Improving your Creativity

Microsoft Word Advanced Search and Replace

2020-08-10

Word, can't live with it, can't delete it. But if you have to use it, have a closer look at the search and replace feature.
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Tests, Exams, and the correlation between them

2020-08-05

A comparison of three kinds of tests and its correlation with exam scores.
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Recommendation: Graham’s The Four Quadrants of Conformism

2020-08-01

Paul Graham recently wrote a highly interesting essay on the four quadrants of conformism. Well worth reading.
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Recommendation: When Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on Everything

2020-08-01

Beautiful comedy video that sums of the similarity of woke people and hard-core racists.
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The Mind Parasite has Arrived in the German Student Population

2020-07-31

I've been criticizing for years the attitude of making racism socially acceptable by being racist against people with white skin color. Unfortunately, the mind parasite has spread, and I recently had my first written exam with this kind of racism.

Image from a German book about nature, from a short excerpt about a person who ostensibly smelled some plants and ended up with a scorpion nest in his brain.
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That Ballmer Peak

2020-07-25

I wonder ... does alcohol — in moderation — have a function?
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Blast from the Past #4: The Girl Who Played with the Wolves

2020-07-25

A story I wrote when a (now former) friend of mine was ... under the spell of a rather shitty human being, and used me for balance. That story made me realize that it's sometimes better to let people ... fall.
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Blast from the Past #3 – A Book of Life

2020-07-25

Just a book of quotations. A curated one, that is.
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Blast from the Past #2 – Ainran

2020-07-25

A different view on C. S. Lewis's Narnia.
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Blast from the Past #1 – The Last Book

2020-07-25

A (rather) huge book of quotations.
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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.

Microsoft Word Advanced Search and Replace

Tests, Exams, and the correlation between them

Recommendation: Graham’s The Four Quadrants of Conformism

Recommendation: When Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on Everything

That Ballmer Peak

Blast from the Past #4: The Girl Who Played with the Wolves

Blast from the Past #3 – A Book of Life

Blast from the Past #2 – Ainran

Blast from the Past #1 – The Last Book