Realizing Creative Projects

Socially Accepted Gleeful Bullying

2016-04-10

There are people who actually want to improve the world. But there are also people who use activism as an excuse to bully others. This posting is about the later.
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Impressive fan-made project: Star Trek — Prelude to Axanar

2016-04-07

It's been out for a while, but I've only recently seen this fan made movie (strangely, because Paramount wants to prevent it's full-length sequel). And yeah, it's an actual Star Trek movie.
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Recommendation: How to Speak — Lecture Tips from Patrick Winston

2016-02-18

Stumbled upon a great presentation by Patrick Winston about doing presentations. Very well worth watching.
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Question: Why is Modern Art so Bad?

2016-01-26

Interesting video addressing: "Why is modern art so bad?"
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Calendar with Images from Video Games

2016-01-02

One of the nice things when things are digital -- you can use screenshots from computer games for your own calendar.
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Looking back at the postings of 2015

2015-12-26

Postings of 2015 ... somewhat sorted for a quick overview/recap.
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Recommendation: Heterodox Academy (Blog)

2015-12-21

Recommendation of an interesting blog dedicated to "a more intellectually diverse and heterodox academy".
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Custom Page Notebooks

2015-12-21

A look at another Kickstarter project -- this time one to customize notebook pages.
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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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Brands, Copyright, and Creating Stuff for Personal Use

2015-09-21

Sometimes copyright can be a pain in the ass.
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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.