, 2014, New Westminster)
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Knowledge Gems from an Expert Author Educed by an Expert Host: Alice Munro Interviewed by Peter Gzowski (1996)
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Nelson Mandela Missed the Time to Think that Prison Provided
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Two Sides of the Same Coin: Pessoa’s Cognitive-Emotional Brain
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Cognitively Potent Software Is Mightier than the Pen in the Hands of Able, Motivated Knowledge Builders: Response to Mueller & Oppenheimer (2014)
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Things I Learned From My Dad — Reflections and Gratitude on Father’s Day
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Response to Tom Monahan’s “If I Were 22: Embrace Your Ignorance”
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Working with a Great Graphic Designer: A Case Study of Extended Cognitive Productivity
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Sleep Onset, The Cognitive Shuffle and Productivity: Our Presentation at the 2014 SFU Learning Together Conference
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Cognitive Productivity and Clinical Psychology
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Announcing mySleepButton – The First Sleep App Based on Cognitive Science (Serial Diverse Imagining, The Cognitive Shuffle and Super-Somnolent Mentation)
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News: CogZest Spins Off CogSci Apps Corp. to Develop and Market Its Software Portfolio
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Release Notes for Cognitive Productivity Book
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Call for Papers: Workshop on Computational Modeling of Cognition-Emotion Interactions: Relevance to Mechanisms of Affective Disorders and Therapeutic Action
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Helping Girls: 4th Annual “Give Her Wings Gala” of the Soroptimist International of the TriCities
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Emotion as Perturbance, Draft of ACT in Three Acts (Performed)
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You Can’t Fully Control Your Own Mind: Affect at Work
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Distraction, Information Technology and Emotion as Perturbance
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Spritz Text Streaming, “Speed Reading” and Cognitive Productivity
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Art (Broadly Speaking)
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Ralph Greer: Reminiscences about a Gentleman and Reflections on Cognitive Aging
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Cognitive Productivity Book Marked Complete on Leanpub
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Voltaire and the Importance of Concepts and Symbolisms to Understand the Human Mind
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Jacques Brel Wrote as He Lived
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Ten Tips for “Getting Things Learned” with Anki, Skim and Cognitive Productivity
2013
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Opening Quotations: Hermann Hesse Displaces Rudyard Kipling and M. C. Esher
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Broad Cognitive Science Deals with Emotion, Motivation and Moods
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AI, Cognitive Science and Understanding: Comments on RS-95 (Gerard O’Brien and The Computational Theory of Mind)
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What’s Wrong with the Kindle App: A Knowledge Delver’s Perspective
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Cognitive Productivity Book: Update to Deliberate Practice Chapter
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Update on Chapter 7 of the Book, Cognitive Productivity
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From Reading to Changing How We Perceive, Think, Feel and Act
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Why Use Potent Cognitive Tools —and How
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David Francey: Productive Singer and Songwriter (Cognitive Productivity Podcast #1)
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Going Back to School with a Productive Mindset
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Productivity Tips for Working Standing Up Using WorkEZ® Light adjustable Monitor Stand from Uncaged Ergonomics and Other Products
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Interview about Benefitting from Information Prosperity
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Arthur Balfour on The Benefits of Reading (1887)
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OS X Mavericks, Tags, OpenMeta and Your Productivity
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Prof. Margaret Boden, Distinguished and Productive Cognitive Scientist, Awarded Gold Medal by Sussex University
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YouTube Video on Cognitive Productivity Book
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Endorsements of Cognitive Productivity Book
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A Smart Father’s Day Gift for Smart Dads
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Cognitive Productivity: An Alternative To Defeatism, Bravado, and General Productivity
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New Cognitive Productivity Book by Luc P. Beaudoin
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Good Things to Come in 2013
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New Book in Peer Review Phase
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What’s Your Problem?
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Benefits of Learning in Depth for Kids and Adults
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The Tenacity of Paper
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Collaborative Productive Practice for Professional and Personal Development
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