worst_cases – Page 84 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Dissertation Crisis — Past the Mountain

2010-05-10

In many PhD theses, you come to the point where everything seems like a failure and your self-confidence is just shattered. That's normal. Read and bugger on.
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There’s a Worm in Apple

2010-04-25

An Apple rant. And a suggestion for feedback.
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Where is personal mentoring going?

2010-04-22

Nothing is as needed and nothing is as hard to find. Especially today.
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How are they using it?

2010-04-19

When you develop a solution, have a look at how people are using it. I did program an App that worked well, only the user did not understand how it was supposed to be used and here improvements ... well, read on.
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Whistleblowing

2010-04-14

Some comments on Wikileaks, resistance and tips for whistleblowing.
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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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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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Too late, too late, too late — oh, well ;-)

2010-01-29

Sometimes you have a great idea, or want to see something realized that you saw in a movie, and then you notice that it already exists. Yeah. :-)
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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.