worst_cases – Page 26 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Removing tiny distractions

2021-01-06

Especially in creative sessions, it might be nice to remove those tiny distractions. The grain of sand in your eye, sabotaging your attention.
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YouTube just nuked my Account

2020-12-21

Yeah, not that surprised.
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Fuck that advertisement in YouTube Videos

2020-12-21

As an addendum to that posting about ruining your message with advertisements — it's gotten worse.
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Seems like in Germany, 2020 ends not with a bang, but a whimper

2020-12-17

So, the Germany government did not let a crisis go to waste and prohibited the sale of fireworks. And for someone who wants to see 2020 go up in smoke and ... loudness, that's a blow below the belt.
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Listening to differing opinions

2020-12-17

Not as easy as it might appear ...
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Covid Regulations Side Effects

2020-12-04

There are interesting ways you can profit from Corona Regulations — let's take supermarkets as an example.
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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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An UN Controlled Earth makes for really scary Sci-Fi in “The Expanse”

2020-11-23

Fuck Aliens, there is something much, much worse than "In Space No One Can Hear You Scream" — when you scream, and you're just one of millions. A mere statistic.
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Let’s Upgrade to a prior, better version of DEVONthink for Big Sur

2020-11-23

Upgraded my Mojave Mac to Big Sur ... and still using DEVONthink Pro Office 2.11.3.
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Screw Optimists and Pessimists, be a Possibilist

2020-11-23

An interesting quotation from Hans Rosling's "Factufulness".
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This is a private blog showing my opinions. If you have an issue with what I write here, either don’t read it or talk to me directly. Don’t waste your time — or mine — dragging my employer into matters where they hold no authority.

The institution I work for, or rather the people officially representing it, have already distanced themselves from this blog. I find this unnecessary, as I’ve clearly stated in the «About this Blog» section that this is a personal blog.

Frankly, I have nothing but contempt for those who lack the backbone to address their concerns directly and instead resort to passive-aggressive tattling to others. Such behavior strikes me as not only cowardly, but also spineless, gutless, and wholly unprincipled. Moreover, these efforts are as pathetic as they are futile.

That said, I might listen if you present compelling arguments and evidence, as constructive feedback is always welcome. Who knows? We might even both gain something valuable from the interaction.

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.