Science – Page 32 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Door Signs

2014-06-05

How to create a rotatable door sign -- great for the office, esp. when you want to write.
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Why “great” ideas need a reality check

2014-06-04

Argument for the tedious task of learning about the domain you are working in. With a link to a beautiful video that shows what imagination without knowledge can produce: nothing pretty.
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Clear Communication in Engineering and Science (including the social sciences)

2014-06-01

Why clear communication between engineering/science and others is so important. Emphasizing the role of visual communication and using the Challenger Disaster as example. Definitely not a light topic.
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Book Recommendation: BITE: Recipes for Remarkable Research

2014-05-29

A very good book (cover left) on possible strategies to improve one's research productivity ... and happiness.
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Circus Ponies Notebook 4

2014-05-26

Review of Circus Ponies Notebook, version 4. tl;dr: For me the best app to keep and sort information, esp. for writing. But there is more ...
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Circus Ponies Notebook Version 4 available

2014-05-08

Circus Ponies have released the fourth version of their notetaking software: Circus Ponies Notebook. Beside buying it from their store and not from the Mac store, not much more.
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Scrivener and Paragraph/Character Styles in Microsoft Word (with a focus on Footnotes)

2014-05-02

Scrivener is -- for me -- the best program to write with. But if you have a lot of footnotes and want to do the final formatting in Word, you need the footnotes as actual footnotes. This workaround is not pretty, but you do end up with footnotes in Word.
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Interesting Debate: “The State of Free Speech in America”

2014-04-29

Reference to a very interesting discussion on YouTube about free speech, and a few thoughts on it.
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A Short Comment About Digitizing Books

2014-04-24

When you digitize books by cutting them apart and transforming them into a DRM-free OCR'd PDF file -- what about the respect for the book and the respect for the author's work? Some answers.
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Scanning Books

2014-04-23

The scanner and PDF settings you use then you digitize books matter -- a lot. Not only in quality, but also in file size. Some settings I use. (image on left shows both applications icons)
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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.

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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.