Last summer I published the mySelfQuantifier spreadsheet-based time-tracking system. It involves inputting events from many sources. As such, it requires desktop time-tracking software that provides a timeline of your activities. For the latter, I previously relied on the old “Track Time” app (which was abandoned long ago by its developer), because there was no other choice. However, Daniel Alm has now released Timing2 with a beautiful and highly functional timeline. Continue reading Timing2 App for macOS Is Available—I Highly Recommend It!
Category: CogZest
Announcing CogZest’s Advisory Board
CogZest’s mission is to extend and use broad cognitive science to help knowledge workers thrive in the sea of knowledge. More precisely, we aim to help people become more effective at using knowledge and technology to solve problems, develop products (including new knowledge) and to develop themselves. We lead by example, practicing what we preach.
Our mission, however, is too grand to be accomplished alone. Indeed, we have benefited from deeply insightful help over the years.
Today, I am pleased to announce the formation of the CogZest Advisory Board. Continue reading Announcing CogZest’s Advisory Board
Media Responses to the Cognitive Shuffle: Much Ado about a Research Programme
My R&D on sleep onset and insomnia (including the cognitive shuffle / serial diverse imagining) has received several waves of media attention. The last one started c. 10 days ago with the May edition of O Magazine (the print edition of Oprah), and then went crazy from there. Last week, I accepted over 20 interview invitations from TV stations, radio stations, web sites, and a magazine who were curious about this topic. Continue reading Media Responses to the Cognitive Shuffle: Much Ado about a Research Programme
On Using Fiction and Non-Fiction When Feeling Guilty
At the Vancouver Arts Club on Friday, I attended the emotion-inducing play, Angels in America Part 1: Millennium Approaches. (Its wikipedia page. One of the characters, Louis Ironson, is a Jewish homosexual consumed by anxiety and guilt. Today, I used this character to reflect upon imperfection, the emotions of guilt, and self-directed learning. I wondered in particular how one can use feelings of guilt and fiction/non-fiction to become more effective. This blog post touches briefly on this problem. Continue reading On Using Fiction and Non-Fiction When Feeling Guilty
Interviewed by Brett Terpstra on Systematic
On Systematic, Brett Terpstra “explores the idea that all work is creative work, welcoming a different guest each week.”
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The Late 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar: Comments on the Mac and My Research to Purchase It
Because so many people have complained that the late 2016 MacBook Pro does not support legacy interfaces (except for the 3.5 mm microphone jack), I thought I should write a blog post to give you my impression of this new notebook, which is on the whole quite positive.
My 2016 Year in Review
Announcing the Somnolence+ Initiative: Bringing Sleep Wellness to Communities and Organizations
CogZest, CogSci Apps Corp and Sheryl Guloy, PhD, Research and Consulting are pleased to announce the upcoming launch of the Somnolence+ initiative, Bringing Sleep Wellness to Communities and Organizations.
Easy on The Inference Trigger, Dear Voting Reader
WARNING! Don’t like or comment on this Rationally Speaking podcast episode unless you’ve listened to it, or read the transcript or the book — and given it some thought; otherwise, it might count as evidence that you shouldn’t be allowed to vote. Continue reading Easy on The Inference Trigger, Dear Voting Reader
Perturbance: Understanding Why Robots Will Have High-Order Emotions Matters to Psychology
Yesterday, Drs. Sylwia Hyniewska, Eva Hudlicka and I submitted a paper for the AISB-2017 Symposium on Computational Modelling of Emotion: Theory and Applications. The title of our paper is “Perturbance: Unifying research on emotion, intrusive mentation and other psychological phenomena with AI”. Continue reading Perturbance: Understanding Why Robots Will Have High-Order Emotions Matters to Psychology