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Hacking Your Brain For Fun and Profit
Nathaniel T. Schutta
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Who am I?
• Nathaniel T. Schuttahttp://www.ntschutta.com/jat/
• @ntschutta
• Foundations of Ajax & Pro Ajax and Java Frameworks
• UI guy
• Author, speaker, teacher
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The Plan• Sleep
• Exercise
• Learning
• Managing Information
• Distractions
• Predictably irrational
• External Brain
• Road Blocks
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“trying to code with *all* of the family around is nearly impossible. Normal people don't understand how we nerds concentrate”
Brian Sam-Boddenhttp://twitter.com/bsbodden/status/6896250794
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Our brain is our greatest asset.
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Despite recent advances, still many unknowns.
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Learn more daily.
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Neural decoding?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427323.500-brain-scanners-can-tell-what-youre-
thinking-about.html
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Often via freak accidents.
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Simple steps, big payback.
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70% < 8 hours, 40% < 7 hours.
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Sleep matters.
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We’re not sure why we sleep.
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Quite vulnerable...
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Not about “rest.”
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Brain is incredibly active.
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Key to learning.
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Aids memory formation.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090915174506.htm
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Transfer of information.
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Use it to solve problems.
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Circadian rhythm is in our genetics.
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Some genes turn on once every 24, 12 or 8 hours.
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/04/23/a.biological.basis.8.hour.workday
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Lack of sleep hurts performance.
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Naps improve it.
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http://dilbert.com/fast/2009-05-26/
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Think no one naps?
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35% of men 18-49 take daily naps.
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26 minutes = 34% improvement.
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At 3 p.m., brain really wants to nap.
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Bad time for meetings.
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Part of some cultures.
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Sleep deprivation severely affects the brain.
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Effects felt within 24 hours.
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Blood pressure rises.
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Trouble metabolizing glucose.
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Immune system suppressed.
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Body temp drops.
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1959, Peter Tripp - stayed awake for 8 days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXrANL9aqz8&feature=related
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To raise money for charity.
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Hallucinations, paranoia.
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Randy Gardner stayed up.
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For 11 days.
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For the science fair...
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After 5, mimicked Alzheimer's.
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Hallucinations, paranoia.
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Interrogation technique.
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Skip a night?
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30% loss in cognitive skill.
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Contributes to obesity.
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Feel hungrier.
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Leptin goes down, ghrelin goes up.
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Sparks cravings, longer to feel full.
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Consistently getting only 6 hours a night...
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Like skipping 2 nights.
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Worse, people didn’t realize they were impaired.
http://www.spokane.wsu.edu/ResearchOutreach/Sleep/documents/2003SLP-VanDongen-etal.pdf
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Some people need less...
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Insomniac gene?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090916153136.htm
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Sleep deprivation is only part of the story.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevcole/2327954530/ kevincole
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/steve_brace/217149481/ Stevie-B
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1/10 are early chronotype.
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2/10 are late chronotype.
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When are you at your best?
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Does that work in your office?
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We evolved by walking.
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A lot.
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Up to 12 miles a day.
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Any of you walk 12 miles a day?
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Brain loves glucose.
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2% of mass, 20% of energy.
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Generates a lot of waste.
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Exercise improves blood flow.
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“Paves new highways.”
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Flushes free radicals.
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Stimulates Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor.
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Improves brain function.
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Exercisers significantly outperform.
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Walking desks.
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Walking conference rooms!
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Walking meetings.
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Boeing.
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Mayo clinic: “office of the future.”
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Learning.
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Change is constant.
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Must be able to learn.
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How do we do that?
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Cramming doesn’t work.
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Elaborate, meaningful, context.
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Stories, examples.
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Repeat to remember.
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Spaced repetition.
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Spaced Education.
http://harvardmagazine.com/2009/11/spaced-education-boosts-learning
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Increases knowledge and retention.
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SpacedEd.
http://www.spaceded.com/
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Questions repeat.
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Timing is key.
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We forget.
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Actually good that we do.
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Information decay is predictable.
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Not the same for everyone.
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Or every fact.
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Computers can help.
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Piotr Wozniak.
http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_wozniak
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SuperMemo.
http://www.supermemo.com/
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There is an open source alternative.
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Mnemosyne.
http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/
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Learning with lists.
http://lifehacker.com/5192079/smartfm-boosts-learning-with-lists
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smart.fm
https://smart.fm/login
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Skills acquisition.
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Shu Ha Ri.
http://www.aikidofaq.com/essays/tin/shuhari.html
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“Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle.”
Bruce Lee
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Understanding evolves.
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William Schutz.
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Simplistic, complex, profoundly simple.
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Looks easy at first...
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Lots of confusion!
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Quest continues.
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Dreyfus model.
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5 stages.
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Novice - recipes.
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Advanced beginner - moves beyond rules.
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Competent - can troubleshoot.
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Proficient - self correct.
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Expert - intuition.
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Rules are key for beginners.
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Rules *kill* experts.
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Expert = 10 years?
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Most folks are advanced beginners.
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Dunning-Kruger effect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect
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Cognitive bias.
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Lake Wobegon.
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Incompetent people overestimate their skill.
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Competent people underestimate.
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Confidence trumps expertise...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227115.500-humans-prefer-cockiness-to-expertise.html
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Hmmmm...
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Managing information.
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Infotention.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/rheingold/detail?blogid=108&entry_id=46677
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There’s a lot of bits out there.
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New languages, technologies, approaches.
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Books, articles, blogs, podcasts, Twitter...
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulsynnott/2874663697/ gwaar
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How do you keep up?
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Attention is precious.
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Don’t waste it.
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Be selective.
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Can’t read it all.
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Consider an information diet.
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Pick the areas you care about.
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Go deep on that.
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Skim the rest.
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“Selective Ignorance.”
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Use your friends ;)
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Prune aggressively.
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If you’re not reading it, delete it.
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If they’re not updating...
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A/B stream.
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Take advantage of dead space.
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Bring articles to meetings.
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Read while waiting.
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Listen on the way to work.
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Or while you workout!
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Books on “CD.”
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Turn off the TV?
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Average American - 151 hours of TV a month.
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/tv-internet-and-mobile-usage-in-us-continues-to-rise/
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Two hundred billion hours annually (U.S.)
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2,000 Wikipedias a year.
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100 million hours a weekend watching ads.
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That’s a Wikipedia a weekend. On ads.
http://www.shirky.com/herecomeseverybody/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html
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That’s a lot of surplus.
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Imagine what even a small change might mean.
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Distractions.
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We can’t multitask.
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Our kids...maybe.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/weekinreview/10stone.html
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16 to 18 - 7 tasks
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early 20s - 6 tasks
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30s - 5.5 tasks
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Doesn’t work.
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Well, if it involves thought at least.
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Driving and cell phones?
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Texting = 23x crash risk.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/technology/28texting.html
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Driving and distractions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/technology/19distracted.html
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Sure, you can walk and chew gum...
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but probably can’t text and walk...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/technology/17distracted.html?hp
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IM, email, phone call, music, work?
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Variable reinforcement!
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001302.html
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Linda Stone.
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Continuous partial attention.
http://continuouspartialattention.jot.com/WikiHome
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Interruptions kill flow.
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15 minutes to reload.
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Think about debugging.
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You’ve created a model in your head.
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And I stop by to ask about the game.
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Sorry about that.
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In context vs. out.
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Project rooms work.
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Its all in context.
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Easy to tune out.
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Turn off interruptions.
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Email, IM, etc.
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Set expectations.
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Immediate response?
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Really?
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Email apnea.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-stone/just-breathe-building-th_b_85651.html
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Zero inbox.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=973149761529535925
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Email bankruptcy.
http://www.43folders.com/2006/07/28/email-bankruptcy
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GTD.
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No meeting Friday.
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Quiet time/office hours.
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How about scheduling meetings for < 1 hour?
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220090119148%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20090119148&RS=DN/20090119148
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Pomodoro technique.
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Pick a task.
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25 Minutes.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28481088@N00/2641260615/by tanakawho
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Work.
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Take a break!
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Rinse and repeat.
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Take a longer break!
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http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/
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Treat yourself.
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http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2008-11-20/
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Change blindness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38XO7ac9eSs&feature=player_embedded
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Rare things are hard to find...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122561355&ps=cprs
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Needles really are hard to find in haystacks!
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Prevalence effect.
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We miss rare things.
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Beginners Eyes.
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Predictably Irrational.
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Loss aversion.
http://www.psychologyofgames.com/2010/01/04/loss-aversion-achievements-and-trial-conversions/
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Losses hurt more than gains.
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Can you say stock market?
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15 c vs 1 c...
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73% choose truffle.
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What about 14 c vs free?
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Same deal right?
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Nope.
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69% choose the kiss...versus 27%.
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$10 gift card...free? Or $20 gift card for $7?
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Most take the free one...
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FREE is powerful.
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With free, we overlook the downside.
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Ask a friend to help you move...
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Offer him $10. What happens?
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Pick up late? It’ll cost you.
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Guilt vs. “pay the fine.”
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Social vs. market norms.
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Delicate balance.
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Once a market transaction, hard to go back.
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Anchoring.
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Companies want a social contract...
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But then they cut benefits, picnics, etc.
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Can’t have it both ways.
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External Brain.
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We forget.
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Computers don’t.
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Neither does paper.
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Ideas happen.
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Just hits you.
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Be prepared.
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Capture them when they happen.
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Pen and paper.
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Hipster PDA, Moleskine, index card.
http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/03/introducing-the-hipster-pda
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“I’ll remember that later.”
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Probably won’t.
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Write it down.
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Ideas beget ideas...
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Capture them and you’ll get more!
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You’ll surprise yourself.
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Developer notebooks.
http://gusmueller.com/blog/archives/2009/03/developer_notebooks.html
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Haven’t I done this before?
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Write it down!
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http://www.pocketmod.com/
http://www.moleskine.com/index_eng.php
http://fieldnotesbrand.com/
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We get stuck.
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What is going on here?
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Explain it to a coworker.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/clairity/2377357636/ *clairity*
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Doodle.
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Daydream - helps you solve problems!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511180702.htm
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Take a walk.
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Or go for a run!
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Indirection can help.
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Check your assumptions.
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Grab a cube toy.
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Put the problem down.
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Still nothing?
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Sleep on it.
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R-mode processing.
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Search and retrieve.
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Non-verbal.
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Not directly controllable.
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Runs in the background.
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Unpredictable results!
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Answer can come days later.
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Distract the L-mode.
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Prime the pump...hop in the shower.
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Brains are very powerful tools.
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Simple steps.
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Big payoff!
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Books
• Brain Rules
• A Whole New Mind
• Mind Hacks
• Your Brain: The Missing Manual
• Lifehacker
• Nudge
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Books
• Predictably Irrational
• Sway
• The Black Swan
• Getting Things Done
• Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
• Drive
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Websites
• http://www.brainrules.net/
• http://lifehacker.com/
• http://www.43folders.com/izero
• http://www.mindhacks.com/
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Questions?!?
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