ORGANIZING CREATIVITY – Page 115 – How to generate, capture, and collect ideas to realize creative projects.

Cheap(er) Energy Drinks

2014-06-19

Energy drinks can help you through the day (or, if you got a health condition and drink too much, end it permanently), but they are also quite expensive. However, there's a nice hack for that.
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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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Interpreting academic studies

2014-06-17

Recommendation of a journalist's guide to interpreting academic studies and some comments. (thumb image: Jorge Cham's PhD Comic)
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Using the Travel Time to and From Work

2014-06-16

A different view on using the time to work -- not for work, even if your work is in Academia. Also, how to walk through the city without ever being distracted by someone you know.
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Recommendation: The Not So Big House

2014-06-15

Recommendation of two books on how to use the space you have, instead of wasting space you cannot afford.
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Recommendation: Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot

2014-06-14

Reverence to one of the most famous and ... inspiring photographs and speeches.
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Mobile Reading

2014-06-13

A useful tip for reading on small mobile devices, esp. in crowded settings like the daily commute.
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Advising Grad Students in Good Faith (and What Every Grad Student Should be able to Get)

2014-06-12

An "I Quit" letter from 2009, serving as a powerful testament that sometimes, just sometimes, Academic Integrity wins. It also shows the two things every grad student should make sure to get -- or get out fast.
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Correlation and Causality

2014-06-11

Looking at the relationship between correlation and causality via an empirical analysis of the statistically significant relationship between the number of storks and the number of births. Yes, there's a paper on it. Also a reference to a website looking at spurious correlations.
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Interesting (but sadly underdeveloped and underused) Add-On: OpenComment

2014-06-10

Reference to an interesting browser plug-in that lets people comment on webpages independent of the people who control the webserver.
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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.