Improving your Creativity

Ideas you want to kill

2010-04-01

Do you ever have ideas that just seem ... to have a very high potential for misuse? Or actually describe ways to do highly illegal and damaging activities? If so, read on.
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Delegating the hard (or tedious) stuff

2010-03-31

You don't have to do all parts of a creative project -- some things are better delegated to professionals.
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Dealing with Idea Landslides

2010-03-28

Sometimes ideas don't just pour -- the landscape moves. What to do in these situations, with an example of having a mental breakthrough when it came to understanding programming.
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Memory Landmine with Background Image

2010-02-28

Landmines in productivity are things you place somewhere where you stumble upon in the future, at best in the moment when you need to remember something. But if it stays there for too long, you begin to ignore it. So here's a simple solution for those working on the computer.
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Crimes of Translation

2010-02-15

There's a place where creativity is not needed -- in translations. At least beyond expressing what the author meant. Unfortunately, at least from English to German, there are a lot of failed "creative" people at work here. A rant with soul-shredding examples.
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Too late, too late, too late — oh, well ;-)

2010-01-29

Sometimes you have a great idea, or want to see something realized that you saw in a movie, and then you notice that it already exists. Yeah. :-)
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Think differently?

2010-01-28

A look at Apple's iPad release, their marketing tactics, and whether they fuel or stifle creativity. Also: Star Trek.
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Capture your ideas: PhD Comic

2010-01-14

I guess this PhD comic says it all. :-)
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I can’t draw — who cares?

2010-01-14

The Internet can show you people who can draw brilliantly, and people who have ideas. And sometimes you notice that you do not need to draw brilliantly to convey your ideas.
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Some nice structuring helps for Wikis

2009-12-12

A few ways you can make it easier to work with your wiki (index list, navigation-image-map, bullet lists).
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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.