May 2024 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

A Better Story

2024-05-22

There is a lot of complaining and criticizing going around — but what about offering a better story?
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Paper instead of Digital Tools

2024-05-22

As powerful as digital tools are, sometimes paper works best. And the options today are incredible.
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Politeness and AIs

2024-05-22

It might be a good idea to be nice to AI Chats.
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ChatGPT DALL-E Painting or Photo Feedback

2024-05-22

If you look for criticism for your paintings or photos, ChatGPT does a decent job.
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Not only solving problems

2024-05-22

Beautiful short speech by Elon Musk that solving problems is not enough.
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DIE and Hell

2024-05-22

Niall Ferguson makes a great point about DIE (more accurate than DEI) at universities.
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ChatGPT Image Identification

2024-05-22

Turns out ChatGPT 4o's image capabilities allows you to identify badly readable writing.
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The Last of Us (TV Series) – Watch the Walkthrough instead

2024-05-22

Short comment on a TV series that cannot hold a candle to the game walkthrough.
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Inspirational Example of someone changing his life

2024-05-22

Making a decision to turn one's life around.
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Multiple Variables per Bullet Point Line in Obsidian — Great Way to Create Questionnaire Item Lists with DataView

2024-05-07

The DataView Plugin for Obsidian is very powerful. I can do complex queries based on multiple variables affecting the same bullet point line. Which is great if you want a table of possible questionnaire items.
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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: May 2024

A Better Story

Paper instead of Digital Tools

Politeness and AIs

ChatGPT DALL-E Painting or Photo Feedback

Not only solving problems

DIE and Hell

ChatGPT Image Identification

The Last of Us (TV Series) – Watch the Walkthrough instead

Inspirational Example of someone changing his life

Multiple Variables per Bullet Point Line in Obsidian — Great Way to Create Questionnaire Item Lists with DataView