Ferhat Elmas — Passionate Developer

I have seen How to transform your problem-solving and creativity by Shelli Walsh. There was a reference at the end of the post to a free e-book called What is Creativity? so instantly grabbed and read it. Here is somehow its summary:

What is creativity?

Creativity is being exposed to diverse influences and recreating your own unique interpretation of existing ideas. Shelli Walsh

Are Style and Creativity Same?

There is a big difference between style and creativity. Former is the art of making things look awesome. Creativity is about the material/product/idea/concept itself and making it better functionally. First iterations of creative things are mostly ugly.

How can we be more creative?

1. Learning: Make it life goal Put aside vertical thinking -step by step always correct fact based thinking style- and try lateral thinking -nonlinear, more forgiving and sometimes wrong- via applying analogies, rejecting obvious and reversing information/goal, and connecting random items to generate relations.
2. Curiosity: Always ask questions
3. Mode: Don't stress, be relaxed. Break the routine. Get dopamine via healthy ways such as listening to music, emotional arousal, doing sports, etc.
4. Imitation: Master copying to feel the process and to fill the gaps with our unique touch.
5. Connecting the dots: Brain is the best pattern matching engine.
6. No Fear: Don't be afraid to fail and to make mistakes, that are steps to innovation.
7. Tenacity: Hard work is the ultimate way to creativity.
8. Discipline: Don't pretend, just do it and practice will bring the result.
9. Letting go: Don't keep it to yourself. The more you give/release/use, the more you will have/create/innovate.

There are some chats at the end with thought/industry leaders about how they define creativity.

Overall, it's a little cute book about how to be more creative and it's free. Why not to read?

Straight to the features:

• Community support
• Data integrity and durability
• Data types, functions, operators, arrays and ranges
• Planner and optimizer
• Transactional DDL
• INSERT INTO ...RETURNING
• WITH queries
• Window functions
• PL/Python (SQL, C, Lua, JavaScript)
• Specific indexing i.e GiST, GIN, etc.
• Extensions i.e hstore, ltree, pg_trgm, ip4r, etc.
• Foreign Data Wrappers
• LISTEN/NOTIFY
• COPY streaming protocol

All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection, except of course for the problem of too many indirections. — David Wheeler

Python uses indentation to define blocks which solves the problem of where to put braces while creating the problem of how to indent. Long live PEP8.

• Coffee vs. beer: which drink makes you more creative? — Good comparison of which drink goes better with which type of task.
• huginn(GitHub) — Open source IFTTT.

By the way, it has been two months since starting to prime and this is the last prime. Primes give a feeling of done with writing and prevents me to produce original content. Instead, I'd like to write longer post only with my thoughts/code at least once a week and use Twitter for posts like prime. I've not decided yet but I may write a weekly or monthly prime that is composed of really unforgettable links.