Improving your Creativity

Mobile Reading

2014-06-13

A useful tip for reading on small mobile devices, esp. in crowded settings like the daily commute.
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Advising Grad Students in Good Faith (and What Every Grad Student Should be able to Get)

2014-06-12

An "I Quit" letter from 2009, serving as a powerful testament that sometimes, just sometimes, Academic Integrity wins. It also shows the two things every grad student should make sure to get -- or get out fast.
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Correlation and Causality

2014-06-11

Looking at the relationship between correlation and causality via an empirical analysis of the statistically significant relationship between the number of storks and the number of births. Yes, there's a paper on it. Also a reference to a website looking at spurious correlations.
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Interesting (but sadly underdeveloped and underused) Add-On: OpenComment

2014-06-10

Reference to an interesting browser plug-in that lets people comment on webpages independent of the people who control the webserver.
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Dreams

2014-06-09

A few thoughts on dreams, nightmares and lucid dreaming.
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Mac OS X Automator

2014-06-08

Introduction of a very useful tool to ... well, automate actions on the Mac. You can rename lots of files in seconds, edit them, and much more.
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Hidden Calendars

2014-06-07

If you have calendars for rituals or tasks that are not that important but you want to be reminded of, and they clog up your calendar view, why not hide them?
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Suggestions for Writing an Autobiography

2014-06-06

Suggestions on how to write an autobiography -- some questions and memory triggers. Great as a gift for a parent. Just ... don't wait too long.
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Guest Posting on Butler Library Blog

2014-06-05

Francis from Butler Library Blog gave me the opportunity to write a guest posting about writing with content outlines (using Circus Ponies Notebook as outliner). Highly useful for academic writing, but also applicable to other areas. Link in this posting.
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Door Signs

2014-06-05

How to create a rotatable door sign -- great for the office, esp. when you want to write.
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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.

ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

How to generate, capture, and collect ideas to realize creative projects.