Science – Page 18 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

The Gwen Novak Method of «Work eMail Interruption Free» Vacation

2018-08-23

I think I might have adapted an old door-bell strategy to sift out unwarranted eMail interruptions during vacations.
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Incredible Poem (Text and Video): «The Hangman» by Maurice Ogden

2018-08-10

A timely poem about not speaking up.
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Hey, a good TEDtalk — The art of innovation by Guy Kawasaki

2018-08-10

Always nice to find a good TEDtalk.
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R Stats results with a bit more annotation

2018-06-13

R is still really, really cool. Esp. if you start to write functions for yourself and create your own package. The amount of annotation you can provide is cool and makes you wonder — why doesn't statistic software usually provide this?
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Configuring Scrivener (Make Scrivener grey — and get that icon back)

2018-05-22

A few tips to configure the best writing software I have ever worked with — Scrivener.
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Academic Writing: Seeing the whole text at once

2018-04-19

Yep, there are times when working on paper has its advantages — esp. if you just need a very very large screen. ;-)
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Motivation in Gamification: You have to get the motor started first

2018-04-19

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.
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Things that work very well with R: short scale (or: Fishfood ;-))

2018-04-19

A short example of using R for short scale development.
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Jonathan Haidt on Institutionalized Disconfirmation in Universities

2018-03-24

A short 10 minute clip of Jonathan Haidt regarding our confirmation biases and that we need others to cancel those out.
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Learning R during your PhD

2018-03-13

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.
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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.