Archive for the 'Ideas' Category

There is a great set of rules, written by Catherine Geary, to follow if you want to be a highly unsuccessful writer. As they are valid for blog writes as well, I tried to follow them during the last weeks and I have to say that I have been progressing in successfully developing the said […]

I became an Office 2.0 fan, to the extent that I try to replace all applications that I use with their Web variants.
No, I am not talking about the old version of MS product, but of a concept of applying Web 2.0 technologies to office applications which could now be used directly from Web. This […]

This weekend a small company gathered together at island Krk in Croatia at an event named “Web.Konoba”. For my fellows who doesn’t speak Croatian, “konoba” means “a tavern”. Knowing that, you can imagine that the whole evening was pretty joyful.
Actually, the purpose of gathering there was to make decisions for future work of Initium, Croatian […]

Ideas should belong to a community

Old Romans distinguished between three kinds of properties:

res privatae, things that belong to a person or a family,
res publicae, things built for public use and
res communes, things that are used by all, like air and water.

Since then, we did lot to make as much things private as possible. We even invented patent offices to privatize […]

Let the children dance

New school year in Croatia begun this week. From this year, besides primary school, my daughther attends also a dancing school. After three years of pre-school classes the whole thing became more serious, with classes four times a week, ballet dancing and music theory.
She likes dancing alot and she enjoy although classes are in the […]

“Time in a wallet” is the name of a time management concept that I started to develop some time ago. I already wrote about it here and here. Although those were the only two published posts, lot of paper was used to give it more rounded shape since then. Now I feel that time has […]

Need to boost a creativity in your team? Want to make them communicate and think more effectivelly? Try to give them a simple task. You can find simple (or maybe not so simple), 10-minutes challenges at Creative Problem Solving Squidoo lens created by Kris Bordessa, who is author of several books and Great Solutions to Team Challenges […]

The reason for not posting for last five days was that I was, together with my family, visiting my parents who live in a small village near the Adriatic sea. As temperatures were extremely high, most of the time we spent on the beach, swimming or just laying in the shadow and reading.
Walking at the […]

I think all those three things can be found in any of my findings of this week. 

Roger von Oech of Creative Think asks a “fun, imaginative question”.  And fun it is! Question is

What if the use of edible clothing were widespread in our society?
What do you think would happen?
We might end with: organic clothes, GMO clothes, […]