ORGANIZING CREATIVITY – How to generate, capture, and collect ideas to realize creative projects.

Getting a Realistic (if painful) Impression

2021-06-28 | Reading time: 1 minute

It pays to see how well things perform if you actually use them, even if it pains you and you cannot really see anything if you try.
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Two further Covid-19 predictions for the second half of 2021 (in Germany)

2021-06-15 | Reading time: 4 minutes

No really suiting for this blog, except, where is creativity without freedom? Here are two predictions that I hope will turn out wrong.
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Jordan Peterson on Alcohol

2021-06-06 | Reading time: Less than a minute

Jordan Peterson nails it on Alcohol.
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Recommendations: sketchplanations

2021-06-06 | Reading time: Less than a minute

Small, post-it like explanations that usually are unusually well done.
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Where are the Covid-19 jokes?

2021-06-02 | Reading time: 1 minute

I was recently reminded that there is a lack of Covid-19 jokes, probably because — as one person put it — 99.99% wouldn't get it. Still, a few ones did crop up. And this is a nice one, if time travel were possible — how would you explain 2020/2021 to your former self?
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A Few Further Thoughts on Covid

2021-05-07 | Reading time: 5 minutes

A few comments about the ... sigh ... still ongoing pandemic. More as a reminder for myself.
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Off-Topic Recommendation: A video on being safe

2021-04-29 | Reading time: Less than a minute

A video that is well worth watching. Even if it does not ... fit the topic of the blog that well.
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Recommendation: “Man’s Search For Meaning” by Viktor E. Frankl

2021-04-25 | Reading time: 3 minutes

Not easy to read, not that 'practical', but a recommended book on the role of meaning in life.
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Making managing different student projects less sucky (esp. sending mails)

2021-04-24 | Reading time: 3 minutes

If you have many student projects with repeating tasks, e.g., frequently sending mails to a small number of students, it pays to invest some time into organizing these projects.
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E-Voting

2021-04-24 | Reading time: 1 minute

E-Voting is a really bad idea ... and yeah, there is something to be said for paper.

Image: A very interesting book on electronic voting.
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BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.