Something to Think About – Page 35 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

A (down-voted) comment on dealing with troublesome social situations

2018-02-15

If others are in bad situations, people are quick in wanting to help directly. But there's something to be said for encouraging people to develop the competency to deal with current and future situations on their own.

Image: academia.stackexchange.com
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Dystopian Story and Movie Recommendation: “Harrison Bergeron” and “2081”

2018-02-04

A while ago I stumbled upon a story by Kurt Vonnegut titled: "Harrison Bergeron". There is also a movie titled "2081" that really nails the story. Both are highly recommended in a world that confused equality of opportunity with equality of outcome.
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Getting interviewed by a hostile news person as an Academic: A best practice example

2018-01-18

A great example of a calm academic holding his own against a hostile interviewer with very strong preconceptions.
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Learning Analytics, Ethics, and Dutch Uncles

2017-12-04

Just a short comment about ... well, learning analytics, ethics, and that university departments need a Dutch Uncle to keep students on the field.
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Deliberate Practice — Or: How to invest that 10000 hours you need to become an expert in something

2017-11-01

Nice piece of information from a lecture on expertise — the role of deliberate practice. Without using click-bait abstracts, but there are four characteristics deliberate practice (to acquire a skill) should fulfill.
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Parents and Mentors

2017-11-01

Just a short comment about the role of support by parents and mentors.
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Beautiful Example of Fan Service: CD PROJECT RED’s 10 Year Witcher Anniversary

2017-09-07

Just pointing to a beautiful video celebrating the player of the Witcher video game series.
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Google, Diversity and Free Speech

2017-08-07

A short comment on a current outrage, although the topic will be with us for a while.
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Great Vidcast: Aydin Paladin on YouTube

2017-07-06

Stumbled upon a great vidcast — worth listening to.
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Recommendation: The Red Pill

2017-03-11

Just a short recommendation of a very well-done documentary with an interesting creative history.
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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.