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Bulleting “The Organized Mind”—Top Down or Bottom Up?

I trust everyone had a great holiday season. Here’s hoping everyone has a prosperous and joyous 2016! One of my guilty pleasures is watching the reality program Alaskan Bush People on the Discovery Channel. On last night’s episode, the Brown clan of nine had to move a felled tree. They used a block and tackle […]

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Bulleting “The Organized Mind”—Externalizing Mind

Welcome back to my multi-part blog series wherein I will briefly discuss bullet points taken from Daniel Levitin’s 2014 book entitled The Organized Mind—Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload. In this installment we will look at Levitin’s take on externalizing the mind. Levitin suggests that one effective way of organizing the mind is […]

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Bulleting “The Organized Mind”—Vinyl Record Care (Redux)

Welcome back to my multi-part blog series wherein I will briefly discuss bullet points taken from Daniel Levitin’s 2014 book entitled The Organized Mind—Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload. In this installment we will look at a topic I have looked at in the past: The Care and Feeding of Vinyl Records. When […]

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Bulleting “The Organized Mind”—Empathy and Fiction Reading

My office mate, Barb, is in the habit of announcing, “I don’t trust anyone who does not read fiction.” I usually take offense because I do not read fiction. I, instead, read non-fiction books like Daniel Levitin’s 2014 book entitled The Organized Mind—Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload. As fate would have it, […]

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Quick Look: Big Data or Big Daddy?

The other day a friend of mine asked me if I would set up her thermostat. This seemed like a strange request until she told me that her new home came with a web-enabled Honeywell Lyric thermostat. Once I had a chance to look at the Lyric thermostat a light went off: Ahhh … the […]

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