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Taste and Burials

2020-05-01

Just some observations on the design of obituaries, urns and the like.
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A Life Not Written Down

2020-05-01

A short argument for going fishing.
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ICU’s

2020-04-19

Just a few thoughts about HCD and ICUs/dying.
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Needed Rule for Symposia: The Time-Keeper Speaks Last (and has only the remaining time)

2020-03-25

A common occurrence with scientific conferences — a speaker goes over her allotted time and no-one stops her. There could be a rather simple rules to stop this behavior.
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Ethics between Medicine, Psychology, and Media and Computer Science

2020-03-23

What are the ethical requirements when you want to use participants to find something out? Well, that varies widely according to the domain your are in.
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Paying attention to a current crisis to learn for the future

2020-03-22

As bad as things might be at the moment ... if you survive it, you might learn to survive even worse situations.

Image: From the movie "Tremors"
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What do you want your children to receive? At least the same — or more?

2020-03-22

What do you want to leave your children — the same, or more?

Image: Veronica Mars.
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Impotent Project Partners

2020-03-22

Probably a worst case scenario: You have a project partner who is impotent. Not regarding sex, but when it comes to his/her own organization. Even worse, that person is an eunuch — no amount of knowledge will help that person.

Image: Lord Varys from "Game of Thrones"
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Ethics and User Centered Design / User Experience

2020-03-22

Some — originally — late night thoughts on ethics and user centered design or user experience.

Image: MP from Reibert (1994)
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The Problem of Thinking Outside the Box

2020-03-22

Analyzing a failure to open a Japanese Puzzle Box -- due to looking for a too complicated solution.
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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.