ORGANIZING CREATIVITY – Page 149 – How to generate, capture, and collect ideas to realize creative projects.

Workshop: Scientific Work — Topic Notebooks

2013-03-24

An introduction to topic notebooks -- a very useful way of keeping your information available for future work (e.g., writing). Contains lots of tips. Highly, highly recommended.
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Avoid becoming bitter

2013-03-24

It can take years to become successful. In the meantime, avoid that poison. Also: Weight and dating.
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Expert Colored Glasses

2013-03-24

Expertise should allow you to make a contribution to the world, not make the world about your area of expertise. Some thoughts on this issue.
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The Long Reach of History

2013-03-22

If you are not that well recognized during your life-time, don't despair. Things might change over time, esp. in a time where people like the underdog. Also: Edison and Tesla rapping.
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Perfect Memory and Polymaths in the 21st Century

2013-03-21

Some thoughts on why polymaths are no longer possible -- and what we need instead.
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Synergy of Solutions, if not of Problems

2013-03-17

First world problems don't have to be an exercise in whining. Sometimes you can use them to improve the situation for others as well. Also: Nutrition bars and laptops.
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Living and Killing with PowerPoint (or Keynote)

2013-03-16

Two great videos on how NOT to use PowerPoint. Also: A marriage proposal.
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Where the heck is DEVONthink’s Sorter?

2013-03-15

What to do if the sorter suddenly vanishes and even a restart does not work. This does.
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Don’t overthink it!

2013-03-15

Sometimes there is a simple solution for impossible problems. Here's one that involves high voltage and a machine with fused controls that no power on earth can stop.
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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.