Writing – Page 4 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

World building

2021-09-19

Stumbled upon a nice meme regarding world building.

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Scaling Ideas: Apps vs Books

2021-09-19

One disadvantage if you are not a programmer is that you cannot use the scaling effects a good app has. But you don't need to. There are books, and there is that rarely used spot in between apps and books.

Image source unknown.
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Personal Cookbook

2021-09-19

With recipes being digital and available on the web, it's pretty easy to create a cookbook of your favorite recipes.
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Semi-Auto Bullet Journal

2021-09-19

The digital bullet journal (using Notability) works quite well, I just wish there was a way to add some information automatically.
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Modern Ideology in Children’s Books

2021-09-19

Seems children's book become a battleground of different ideologies.
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Die Zukunft deiner Forschung — Wie organisiert man eine wissenschaftliche Arbeit?

2021-04-22

A chapter I once wrote for a student conference on how to organize a scientific work. It's in German (unfortunately), but still, might be useful for some.
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Example Writing Workflow (Academic Articles)

2021-01-30

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

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

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

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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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.