living_as_a_creative – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Mac Widgets – Show or Hide Widgets quickly via a Keyboard Shortcut

2025-04-13

MacOS desktop widgets are quite useful, there might be moments when you want to quickly hide your todo's or appointments. This can be achieved with a small Automator app and Spotlight.
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Getting honest and hard truths out of ChatGPT

2025-02-23

You can use ChatGPT to challenge your self-perception, if you ask for it.
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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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Recommendation: JD Vance at the AI Action Summit

2025-02-11

Interesting speech on treating AI as an opportunity, not as something to regulate into oblivion or to use for censorship.
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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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Impression of the «Brandmauer» (firewall) in Germany or rather German Politics

2025-01-05

Looking at the concept of the «Brandmauer» (firewall) in German politics that prevents a coalition with the AfD.
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Created Old

2025-01-04

Just a thought why creating an old universe might not be an act of deceit.

Image: Gab AI
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End of the Year Seven Day Fasting

2025-01-01

Using the time between the years for a seven-day water-tea-coffee fast.
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Calisca – A witty, incisive editor improving blog posts with forceful precision

2024-12-10

With ChatGPT (or similar Generative AI tools), you're no longer just the lone writer grappling with drafts—you can have your own digital co-author, editor, or «re-writer.»
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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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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.