living_as_a_creative – Page 27 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

MetaNook Presentation (German): Wissenschaftliches Schreiben im Studium: Oder: Wie schreibe ich das verdammte Teil bloß?

2017-11-17

A 45 minute presentation in German about scientific writing.
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Deliberate Practice — Or: How to invest that 10000 hours you need to become an expert in something

2017-11-01

Nice piece of information from a lecture on expertise — the role of deliberate practice. Without using click-bait abstracts, but there are four characteristics deliberate practice (to acquire a skill) should fulfill.
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Online Presentation [Broken English]: Scientific Writing

2017-10-14

An online version of a presentation I did a while ago — this version is in broken English. Probably doing another take with less accent, more clarity.
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Online Presentation [German]: Wissenschaftliches Schreiben

2017-10-14

An online version of a presentation I did a while ago — this one is in German.
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Google, Diversity and Free Speech

2017-08-07

A short comment on a current outrage, although the topic will be with us for a while.
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The uncanny valley of the user-tool-fit: Or why an almost perfect tool is worse than a so-so tool

2017-07-16

A short note on why a tool that is far from perfect might be better than an almost perfect tool.
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Great Vidcast: Aydin Paladin on YouTube

2017-07-06

Stumbled upon a great vidcast — worth listening to.
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You can’t kill human creativity.

2017-06-21

Sometimes, there are just tiny things that make you smile. Especially when related to mankind's drive to be creative.
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Eating Well in Times of Stress or Bad Food at Work

2017-06-21

If you don't have the opportunity to eat well at work, why not prepare a Bento box? It doesn't take long and it doesn't have to be Japanese. Any content works.
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A Digital Bullet Journal with Apple’s Keynote

2017-04-14

Stumbled upon Bullet Journals. Seem nice, but given my handwriting, I go for a digital journal. And yeah, with Apple's presentation tool – Keynote.
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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.