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Recommendation: Political correctness: A force for good? A Munk Debate

2018-05-22

A short shout-out to a brilliant debate on political correctness.
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Jonathan Haidt on Institutionalized Disconfirmation in Universities

2018-03-24

A short 10 minute clip of Jonathan Haidt regarding our confirmation biases and that we need others to cancel those out.
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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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Dystopian Story and Movie Recommendation: “Harrison Bergeron” and “2081”

2018-02-04

A while ago I stumbled upon a story by Kurt Vonnegut titled: "Harrison Bergeron". There is also a movie titled "2081" that really nails the story. Both are highly recommended in a world that confused equality of opportunity with equality of outcome.
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Getting interviewed by a hostile news person as an Academic: A best practice example

2018-01-18

A great example of a calm academic holding his own against a hostile interviewer with very strong preconceptions.
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Google, Diversity and Free Speech

2017-08-07

A short comment on a current outrage, although the topic will be with us for a while.
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Recommendation: The Red Pill

2017-03-11

Just a short recommendation of a very well-done documentary with an interesting creative history.
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Recommendation: Silenced. Our War On Free Speech (Movie)

2016-12-02

Censorship (by various means) is a recurring topic on this blog. I just watched the movie "Silenced" and can recommend it. It provides a nice overview.
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Standing Up for What You Believe In

2016-11-22

It's easy to say to want to be different. In reality, it's risky, gruesome, and you have to be willing to face 3 against 1 scenarios.
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Great talk by Jonathan Haidt: “Two incompatible sacred values in American universities”

2016-10-25

Watch this talk if you are interested in the current state of universities. Currently (mostly) in the US, but my guess is that it is spreading. And perhaps some inoculation (or at least choice) is still possible.
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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.