A couple of weeks ago, I finally managed to update my second book, Cognitive Productivity with macOS®: 7 Principles for Getting Smarter with Knowledge, on the iBookstore. The delay was due to problems with iTunes Producer, the software one uses to upload books to iBookstore. Continue reading Updated on iBookstore: Cognitive Productivity with macOS
Author: Luc P. Beaudoin
Whiteboard Etiquette, Paper, Pens and Productivity: Responses to MPU 442 with Joe Buhlig
I thoroughly enjoyed Mac Power Users #442: Workflows with Joe Buhlig – Relay FM. Here are some of my responses to the episode. If you want others’ thoughts, check out the MPU Discourse forum, where I’ve also summarized the following.
Joe is a very productive person.
- He runs a company called ProCourse, where he builds stable, long-lasting websites and communities using Discourse – software for civilized discussion. We will be using it at CogSci Apps for our upcoming macOS app.
- He runs the Productivity Guild website.
- He runs Bookworm – Podcast Book Club with a colleague.
All quite relevant to CogZest and CogSci Apps themes.
Birthday Wishes to a Dear Relative: May You Have Your Chocolate Box and (Secular) Buddha Too
Cher —-,
Wishing you the best of what we hoped for during our irregular childhood “Cat Stevens Power Hours” together, Continue reading Birthday Wishes to a Dear Relative: May You Have Your Chocolate Box and (Secular) Buddha Too
Sapiosexual Intelligence Requires a Theory of Cognitive Motivation
Earlier today, I responded to Julia Galef’s post about cognitive laziness. My upcoming book, Discontinuities: Love, Art, Mind will explore other themes related this: sapiosexuality in general and sapiosexual intelligence in particular. Continue reading Sapiosexual Intelligence Requires a Theory of Cognitive Motivation
Evening and Morning Stoic Meditations Updated with Modern Meta-effectiveness
A few years ago I took up morning and evening meditations. Continue reading 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”
On her blog and Twitter, one of my favourite podcast hosts, Julia Galef, argued that we need a non-judgmental term for “lazy”. As this touches upon a key concept of my theory of meta-effectiveness, I thought I should write a quick[-1] response. Continue reading 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)
A past(ie) welter of cento
makes for a merry farrago
Jo Malo
Continue reading Discontinuities Opening “Quotation” (draft)
TextExpander Wish List: (Learn) Multiple Abbreviations for the Same Snippet, Plurals, Contacts, Conventions
There are some features I have long wanted one of my favourite apps, TextExpander, to have. Some of them are motivated by the fact that, although I do have conventions for naming my abbreviations, I can’t always remember the abbreviation. Moreover, I sometimes repeat the same typing mistake. But more generally they are motivated by the idea that a modern text expansion should know my intentions.
To pick some of the items from the top of my TextExpander wish list, I’d like Continue reading TextExpander Wish List: (Learn) Multiple Abbreviations for the Same Snippet, Plurals, Contacts, Conventions
Ingenuity Sans Apple SmartBoard: Sweet and Sour Grapes
My Cognitive Productivity with macOS book does not yet have a section on Apple’s “smart board” because, well, Apple does not yet manufacture one (for sale, at least). And when Apple does, the device will (presumably) run iOS.
Continue reading 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
Update 2019-05-16
The original post below is no longer valid. I have removed the “extras” only package of Cognitive Productivity with macOS from Leanpub. Rationale: Leanpub has clarified that all packages must include books. If you purchased the $5.00 “extras only” package, then you will still have access to it. But it is no longer for sale separately.
The original package of this book, which contains the book and all the extras, remains available for sale.