Community Aspects – Page 3 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

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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Possible blind spots of IRBs (ethics commissions in psychology or medicine) regarding HCI

2022-11-09

Wondering what ethics commissions in medicine or psychology might miss when evaluating human-centered design research.

Image: Meme.
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Script Statistics and Methods for User Research (in German)

2022-10-14

If you are doing user studies, and you want to actually find out whether your products work, this script might be interesting. Well, if you understand German (sorry, I'll hope to do an English version soon).
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Doing Product Demonstrations

2022-09-14

A few comments on doing product demonstrations (prototypes on a scientific conference).
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Looking for harder to see far-reaching long-term changes

2022-08-14

Some things are really noticeable, they scream and demand attention. If we focus only on them, we miss the far-reaching long-term changes. An example using the changes during Covid.
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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.