In Zoom meeting or teaching, Schrödinger’s participant is a thought experiment that illustrates an apparent paradox linked to meeting in virtual mode, where a participant
Author: Luc Beaulieu
664 emails to inbox Zero in two hours!
For the last few years, twice a year I pledge to my family (and myself) not to open once my e-mails for at least two
Holistic Productivity: Productivity during a pandemic
For many, productivity is a synonym of work productivity. This year’s pandemic had many reassessed this very narrow definition. In fact, at this year major
KanbanView 2.6 for Cultured Code Things is out and you should get a copy!
Over two years ago, I made a proposal for a 20 000-foot Kanban-like visualization concept for Cultured Code Things 3 task manager. This was in
Online vs in-person invited presentation: the butterflies won’t go!
Due to COVID-19, many meetings went virtual. This was the case of the main meeting in my field. For that meeting, we were asked to
Apple TV Aerial Screensaver for MacOS!
If you loved those high resolution (1080p or 4K HDR), slow motion movies that are used for screensaver on Apple TV, you will love Aerial
Digital Complexity
As I previously stated, we are currently living the largest social and professional experiment of our time in which many activities have moved to digital,
The largest technological and social experiment of our time
Over the past few weeks a lot of us have become, willingly or forced, the participants in the largest unplanned international experiment of our time.
Free Ebook: Take Control – Working From Home
The Take Control ebook series is well-known from many internet users and it was recently brought to my attention that the one dedicated on Working
Online MRI Teaching Ressources
Top educator and COMP gold medal winner Prof. Jerry Battista from Western Ontario has decided to make available materials that he is using in his
Analysis of publication impact in predatory-journal – Nature
In case you’ve missed this one, an interesting analysis was recently published in Nature on citations of manuscripts published in predatory journal. If you contrast
Étudiant et auteur: pourquoi, quand et comment!
A rare post in French on a conference I gave last year on the status of author taken by students, mainly in the context of
Warning, may contain…a PhD
[This post was originally published over 6 years ago. It is still extremely relevant!] Recently saw a comment by a student about not being advised
The Power of the Yearly Review
GTD methodology call of frequent review of projects and associated task lists. In fact, the whole system crumbles if this critical operation is not performed
Systematically reject requests to review: a shameful behaviour?
I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and
Ruminating... 