planning – Page 11 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

The Replacement Infrastructure

2010-07-06

Plan for disaster while you still have the infrastructure to plan for disaster.
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Quick Calculation to Check the Amount of Time and Effort Needed

2010-06-30

Before you start doing something long-term in earnest, perhaps it's time to estimate how long it will take. A suggestion that stopped me from doing something ... not-very-intelligent.
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Give yourself more work space with Spaces

2010-06-28

You can easily vastly extend your screen real estate with spaces (Mac OS X). Very, very useful, esp. on small notebooks.
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Good Ideas for Birthday Gifts

2010-06-18

Do you want to give good birthday gifts? Not expensive, but ... suiting. Here's a good way to ensure that your gifts are special.
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Prepare — then let it happen

2010-04-20

There's much to be said for planning -- if you can forget about afterwards.
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How are they using it?

2010-04-19

When you develop a solution, have a look at how people are using it. I did program an App that worked well, only the user did not understand how it was supposed to be used and here improvements ... well, read on.
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Whistleblowing

2010-04-14

Some comments on Wikileaks, resistance and tips for whistleblowing.
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Delegating the hard (or tedious) stuff

2010-03-31

You don't have to do all parts of a creative project -- some things are better delegated to professionals.
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Effective and Ineffective Workgroup Meetings

2010-02-16

A comparison of meetings that work well and those that do not -- on multiple criteria.
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PostDoc RoadMap

2010-02-04

How do you plan your post-doc phase? Here's a suggestion. (Update: Looking at it four years later, I think it's too detailed and optimistic. And it needed better feedback.)
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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.