Infrastructure – Page 35 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

If you cut off the spine of a book to digitize it, keep your legs out of the way

2014-02-28

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. James Russell Lowell Personally, […]

Why not to trust in-department data storage

2014-02-19

A third point against local storage of research data: Professors are not forever — it only seems this way. Not meant as offense, but read yourself.
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Write like Hemingway — no, not drunk, but better.

2014-02-13

Hemingway is a cool webapp that evaluates your writing in terms of complexity, used adjectives and adverbs, and more. All it takes is a quick copy & paste.
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Technology as enabler — and betrayer

2014-02-06

Rant on how technology can support us -- or nag us to death with little bites.
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Environmental protection for Smartphones

2014-02-04

A very cool addition to smartphones -- no matter whether you usually are outdoors or not. Apparently also helpful if you want to cheat on your partner.
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Making New Years Resolutions Under Realistic Conditions — and hopefully keeping them this way

2014-01-30

New years resolutions often fail -- perhaps they are made at the worst possible moment of the year. Some suggestions for better resolutions -- and mine for 2014.
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Quickly Taking Screenshots on the Mac

2014-01-29

Screenshots are incredibly useful. Here are some suggestions for the Mac -- three key presses at the same time and you get an image file on your desktop.
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A chair for working comfortably

2014-01-28

Found a chair to work in comfortably ... you know, so you can write in a very relaxed manner.
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Dealing with a few OS X Mavericks Annoyances

2014-01-22

With every new OS come new features, but also new annoyances. Not really bugs, but issues where your way of working deviates from the 99% it is created to work with. Deal with are: Non-Snappy Switching Between Applications, Apple (and Who-Knows-Who) Listens to Your Dictations, Image Capture Opens Every Time You Connect a Device, and Words are Underlined When They are British or US English.
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Reading Effortless in Bed with a Tablet and a Monitor Arm (Update)

2014-01-20

Some experiences and further improvements after using the iPad monitor arm over my bed for a while. Really useful! Also photos of me sleeping -- really.
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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.