impact – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Standards

2020-08-13 | Reading time: 4 minutes

I was recently reminded of a scene from "Prelude to Axanar" about integrity in difficult circumstances.
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Recommendation: Graham’s The Four Quadrants of Conformism

2020-08-01 | Reading time: 3 minutes

Paul Graham recently wrote a highly interesting essay on the four quadrants of conformism. Well worth reading.
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Recommendation: When Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on Everything

2020-08-01 | Reading time: 1 minute

Beautiful comedy video that sums of the similarity of woke people and hard-core racists.
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That Ballmer Peak

2020-07-25 | Reading time: 1 minute

I wonder ... does alcohol — in moderation — have a function?
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Blast from the Past #4: The Girl Who Played with the Wolves

2020-07-25 | Reading time: 7 minutes

A story I wrote when a (now former) friend of mine was ... under the spell of a rather shitty human being, and used me for balance. That story made me realize that it's sometimes better to let people ... fall.
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Blast from the Past #2 – Ainran

2020-07-25 | Reading time: Less than a minute

A different view on C. S. Lewis's Narnia.
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Take Care of Your Education – Heinlein’s “Have Spacesuit, Will Travel”

2020-07-06 | Reading time: 7 minutes

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 | Reading time: 3 minutes

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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Things Filter

2020-06-16 | Reading time: 1 minute

Your time is valuable — take care what you take in.

Image: Windows hourglass.
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How did this series get so dark so soon?

2020-06-16 | Reading time: 3 minutes

A short comment on the tendency of some series to really get dark quite quickly.

Image: "Penny Dreadful" (TV series)
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