Clark Quinn

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Attention is underrated

Clark Quinn

The origin of this myth came from StatBrain misinterpreting a study, and was amplified since it was published by Microsoft Canada. (How do we know what the attention span of a goldfish is?) Marketing, mind you, not their research group! A myth I busted in a previous book !

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Top 10 tools for Learning 2023

Clark Quinn

I also continue to use Microsoft’s Word as a writing tool. Apple’s Keynote is also still my ‘goto’ presentation maker, e.g. for my LDA activities. I have to occasionally use or output to Powerpoint, but for me, it’s a more elegant tool. Plus, that outlining is still critical.

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Higher-education Myths

Clark Quinn

like Apple & Microsoft did offering huge discounts to schools, to get new users used to their experience.). This includes MBTI, which isdiscredited both theoretically and empirically. Other such instruments, also with flaws, continue to be indicated. I’m sure there may be some financial motivation as well.

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Reflowable text thinking

Clark Quinn

Then, I got a Mac II and Microsoft Word (2.0) I had vi, the Unix visual text editor to write with, allowing editing, and LaTex to specify visual details, while I was a college student (I was glad to abandon my typewriter!). to write my PhD thesis.

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How I write

Clark Quinn

Which is why I use Microsoft Word, I just haven’t found that Pages can do it. I’ll revisit it a time or two beforehand, and then as I write sometimes I restructure. Which is why I need industrial strength outlining in my writing package. I want to be able to manipulate the whole document, moving sections.

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Style-ish

Clark Quinn

I’m a real fan of styles, ala Microsoft Word. Now, styles are not just in Microsoft Word, they’re in Pages, Powerpoint, Keynote, and other places where you end up having repeated formats. If you don’t get this concept, I wish you would. Let me explain. The concept is fairly simple.

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Top 10 Tools for Learning 2020

Clark Quinn

And, so that’d put Microsoft Word at the top of my list. The first way I learn is to process what I’ve seen. That, toolwise, is largely about representing and communicating. Processing Tools. Writing is arguably the top way I reflect. That’s where I write books and articles first.