Realizing Creative Projects

Recommendation: Colin Purrington’s “Designing Conference Posters”

2013-04-12

Shout-out and recommendation of another site dealing with scientific work. Great postings on lab notebooks, writing science papers, giving scientific talks, requesting letters of recommendation, and laptops in class.
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Synergy of Solutions, if not of Problems

2013-03-17

First world problems don't have to be an exercise in whining. Sometimes you can use them to improve the situation for others as well. Also: Nutrition bars and laptops.
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Don’t overthink it!

2013-03-15

Sometimes there is a simple solution for impossible problems. Here's one that involves high voltage and a machine with fused controls that no power on earth can stop.
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Apple’s Unsolicited Idea Submission Policy

2013-02-13

If you submit an idea to Apple, you can kiss it good-bye. Really. That's how Apple treats your ideas ...
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Outsourcing the difficult part

2012-07-24

You don't have to do everything in a creative project. Here's an example of a successful personal project that would not be possible (for me) without the involvement of experts.
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‘Unleashing’ Creativity

2012-01-27

A few no-bullshit comments on the understandable wish to be able to unleash creativity. Hint: It's not a dog.
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Poster: How to Organize Your Creativity?

2011-10-13

The poster looks complex, but have a look at it. It puts much about this site on a single page (a very large and very full single page, but a single page nonetheless).
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The Future of Your Research: How to organize (a) scientific work?

2011-10-12

Slides of a presentation I did about organizing creativity in science. Highly recommended, and with the slide notes actually understandable.
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Presentation: How to Organize a Scientific Work [German]

2011-10-04

Slides of a presentation I did about organizing creativity in science. Highly recommended, and with the slide notes actually understandable. German language version.
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Poster: Wie organisiert man seine Kreativität? [German]

2011-10-03

The poster looks complex, but have a look at it. It puts much about this site on a single page (a very large and very full single page, but a single page nonetheless). German language version.
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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.