May 2010 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

God save me from my followers*

2010-05-31

When your work attracts the wrong followers they can pretty much destroy it. Some groups who might have this problem, not really a solution.
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The Power of the Field

2010-05-30

Other people who determine whether your work has merit have a strong influence on your work. Also: Not so fringe fringe science.
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Skeptical and Critical Thinking 101

2010-05-29

The basics of skeptical thinking and something I would consider pretty important in most settings.
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Keep the Principles

2010-05-28

You get a problem when principles get reduced to procedures. A big one.
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Whatever gets you through the day

2010-05-27

... a comic strip, a quotation, and a few links perhaps. :-)
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Digital Mobile Storage

2010-05-26

Suggestion to have your material with you all the time, or at least easily available. And yes, it's possible. Also one of the best quotations for digital nomads I've read so far.
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Feeling Stupid When Doing Science

2010-05-25

... is pretty normal. Here are two good reasons why, well, one postcard and an one-page-article. Both well worth reading.
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Creative Burn Out

2010-05-24

Dealing with burn out -- it happens. Deal with it by not dealing with it. Yup, read on.
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How to Write a Dissertation Thesis in a Month: Outlines, Outlines, Outlines

2010-05-23

Writing a thesis is a complex task -- just so much information and so many findings. But writing the text can be done in a month if you have the right online. A very specific outline.
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Your Impact

2010-05-22

Does your creative work really matter? What is your real life impact. For the world, for humanity, or at least, for actual human beings outside the research community? A helpful chart based on a group work at an institute.
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A comment for those seeking to use this site for personal gain: Given the increase in requests, let me be clear. I write on this blog because I want to. It’s my hobby, my playground. Sometimes people point me to interesting products/services and I write about them. But any request regarding ads or sponsored placements ends up the trash without a reply. And if you think something would be of interest, differentiate yourself from the spammers by referring to a posting — in an intelligent way. (I get enough auto-generated mails to identify them immediately.)

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.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.

ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

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

Month: May 2010