April 2022 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

The Woke Short

2022-04-22

If «go woke, go broke» is a thing and you can make money by shorting shares, can you deliberately crash a company to make money?
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Nearly Forty years and Two in One Image

2022-04-17

Beautiful Meme about the development of the last forty years and the strangeness of the last two.

Image: Meme
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Longing for a home that no longer exists or never was

2022-04-17

Recently came across the term «hiraeth», and yeah, we need such a word (if I understand it correctly).

Image: Meme
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Beautiful presentation about the viridis colormap

2022-04-17

You frequently need colors when you visualize data — but which colors? Beautiful presentation about the development of the viridis colormap.
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Meme Energy

2022-04-17

Interesting to see which kind of pushback you get to official policy in the form of memes, or music videos.
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Chevrons on the Mac

2022-04-17

Just a short note on how to type « and » on the Mac, e.g., in Microsoft Word.
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Game Mods

2022-04-17

Kinda impressive how powerful game mods can be.
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The Pandemic of Fear — Recommended Podcast Episode

2022-04-17

A very interesting episode on the underlying pandemic of fear with Covid, with a focus on what it did to children. But the fear topic is well-worth listening to.

Image: Screenshot from «Dragon Age: Inquisition»
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Using foil to create a stained glass window effect for workplace and home living privacy

2022-04-09

Caveat: Just an idea, haven't tested it ... yet. But it might lead to nice windows providing privacy.
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Possible Market Niche: Journalistic Integrity Watch (Interviews)

2022-04-09

Given how often news interviews are quoted out of context, perhaps something like open peer-review might be useful.
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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: April 2022

The Woke Short

Nearly Forty years and Two in One Image

Longing for a home that no longer exists or never was

Beautiful presentation about the viridis colormap

Chevrons on the Mac

Game Mods

Using foil to create a stained glass window effect for workplace and home living privacy