Improving your Creativity

College and Free Speech: Interesting interview by FIRE with Juan Williams

2013-10-22

Universities should be places to exchange ideas -- a good interview arguing this point via FIRE.
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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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Applying a psychological theory: A creative way to assess student learning

2013-10-17

An in-depth description of a constructivist task I gave my students to assess their learning -- and get them to learn in the first place. Was a fun course and I think a helpful one.
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Short Update (MinD-Akademie 2013)

2013-10-07

Short report about the MinD-Akademie 2013 and a presentation about Scientific Work and the Scientific Community.
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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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Plagiarism #3 — Reactions to Plagiarism

2013-09-28

What are some reactions to plagiarism? From the person who was plagiarized and from people who do it (when they are questioned about it). Note: Look for a barf-bag first. Based among others on the article to the left.
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Plagiarism #2 — How frequent is plagiarism, why does it happen, and how to spot it

2013-09-28

Some information about the frequency of plagiarism. The image on the left from Wikipedia gives a hint.
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The Incompetent Whore Strikes Again (Gilmour posting 2)

2013-09-28

Having people to pay for art that does nothing for them is bad enough. But it can get worse -- being told you should like bad art. Since when does political correctness triumph over aesthetics, or even worse, over personal preference?
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Scientists and Programming

2013-09-27

An argument for scientists learning to program -- for all sciences, not only for the mere automation. Highly recommended.
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Ask not what the program can do for you, ask for support to a concrete problem

2013-09-26

Your needs should determine which technology to use, not vice versa. A few needful comments, esp. on a site like this.
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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.

College and Free Speech: Interesting interview by FIRE with Juan Williams

The Value of Taking a Break

Applying a psychological theory: A creative way to assess student learning

Luhmann’s Zettelkasten with DEVONthink

Scientists and Programming

Ask not what the program can do for you, ask for support to a concrete problem