December 2013 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Better Surveys

2013-12-27

A great two-pager showing common mistakes in surveys on gender equality. I can't believe people actually do such bad surveys, but yeah, they do. Worst thing: They sacrificed the chance to find out what children actually need and improve their lives in order to foster their ideology. They want to be right, no matter how many children -- boys and girls -- have to suffer for it.
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Deeply Misguiding — Problems with Surveys on Inequality

2013-12-23

A long (= in depth) look at a few of the major problems with a survey on gender equality. Seriously, never seen so many mistakes in one survey. The data they gathered and their analyses are not only wrong, they are highly misleading. Bad, bad science.
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Quickly Open a Text File to Jot Down Creative Ideas with Spotlight and Automator

2013-12-22

You can use a keyboard shortcut to quickly open a specific file to jot down your ideas. Here's how.
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Looking Back on 2013

2013-12-21

A short recap of 2013.
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Doing a Clean Install of Apple’s Mavericks OS

2013-12-21

Reinstalling the OS is easy, getting everything working as you like it again is not. Some problems that ensured after reinstalling the OS, a few advantages, and one final recommendation.
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Can Mavericks’ Finder Replace DEVONthink?

2013-12-21

Short answer: Probably not. Explanations why in this article.
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Surprise and Delight from Smartphones

2013-12-17

An idea what could bring the surprise and delight back in smartphones -- despite them being commonplace.
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The Attraction of Computer Games

2013-12-17

An impressive music video that can make you emotionally understand why some people are drawn to computer games.
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Career in Academia vs. Burn out in a Business Consultancy Job: Hey Academia, maybe you’re doing something wrong, too!

2013-12-11

A short recap of a depressing but realistic conversation and why quitting Academia is completely understandable. Also, if you think business consultancy burns people out, you have seen nothing yet.
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Moleskine Books!

2013-12-10

Stumbled upon a service that allows you to create Moleskine notebooks with custom content (image left).
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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: December 2013

Better Surveys

Deeply Misguiding — Problems with Surveys on Inequality

Quickly Open a Text File to Jot Down Creative Ideas with Spotlight and Automator

Looking Back on 2013

Doing a Clean Install of Apple’s Mavericks OS

Can Mavericks’ Finder Replace DEVONthink?

Surprise and Delight from Smartphones

The Attraction of Computer Games

Career in Academia vs. Burn out in a Business Consultancy Job: Hey Academia, maybe you’re doing something wrong, too!

Moleskine Books!