The Informed Life

Kourosh Dini is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and productivity expert. He is the author of an excellent book on how to take smart notes using DEVONthink, a personal information management tool. In this conversation, we discuss smart note-taking and how DEVONthink can help us work more effectively.

Show notes

• Kourosh Dini
• Being Productive
• Taking Smart Notes with DEVONthink by Kourosh Dini
• How to Take Smart Notes by Sonke Ahrens
• DEVONthink
• Zettelkasten
• Niklas Luhmann
• Evernote
• Notion
• Roam Research
• macOS Finder
• Craft
• Markdown
• BBEdit
• iA Writer
• Typora
• Scrivener
• Keynote
• Ulysses
• OmniFocus

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My guest today is Stephen P. Anderson. Stephen is a design leader who is focused on workforce learning and organizational development. He and Karl Fast recently published Figure it Out, a new book about how we can transform information to increase understanding. This is also the subject of our conversation; I hope you find it valuable.

Show notes

• Stephen P. Anderson
• @stephenanderson on Twitter
• The Mighty Minds Club
• Figure It Out: Getting from Information to Understanding, by Stephen P. Anderson and Karl Fast
• Seductive Interaction Design: Creating Playful, Fun, and Effective User Experiences, by Stephen P. Anderson
• Mental Notes card deck by Stephen P. Anderson
• From Paths to Sandboxes by Stephen P. Anderson
• Scrabble
• The Information Architecture Conference
• Mural
• Miro
• Karl Fast
• Google Maps
• Business model canvas
• Polarity mapping
• Photo of the Dragon spacecraft cockpit
• The Art of Computer Game Design by Chris Crawford (PDF)
• Hey.com

Disclosure: I received Stephen's book for free as a previous Rosenfeld Media/Two Waves author.

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Jesse James Garret is a renowned leader in the user experience design field. He’s a co-founder of the influential UX consultancy Adaptive Path and author of The Elements of User Experience. These days, Jesse coaches UX design leaders. In this conversation, we discuss the relationship between leadership and information architecture.

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Show notes

• Jesse James Garrett’s website
• @jjg on Twitter
• Jesse James Garrett on LinkedIn
• The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond, 2nd Edition by Jesse James Garrett
• Peter Merholz
• Finding Our Way podcast
• MacGuffin
• Concept map
• Mind maps

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In this conversation, we discuss Career Architecture, the focus of her current coaching work and subject of her upcoming book.

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Show notes

• MagsHanley.com
• Mags Hanley on LinkedIn
• Seth Godin
• BBC
• Career Architecture by Mags Hanley (preorder)

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Howard Rheingold is an eminent author, maker, and educator. His work has explored and defined key aspects of digital culture, including the use of computers as tools for mind augmentation, virtual communities, and social media literacy.
In this conversation, we discuss computers as extensions for our minds, Douglas Engelbart’s unfinished revolution, basic literacies for interacting in information environments, and the resurgence of Tools for Thought.

Photo by Joi Ito (CC BY 2.0)

Show notes

• Howard Rheingold (rheingold.com)
• Howard’s Patreon
• Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology by Howard Rheingold
• The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier by Howard Rheingold
• Net Smart: How to Thrive Online by Howard Rheingold
• HotWired
• Whole Earth Catalog
• Institute for the Future
• Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
• Steve Jobs
• Bill Gates
• Douglas Engelbart
• John von Neumann
• Alan Turing
• George Boole
• Charles Babbage
• Alan Kay
• Mother of All Demos (Wikipedia)
• Stanford Research Institute
• Sam Wineburg
• Roam Research
• Obsidian
• DEVONthink
• The Brain
• Jerry Michalski
• Jerry’s Brain
• Render(); Tools for Thinking conference
• Brian Eno
• Scenius, or Communal Genius by Kevin Kelly

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