I have started a new phase by occupying the largest creative space ever. The outside of the building says Questum. The outside of my door says Buzz Quarter. I am starting work here by dumping out the contents of a 15 year old briefcase I once carried between Dublin and Thurles. Some of its contents …
I figured out I needed to get a new phone after several phone calls dropped whenever I turned my head. So I dug deep into my spare change to get a Samsung Galaxy S25 with a terabyte of on-board storage.
I figured out I needed to get a new phone after several phone calls dropped whenever I turned my head. So I dug deep into my spare change to get a Samsung Galaxy S25 with a terabyte of on-board storage.
Charlie Kirk was assassinated on the campus of Utah Valley University by student Tyler Robinson. The battle of dumb and dumber in this edition of leopards eating each others’ faces wasn’t on my bingo card. This is a red on red crime.
We're at the tail end of a colourful summer with two very stubborn sunflowers towering more than eight feet tall behind our home. I watched my wife buy an assortment of plants, many perennials, during the past four months. I'm surprised (delighted!) to see how we've planted a forest of plants that …
I can ride around my local town for free on a highly subsidised local link service. It’s an unexpected benefit and one that dozens of elderly people use every day.
I’m running a 15 week programme called RUNEUAI that leads people through a process of creating practical workflows with AI. The first challenge I’m facing concerns how to build a workflow that elegantly shares content into the channels where students currently visit.
I first got into Claude.ai because it could write quality content faster on the first draft than I could do myself. Now I’m using Claude to extract information from spreadsheets and then create spreadsheets from my chat prompts.
I am a daily user of readwise.io and I am very impressed by several clever enhancements this year. I chat with my Readwise every morning, surfacing connections between things I’ve read. #RUNEUAI
If there is any place where AI is rendering humans obsolete—in which the dawn of superintelligence is already upon us—it is coding. This makes the results of a recent study genuinely astonishing.
I’m on a university campus at the start of an academic year, sharing my experience about people with basic AI skills who get much more done during the day than people like me who graduated with the ability to write code with punch cards. And during coffee chats with university lecturers, I …
Currently reading: Tekstzinnig by Ank van Heur and Brigit Kolen 📚 and since I read natively in English, I’m asking a lot of Dutch-to-English questions to my virtual assistant Claude.
Remembering how young Dylan (now taller than his mom) was only tentative outside his primary school five years ago. At the start of his secondary school education, he’s up earlier and eager to walk into Raheen College in time to get offered the first sausage roll.
We expect strong winds and the last time that happened several plants taller than 1.5 metres snapped. Hopefully, our two remaining Titan Sunflowers survive.
Filmora is another clever app that started using AI to complement workflows, showing professionals AI is more than prompting ChatGPT. #runeuai
Currently letting a wireless blood pressure monitor tell me what I already know. www.spreaker.com/episode/b…
Looking at wheels, some alloys too.
Thanking Alastair McDermott for two hours of helpful hints.
Everybody has their own method of tracking progress. I’ve landed onto a simple daily note that I open every morning inside Obsidian on my laptop and then sync to my mobile phone. When I can tick off some of the checklist items, I feel like I’ve accomplished important things. On top of …
Thanking Manton for keeping radio userland microblogging styles alive.
Bernie explains how the selfie avatar method works. It’s part of the RUNEUAI programme.
So grateful for Brian Petro’s Smart Connections Community Plug-in for Obsidian.
We’re running #empower25 on the quiet campus of TUS.ie this week. One of the workshop tasks asks teens to use AI to produce a selfie avatar with cultural cues. So I asked Perplexity to make me as “a man looking like Robin Williams sharing a spice bag with friends from America on the …
I’m working inside a library as part of it converts to a learning space. We are creating a programme for Transition Year students in Ireland, enhancing critical thinking in young people. We are showing five purposes of communication in texts. We are tweaking various brainstorming techniques. …
I toggle between Obsidian (using it several times a day) and Notion (publishing content for workshops). I am getting smarter with both. I’ve discovered I actually take better notes than ever because my copy of Obsidian uses Brian Petro’s Smart Connections. That community plug-in …