social – Page 25 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Chosing the right battles

2013-12-01

When it comes to discussions, don't try to convince the extremists on the other side. There are better, more relevant and actually attainable people to convince: the juicy middle.
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Building a Cathedral — The Academic Version

2013-11-28

A look at the popular metaphor on building a cathedral -- by translating it into Academia (yup, a rant).
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How to spot a competent, honest, and upright expert

2013-11-27

Five easy criteria to identify experts, (almost) no matter the area of knowledge.
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Scientific Community #4 — Concluding Remarks

2013-11-23

Summary and three crucial issues when it comes to (correctly) seeing science as social endeavor.
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Scientific Community #3 — Analyzing the Literature to find out more about the Community

2013-11-22

If you want to get into a scientific community without having a supervisor or colleague helping you along, you're pretty much screwed. But there are some things you can do.
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Scientific Community #2 — Getting Into the Community the Right Way

2013-11-21

Tips on getting into the scientific community include some things about yourself, your presentation, supervisors, conferences and more.
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Scientific Community #1 – The Scientific Method is People

2013-11-20

Science is people, not a method. Some needed information for young scientists, including emotions and the benefits that, after a while, scientists die.
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Dealing with hindsight-bias: Or, how to avoid people telling you that it wasn’t that hard to do once they hear the solution.

2013-11-19

Sometimes you find out things that seem obvious in retrospect. Here are a few ways to deal with this situation to avoid cheapen your work and get others to think and see.
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Ideology and Laws

2013-11-18

A few comments on a quota for women (for high status jobs only of course), and why it is a very, very VERY bad idea (to put it nicely).
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Rethinking Presentation Software (non-Prezi Style)

2013-11-17

Presentations have a very long tradition (see image left), but there is little creativity. And I don't mean using effects where you need barf bags. So, how about thinking of doing things differently?
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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.