ORGANIZING CREATIVITY – Page 123 – How to generate, capture, and collect ideas to realize creative projects.

Using an iPad as short-term backup

2014-03-07

A cool way to make quick backups if you use a Pomodoro app connected to your Mac, so what you have written survives a notebook crash.
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A (more or less) creative solution to the trolley problem

2014-03-06

The trolley problem is an ethical dilemma that trips people up, because in one situation they would kill, in the other they would not. I think I have found a solution for it. Or a rationalization anyway.
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When you need that certain push to get through your work day

2014-03-05

A nice solution when you have a pushing rope day. Yup it's Pomodoro, but with a nice app -- and what is often missed. Oh, and a line drawn around a prison beyond which prisoners were liable to be shot.
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“When all around is chaos, when everyone is driven to the brink of insanity … relax.”

2014-03-04

In a course we learned about internal hurriers and how to deal with them. More in the post, but it seems I use quotations to keep them in check.
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Using and abusing academic workshops

2014-03-03

Workshops and loyalty, esp. to supervisors if they are the problem you need help with. Also, sickness and ideology, but I repeat myself.
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Marketplaces of Ideas

2014-03-02

The Internet is a great marketplace of ideas. People can exchange their ideas in many forms and places. Sometimes, all it takes is a camera. Article contains a nice example and a question.
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How to deal with keynote files that crash when you try to open them (movie conversion error)

2014-03-01

Apple has dumbed down Keynote, resulting in a possible error when you open a keynote file with a video. If this happens, there's a workaround. It's not pretty, but you get your slides back.
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“Teaching” at the university, or: I am neither a, nor your, private teacher

2014-02-28

Clearing up a misconception in university teaching. At least in Germany, the ones in front of the class are not teachers, nor are they rewarded for teaching. Making this and a few other issues clear is really helpful. I think it led to students still knowing they could ask me, but stop wasting time on irrelevancies.
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If you cut off the spine of a book to digitize it, keep your legs out of the way

2014-02-28

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. James Russell Lowell Personally, […]

A very good article on time management in science

2014-02-27

Read a very good paper on time management. Love the ways you can say no, without coming off too negative (two-page table!).
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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.