Realizing Creative Projects

A Dedicated Presentation User Account for Undisturbed Presentations and Other Benefits

2014-01-23

The computer you use during an important presentation is likely the computer you work with every day. But the helpful messages it provides you with during the day might be showstoppers during a presentation. So why not separate the two -- on the same device.
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Venting Reviewer Comments

2014-01-21

Some things you can read when you have encountered hateful reviewer comments. And a video to watch and dream (screenshot from YouTube left).
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Why a Creative Present is Better than an Authentic Past

2014-01-18

Do you dream about living in the past? Why not live it in the present and use the best of both worlds? You are already doing part of it when you look back at the past from the present.
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Interesting series on writing tips in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

2014-01-14

A great series of one-pagers about scientific writing. Highly recommended no matter the discipline.
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The Responsibility of Using the Academic Title of Doctor

2014-01-13

Some people use their title on Twitter and other social media. It comes with responsibility -- here's why (and why I do not use my title online but have it in my passport).
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Career in Academia vs. Burn out in a Business Consultancy Job: Hey Academia, maybe you’re doing something wrong, too!

2013-12-11

A short recap of a depressing but realistic conversation and why quitting Academia is completely understandable. Also, if you think business consultancy burns people out, you have seen nothing yet.
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Moleskine Books!

2013-12-10

Stumbled upon a service that allows you to create Moleskine notebooks with custom content (image left).
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Fun with Arranged/Guided Photoshootings

2013-12-08

Guided photoshootings are fun. Some impressions and links to the images. Oh, and while you're at it, check out something much more interesting.
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Activism … and Taste?

2013-12-04

An intentionally provocative poster about gender discrimination regarding the highest price there is in journalism. Followed by an explanation why I created it -- and a question whether it is in bad taste.
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Activism — to die for or to live for?

2013-12-03

Some thoughts about activism, as I am currently thinking in engaging in part of it. Includes discussion of problems like: The Locked-In Perspective Problem, The Broken Record Problem, The Negativity Problem, The Undesirability of Success Problem, The End Justifies the Means Problem, The Groupthink Problem, The Ethics Problem, and The Aesthetics Problem.
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Besides Blog Postings about multiple topics, the draft version of the third edition of “Organizing Creativity” is freely available as PDF here.

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The worksheets to the book are currently being created. The ones that are ready in version 1 are:

Best regards

Daniel

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.

Why a Creative Present is Better than an Authentic Past

Interesting series on writing tips in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

The Responsibility of Using the Academic Title of Doctor

Career in Academia vs. Burn out in a Business Consultancy Job: Hey Academia, maybe you’re doing something wrong, too!

Moleskine Books!