November 2013 – Page 3 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

“Accidental” Discoveries, or rather: “Serendipitous Observations”

2013-11-18

Looking at a video about "accidental" discoveries and why "serendipitous observations" would be a better term. Also: Squelchers.
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Rethinking Presentation Software (non-Prezi Style)

2013-11-17

Presentations have a very long tradition (see image left), but there is little creativity. And I don't mean using effects where you need barf bags. So, how about thinking of doing things differently?
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A different view on Muses

2013-11-16

If people suck the fun out of your creative process, just think about a more ... abstract muse.
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Positive Psychology — Seligman’s book “Flourish”

2013-11-15

An introduction to positive psychology, which has nothing to do with putting a smile on bad events, but how to live a positive life. Way beyond mere happiness (or positive emotions), it also looks at Engagement, positive Relationships, Meaning, and Achievement.
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Beautiful Ballet Performance

2013-11-14

Video by NYC Ballet (img left) -- beautiful.
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Killing WordPress Spam

2013-11-14

Spam sucks, even if the spam filter deals with it. Here's a way to deal with it by separating humans from computers.
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The 7 Deadly Habits of Highly Destructive People

2013-11-13

There's this book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", well, here is the dark side. What people can do to make your work life really sucky.
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Taking an intimate time-out from the world

2013-11-11

Using some personal creativity to make the best out of intimate moments. A lot of ideas, and a serious caveat.
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Biases in Reporting Research: Or, how you can screw 1/3 of the affected population

2013-11-11

A look at the science news cycle in the context of the Academic Impostor syndrome (based on a tweet I stumbled upon, see left). Nice how you can neglect a large part of the population in public discussion.
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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.

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: November 2013

“Accidental” Discoveries, or rather: “Serendipitous Observations”

Positive Psychology — Seligman’s book “Flourish”

Beautiful Ballet Performance