Touch the snake

Everyone is creative, by nature. Just unsuppress it by following [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bandura Albert Bandura]’s ‘Guided Mastery’. More: *[http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/how-to-build-your-creative-confidence/ MIT Sloan » How to Build Your Creative Confidence]

Formal Theory of Fun and Creativity

Text below is a raw dump of the notes I took while watching the talk. Formal Theory of Fun & Creativity, Jürgen Schmidhuber More on: *[http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/beauty.html Theory of Beauty » Facial Attractivness & Low-Complexity Art] *Google Search » Artificial Curiosity [03:35] ”’Novel patterns”’: sounds like a ”’paradox”’ to me. To compute Rint, two questions: What …

Scientific Proof of the Existence of God

Prachtig interview met [http://aardnoot.nl/Amit_Gosmwami Amit Goswami] over [http://www.wie.org/j11/goswami.asp Scientific Proof of the Existence of God]. Voor mij is de ”’essentie”’ nog steeds: :Consciousness matters™—and that’s all that matters En dat kan je dus ”’heel letterlijk”’ nemen. Zelfs het woord ”heel” uit de vorige zin krijgt daardoor voor mij meer waarde.

Lenige planning

De term ‘planning’ heeft behoorlijk verschillende betekenissen voor iedereen. Menig mens heeft er bijna een trauma aan overgehouden—met name van de strakke, dogmatische, volg-de-planning-of-ik-schiet-versie die met ijzeren hand gevolgd dient te worden. Tijd dus om ‘planning’ nieuw leven in te blazen en te ontdoen van haar negatieve lading. Voor mij betekent planning niets meer en …

Telekommunisten – the worker-owned telephone company

Worker Owned and Operated telekommunisten is controlled by it’s workers and committed to staying that way, we believe we can serve our customers best and at the lowest cost by remaining focused on meeting the needs of our employees and customers, not on profits for outside shareholders. Being worker-owned means that all the money you …

The Science Delusion?

Wonderful rebuttal by Deepak Chopra: [http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2007/09/deepaks_article.html The Science Delusion? Review of Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion]. Materialism vs. spiritualism and God. And resonating with [[Einstein’s God, or The Hopes for Secular Spirituality]]. Thank you Richard Dawkins, for writing your “The God Delusion” for it creates enormous attention for this ever important subject. You make people …

How to create Hot Crowds

[http://www.crowdsourcingdirectory.com/?p=57 How to create Hot Crowds]: Hot Groups are high performing teams with six characteristics: #Hot teams are highly dedicated to end results and are enthusiastic #They thrive on ridiculous deadlines and high hurdles to take #They are irreverent and non-hierarchical, playing around and having fun #They are made up of widely divergent disciplines and …

The Artist’s Way

‘k Las er gisteren over in [http://www.zinboek.nl/weblog/2007/07/09/mijn-creativiteitsmonster Mijn creativiteitsmonster] van [http://www.zinboek.nl/weblog André Meiresonne]: ”'[http://www.theartistsway.com/ The Artist’s Way]—A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”’ van [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Cameron Julia Cameron]. Kan ik vast veel van leren. Ook mee op vakantie. Ook bij [http://www.mystiek.nl/ Mystiek] gekocht. Engelstalig. €17.55.