program – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Solitude

2022-08-05 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Newport (2019) has a beautiful take on solitude.
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Was Excel once a creative product?

2022-08-05 | Reading time: Less than a minute

Stumbled upon an old Excel advertisement — interesting.
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Things vs OmniFocus

2022-07-26 | Reading time: 2 minutes

I switched from OmniFocus to Things. Seems to work out ... better.
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Developers Asking for an App Review – Two Methods

2022-07-26 | Reading time: 1 minute

There are at least two ways you can ask users of an app for reviews. One might lead to more reviews, but not the ones you like.
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Exporting macOS Podcasts

2022-05-07 | Reading time: 3 minutes

Apple’s macOS doesn’t make it easy to export podcasts from its app, but there are ways.
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Beautiful presentation about the viridis colormap

2022-04-17 | Reading time: 1 minute

You frequently need colors when you visualize data — but which colors? Beautiful presentation about the development of the viridis colormap.
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Digital Bullet Journal 2022

2021-12-26 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Not a fan of pen and paper bullet journals, but the digital version worked very well in 2021, and the new version hopefully will in 2022.
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Fun with R: The Tarkin Effect

2021-12-03 | Reading time: 1 minute

Saw it as a meme somewhere and recreated it with R.
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Presentation about Technology as Tool or Trap (in German)

2021-10-11 | Reading time: 1 minute

I recently did a presentation on whether technology is a tool or a trap. It covers Attention Economy, Gamification, Persuasive Technology, Nudging, and Dark Patterns. Unfortunately it's in German, but perhaps it's interesting as well.
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Shout-out to Gab.com, a social network with balls

2021-09-24 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Gab recently was put under pressure by the German government — and in contrast to other social networks, its CEO has balls.
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