skills – Page 9 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Lab Coat Envy and the White Room

2010-04-15

Psychology and other "soft" sciences seem to have a lab coat envy. Some comments (and a rant).
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Recommended Books for Scientific Writing

2010-04-14

Three very good texts about scientific writing. Short description and links.
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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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Crimes of Translation

2010-02-15

There's a place where creativity is not needed -- in translations. At least beyond expressing what the author meant. Unfortunately, at least from English to German, there are a lot of failed "creative" people at work here. A rant with soul-shredding examples.
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Recommendation: TEDTalk – Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity

2010-02-04

Incredible talk -- not only the content but also the performance.
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Who is strong enough to kill his children?

2010-02-01

A few words on editing text -- why you need a good "no-bullshit" editor, and a safe place for your kids.
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Wanting to appear competent vs. being competent

2010-02-01

When feedback about a presentation was ... completely misunderstood and turned into a real fuck-up, I began to think about competence and how some people seem to chose appearance over performance.
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I can’t draw — who cares?

2010-01-14

The Internet can show you people who can draw brilliantly, and people who have ideas. And sometimes you notice that you do not need to draw brilliantly to convey your ideas.
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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.