Cognitive Productivity

This book addresses the opportunities and challenges we face in using knowledge to become profoundly effective.

The author of Cognitive Productivity responds to other authors.

• In the final chapter of the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey briefly discusses reading. Cognitive Productivity expands in detail on this theme, considering all kinds of information processing (e.g., ebooks, podcasts, TED talks).

• Whereas The Shallows by Nicolas Carr presents a pessimistic view about the effect of the Internet on our brains, Cognitive Productivity is a pro-active response to the Knowledge Age.

• Whereas the book Getting Things Done by David Allen focuses on general productivity, Cognitive Productivity focuses on using knowledge to become profoundly effective.

• Whereas Mortimer Adler's How to Read a Book was written before the Internet and the ascension of Cognitive Science, Cognitive Productivity is loaded with up-to-date information about information technology and the human mind.