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MultitaskingGet Smart! Hack Your Brain for Peak Performance — #sxsw #brainhack

• Daniel Wetmore Co-founder at Sheepdog Sciences Stanford University
• Dave Asprey Biohacker & Entrepreneur The BulletProof Executive/Trend Micro
• Megan Miller Program Director Bonnier R&D
• Michael Scanlon Co-Founder & Chief Scientist Lumosity

The “quantified self” trend of tracking and tweaking physical performance is all the rage in Silicon Valley, especially among type-A data geeks and weekend-warriors hoping to gain an athletic edge. But the most interesting “body hacks” won’t just make you faster, stronger or leaner… they’ll actually improve your brain.

We’ll explain how to dramatically cut the time it takes to learn a new skill by writing critical information to your brain’s hard drive during sleep. You’ll learn how to grow relaxed and calm with the help of a heartbeat- and brainwave-syncing device. And we’ll explain how to feed your brain with the optimal nutrition for high-powered cognitive processing.

In this panel, you’ll get an overview of the current state of cognitive enhancement from Bonnier R&D technology researcher Megan Miller. Brain-hacker Dave Asprey will deliver a first-hand look at the fringes of self-experimentation. And you’ll find out how emerging software and biofeedback technologies are making it possible to improve sleep, cognition and memory from Stanford neuro-scientist Daniel Wetmore and Lumosity.com cofounder Michael Scanlon.

Your Brain on Multitasking — #sxsw #multitask

• Adam Gazzaley Assoc Professor of Neurology, Physiology & Psychiatry University of California San Francisco
• David Meyer Professor, Dept of Psychology University of Michigan Masters

We all have a zillion tasks that need to be done now. Does multitasking help you work more efficiently and productively? Or does it allow you to do lots of things poorly? Is it better to focus on one task at a time and then move on quickly to the next? What exactly does multitasking do to our brains? Do gender or age make a difference when it comes to multitasking? A panel of the country’s top experts on multitasking – neuroscientists, psychologists and a time-management pro – provide the latest findings on how to work more effectively while juggling multiple activities.

I couldn’t help to remember after these sessions a really fun game I used to play as a kid called Brain Quest. I loved those games but in my old age of 30, my brain has lacked some training. I downloaded Brain Trainer by luminosity.com and am fascinated to see how much training and quizzing I will have to do before I am smart. This is something that should be integrated into education at a young age but we shouldn’t loose focus of continually challenging our brains as we grow older and things are harder and harder to retain. Here’s to hacking my brain to a smarter me!

The multitasking session was hilarious. I very good friend has often warned me of the dangers of multitasking and yet I continue to multitask day in and day out. Work, shopping online, phone, iPad, twitter, facebook there are just so many things to stay caught up on. This session had me leaving with a new awareness of the dangers. So as the panelists challenged their audience I challenge you!

Say “Silk” 10 times
Now what do cows drink?!

-or-

Count and recite the alphabet at the same time 1A 2B 3C how far do you get?

All in all a great start to SXSW 2012 even with the cold rainy craziness!

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Dennis Littky
Big Picture Learning
@Dennis_Littky

Steven Tomlinson
Action MBA
@speelunk

1. Sense making thru rapid prototyping
2. Empathy
3. Adductive Reasoning

Action MBA in Entrepreneurship – Action MBA

Created things that engaged by games

Asking the wrong questions?

How do students learn best? What is learning?

Follow your passion and interests and help them follow it.

Call teacher advisor who’s a generalist

College UnBound

– Post From My iPad2

Location:San Jacinto Blvd,Austin,United States

Dawn Foster
http://fastwonderblog.com/

Yahoo Pipes

What is in a Feed? PostRank (Yahoo Pipes View)

• Content in feeds varies wildly depending on site
• Common: title, author, pubDate, link, content, description
• Site-specific: postrank, lat/long, image links, username, twitter source … (most RSS readers don’t show these)
• API: usually has additional data & can output RSS

Example

• Input PostRank Feeds:
  • Engadget
  • CrunchGear
  • Boy Genius
• Filter by content

Reformatting / Modifying RSS Feeds

BackTweets – gives data on links regardless of shortening service

Yahoo Pipes combined with APIs can create a powerful environment for filtering RSS feeds.

Mat Harris – @matharris bizgreet
Jen King – @kingjen berkley
Hugo Liu – @dochugo hunch
Vijay Ravindran – @vijayravindran washingtonpost
Noah Weiss – @noahweiss foursquare

Marketers are acting like 17 year old boys trying to see how they can be intimate quickly with their customers. Don’t jump into bed with your users get intimate by building a relationship that will last.

Think of personalization as dialogue with users.

Personalization should be around data users chose to enter, not data or assumptions based on life events.

Audio File

– Post From My iPad2

Resources
Treesaver

Print publishers don’t get it they are moving in so many directions. What’s broken is the business model. We can’t fix that they have to fix it themselves. Pricing model is also broken.

The web doesn’t have to be ugly!

Readability

Do we need to curate data?

Audio file

– Post From My iPad2

Location:E Cesar Chavez St,Austin,United States

Is it HTML5′s job or the formats job to do DRM? HTML working group needs to stay out of that kind of politics.

Compuserve gif yes I remember!!!

Block ARIA from HTML5? Why?
Two groups working on HTML5 those that think accessibility is important and those that don’t

Keeping longdesc in HTML5

Accessibility can’t just be a feature it needs to be brought up as a core issue.

– Post From My iPad2

Location:Lady Bird Lake,Austin,United States