Improving your Creativity

Workshop: Scientific Work — Topic Notebooks

2013-03-24

An introduction to topic notebooks -- a very useful way of keeping your information available for future work (e.g., writing). Contains lots of tips. Highly, highly recommended.
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Avoid becoming bitter

2013-03-24

It can take years to become successful. In the meantime, avoid that poison. Also: Weight and dating.
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Expert Colored Glasses

2013-03-24

Expertise should allow you to make a contribution to the world, not make the world about your area of expertise. Some thoughts on this issue.
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Perfect Memory and Polymaths in the 21st Century

2013-03-21

Some thoughts on why polymaths are no longer possible -- and what we need instead.
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Synergy of Solutions, if not of Problems

2013-03-17

First world problems don't have to be an exercise in whining. Sometimes you can use them to improve the situation for others as well. Also: Nutrition bars and laptops.
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Don’t overthink it!

2013-03-15

Sometimes there is a simple solution for impossible problems. Here's one that involves high voltage and a machine with fused controls that no power on earth can stop.
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Workshop: Scientific Work — Possible Academic Literature Workflow

2013-03-14

An overview of my academic workflow. Turns literature into Lego(TM) bricks to work with.
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Time for Ideas

2013-02-26

How to create time for ideas -- and what to do with the source of permanent distraction in your pocket. No, the other one.
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Visually developing ideas in Keynote

2013-02-19

A quick and simple way to develop ideas, if you do not have a Whiteboard or are on the move.
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UPAD for iPad — Developing ideas by sketching on the iPad

2013-02-16

A great note-taking app that deserves the name.
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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.

Workshop: Scientific Work — Topic Notebooks

Avoid becoming bitter

Expert Colored Glasses

Perfect Memory and Polymaths in the 21st Century

Synergy of Solutions, if not of Problems

Don’t overthink it!

Workshop: Scientific Work — Possible Academic Literature Workflow

Time for Ideas

Visually developing ideas in Keynote

UPAD for iPad — Developing ideas by sketching on the iPad