Archive - Posts by Year

2025

• 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

• Human’22 Hypertext Workshop Keynote Address on Hypertext Applications of Integrative Design-Oriented ‘Cognitive Science

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

2011

• 7 + 1 tips for Learning in Order to Excel in 2012
• Motive Generators in Major Innovators and Tweakers
• Steve Jobs and Cognitive Productivity
• A Note About Steve Jobs
• Paper on Expert Learning Honouring Prof. Aaron Sloman
• Your Time and Your Cognitive Productivity