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Fuck Motivation, make behavior easier

2021-04-24

An observation about students designing apps — they seem to be preoccupied with motivation, instead of making things easier.
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Recommendation: The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

2021-01-31

Something that many computer science students lack — command of the basic tools. This MIT course teaches the basics.
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A Notability-based Digital Bullet Journal on a Tablet — Best of Both Worlds?

2021-01-06

If you like to use a bullet journal, but do not like the disadvantages of paper — why not use a tablet and keep a digital handwritten journal. Essentially the best of both worlds. (An idea in progress.)
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Exporting ical Calendar Entries

2020-12-08

End of the year, time for a calendar cleanup. Here's an R script that transforms .ics entires into easy to read logbook text entries.
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Syspolicyd, Periodically High CPU Load, Reading Huge Amounts of Data, on Mac Big Sur (and likely Catalina as well)

2020-12-02

After installing Big Sur, I noticed a periodically high CPU load, and later found out that huge amounts of data (2.8 TB, yep, *T*B) were read from the HDD within a short amount of time. Turns out, it's very very likely some unsigned .pkg files from gog.com were to blame.
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iPad 5 mini — Ideal reading and note taking everywhere device

2020-11-20

I tried out an iPad 5 mini, and waow, that tablet has just the right size factor. Finding a case is hell, though.
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Blockchain Explained (German Video)

2020-09-18

I played around with LEGO(TM) to try to explain blockchain. I'll probably do an English version as well, but here's the German one first.
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Great book about doing statistics with R

2020-09-07

Recently stumbled upon a great website/book on doing statistics with R.
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Citing R and RStudio

2020-08-11

The software is great — well worth giving credit for. And damn, they make it easy.
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Reading Books with Notability and GoodReader

2020-07-25

Recently switched to Notability for Note-Taking on the iPad. It works very well for making notes when reading books as well.
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Besides Blog Postings about multiple topics, the draft version of the third edition of “Organizing Creativity” is freely available as PDF here.

Get the book (yup, free to download :-))

The worksheets to the book are currently being created. The ones that are ready in version 1 are:

Best regards

Daniel

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.