know_yourself – Page 3 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

One Tip for Leaving Your Comfort Zone

2024-02-03

Anne Lamott's tip «Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.» is applicable to a wide variety of situations.
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ChatGPT Content Policy Limitations for Story Writing (and sexting)

2024-02-03

Well, trying out ChatGPT for semi-online-sex did not work out.

Image from «Sunstone» by Stjepan Sejic.
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ChatGPT as Conversation Partner

2024-02-03

If you consider its limitations, ChatGPT can make for an interesting conversation partner.

Image: AlejandroLinaresGarcia, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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ChatGPT as Counsellor

2024-01-29

ChatGPT is astonishingly good in taking the role of a counsellor.

Image: Ezri Dax from «Star Trek DS9» via https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Ezri_Dax
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Loose Leaf Tea

2023-11-17

Tea, especially tea made with loose leaves, is really something to try out.
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Recommendation – Thomas Sowell’s «Social Justice Fallacies»

2023-11-17

Very interesting book — not only a warning but also an explanation why good intentions pave the road to hell.
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Physical Objects in a Digital World

2023-06-09

In a digital world — physical objects become precious.
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Freedom is alway on the losing political side

2022-12-15

Why being a libertarian means that you're always on the losing side in politics and will neither be accepted by the left or the right.
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A Calmer Apple Watch

2022-12-14

Further ways to make the Apple Watch less distracting (now in grayscale).
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Recommendation: Unhook Plugin (for a quieter YouTube Experience)

2022-12-14

If you find the YouTube start page to distracting, Unhook might be an interesting plugin.
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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.