creative_people – Page 41 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Taking an intimate time-out from the world

2013-11-11

Using some personal creativity to make the best out of intimate moments. A lot of ideas, and a serious caveat.
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Biases in Reporting Research: Or, how you can screw 1/3 of the affected population

2013-11-11

A look at the science news cycle in the context of the Academic Impostor syndrome (based on a tweet I stumbled upon, see left). Nice how you can neglect a large part of the population in public discussion.
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Are you happy with your life? And what are your skills?

2013-11-10

There's a good website with tests that are actually useful and well constructed (not the usual psycho-bubble). It's interesting to do a few of these tests, esp. the skills test, and compare the results over time.
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Loneliness and Solitude in Creativity

2013-11-04

Some reflections and a lot of quotations about solitude vs. loneliness.
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Selection Processes

2013-11-02

A short rant about the role of the selection process, esp. in academia.
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Privacy, Security, Ethics and Science (esp. Psychology)

2013-11-02

A few points about privacy from my perspective as a (social) scientist -- and where social scientists, esp. psychologists -- fail when it comes to data privacy issues.
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Finding passages that are the same in two documents with Microsoft Word

2013-11-01

A simple trick to quickly see which passages in two documents are the same -- with Word (not which have changed which is what you usually get with the compare documents function).
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Ever though of renting a safe-deposit box for your data?

2013-10-31

Your data are perhaps more valuable than your jewelry or money. Shouldn't they be in a bank?
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Incredible Design Skills — and a terrible explanation for the iOS7 design

2013-10-22

And suddenly the icon design in iOS 7 makes perfect sense (great video).
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College and Free Speech: Interesting interview by FIRE with Juan Williams

2013-10-22

Universities should be places to exchange ideas -- a good interview arguing this point via FIRE.
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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.