worst_cases – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Frequent Student Problem during the Creative Phase of a Project: Birch Solutions

2021-08-03 | Reading time: 1 minute

Just an observation that ... enough students to a pretty okay'ish analysis and then turn that fruitful playing field turns into one birch tree during the conception/conceptual design phase.
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Strategic Dissertation Time

2021-08-03 | Reading time: 1 minute

If you look at your PhD — how much time do you actually have for it? An inspiration from a Coursera Course.
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Unread Books as Gifts to Authors

2021-08-03 | Reading time: 2 minutes

I stopped thinking about unread books as anything negative. I almost all cases, I like the author or story idea enough to buy them. So why not consider it a gift/donation/feedback to the author?
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Bad Ad Campaign for a Political Party

2021-08-03 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Uhh-ha. It's easy to criticize, but some campaign ads are just ... holla. (short rant)
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Downloading YouTube Videos (August 2021 Update)

2021-08-03 | Reading time: 1 minute

Hmmm, I thought the YouTube Download Site y2mate.com was broken (got an out of business message), so I look for a working way to download YouTube Videos. Seems it works, but given that I found another way, here it is.
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Getting a Realistic (if painful) Impression

2021-06-28 | Reading time: 1 minute

It pays to see how well things perform if you actually use them, even if it pains you and you cannot really see anything if you try.
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Two further Covid-19 predictions for the second half of 2021 (in Germany)

2021-06-15 | Reading time: 4 minutes

No really suiting for this blog, except, where is creativity without freedom? Here are two predictions that I hope will turn out wrong.
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Jordan Peterson on Alcohol

2021-06-06 | Reading time: Less than a minute

Jordan Peterson nails it on Alcohol.
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Where are the Covid-19 jokes?

2021-06-02 | Reading time: 1 minute

I was recently reminded that there is a lack of Covid-19 jokes, probably because — as one person put it — 99.99% wouldn't get it. Still, a few ones did crop up. And this is a nice one, if time travel were possible — how would you explain 2020/2021 to your former self?
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A Few Further Thoughts on Covid

2021-05-07 | Reading time: 5 minutes

A few comments about the ... sigh ... still ongoing pandemic. More as a reminder for myself.
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