living_as_a_creative

False Dichotomies (Presentation Slides, German)

2019-10-04 | Reading time: 1 minute

Slides (in German) about false dichotomies (a rhetorical fallacy), expanded to cover false moral dichotomies (going back to Haidt and referring Boghossian's and Lindsay's book «How to have impossible conversations»).
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Don’t let customer support try to justify design decisions

2019-09-21 | Reading time: 3 minutes

The conversation about the missing Three Panes View of DEVONthink 3 is an interesting example to me of how not to deal with customers.
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DEVONthink 3 — Where the heck is DEVONthink going?

2019-09-17 | Reading time: 4 minutes

DEVONthink 3 looks sleek (if colorless) and comes with new features. More important is what they ditched, and possibly whom.
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Looking at a Shadowrun Future — By political parties delegating censorship powers to corporations

2019-09-17 | Reading time: 1 minute

We are weary of censorship by the state. But unfortunately, censorship got delegated to private companies. Unfortunately for us ... and the state.

Image: Shadowrun Rulebook Cover Image.
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Wall Board (to get an overview of/plan projects and tasks)

2019-08-25 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Currently trying out a wall board to get an overview of/to plan projects and task.
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Idealistic Youth and (Social) Power

2019-08-10 | Reading time: 2 minutes

A short passage from a graphic novel struck a chord — there is a danger when idealistic youth get power beyond their years.
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Why Creativity is Incompatible with Collectivism/Socialism

2019-07-30 | Reading time: 16 minutes

A short comment on creativity and collectivism/socialism with a few (longer) quotations.
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The Right Kind of Wrong. Or: Using bad practice just because it’s industry standard.

2019-07-30 | Reading time: 1 minute

What do you do when something is "industry standard", but clearly inferior. Yet, you get into trouble when you do it better, because people don't recognize it as better?
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Affinity Publisher is available

2019-06-20 | Reading time: 1 minute

Affinity has just released it's InDesign Killer — Affinity Publisher. Worth a look.
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Regulating citizens to the mean (with an SD of 0)

2019-06-05 | Reading time: 5 minutes

There are currently a few ... interesting developments that cast a deep shadow on future creativity. At least, that how it appears to me. It’s not that the situation is a problem now, but there is a trend, and I don’t like where it leads.
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