conveying_ideas – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Recommendation: JD Vance Speech at the Munich Security Conference

2025-02-14

A great speech by JD Vance about the dangers to democracy lurking within.
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Everything in this world tries to make you fat and lazy

2024-11-24

That advertisement is manipulating us isn't new, but since when is everything trying to make us fat and lazy?
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A Tale of Two Car Ads

2024-11-22

Two different approaches to advertising cars.
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A Better Story

2024-05-22

There is a lot of complaining and criticizing going around — but what about offering a better story?
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Debate Training with ChatGPT

2024-03-22

ChatGPT allows you to train your debate skills. It makes a pretty good opponent, moderator and analyst.

Image: Sanders (1857) «Sanders' School Speaker»
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ChatGPT for Writing Feedback

2024-03-08

ChatGPT can provide excellent feedback on writing.

Image: Page from my thesis after getting and implementing (human) feedback.
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ChatGPT as Counsellor

2024-01-29

ChatGPT is astonishingly good in taking the role of a counsellor.

Image: Ezri Dax from «Star Trek DS9» via https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Ezri_Dax
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Giving Feedback to Student Texts with R and Obsidian Templates

2023-12-04

Might be an overkill, but makes giving feedback to student writing a bit less sucky.
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Physical Objects in a Digital World

2023-06-09

In a digital world — physical objects become precious.
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Viewpoint Diversity – Christian Faith vs. Gender Ideology

2022-06-08

Interesting viewpoint on gender ideology from a specific Christian point of view
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The institution I work for, or rather the people officially representing it, have already distanced themselves from this blog. I find this unnecessary, as I’ve clearly stated in the «About this Blog» section that this is a personal blog.

Frankly, I have nothing but contempt for those who lack the backbone to address their concerns directly and instead resort to passive-aggressive tattling to others. Such behavior strikes me as not only cowardly, but also spineless, gutless, and wholly unprincipled. Moreover, these efforts are as pathetic as they are futile.

That said, I might listen if you present compelling arguments and evidence, as constructive feedback is always welcome. Who knows? We might even both gain something valuable from the interaction.

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.