Community Aspects – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Giving Feedback to Student Texts with R and Obsidian Templates

2023-12-04

Might be an overkill, but makes giving feedback to student writing a bit less sucky.
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University Research and Commercial Use

2023-12-03

Short comment on university inventions and military/commercial use. Image from «Alpha Centauri».
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Universities as Gyms

2023-12-03

Beautiful metaphor for free speech on college campuses.
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Brought to you by the same company …

2023-05-29

Becoming a bit blackpilled about public health campaigns — at least if one specific company is involved.
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Intellectual Humility in Science

2023-04-02

Science cannot work without intellectual humility. If we «know» the answer, it's not science, it's religion.

Image: Meme
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Changing Work-Life Balance and Calendar Time Management

2023-02-05

Trying to spend less time at work, with mixed results. However, using the calendar for when to go home works out pretty well.
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A few early-2023 thoughts on Covid

2023-02-05

A few additional thoughts on Covid, now that almost nobody can stand to hear about it.
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Better than the worst

2022-12-15

Being better than the worst is easy if you keep the worst around for that reason.
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Dissertation Time — It’s a marathon, not interval training

2022-12-15

Short comment why «one day in the week for the dissertation/PhD thesis» likely will not work (well).
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Presentation on Digital Minimalism for Creativity (German Version)

2022-11-11

Combining an earlier presentation on digital minimalism with time enough for creativity.
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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.