Self-Improvement – Page 8 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

What is an hour of your life actually worth?

2020-09-19

A cold-blooded calculation of a continuing human life.
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Turning mp3s into Podcast Episodes for iOS/iPhone/Apple iTunes

2020-09-18

Sometimes the solution is just so ... easy, you overlook it.
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Finding out what you really want

2020-09-18

Interesting commentary on ... well, life is long, and you might not immediately find out what you want.
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Painting: It does’t have to start perfect

2020-08-14

Some things you can develop for yourself, but when it comes to painting ... it pays to watch a master. It's hard to think about drawing this way.
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Recommendation: Graham’s The Four Quadrants of Conformism

2020-08-01

Paul Graham recently wrote a highly interesting essay on the four quadrants of conformism. Well worth reading.
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OmniFocus and iCal for Realistic Tasks-for-Today Planning

2020-07-03

OmniFocus is pretty useful, but it lacks in support for a realistic planning of what you can accomplish during one day. However, iCal can help here.
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People Filter

2020-06-16

We all reject people, whom do you reject — and why?
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Recommendation: YAF SUPERCUT: Best of Ronald Reagan

2020-05-19

Strange how history seems to repeat itself, or rather, how some themes swing back and forth. Ronald Reagan seems to be perfectly suited for today's world.
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Recommendation: The Art of Manliness Podcast

2019-10-19

An (so far) interesting podcast addressing a lot of different topics.
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False Dichotomies (Presentation Slides, German)

2019-10-04

Slides (in German) about false dichotomies (a rhetorical fallacy), expanded to cover false moral dichotomies (going back to Haidt and referring Boghossian's and Lindsay's book «How to have impossible conversations»).
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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.