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"Creativity is intelligence having fun" - Albert Einstein
1. 5 Quick Productivity Tips for Busy Solopreneurs
Not only do these productivity tips work, they also rhyme for easy recall.
2. How To Choose Your Next Username: 7 Creative Ways to Hack a Great Handle
If you decide to take your online personas seriously, here are seven fun ways to help answer the question:
3. Coding Is More Creative Than You Might Think
Coming from a creative background, people often look quite puzzled when I tell them I’m a Full Stack Developer. It seems the stigma of the maths-obsessed programmer is still fairly prominent in most social circles. However, when I explain that coding is actually… quite creative, puzzled expressions turn into intrigue.
4. 5 Quick Hacks for High Converting Landing Pages
I’ve seen quite some landing pages come by on indiehackers.com by now and I noticed that I wanted to give/gave the same tips multiple times. So I thought it would be nice to write a small article about this. These are just tips from my point of view and things I like about a landing page personally.
5. Create a LEDs-powered Cloud! ☁️⚡️✨
At Prynt, we have creativity days, we work on everything we want for few days. I believe this is really important to have some time you can work on something else for your company. A colleague did some art paint in our office, another create slack emoji of everyone in the company, I decided to create this cloud with the help of some colleagues (by the way, we name it Claudie).
6. I Asked AI to Write Poems and Raps – Here Are the Results
I told AI to Write Poems and Raps – Here are The Results of Human-AI collaboration.
7. Creative Automation is Shaking Up the Digital Marketing Game
Creative automation is the idea of using technology to customize video or banner ads into thousands of variations in minutes. It removes repetitive manual work.
8. Creativity is the Heart of Cybersecurity
Insights from a Q&A with Deflect’s Founder, Kevin Voellmer
9. How to be Bored (the Right Way)
Boredom is one of the biggest problems of modernity. Or is it?
10. I Built a Neuralink App Concept After Elon Musk’s Latest Joe Rogan Podcast
I decided to design a Neuralink concept app after watching Elon Musk’s latest chat on Joe Rogan’s podcast. Context: Neuralink is one of the companies Elon Musk works on. They're developing skull implants that connect to the brain to restore certain body functions that were lost through injury or health complications.
11. How To Use The Ikigai Concept to Find Purpose Amidst Chaos
A guide to find meaning and purpose in your life in the most unlikely circumstances, including a global pandemic, through Ikigai.
12. In the Absence of the NBA, Why Not Compete to Hack a Better Zendesk?
It’s hard to know what to build. If you’re lucky enough to find a good problem, you’re still a long way from your first customer and even longer from success.
13. 10,000+ Personalized Business Ideas Using Heuristics
Heuristics are used by Nature (and some computer scientists) to solve really difficult problems.
14. Meet NORN: The AI-Powered Robot Who Can Paint Masterpieces
NORN uses paints, canvases, and brushes, just like the rest of us, to create his works of art. This talented robot was the invention of two data scientists from Moscow and Altai, Russia.
15. The Artistic Singularity: How AI Art Redefines Creativity
If art serves to create beauty, evoke emotions or drive narratives, should the matter of how it comes to exist take from or add to its creative essence?
16. Exploring The 5 Stages of The Design Thinking Process
Companies today have global exposure. Unlike earlier times, where competition among similar brands and businesses was restricted to a certain specific geographical area, competition today is on a global scale.
17. The SANDBOX Will Lead The Decentralized Storytelling Revolution
Blockchain gaming and platforms like The Sandbox will open up game development to a wider audience of storytellers than ever before. Viva La Revolution!
18. Creative Applications for Artists: Let's Build More of Them
I’ve been in a creative slump lately. I think this is a common but rarely discussed problem for people who transition from arts careers into programming. On one hand, having a well paying remote job means you don’t have to worry about being a starving artist and probably still have some free time to make art. On the other hand, there can be periods of time where work takes up all your time and you don’t have the energy at the end of the day to make art.
19. The Importance of Unlearning
The world of software is constantly changing at a very fast pace. Yesterday’s axioms might be tomorrow’s anti-patterns.
20. What it Means to be a Creative Coder
Programmers rarely agree on whether or not coding is a creative profession. My interest in coding always stemmed from what I could create with the code. Seeing an interesting visual result from my efforts is usually the most satisfying part. Most programmers are less concerned with how their app looks and more concerned with the functionality. Usually, as long as the app works the way it is supposed to, most programmers are satisfied.
21. How To Take Notes So Good They Become Your Second Brain
Today, we consume more information per person than at any other time in human history. We are continually reading, observing, monitoring, conversing and mentally trying to build a knowledge of the world we can use in our daily work and lives. The problem? The disparity between the total quantity of human knowledge and our ability to assimilate and filter it grows, unremittingly, by the day.
22. Forget What You See on TV: Good Ideas Don’t Come From Brainstorming
The reality of brainstorming sessions is far from the idealized scenes made to entertain us.
23. Amsterdam's Online Corona Exhibition is a Crowdsourced Covid-19 Time Capsule
"An Online Exhibition About Amsterdam in the Age of Corona: In the digital exhibition Corona in the City, the Amsterdam Museum – with many partners – shows the impact of the corona virus on the city of Amsterdam and its inhabitants. Hundreds of Amsterdammers and Amsterdam organisations share their photos, videos, texts and audio fragments about this period in this exhibition. From moving reports of distant visits to loved ones to still photographs of the empty city; from poignant messages from the vital sectors to creative imaginations of life in quarantine."
24. Creativity in Digital Marketing and Technology: How to Stand Out
Everything that involves marketing has to do with how it is being perceived by the consumer. If it is appealing enough to the consumers, you get a click.
25. How To Improve Your Concentration and Focus
The World is full of distractions, the more you try to ignore a string of distractions the more you find yourself tangled in those strings of distraction. We are never taught how to manage our time nor our finance. It is the thing that we have to manage or learn on our own. The truth is people actually never learn to manage their time. They just do things whatever they have or according to their priorities. But within these priorities, people tend to get lost in their thoughts, urges, or fictional societies. In between these priorities, it’s really complicated to stay focused and do things. We easily get lost and get distracted. Staying focused for a longer time is tough for your brain. Especially when you are doing intensive work or in short the thing that releases a few dopamines.
26. Hydra Tutorial For Live Coding Visuals
In my last post I wrote about the first session of SpacyCloud’s Live Twitch stream from two weeks ago. The twitch stream was an all day event where the first half of the day consisted of a variety of workshops around creative coding topics, while the second half featured performances from various audio visualization artists and creative coders. Unfortunately I could not attend all the events, but I wanted to write in detail about both the Hydra event and P5JS event. You can read the P5JS post here. Now let’s dive into some live coding visuals!
27. What Holds Back Innovation?
Many innovations need time to catch on because of our resistance and scepticism to a novel way to accomplish things.
28. 5 Strategies for Shifting a Fixed Mindset to a Growth Mindset
How do you approach failures in life?
29. The Sandbox: A Decentralized Virtual Gaming World
This article gives you an introduction to The Sandbox ecosystem, the decentralized multi-platform multiplayer virtual gaming world. The article describes the cooperation between players, creators, and artists in The Sandbox, and provides information on how blockchain technology backs up the whole thing.
30. Making a Music Visualization with P5JS
I had the immense pleasure of attending several creative coding workshops on April 4th. They were streamed live on the SpacyCloud Twitch channel. There were additional sessions involving Hydra, Raspberry Pi, Haskell, and more. However for this post I want to focus on the first session which was a P5JS tutorial. In this post I hope to translate the P5JS tutorial into a written format, for posterity and to share what I learned. I'm going to review what was taught in the live session. Hopefully SpacyCloud will have another live stream in the future so I can catch up on what I missed. Here is the landing page for the event schedule.
31. 10 Business Models, 10 Companies, 10 New Ways of Working In A Pandemic
Covid-19 has revealed and keeps revealing holes in the economic and healthcare infrastructures worldwide as it spread and invades countries mercilessly. The gap between the rich and poor has become more obvious, especially in well-developed countries. The number of job losses in two weeks exceeded 10 million in the U.S. alone.
32. The Noonification: Same Money, More Problems (8/23/2022)
8/23/2022: Top 5 stories on the Hackernoon homepage!
33. Mind Mapping, Creative Thinking, And The Augmented Reality (AR) Technologies Driving Them
Scientists have dedicated centuries to studying our brain, trying to understand how this super-powerful computer is wired, how it comprehends the world, testing the limits of its capabilities.
34. Does IQ Affect Creativity?
Are you wondering if the intelligence quotient affects creativity? We have the answer for you here. Read more!
35. The Noonification: Technology Is Killing Creativity
The Noonification by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our top 5 stories of the day.
36. How Tech Helped This Entrepreneur Reshape The Music Industry
What a year 2020 has been! We have endured a deadly pandemic, a failing global market, and a series of civil unrests unlike any we’ve ever seen before. And as we draw closer to the end of the year, a lot of individuals have adapted to the new normal.
37. Is ChatGPT Sentient?
While Chat GPT can create pieces of text that sound competent in many fields, its field of know-how only goes as far as its training data set.
38. AI + Creativity: Startup Interview with Olof Lindh, Kive.ai Founder
Kive is a smarter way for creatives to automatically organize their libraries and collaborate on the creative process.
39. The Step-by-step Process to Creating Effective Corporate Explainer Videos
Let’s talk today about "How to Create Effective Explainer Videos". What are the types of explainer videos and how to make them for video marketing
40. ART + AI
The idea that AI can infiltrate the field of art is frightening and rightfully so. While it has been no secret that AI can definitely replace blue-collar jobs and possibly threaten white-collar jobs, the idea that it can impact the livelihood of artists isn’t one that the media has foretold, nor have dystopian movies explored. However, we can see early traces of AI in art. It has slowly seeped into written literature, journalism, paintings and even music.
41. 'If We Don’t Systematically Re/Up-Skill, We're Condemned to Become Irrelevant': Roxana Murariu
It is remarkable how Alvin Toffler predicted in the 1970s this trend of reinventing ourselves periodically through learning, unlearning, and relearning: Roxana.
42. Innovation Management Software: The Key 8 Differentiators in 2021
There has been a huge influx of creativity in the innovation management software space. You must take a look at these differentiating features.
43. Is Automation in Web Development Replacing Human Creativity?
As a creative person who values the human touch in my work, I've started to question whether automation in web development is really the best way forward.
44. Meet the Writer Roxana Murariu: "We Craft our Identities Based on our Tribes"
Meet Roxana Murariu, a web developer, children's book lover, and a Hacker Noon contributor. Sharing her writing and many other tips in Meet the Writer interview
45. Why a Career in Motion Graphics Is a Good Option for Tech Savvy Students in 2023
Today, there’s no shortage of roles in the tech space for young aspiring professionals to pursue. From becoming a coder with a lucrative salary to an app developer with room to grow at a company, there are seemingly endless career options for students interested in technological processes.
46. 7 Most Valuable Soft Skills Of Exceptional Software Engineers
When we think about software engineering, we tend to think about the technical skill set of the professional first. And this makes sense because the skill set defines the quality of work that the software engineer can perform-and make no mistake, quality comes above everything in software development.
47. Good Strategy, Bad Vision? Product Management Paradoxes — Part I
There is a recurrent thread going on in tech circles that contrasts 1) the philosophical approach of companies that have adopted the lean startup practice of rapid customer development cycles, and pivoting with your learnings, vs 2) companies that are thesis-driven, have a big mission and are relentless in pursuing it, bending reality to their will — using examples of product visionaries like Jobs, Gates and Musk.
48. Is Creative Commons a Panacea for Managing Digital IPs? (Introduction)
Along with an increasing number of digital scholarships, open access became a preferred, more affordable model for scholarly communication in the US.[1] In particular, digital humanists envision a sharing culture that digital contents and tools can be widely distributed through open access licenses.[2] Creative Commons (CC) licenses, with their promise to provide simple ways to grant permissions to creative works, became top options for many digital humanities to handle intellectual property rights in the US.
49. Metaphors are Water: The Hidden Power of Thinking in Metaphors
In essence, metaphors are water. The container determines the metaphor’s shape.
50. Generative AI Helps Artists Expand the Boundaries of Their Imagination
Artists in fields ranging from writing and painting to music and interior design are using new AI tools to redefine the whole notion of creativity
51. A.I. For Online Content Creation: How Far Have They Come?
It's now possible to let A.I. write your online content and boost your success. How to use Sudowrite to be your writing coach and motivator to create content.
52. Getting Started With the Cult of Cognitive Walking
Doing our best creative work sometimes means tricking ourselves into leaving our minds alone. Here are six things to try while walking to achieve this.
53. How to Win Pitch Competitions Against People Using ChatGPT
It’s not surprising that people in the industry are advocating the use of ChatGPT for writing or editing a pitch script.
54. Searching For Unknowns: Captain's log 001
My name is captain Smith and I am the only pilot aboard Prometheus 042. We were sent into space roughly 13 billion years ago and our mission is to find the answer to the ultimate question - what is the meaning of life?
55. Incorporating Art into Engineering by Introducing the STEAM Approach
There is a perception that science, technology, and the arts are separate vocations. The STEAM approach incorporates the arts and sciences.
56. 4 Things a Dev Should Know Besides Coding
Today’s overwhelming and unlimited access to information, in the broadest sense, courtesy of the Internet, often leaves us unable to isolate the noise. There is a lot of it. Should I learn X, or Y? Or is Z more worth it to spend time on, since insert group of people have been using that?
57. Ayesha Mubarak Ali: A Pakistani Digital Artist Setting New Horizons with Her Unique Work
Today’s rapidly evolving technological advancements and inventions have given a new meaning to the field of arts.
58. ChatGPT 4.0 Finally Gets a Joke
Reasoning: ChatGPT4.0 got the joke, ChatGPT3.5 did not Creativity: ChatGPT4.0 does a better job. Analytics: ChatGPT4.0 is a better programer than ChatGPT3.5
59. Innovation Management Software: The Key 8 Differentiators in 2021
There has been a huge influx of creativity in the innovation management software space. You must take a look at these differentiating features.
60. 5 Tips to Foster Workplace Creativity
To foster creative thinking in the workplace, there are many ways you can do so. These techniques create an environment that promotes and boosts creativity!
61. Creativity and Problem Solving is Required at Every Level
Many times, the best problem solvers in an organization never get a chance to contribute their creativity, so a lot of potential goes undiscovered.
62. On Creativity, Starting Out on My Own, and My 2021 Noonies Nomination
Hua is a designer and entrepreneur based in New York City. She shares her journey in founding her startup below.
63. Meet the Writer: "I hope to help people with my writing," says Contributor Amy Shah, Physician
Amy Shah is a physician-writer whose latest Hacker Noon Top story was an interview with a blind software developer.
64. HackerNoon Haiku
The Way of the CybeRonin
65. The Past Cannot be Changed: Interview with Noonies Nominee MAstilleroF
Escapes from "bureaucratic thinking", a (very) harmful way of thinking.
66. "The Monetary System Is Completely Screwed Up", Interview with Vesa Kivinen
The 2020 #Noonies are here, and they are both much greener and much bigger than last year.
67. How a Gift Sparked a Creative Revolution
A look at how a simple tif sparked a creative movement that changed history, giving us several iconic styles and brands.
68. 10 Ideas to Create a Daily Writing Habit
This writing discusses ways to reduce barriers to creating a daily writing habit.
69. The Number Mistake Everyone Makes in School
Let’s take a look at my younger self:
70. Startup Mantras (Not the "HBS" Kind)
I used to think mission statements were laughably gratuitous and "frou-frou". Over time I realized a good mantra can save your company.
71. Sustaining Our Creativity through Managing Multiple Projects
Cross-pollination between projects is a reliable method to recharge our creativity.
72. TRIZ in Blockchain: Creative Thinking Technology
TRIZ is a theory and process that facilitates creative problem-solving. With the challenges imposed by the new system, TRIZ might be the tool needed to help.
73. Content is Only King When it Sells
4 Tips for creating content that sells in 2020.
74. A New, Scientific Definition of Creativity
A practical definition of creativity that can be used to massively improve your own creativity levels.
75. How Digital Democracy Empowers Today's Creators Economy
As technology advances and becomes more accessible to the masses, it must be used to get voices heard while improving governance.
76. How the Quest for AI Could Make Us More Human
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly becoming a dominant part of everyday life. Whether you are aware of it or not, intelligent algorithms are all around us, trying to predict and understand you so they can help make your life easier in some way.
77. How to Determine the Relative Smartness Level of a City
To determine the relative smartness level of a city, there are several indicators that have been defined to arrive as such a number. These indicators, among many others, are:
78. Find Your Creativity Muse Amidst the Noise of Life
Why we need to make time to visit our own depths of thought.
79. How to Take Your Social Media Visuals to Another Level This Summer
Thanks to the novel coronavirus, the main way for most of us to hang out with friends and family this year has been online. Online multiplayer gaming and online watch parties became 2020’s big social occasions, as the only ways you can get together without risk of infection. Individuals sheltering in place, especially younger people who are more likely to live alone, are searching online for a new sense of community.
80. A Hyper-Connected World
Sometimes, just sometimes, our hyper-connecting mind will lead to astounding discoveries that will forever alter the way we live.
81. Reanimating the forgotten skill of brainstorming: 4 ways to brainstorm remotely + bonus tips
This post tries to resurrect brainstorming and suggest new ways to brainstorm remotely with bonus tips relevant in a tech-driven and remote work setting.
82. How to Find Your Product Market Fit Using Creative Brand Voice – A Guide By Creative Director
Manifesting your community's values and unmet needs through creative brand and product ideas is the secret to product market fit.
83. How I Made a YouTube Video With React
I wanted a good animation for my first YouTube video. But with no experience with tools like After Effects, what can I do? React JS to the rescue!
84. An Interview with a Crypto Artist
Block INSIGHT is fortunate to invite crypto artist Koosha Azim to participate in our exclusive interview. Learn the experience behind his artworks.
85. Exploring the Art of Creativity
Creativity is also more art than science, so we need plenty of time to experiment and fine-tune our experiences.
86. How To Recruit, Train, and Retain Skilled UX Designers
A “ready” UX designer is a rare encounter in the wild. Designers usually do know how to make things pretty – but when it comes to the product logic and interactions design, few feel at ease. The inevitable solution is to hire people with a relevant background and upgrade them to real UXers: host lectures, give homework, provide practice opportunities.
87. 5 Tech Tools to Sharpen Your Creativity
Creativity is important today because it helps us innovate and think outside the box. Knowing how to use your creativity can open up a world of opportunities, so it's worthwhile taking the time to sharpen these skills with the right tools.
88. Will Content Continue to Rule?
In the movie Little Women, Jo March’s (Saoirse Ronan) inky fingers give her away as the writer rather than just the bearer of someone else’s manuscript; as she claims initially in the newspaper editor’s office, she’s nervously visiting. The editor decisively strikes through many pages before accepting a story and making an offer of payment. Thrilled to the core, Jo March runs through the streets for she had sold her first piece of content!
89. 25 Products Google Sent To Their Graveyard: A Brief History
Google is generally at innovation’s forefront, and a large number of its items and administrations have become industry pioneers. Be that as it may, not all things google conjures up goes to gold. The tech goliath has created a couple of clunkers, yet Google doesn’t stop for a second to cut its misfortunes. Here’s a voyage through the Google Graveyard, with a glance at certain items and administrations Google has executed off as the years progressed.
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