General Tips – Page 58 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

The Minimalism of Star Wars

2015-12-23

A short comment about the lack of clutter in Star Wars.
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Digital Journal with Apple’s Keynote as New Year’s Resolution

2015-12-22

Revisited an idea to use an Apple Keynote presentation as a journal/diary. Sounds strange, but might work.
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Recommendation: Heterodox Academy (Blog)

2015-12-21

Recommendation of an interesting blog dedicated to "a more intellectually diverse and heterodox academy".
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Video Game Recommendation: “Life is Strange”

2015-12-07

I'm always happy to write about games that really do a lot of things very well. "Life is Strange" is such a game. Overall a very beautiful and heartbreaking game.
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Watching Ballet in a Cinema

2015-12-07

A cinema here shows live performances of ballet on the cinema screen. It's an interesting experience, esp. compared to watching a ballet performance in an opera house. But one aspect ruined the experience for me: the cuts.

Image: Advertisement for the show at the cinema.
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Book Recommendation: Star Trek on the Brain: Alien Minds, Human Minds

2015-12-02

Science Fiction tells more about the human mind that about aliens, and Star Trek has (had) a long history of addressing the human condition. No wonder two authors used Star Trek to delve into the human mind.
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Calendar Stamps

2015-12-02

An interesting idea -- stamp a daily calendar, or rather a daily calendar clock.
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Keep Good Study Notes and Digitize Them

2015-11-22

Recently I had to have a look at things I did learn during my studies at the university -- more than a decade ago. Eeeh, digging through old notes? Well, no problem, it's all digital.
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Laws for Robots

2015-11-20

A short comment on Asimov's Laws of Robotics, well, the zeroth one mainly. Summed up in three words: "No, hell no!"

Image from "I, Robot"
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Recommendation: Jonathan Haidt on Coddling U. vs. Strengthening U.

2015-11-10

A nice side-by-side comparison of the two ways universities can go, nicely done by Jonathan Haidt (who does some pretty amazing work).
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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.