Upgrade Your Brain

Filed under: "You've Gotta Check This Out"
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Technologically speaking, probably third only to wifi and purchasing an Apple computer, no piece of technology has caused more appreciation in my life besides Evernote. Let's just say, "I 'heart' Evernote."


Think of it as a way to remember everything (or at least store info that you want to find and retrieve and remember quickly). Packed with cool features to be able to share info, sinc to a free online account, remember what website you saw what, and the ability to search, think of it as an upgrade for your brain. I use it to clip anything I want to remember. Plus if you have a camera for your computer, you can capture images.

Here are some of my uses:


remembering cool pics

found this cool review of a BBQ joint we want to check out when we move to Calgary

gift ideas for upcoming bdays

keeping records of receipts

gathering and remembering quotes

websites I want to visit later (this takes the place of del.icio.us for me)

The best part about Evernote is that its FREE, and available for Macs and PC's. Get it. You can thank me later.




And for those of you with an iphone, there is a cool free app that let's you take your upgraded brain with you so you'll never be without your memory.

What are you waiting for? Go ahead. Get it!

Can You Feel It? (What the Internet is Doing to our Brains)

Filed under: "Note to Self"
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Interesting thoughts from the Atlantic Monthly, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"

"I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I cantell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.

"I think I know what’s going on. For more than a decade now, I’ve been spending a lot of time online, searching and surfing and sometimes adding to the great databases of the Internet...."

Read the rest here. Then get off the internet and work on your intelligence!

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