The Problem with Functional Fixedness in Creativity 2019-10-21 | Reading time: 1 minute Lots of creative problems can be solved when we see what is really there, instead of seeing what we see.[show the article]
Recommendation: The Art of Manliness Podcast 2019-10-19 | Reading time: 1 minute An (so far) interesting podcast addressing a lot of different topics.[show the article]
Climate Change Activism 2019-10-15 | Reading time: 4 minutes Some thoughts on Fridays4Future, Students4Future, and Scientist4Future -- and strikes at schools and universities.Image: Pale Blue Dot.[show the article]
False Dichotomies (Presentation Slides, German) 2019-10-04 | Reading time: 1 minute 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»).[show the article]
Don’t let customer support try to justify design decisions 2019-09-21 | Reading time: 3 minutes The conversation about the missing Three Panes View of DEVONthink 3 is an interesting example to me of how not to deal with customers.[show the article]
DEVONthink 3 — Where the heck is DEVONthink going? 2019-09-17 | Reading time: 4 minutes DEVONthink 3 looks sleek (if colorless) and comes with new features. More important is what they ditched, and possibly whom.[show the article]
Looking at a Shadowrun Future — By political parties delegating censorship powers to corporations 2019-09-17 | Reading time: 1 minute We are weary of censorship by the state. But unfortunately, censorship got delegated to private companies. Unfortunately for us ... and the state.Image: Shadowrun Rulebook Cover Image.[show the article]
Wall Board (to get an overview of/plan projects and tasks) 2019-08-25 | Reading time: 2 minutes Currently trying out a wall board to get an overview of/to plan projects and task.[show the article]
Why Creativity is Incompatible with Collectivism/Socialism 2019-07-30 | Reading time: 16 minutes A short comment on creativity and collectivism/socialism with a few (longer) quotations.[show the article]
The Right Kind of Wrong. Or: Using bad practice just because it’s industry standard. 2019-07-30 | Reading time: 1 minute What do you do when something is "industry standard", but clearly inferior. Yet, you get into trouble when you do it better, because people don't recognize it as better?[show the article]
