Realizing Creative Projects

The trouble with the German Language: «du» or «Sie»?

2022-02-03

In German, the term «you» can either be «Sie» (formal) or «du» (informal). Which is a problem when you are dealing with people across formal and informal contexts.
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Side Effects

2022-02-03

A short comment on side effect, which are not the main effect, but often much, much more devastating.
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Minimal group paradigm and students covering for each other

2022-02-03

An old psychological effect might actually explain why students cover for each other.
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Interesting presentation about misleading statistics

2022-02-03

Who knew, actually an interesting TEDx presentation. Well done, both from content and presentation.
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Beautiful example of how socialism doesn’t work

2022-01-28

Yeah, probably not a real example, still, knowing students, it would work. Best example why socialism does not work.
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Learning from Feedback is only possible if you write your choice down

2022-01-28

Interesting insight from a book on management.
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Recommendation: How To Speak by Patrick Winston

2022-01-28

Interesting video regarding presentations.
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Giving People a Reason

2022-01-06

Interesting passage from «To kill a Mockingbird» about giving people a reason for one’s … different behavior.
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Pop Music without Lyrics to down out annoying distractions

2021-12-15

Hmm, it's not only epic music on YouTube that allows you to listen to something while working.
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Fun with R: The Tarkin Effect

2021-12-03

Saw it as a meme somewhere and recreated it with R.
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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.

Interesting presentation about misleading statistics

Beautiful example of how socialism doesn’t work

Learning from Feedback is only possible if you write your choice down

Recommendation: How To Speak by Patrick Winston

Giving People a Reason

Pop Music without Lyrics to down out annoying distractions

Fun with R: The Tarkin Effect