Jerry Colonna on the "Good Life"

Excellent insights into modern work with a practical approach to manifesting them.

Why are you doing what you are doing?

I know my actions (including reading and responding to email) should be help me fulfill my life purpose - "Grow & Give." If I take too many actions that are not consistent with my purpose, it is time to calibrate. Sometimes I lack the awareness that I should recalibrate. Other times I lack a method to recalibrate. It is helpful to be reminded of the possibilities for both.

"Building Better Models in Cognitive Neuroscience" talks

Building better models in science is a personal passion. I think we live in a time of revolution. Our ability to understand the brain and, in turn, use those insights to understand cognition and behavior is growing at an exponential rate. Cognitive neuroscience models need to keep pace to leverage those insights. Additionally, we need to use more rigorous methods to build those models. I gave a series of talks about the approach I choose to use in "Building Better Models in Cognitive Neuroscience."

You can check out the slides for Part I here, based on Ashby and Héile, 2011.

You can check out the slides for Part II here, based on Ashby, Ennis, and Spiering, 2007.

The publication RSS water torture

Drip. Drip. Drip.

There is always something new to read inorder to keep current in a scientific field.

I could try to drink it drop-by-drop or I could let the glass fell up.

Part of my work is drawing connections between separate streams of research and design ground-breaking research, both of which require prespective. The latest and loudest of any field rarely includes prepective.

Supplemental Materials Made Easier

I am methods-based scientist. I initially seek a thorough understanding of a study's method. From that understanding, I can put the data and narrative in a context.

Journals are increasingly putting methodical materials in separate supplemental sections, but they do not make it frictionless to assess that material. Several high quality journals do not hyperlink directly to the supplemental materials for a paper. By direct hyperlink, I mean the specific figure or table hosted on its own page (not a zip file). Direct hyperlinking is straightforward for both the html and pdf versions of a paper.

Server space is cheap; Use it to reduce friction in science.