change_yourself – Page 6 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Truth to Power as a Habit

2022-04-09

Should you wait until you are in a safe position before you tell truth to power? You might wait a long time, and by then not speaking your mind has become a habit.
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Nervous Breakdowns and the Importance of One’s Work

2022-04-09

Brilliant quote by Bertrand Russell — and very timely giving the weakening of borders between work and private life.

Image: Wikipedia
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«Myths That Conceal Reality» by Milton Friedman

2022-03-25

Old presentation, but still timely (well, so much for progress).
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Bypassing Country Restrictions with Tor

2022-03-03

Seems like tips from the Reporters without Borders «Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents» become useful in Germany, too.
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Without meaning, freedom becomes threatening

2022-02-24

A line in «The Daily Drucker» shines an interesting line on the tension between safety and freedom.
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Taking Back the Weekend

2021-11-07

The "Art of Manliness" podcast has another nice episode about "Take Back the Weekend". Worth thinking about.
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Presentation about Technology as Tool or Trap (in German)

2021-10-11

I recently did a presentation on whether technology is a tool or a trap. It covers Attention Economy, Gamification, Persuasive Technology, Nudging, and Dark Patterns. Unfortunately it's in German, but perhaps it's interesting as well.
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A fast-beating heart (dealing with psychophysiological reactions, incl. fear)

2021-09-19

A high heart rate in a psychologically taxing situation is just a psychophysiological reaction -- what it means is up to you.
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Jordan Peterson on Alcohol

2021-06-06

Jordan Peterson nails it on Alcohol.
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Off-Topic Recommendation: A video on being safe

2021-04-29

A video that is well worth watching. Even if it does not ... fit the topic of the blog that well.
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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.