Improving your Creativity

Mac: Combining Images to a PDF

2018-03-11

Sometimes a simple thing like combining images to PDF can be a pain in the ass, until you find that the Automator can do it in a second.
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«What is Viewpoint Diversity?» by Heterodox Academy

2018-03-10

Heterodox Academy put a beautiful online showing the importance of viewpoint diversity.
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Recommendation: «Blood Stain» by Linda Sejic

2018-03-10

Just a short shout-out to a beautiful comic by Linda Sejic.
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Assisting Students with Data Analysis

2018-02-28

A few tips when it comes to students who ask for help in data analysis.
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A short shout-out to R

2018-02-15

Okay, R has been around for ages, but it never did grow on me. Recently, giving how commercially unattractive SPSS is, I started to give it another try. And boy, it did blow me away.
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User Centered Design — Don’t Ignore or Believe, but be the Midwife or the one who does some Artificial Insemination

2018-02-15

A few comments on the problem of developing something for a user group, and a suggestion.

Image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/grayscale-photography-of-baby-holding-finger-208189/
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What makes a good outliner?

2018-02-15

Some comments on programming a good outliner app. For the first, basic version, that is.
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A (down-voted) comment on dealing with troublesome social situations

2018-02-15

If others are in bad situations, people are quick in wanting to help directly. But there's something to be said for encouraging people to develop the competency to deal with current and future situations on their own.

Image: academia.stackexchange.com
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Yet another Bento Update

2018-02-05

Yep, another posting about Bento boxes. They just work (for me).
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Dystopian Story and Movie Recommendation: “Harrison Bergeron” and “2081”

2018-02-04

A while ago I stumbled upon a story by Kurt Vonnegut titled: "Harrison Bergeron". There is also a movie titled "2081" that really nails the story. Both are highly recommended in a world that confused equality of opportunity with equality of outcome.
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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.

Mac: Combining Images to a PDF

Recommendation: «Blood Stain» by Linda Sejic

A short shout-out to R

User Centered Design — Don’t Ignore or Believe, but be the Midwife or the one who does some Artificial Insemination

What makes a good outliner?

Yet another Bento Update