Self-Improvement – Page 7 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Building something with your hands

2021-09-21

It might be rough, it might be crude, it might only barely function — but there's something to be said for building stuff with your own hands.
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Interesting Podcast/Vidcast Episodes

2021-09-20

Just a small shoutout to a few interesting episodes.
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Strategic Dissertation Time

2021-08-03

If you look at your PhD — how much time do you actually have for it? An inspiration from a Coursera Course.
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Recommendation: “Man’s Search For Meaning” by Viktor E. Frankl

2021-04-25

Not easy to read, not that 'practical', but a recommended book on the role of meaning in life.
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“No, thank you.” is a full sentence.

2021-04-24

When there is a good reason to say no, and no is enough.
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Fuck Motivation, make behavior easier

2021-04-24

An observation about students designing apps — they seem to be preoccupied with motivation, instead of making things easier.
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Displacement Activities

2021-04-24

Perhaps there are alternatives to sinking countless hours into shifting bits and bytes.

Image: Skyrim Map.
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Kreativität braucht Struktur — Wie lässt sich Kreativität organisieren?

2021-04-22

As a step between version one of organizing creativity and version two, I wrote this chapter on organizing creativity for a student conference. It is in German, but it might be useful for some.
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Downloading Coursera Materials

2021-01-31

If you like to watch videos offline and don't want to download each course video manually, this process might work.
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Walking to/from work

2021-01-30

A case for walking to/from work — at least part of the way.
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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.