conveying_ideas – Page 3 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Trump’s Mount Rushmore speech

2020-07-07

As the usual media has its own spin (especially in Europe), how about watching the speech in original?
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Take Care of Your Education – Heinlein’s “Have Spacesuit, Will Travel”

2020-07-06

An eye-opening moment in Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel". Worthwhile to read, especially if you are currently in school.

Picture: Book cover found online.
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Thesis Template – Media and Computer Science – Medieninformatik [German Template]

2020-07-01

We use a template for thesis at our university (in media and computer science). Given that there are a few things I have to tell almost every student, I did an annotated version.
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False Dichotomies (Presentation Slides, German)

2019-10-04

Slides (in German) about false dichotomies (a rhetorical fallacy), expanded to cover false moral dichotomies (going back to Haidt and referring Boghossian's and Lindsay's book «How to have impossible conversations»).
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Regulating citizens to the mean (with an SD of 0)

2019-06-05

There are currently a few ... interesting developments that cast a deep shadow on future creativity. At least, that how it appears to me. It’s not that the situation is a problem now, but there is a trend, and I don’t like where it leads.
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Mixed Media

2019-01-17

You can easily combine a projector and a blackboard.
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Maladaptive Communication with Masks

2019-01-05

A short comment an an issue when it comes to communicating ideas and giving feedback.
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Hey, a good TEDtalk — The art of innovation by Guy Kawasaki

2018-08-10

Always nice to find a good TEDtalk.
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User Centered Design — Don’t Ignore or Believe, but be the Midwife or the one who does some Artificial Insemination

2018-02-15

A few comments on the problem of developing something for a user group, and a suggestion.

Image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/grayscale-photography-of-baby-holding-finger-208189/
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A (down-voted) comment on dealing with troublesome social situations

2018-02-15

If others are in bad situations, people are quick in wanting to help directly. But there's something to be said for encouraging people to develop the competency to deal with current and future situations on their own.

Image: academia.stackexchange.com
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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.