ORGANIZING CREATIVITY – Page 133 – How to generate, capture, and collect ideas to realize creative projects.

Generation 35 Plus — Some Insights into the German Academic System

2013-11-09

There's an interesting report on the German Academic System which divides young scientists into hopefuls, fatalists, and holdouts. Whereas there are some problems with the overall report (incl. the data basis), these descriptions seem to make sense -- as do the consequences.
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27 Really Useful iOS Apps on the iPhone

2013-11-07

An overview of 27 apps I frequently use.
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Book Recommendation: “Kushiel’s Legacy” Series by Jacqueline Carey

2013-11-07

One of the best book series I have ever read. Beautiful world and writing that takes the reader serious. Highly, highly recommended.
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Too much to read

2013-11-06

Having books in digital format allows you to quickly see how many books you have -- and with an App like DEVONthink that is able to count the number of words in all PDF files, also how long it would take you to read them. Sobering reading.
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Negative Creativity

2013-11-05

Creativity is value neutral. It can be used for positive and negative purposes. Here is one -- very negative -- work of mine.
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Loneliness and Solitude in Creativity

2013-11-04

Some reflections and a lot of quotations about solitude vs. loneliness.
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Thinking Critically — What did really happen?

2013-11-03

There is a lot of misinformation out there -- deliberate or accidental. An argument for thinking critically and starting with the basic question: What did really happen?
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Selection Processes

2013-11-02

A short rant about the role of the selection process, esp. in academia.
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Privacy, Security, Ethics and Science (esp. Psychology)

2013-11-02

A few points about privacy from my perspective as a (social) scientist -- and where social scientists, esp. psychologists -- fail when it comes to data privacy issues.
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Finding passages that are the same in two documents with Microsoft Word

2013-11-01

A simple trick to quickly see which passages in two documents are the same -- with Word (not which have changed which is what you usually get with the compare documents function).
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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.