Other Tools – Page 11 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Why you should wear a Swiss army knife on your belt (even if you are not MacGyver)

2014-08-30

The tools you have at hand vastly influence your options in a given situation. While tools are nothing without the knowledge of how to apply them, here's a shout-out for probably one of the best (non-digital) tools ever created.
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Just some nails in the wall

2014-06-26

Sometimes a very comfortable and useful help consists of hammering a few nails into the wall.
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Energy Ice Cubes (caffeine + guarana)

2014-06-20

If you need a cool drink, why not use ice cubes with a little more pep? You can easily freeze caffeinated drinks to create ice cubes with caffeine.
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Mashup Frenzy!

2014-06-18

If you like to put together nice digital works, e.g., mashup books or t-shirts, this is the golden age. There are countless fonts, images, texts, programs, and print services available.
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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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Standing Desk Finished (more or less)

2014-06-02

Instructions on building a reading desk from cheap IKEA components.
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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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How About an Ice-Cold Drink in the Office, or the Library?

2014-05-25

A cool tip for the summer: Using a thermos flask to have ice cubes available in the office (or the library, if this is the place you work). WARNING: Don't shake the contents too hard and for ... sake, take one with a metal interior!!!!
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Jotting Down Ideas in the Workplace … With Some Style

2014-05-23

Trying to jot down notes with more style by putting a post-it block in a Moleskine notebook. Cheap paper, sticks to walls, and it looks cool. Or could have looked cool.
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How about a DIY standing desk?

2014-05-15

Ergonomic working conditions? Perhaps standing is the better solution -- some ideas and references to experiences and IKEA hacks.
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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.