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Ah, PratchettAllowing Children to Have AdventuresRecommendation: The Missing Semester of Your CS EducationDownloading Coursera MaterialsLow-Cost Direction LinesOnline Hackathon Care PackageExample Writing Workflow (Academic Articles)Mind the work environmentWalking to/from workRecording Webbrowser Audio/Video on a MacGerman Speech DisorderUsing an Alarm Chair … errr Table … for quicker morning routinesGetting yourself an EducationChallenge to ImproveRecommendation: 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 screenCrawling your own websiteRecommendation: No Safe SpacesA quieter iPad Home ScreenExternal SSD for Quick BackupsA little bit of Normality during Covid — and a stark contrastA Notability-based Digital Bullet Journal on a Tablet — Best of Both Worlds?Good Co-Author BehaviorMedia-ShabbatRemoving tiny distractionsSelective iOS Calendar WidgetYouTube just nuked my AccountFuck that advertisement in YouTube VideosSeems like in Germany, 2020 ends not with a bang, but a whimperListening to differing opinionsReading Setup UpdateExporting ical Calendar EntriesTwo Interesting Videos: “Rubin Report” … and “The Best of Margaret Thatcher”Covid Regulations Side EffectsSyspolicyd, Periodically High CPU Load, Reading Huge Amounts of Data, on Mac Big Sur (and likely Catalina as well)An UN Controlled Earth makes for really scary Sci-Fi in “The Expanse”Let’s Upgrade to a prior, better version of DEVONthink for Big SurScrew Optimists and Pessimists, be a PossibilistConfirmation Bias when Doing an Analysis in HCDNatural Exit GamesIt’s easier to stop in the beginning than laterStoring an Apple PencilDafuq? Socks actually get lost????Your Private Virtual MuseumSince when is Sloth a Virtue?iPad 5 mini — Ideal reading and note taking everywhere deviceWell, teaching face-to-face was fun while it lastedEvaluating Human-Computer-Interactions when Using Multiple DevicesKilling Ones Voice with Paid EndorsementsOperationalizing EthicsWell, Stalin wasn’t wrongDiversity, Equity and InclusionYour Mileage Might Vary (YMMV)Tortured SoulsWell, that actually did work out.Digital LifeboatWhat’s a Smart Watch good for?Thank you (you know who you are)Impressive view on Virtual Reality (VR) from almost three decades agoWhat is an hour of your life actually worth?Turning mp3s into Podcast Episodes for iOS/iPhone/Apple iTunesFinding out what you really wantBlockchain Explained (German Video)How NOT to tell storiesFoot Hammock for one’s DeskLight from above equals Hitler BeardB…b…beautiful music: Soundtrack to “Attack on Titan”Great book about doing statistics with RRecommendation: Uncle TomPresentation: Persuasive Technology (and Gamification and Nudging) in the Context of Climate Change Apps (or rather: ecologically friendly behavior) [in German]Method to Make Sense of Your Data: Build the WallNotability iPad Battery DrainageNew Standing Desk Setup: Mod #1New Standing Desk SetupPainting: It does’t have to start perfectStandardsCiting R and RStudioMicrosoft Word Advanced Search and ReplaceTests, Exams, and the correlation between themRecommendation: Graham’s The Four Quadrants of ConformismRecommendation: When Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on EverythingThe Mind Parasite has Arrived in the German Student PopulationThat Ballmer PeakBlast from the Past #4: The Girl Who Played with the WolvesBlast from the Past #3 – A Book of LifeBlast from the Past #2 – AinranBlast from the Past #1 – The Last BookReading Books with Notability and GoodReaderDitch the Man Cave, Bring Back the StudyRemote Usability Testing on Mobiles with WebEx MeetingsSupervising Written Exams with Classical MusicHow the Internet Times Have ChangedYouth has its functionA different view on Black America: Larry ElderTrump’s Mount Rushmore speechTake Care of Your Education – Heinlein’s “Have Spacesuit, Will Travel”Obedience, for obedience’s sakeYour Past, Present and Future Selves — do you like these guys?Getting the Right Design before Getting the Design RightOmniFocus and iCal for Realistic Tasks-for-Today PlanningThesis Template – Media and Computer Science – Medieninformatik [German Template]Viewpoint Diversity in PsychologyReal Time Virtual Reality Travel (VR plus 360° Camera-Pole)Checking all the Boxes: Battleship (addendum)Writing a Synopsis for a Bachelor, Master or PhD Thesis in Media and Computer ScienceFinding a Bachelor, Master and perhaps even PhD thesis Topic in Media and Computer ScienceThings FilterPeople FilterHow did this series get so dark so soon?You show me yours, I’ll show you mineDanegeld (paid to outrage mobs by academic institutions)Recommendation: Gad Saad on “Racism in Academia? My Reply to the Editor of Science” (THE SAAD TRUTH_ 1075)Perspectives on Smoking (pipe)Speaker for the DeadScience and the Hard SciencesCorona: Let a hundred flowers bloom …Movie Recommendation: BattleshipPsychology in a Crisis (and check the sources)Lawful and EvilSorcerers vs WizardsRecommendation: YAF SUPERCUT: Best of Ronald ReaganQuickly Downloading YouTube Videos via a JavaScript BookmarkHaving too few and too structured options in a GameLoving to Solve Problems — like a Cat seeing a Ball of WoolDark Patterns: CookiesHuman-centered Design: Seeing what’s missingWhat’s going on with Corona?Taste and BurialsA Life Not Written DownICU’sNeeded Rule for Symposia: The Time-Keeper Speaks Last (and has only the remaining time)Ethics between Medicine, Psychology, and Media and Computer SciencePaying attention to a current crisis to learn for the futureWhat do you want your children to receive? At least the same — or more?Impotent Project PartnersEthics and User Centered Design / User ExperienceThe Problem of Thinking Outside the BoxExponential Growth, Time-Delayed Reactions, and other problems of human cognitionApple’s Quality Program E1 — Exchange and Repair Extension ProgramDon’t use shitty tools.Science and “The Good Cause”Great PackagingCheating in Computer GamesVisions of the FutureRecommendation: 9 Chickweed Lane Comic StripDownloading Comic StripsConsensus in ScienceRecommendation (as a time sink): The Outer WorldsThe Problem with Functional Fixedness in CreativityFirst Impression of Apple’s Watch Series 5Recommendation: The Art of Manliness PodcastSoftware change infos/version history based on user behaviorWhat’s in a name?Recommendation: Steven Pinker: “An Unnecessary Defense of Reason and a Necessary Defense of the University’s Role in Advancing It”Climate Change ActivismCall of Cthulhu Character Sheet Passport (PDF)Why not treat a learning AI like you would treat a dog?False Dichotomies (Presentation Slides, German)Don’t let customer support try to justify design decisionsWeight Hacking Part IV – The Long ViewDEVONthink 3 — Where the heck is DEVONthink going?Looking at a Shadowrun Future — By political parties delegating censorship powers to corporationsHow about a few mirror neurons for AIs/neural networks?DEVONthink and iOS Disk SpaceWall Board (to get an overview of/plan projects and tasks)Idealistic Youth and (Social) PowerWhy Creativity is Incompatible with Collectivism/SocialismThe Right Kind of Wrong. Or: Using bad practice just because it’s industry standard.The best predictor for future behavior is past behavior. — Or: What I wouldn’t give for a good Learning Analytics SystemShould AI be explainable or should it just evaluate its predictions?Grading Paper Exams with an iPadComic Recommendation: Hack/SlashGab seems to be running nicely nowStupid Software: ExcelOxford Unions Debate about No PlatformingAffinity Publisher is availableLegal Side Effects of Logging User Behavior (esp. when driving)The Lure of the Screen in App DevelopmentMaking the Use of Access Cards less suckyRegulating citizens to the mean (with an SD of 0)Necrophilic TeachingKnight ForksBeautiful graphic novel by Scott McCloud: «The Sculptor»Kanboard and DEVONthinkWatching a Master paint eop