Infrastructure – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Sharing an iPad or iPhone Screen when Using WebEx on the Mac

2021-08-03 | Reading time: 1 minute

Did not notice it before, but you can share an iPad/iPhone screen when you use WebEx on the Mac. Should be great for Usability testing.
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A Case for Loose-Leaf Tea

2021-08-03 | Reading time: 1 minute

After having tried out ... a lot of tea made with tea-bags, I strongly recommend loose leaf-tea.
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Strategic Dissertation Time

2021-08-03 | Reading time: 1 minute

If you look at your PhD — how much time do you actually have for it? An inspiration from a Coursera Course.
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Quickly Renaming Variables in R

2021-08-03 | Reading time: 1 minute

Just some short code to make renaming variables in R less sucky.
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Audiobooks (esp. for commute)

2021-08-03 | Reading time: 1 minute

Never got into audiobooks, but a recent Quillette article made a few interesting points about them. They might be something if you ever are in the unfortunate position of having to commute a lot by car.
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Downloading YouTube Videos (August 2021 Update)

2021-08-03 | Reading time: 1 minute

Hmmm, I thought the YouTube Download Site y2mate.com was broken (got an out of business message), so I look for a working way to download YouTube Videos. Seems it works, but given that I found another way, here it is.
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Making managing different student projects less sucky (esp. sending mails)

2021-04-24 | Reading time: 3 minutes

If you have many student projects with repeating tasks, e.g., frequently sending mails to a small number of students, it pays to invest some time into organizing these projects.
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Kreativität braucht Struktur — Wie lässt sich Kreativität organisieren?

2021-04-22 | Reading time: Less than a minute

As a step between version one of organizing creativity and version two, I wrote this chapter on organizing creativity for a student conference. It is in German, but it might be useful for some.
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Societies (Associations, Clubs, etc.)

2021-04-13 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Just some thoughts on the use of joining societies, more as a personal note than a generally interesting posting.
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Online Hackathon Care Package

2021-01-30 | Reading time: 1 minute

We recently did an online hackathon. To create at least some feeling of presence, we did send out care packages, which were well-received.
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