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GTD system and the weekly review: discover the Time and Attention podcast!

December 11, 2022 Luc Beaulieu

“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act.

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Free Ebook: Take Control – Working From Home

April 23, 2020 Luc Beaulieu

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

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Scintillation Dosimetry Book is now available!

April 7, 2016 Luc Beaulieu

It has been a few years in the making (from the first conceptual idea to publication) but the baby has been delivered and is now

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An interesting resource for PhDs, postdocs and early career researchers

January 23, 2016 Luc Beaulieu

I recently came across the following document by Professor Alan M Johnson, which appears to be distributed freely by Elsevier and entitled “Charting a Course for a

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I wish you better work meetings for 2016…

January 10, 2016 Luc Beaulieu

“Meetings are toxic” – 37Signals (and a book called Rework) If you have got the chance to read the book Rework, if might well be

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Book: The Art of Explanation by Lee Lefever

August 31, 2014 Luc Beaulieu

Just completed the reading of the book the Art of Explanation by Lee Lefever. I must admit that although I really like Nancy Duarte’s duo Slide:ology

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The Feynman Lectures on Physics available for free from CalTech!

August 27, 2014 Luc Beaulieu

Enjoy: The Feynman Lectures on Physics.

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“Planning Analog” – Presentation Zen

March 27, 2013 Luc Beaulieu

One must give credit when due. Organizing Creativity’s Daniel Wessel pointed out to me on the previous blog post  “Time to go analog” that this

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Manifesto: Stop Stealing Dreams

May 14, 2012 Luc Beaulieu

Seth Godin has written an very interesting (and free) manifesto about the US school system (though the birth of Canada school system is very similar

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A few more “must read” for new gradute students

April 21, 2012 Luc Beaulieu

In the previous post, I was directing interested students to the free book Organizing Creativity. There are a few more excellent resources on the web

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Recommended book: Organizing Creativity by Daniel Wessel

April 13, 2012 Luc Beaulieu

The majority of graduate students that I had the chance to supervised (yes I consider student supervision as a core mission of being a researcher

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