Realizing Creative Projects

Displacement Activities

2021-04-24

Perhaps there are alternatives to sinking countless hours into shifting bits and bytes.

Image: Skyrim Map.
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Apple is not your friend

2021-04-24

I like Apple, but I don't trust it. Some of the behavior of the iOS serves Apple much more than their users.

Image: Meme.
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When it comes to outliners (and other tools), be tool agnostic

2021-04-24

Tools are great, but do not tie yourself to a specific tool.
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Recommendation: The ABC’s of Morality

2021-04-22

A beautiful book on traditional, well, somewhat libertarian-conservative, morality.
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Kreativität braucht Struktur — Wie lässt sich Kreativität organisieren?

2021-04-22

As a step between version one of organizing creativity and version two, I wrote this chapter on organizing creativity for a student conference. It is in German, but it might be useful for some.
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Die Zukunft deiner Forschung — Wie organisiert man eine wissenschaftliche Arbeit?

2021-04-22

A chapter I once wrote for a student conference on how to organize a scientific work. It's in German (unfortunately), but still, might be useful for some.
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Losing Customers

2021-04-04

Just ... who are those people who send out eMails begging for positive ratings, yet do not allow those whom they send these eMails to ... to reply?
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Online Hackathon Care Package

2021-01-30

We recently did an online hackathon. To create at least some feeling of presence, we did send out care packages, which were well-received.
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Example Writing Workflow (Academic Articles)

2021-01-30

Writing is hard — it might be a bit easier with Scrivener, Overleaf, a printer, and a whiteboard.
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Recommendation: Douglas Murray on Telling the Truth

2021-01-24

Douglas Murray's take on telling the truth is well worth watching.
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This is a private blog showing my opinions. If you have an issue with what I write here, either don’t read it or talk to me directly. Don’t waste your time — or mine — dragging my employer into matters where they hold no authority.

The institution I work for, or rather the people officially representing it, have already distanced themselves from this blog. I find this unnecessary, as I’ve clearly stated in the «About this Blog» section that this is a personal blog.

Frankly, I have nothing but contempt for those who lack the backbone to address their concerns directly and instead resort to passive-aggressive tattling to others. Such behavior strikes me as not only cowardly, but also spineless, gutless, and wholly unprincipled. Moreover, these efforts are as pathetic as they are futile.

That said, I might listen if you present compelling arguments and evidence, as constructive feedback is always welcome. Who knows? We might even both gain something valuable from the interaction.

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.

Displacement Activities

Apple is not your friend

When it comes to outliners (and other tools), be tool agnostic

Kreativität braucht Struktur — Wie lässt sich Kreativität organisieren?

Die Zukunft deiner Forschung — Wie organisiert man eine wissenschaftliche Arbeit?

Losing Customers

Example Writing Workflow (Academic Articles)

Recommendation: Douglas Murray on Telling the Truth