Improving your Creativity

Video Game Recommendation: “Life is Strange”

2015-12-07

I'm always happy to write about games that really do a lot of things very well. "Life is Strange" is such a game. Overall a very beautiful and heartbreaking game.
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Watching Ballet in a Cinema

2015-12-07

A cinema here shows live performances of ballet on the cinema screen. It's an interesting experience, esp. compared to watching a ballet performance in an opera house. But one aspect ruined the experience for me: the cuts.

Image: Advertisement for the show at the cinema.
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Book Recommendation: Star Trek on the Brain: Alien Minds, Human Minds

2015-12-02

Science Fiction tells more about the human mind that about aliens, and Star Trek has (had) a long history of addressing the human condition. No wonder two authors used Star Trek to delve into the human mind.
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Calendar Stamps

2015-12-02

An interesting idea -- stamp a daily calendar, or rather a daily calendar clock.
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Keep Good Study Notes and Digitize Them

2015-11-22

Recently I had to have a look at things I did learn during my studies at the university -- more than a decade ago. Eeeh, digging through old notes? Well, no problem, it's all digital.
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Another Comment on Oxford Union Society’s “Freedom of Speech and Right to Offend” Debate

2015-11-22

Called it -- one of the videos of the Oxford Union Societie's “Freedom of Speech and Right to Offend” Debate was removed. A comment on this strategy and a suggestion for a better one.
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Laws for Robots

2015-11-20

A short comment on Asimov's Laws of Robotics, well, the zeroth one mainly. Summed up in three words: "No, hell no!"

Image from "I, Robot"
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Recommendation: Jonathan Haidt on Coddling U. vs. Strengthening U.

2015-11-10

A nice side-by-side comparison of the two ways universities can go, nicely done by Jonathan Haidt (who does some pretty amazing work).
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Technology/Engineering and Psychology

2015-11-04

A nice quotation about the relationship between technology/engineering and psychology.

Picture: Book cover of "The Lost World" by Michael Crichton
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The Martian (movie)

2015-10-18

Some comments on the movie adaptation of Andy Weir's "The Martian".
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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.