Something to Think About – Page 55 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Biases in Reporting Research: Or, how you can screw 1/3 of the affected population

2013-11-11

A look at the science news cycle in the context of the Academic Impostor syndrome (based on a tweet I stumbled upon, see left). Nice how you can neglect a large part of the population in public discussion.
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Are you happy with your life? And what are your skills?

2013-11-10

There's a good website with tests that are actually useful and well constructed (not the usual psycho-bubble). It's interesting to do a few of these tests, esp. the skills test, and compare the results over time.
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Negative Creativity

2013-11-05

Creativity is value neutral. It can be used for positive and negative purposes. Here is one -- very negative -- work of mine.
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Loneliness and Solitude in Creativity

2013-11-04

Some reflections and a lot of quotations about solitude vs. loneliness.
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Thinking Critically — What did really happen?

2013-11-03

There is a lot of misinformation out there -- deliberate or accidental. An argument for thinking critically and starting with the basic question: What did really happen?
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Doing Damage with Ads with “Positive” Purposes: The overjustification effect

2013-10-26

Why adds that point out the obvious can really damage a social cause.
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How Ads bias your perception, or: how an ad campaign for a good purpose can be really bad

2013-10-22

A look at a very bad ad campaign that does not understand what it criticizes and actually hurts people.
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Plagiarism #2 — How frequent is plagiarism, why does it happen, and how to spot it

2013-09-28

Some information about the frequency of plagiarism. The image on the left from Wikipedia gives a hint.
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Teach what you love (unless it’s male writers?)

2013-09-27

The old saying that you should do what you love, or that teaching is something worthwhile, apparently does not hold true if you love male writers. A rant.
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Enter the MOOC Masochists

2013-09-12

Not all pain is gain and unless you really like painful experiences, why not leave bad MOOC?
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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.