January 2021 – Page 2 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Getting yourself an Education

2021-01-30

Looking at the schools today, this excerpt from «Have Space Suit will Travel» by Robert A. Heinlein is still very relevant. Not only due to Covid19-induced online «learning.»
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Challenge to Improve

2021-01-30

Don't weaken others by avoiding criticism.
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Recommendation: Douglas Murray on Telling the Truth

2021-01-24

Douglas Murray's take on telling the truth is well worth watching.
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«To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list.»

2021-01-24

That's actually one advantage of cancel culture and retraction of papers due to public pressure — you find interesting material to read.
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What is observation, what is interpretation?

2021-01-24

What of the things we see and read is observation, what is interpretation, and is any attempt made to distinguish between the two?
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Looking at something different on your screen

2021-01-24

An idea for a time-out, when still sitting at the desk.
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Crawling your own website

2021-01-24

I used R to write a crawler and downloaded the text and the images. Leads to nice analyses, e.g., a nice word cloud of the tags and categories.
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Recommendation: No Safe Spaces

2021-01-24

Interesting documentary about the state of free speech in the USA.
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A quieter iPad Home Screen

2021-01-17

Unfortunately, iOS does not allow you to customize your device as you'd like. Fortunately, the Shortcuts app can be used to create custom icons for any application. Which in turn allows you to make the home screen less ... visually noisy.
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External SSD for Quick Backups

2021-01-07

Backups, Backups, Backups. Early & Often. External. Good advice, but they can take some time. A reason to get an SSD for (some) backups.
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This is a private blog showing my opinions. If you have an issue with what I write here, either don’t read it or talk to me directly. Don’t waste your time — or mine — dragging my employer into matters where they hold no authority.

The institution I work for, or rather the people officially representing it, have already distanced themselves from this blog. I find this unnecessary, as I’ve clearly stated in the «About this Blog» section that this is a personal blog.

Frankly, I have nothing but contempt for those who lack the backbone to address their concerns directly and instead resort to passive-aggressive tattling to others. Such behavior strikes me as not only cowardly, but also spineless, gutless, and wholly unprincipled. Moreover, these efforts are as pathetic as they are futile.

That said, I might listen if you present compelling arguments and evidence, as constructive feedback is always welcome. Who knows? We might even both gain something valuable from the interaction.

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: January 2021

Getting yourself an Education

Challenge to Improve

Recommendation: Douglas Murray on Telling the Truth

«To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list.»

What is observation, what is interpretation?

Looking at something different on your screen

Crawling your own website

Recommendation: No Safe Spaces

A quieter iPad Home Screen

External SSD for Quick Backups