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 …
Irish Tourism The mainstay of Irish tourism in recent years has been the high-spending American market. According to the Central Statistics Office, visitors from North America spent €2.2 billion in Ireland last year. They might constitute only a quarter of all visitors but they contribute close to …
I’m reading about how to be an office siren because I’ve noticed advice on professional attire is being replaced by the idea that if you’ve got it, flaunt it. And now with Ozempic and everyone losing enormous amounts of weight, I see men and women becoming more daring with what they wear …
I am surveying small business owners this week to see if they want to learn how to do specific things with process automation, some that Ethan Mollick discusses as Co-Intelligence. What would you like the most? Learn how to save important documents into Notebooks then use your voice to query them. …
Two different presenters in Palma outlined frameworks for how AI could be efficiently introduced to colleges and universities and then leveraged for best effect. I snapped a shot during one of the presentations and then asked ChatGPT o3 to summarise it. I think this is a succinct school-wide AI …
From Ron Bronson comes this excellent perspective of Andor. In Andor, rebellion isn’t sparked by righteous anger or sweeping ideology. It emerges from miscalculation. Staffing errors. Bureaucratic overflow. The real genius of the show lies not in its allegory, but in its accuracy. For all the …
You can often tell a lot about a conference by the size of their dining area. During the final two days in June 2025, I’m attending EDULEARN, an international conference on education and new learning technologies. The photo shows some of the seats for more than 800 people who will attend the …
I’m looking at practical workflows educators can improve with AI. My interest is shared by a group of 20 educators in an edulearn25 workshop. We’re starting by determining what Mairead Pratschke, Andrej Karpathy, and Ethan Mollick think about educators using AI to improve their workflows …