Improving your Creativity

Lousy Form, Perfect Form, or: Why learning something late in life isn’t that bad.

2013-04-22

There's no need to feel stupid if you did something in an unnecessarily complicated way. Here's why.
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Another academic workflow visualization

2013-04-17

Visualized my current workflow when it comes to dealing with academic work. Includes references to apps and postings.
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Beware of data corruption devastating your Workflow Lynchpin

2013-04-16

Encountered the worst and most devastating bug ever. Some catastrophes work like nukes, this one is more like Alzheimer's' disease. Leads to a crucial recommendation: Keep your old backups, you might desperately need them.
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Recommendation: Colin Purrington’s “Designing Conference Posters”

2013-04-12

Shout-out and recommendation of another site dealing with scientific work. Great postings on lab notebooks, writing science papers, giving scientific talks, requesting letters of recommendation, and laptops in class.
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Mobile Technology Upgrades — Having an iPod touch on your wrist and looking forward to the future

2013-04-10

Smart watches seem to be coming, well there's already a way to wear an iPod nano on your wrist. You image where this might go.
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Staying on Track: Did I want to do this an hour ago?

2013-04-08

One way to prevent being distracted is to ask this simple question. Also: A few other ways to work more efficiently.
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To Scan or Not to Scan

2013-04-03

Digitization of books has lots of advantages, but there are books that pose the question: To scan or not to scan.
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Mistakes: Circles and Spirals

2013-04-01

Do you repeat your mistakes? Or do you improve why revisiting them? Read on.
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Mobile Technology Upgrades — (Mostly) Waterproof iPhone

2013-03-31

Smartphones are powerful, but also quite fragile. Until you give them the necessary protection. Then you can use them in a storm, while jogging.
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Workshop: Scientific Work — General Tips when Dealing with Literature

2013-03-24

There are tips that do not fit neatly into a category, yet can be impressively useful. Here are some regarding scientific work and literature -- the foundations on which we build our work, and our careers.
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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.