impact – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

A solution to the «The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions» Issue

2025-06-15

As the road to hell is paved with good intentions, you should test your good with the same rigor as you test others' harm.
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Being a real Learner again

2025-05-25

Some short reflections on being a learner in a subject for which I have no talent or prior knowledge.
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Three Way Mirror — or ChatGPT Persona Future You Prediction

2025-05-01

ChatGPT can show you three different future you's — the way you are on, the way when your strengths win, and the way when your weaknesses win. And help you devise a strategy to take the winning path.
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Cancelled Workshop on Viewpoint Diversity in HCI

2025-04-11

A workshop proposal about viewpoint diversity that — unfortunately — I cannot do at the moment and had to retract. In my opinion it is too good to vanish on some hard drive.
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Recommendation: JD Vance Speech at the Munich Security Conference

2025-02-14

A great speech by JD Vance about the dangers to democracy lurking within.
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Two Reactions to being Fooled

2025-01-17

When fake news and political gaslighting are exposed, how do people react? Do they dig in deeper to avoid admitting they were wrong — or find the courage to break free?
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Recommendation: Jordan Peterson and Lee Jussim

2025-01-07

Very interesting interview if you are interested in psychology, left-wing authoritarianism, and dealing with cancel mobs.
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ChatGPT as Coach

2025-01-04

Judging by some really helpful conversations with ChatGPT, yes, it can be used as a coach, within reason.

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When Remembrance Rings Hollow

2024-12-10

Ethics aren't for easy moments—they're for the inconvenient ones. What happens when society sings the song of ‘never again' while walking the first steps down a dark path once more? Well, we got an impression.
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My AIs don’t do small talk — or: Conversation with Attractiveness Analyzer turned to Grief Counseling turned to voices in head

2024-09-15

Part of a ChatGPT conversation that turned from rating people in photos to a super-serious grief counseling to dealing with voices in the head.
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This is a private blog showing my opinions. If you have an issue with what I write here, either don’t read it or talk to me directly. Don’t waste your time — or mine — dragging my employer into matters where they hold no authority.

The institution I work for, or rather the people officially representing it, have already distanced themselves from this blog. I find this unnecessary, as I’ve clearly stated in the «About this Blog» section that this is a personal blog.

Frankly, I have nothing but contempt for those who lack the backbone to address their concerns directly and instead resort to passive-aggressive tattling to others. Such behavior strikes me as not only cowardly, but also spineless, gutless, and wholly unprincipled. Moreover, these efforts are as pathetic as they are futile.

That said, I might listen if you present compelling arguments and evidence, as constructive feedback is always welcome. Who knows? We might even both gain something valuable from the interaction.

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.