living_as_a_creative – Page 40 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Book Recommendation: BITE: Recipes for Remarkable Research

2014-05-29

A very good book (cover left) on possible strategies to improve one's research productivity ... and happiness.
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How About an Ice-Cold Drink in the Office, or the Library?

2014-05-25

A cool tip for the summer: Using a thermos flask to have ice cubes available in the office (or the library, if this is the place you work). WARNING: Don't shake the contents too hard and for ... sake, take one with a metal interior!!!!
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Jotting Down Ideas in the Workplace … With Some Style

2014-05-23

Trying to jot down notes with more style by putting a post-it block in a Moleskine notebook. Cheap paper, sticks to walls, and it looks cool. Or could have looked cool.
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How about a DIY standing desk?

2014-05-15

Ergonomic working conditions? Perhaps standing is the better solution -- some ideas and references to experiences and IKEA hacks.
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With self-reflection, take small doses only.

2014-05-13

When you use your idea infrastructure for the most personal project ever -- improving yourself -- take care not to take in too much too fast.
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The Sweet Thorn of Madness in Creativity

2014-04-30

Reflection on the tradeoff between madness and creativity, and why being mad is not as good as it might seem, even if the ideas flow.
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Interesting Debate: “The State of Free Speech in America”

2014-04-29

Reference to a very interesting discussion on YouTube about free speech, and a few thoughts on it.
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The arrogance of “rebels”

2014-04-21

Some comments on leftist's arrogant and stupid criticism on mindless consumerism.
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The Joy of Not Knowing Beforehand

2014-04-19

When was the last time you were really surprised by a book or a movie, because you did not have the slightest idea what it would be about? Some thoughts on the topic. (image on the left: Preview screen of Doctor Who episodes)
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Change needs experience

2014-04-14

Why old(er) people might have an advantage when it comes to being creative -- if they learn to use it.
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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.