Recommendation: «The Fountainhead» by Ayn Rand 2018-10-06 | Reading time: 1 minute Not the shortest book, and not that easy to read, but totally worth it — among others for its interesting look on creative and non-creative people, and the forces at odds in society.[show the article]
Don’t underestimate Ducks 2018-09-02 | Reading time: 1 minute Students in interdisciplinary subjects can sometimes feel like ducks — they can do everything, but nothing well. Well, they are underestimating ducks.[show the article]
The Gwen Novak Method of «Work eMail Interruption Free» Vacation 2018-08-23 | Reading time: 2 minutes I think I might have adapted an old door-bell strategy to sift out unwarranted eMail interruptions during vacations.[show the article]
Incredible Poem (Text and Video): «The Hangman» by Maurice Ogden 2018-08-10 | Reading time: 1 minute A timely poem about not speaking up.[show the article]
Hey, a good TEDtalk — The art of innovation by Guy Kawasaki 2018-08-10 | Reading time: Less than a minute Always nice to find a good TEDtalk.[show the article]
Academic Writing: Seeing the whole text at once 2018-04-19 | Reading time: 1 minute Yep, there are times when working on paper has its advantages — esp. if you just need a very very large screen. ;-)[show the article]
Motivation in Gamification: You have to get the motor started first 2018-04-19 | Reading time: 1 minute It's easy/easier to imagine a system that should motivate people once it's already working. However, the gap is usually to get it running in the first place.[show the article]
Things that work very well with R: short scale (or: Fishfood ;-)) 2018-04-19 | Reading time: 1 minute A short example of using R for short scale development.[show the article]
Jonathan Haidt on Institutionalized Disconfirmation in Universities 2018-03-24 | Reading time: Less than a minute A short 10 minute clip of Jonathan Haidt regarding our confirmation biases and that we need others to cancel those out.[show the article]
Learning R during your PhD 2018-03-13 | Reading time: 2 minutes The time during your PhD is probably the best and worst time to learn R. I did start to learn R in earnest later, but dang, I wish I had started then.[show the article]
