know_yourself – Page 19 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Soup!

2014-09-25

As a child, I hated soup. Now, I see the value and the creative potential in it.
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Social Justice Parasites

2014-09-24

An addendum to the last posting and a comment on "Social Justice Warriors", or rather: "Social Justice Parasites".

Image: by Gilles San Martin [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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Feynman Sexist Pig!

2014-09-20

An excerpt from an interesting book ... by one of the really great minds of science.
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Tim Minchin’s College Speech

2014-09-10

There's something to be said for comedians doing college/university speeches. Just listen in ...
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Making the best out of conferences

2014-09-05

Some tips on how to really use a conference -- and how to survive them.
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That Twitter grove deep in the woods

2014-09-04

Some remarks on addressing tweets to people who represent large online echo chambers.
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Keep your Sanity

2014-08-29

Some comments on how you can make your life a living hell -- and on how to keep your sanity.
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Responsibility to New Academic Hires

2014-08-28

Departments can shape or break you. But what is your responsibility to other PhDs and Post-Docs, if you work in a bad department, and they are just starting there?

Image: Somalia map from CIA World Book (see posting for the reason for this image)
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Science, Fraud, and the Flow of Data

2014-08-27

To be able to commit fraud in science, a person needs to have the opportunity to do so. In many cases this means exclusive access to the data. So let's have a look at a major red flag.
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Science! Inspire the Public or Expose the Muppets?

2014-08-26

Two very different YouTube videos with very different approaches to "educating the public".
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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.