know_yourself – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Online Censorship

2021-09-19 | Reading time: 1 minute

Hmm, seems like social media continues to remove opinions and viewpoints they do not like.
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Frequent Student Problem during the Creative Phase of a Project: Birch Solutions

2021-08-03 | Reading time: 1 minute

Just an observation that ... enough students to a pretty okay'ish analysis and then turn that fruitful playing field turns into one birch tree during the conception/conceptual design phase.
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Jordan Peterson on Alcohol

2021-06-06 | Reading time: Less than a minute

Jordan Peterson nails it on Alcohol.
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Recommendation: “Man’s Search For Meaning” by Viktor E. Frankl

2021-04-25 | Reading time: 3 minutes

Not easy to read, not that 'practical', but a recommended book on the role of meaning in life.
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Challenge to Improve

2021-01-30 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Don't weaken others by avoiding criticism.
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What is observation, what is interpretation?

2021-01-24 | Reading time: 3 minutes

What of the things we see and read is observation, what is interpretation, and is any attempt made to distinguish between the two?
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Seems like in Germany, 2020 ends not with a bang, but a whimper

2020-12-17 | Reading time: 4 minutes

So, the Germany government did not let a crisis go to waste and prohibited the sale of fireworks. And for someone who wants to see 2020 go up in smoke and ... loudness, that's a blow below the belt.
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Listening to differing opinions

2020-12-17 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Not as easy as it might appear ...
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Screw Optimists and Pessimists, be a Possibilist

2020-11-23 | Reading time: 3 minutes

An interesting quotation from Hans Rosling's "Factufulness".
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Since when is Sloth a Virtue?

2020-11-20 | Reading time: 4 minutes

Apparently we now live in a land in which sloth is a virtue, not a deadly sin. Time to break out and use that life ... better.
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