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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/
• Foundations of Ajax & Pro Ajax and Java Frameworks
• UI guy
• Author, speaker, teacher
• More than a couple of web apps
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The Plan• Sleep
• Exercise
• Learning
• Managing Information
• Distractions
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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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Often via freak accidents.
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Simple steps, big payback.
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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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Use it to solve problems.
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Lack of sleep hurts performance.
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Naps improve it.
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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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1959, Peter Tripp - stayed awake for 8 days.
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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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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 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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2,2,2?
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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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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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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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Hmmmm...
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Managing information.
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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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Be selective.
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Can’t read it all.
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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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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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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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Distracted drivers...
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We can’t multitask.
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IM, email, phone, Twitter, RSS, iPods...
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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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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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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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GTD.
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No meeting Friday.
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Quiet time/office hours.
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Treat yourself.
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50 on, 10 off.
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http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2008-11-20/
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Books
• Brain Rules
• A Whole New Mind
• Mind Hacks
• Your Brain: The Missing Manual
• Lifehacker
• Getting Things Done
• Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
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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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Thanks!