Generating Ideas – Page 25 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

The Value of Taking a Break

2013-10-21

Sometimes you just have to take a break -- a personal story in this regard. Oh, and "The Messiah, HWV 56: Hallelujah Chorus" by the London Philharmonic Orchestra (see left).
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Luhmann’s Zettelkasten with DEVONthink

2013-09-29

How Luhmann's Zettelkasten can be realized with DEVONthink.
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Recommendation: Georgia Tech Welcome Speech

2013-08-23

A good course should start with a bang, a good semester ... perhaps with this speech.
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Recommendation – Tim Minchin – If I Didn’t Have You

2013-08-22

Tim Minchin is not only a great comedian-musician, he also chose this profession as his niche.
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Ideas in the Shower

2013-08-09

How to deal with ideas one of the most frequent places for idea: the shower.
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“Oh, du weißes Blatt, inspirier’ mich … oder besser nicht!” — Wissenschaftliches und fiktionales Schreiben ohne Inspiration (aber mit Inhalts-Outlines, Scrivener, u.v.m.)

2013-08-07

I've written a brochure about scientific writing. It's written in German and I can only highly recommend it if you are working on your thesis -- and understand German.
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A “Strange Days”/”Google Glass” Like Perspective on Sexism/Gender

2013-08-01

"Tests" whether something is sexist or not -- e.g., whether men have to deal with it -- not only do not work, they are incredibly arrogant. But perhaps a change of perspective might help. And there might soon be an app for that.
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Writing

2013-07-24

A look on what makes writing difficult and why content outlines might just the thing.
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Recommendation: TED Talk by Zara Swindells-Grose: “The Epidemic of Over-Seriousness”

2013-07-10

And another highly recommended TED talk :-)
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We didn’t know it was impossible.

2013-06-13

Beautiful PhD Comics video which stresses an important issue in research -- sometimes not knowing can be helpful, if otherwise you know a lot.
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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.