Writing – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Example Writing Workflow (Academic Articles)

2021-01-30 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Writing is hard — it might be a bit easier with Scrivener, Overleaf, a printer, and a whiteboard.
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German Speech Disorder

2021-01-30 | Reading time: 2 minutes

The German language is awful enough, it does not need an artificial speech disorder.
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Crawling your own website

2021-01-24 | Reading time: 1 minute

I used R to write a crawler and downloaded the text and the images. Leads to nice analyses, e.g., a nice word cloud of the tags and categories.
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iPad 5 mini — Ideal reading and note taking everywhere device

2020-11-20 | Reading time: 2 minutes

I tried out an iPad 5 mini, and waow, that tablet has just the right size factor. Finding a case is hell, though.
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Well, that actually did work out.

2020-09-26 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Trying out a lot, some things do work out long term, others don't. Here's a list of a few things that did work out ... long term.
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How NOT to tell stories

2020-09-16 | Reading time: Less than a minute

Lauren Chen goes through the new "Mulan" like a laser through butter.
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Method to Make Sense of Your Data: Build the Wall

2020-08-25 | Reading time: 1 minute

A frequent problem in analyzing a situation is to make sense of your data, esp. when you have an abundance of information. In these senses it makes sense to build the wall.
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New Standing Desk Setup: Mod #1

2020-08-23 | Reading time: 1 minute

Finding a safe place for my notebook.
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New Standing Desk Setup

2020-08-22 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Trying out building something with wood. Haven't done so before. Worked out ... within acceptable parameters.
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Microsoft Word Advanced Search and Replace

2020-08-10 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Word, can't live with it, can't delete it. But if you have to use it, have a closer look at the search and replace feature.
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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.