I like getting notebooks with colour on the outside. Because I like to share passionate ideas through the things I think and write by hand on the pages inside.
Big respect for Artur Fischer for inventing the raw plug, erector sets, flash photography and more than 1000 other items
Peak Heat in Ireland
Planning for the hottest day of the year in Ireland. It may hit 86F under clear blue skies. No rain for the past week. My sunflowers are objecting.
Approaching 80F in Ireland
Sunbathing during the Irish Morning.
Meeting more and more families who have opted out of the stressful airport queue experience.
The Challenging Pivot to Clean Energy Jobs
Any country that tries to wean itself from dirty energy has to create industrial policies that invest in the creation of clean-energy manufacturing jobs, including in former coal communities. Ireland has been moderately successful in pivoting turf-cutting jobs into wind energy jobs. In the States, …
My Current Pen
I found a clever Mont Blanc knockoff. 🖋
Using Pelican 4001 ink today. ✒
How the Brain Stops Time
One of the strangest side effects of intense fear is time dilation, the apparent slowing down of time…survivors of life and death situations often report that things seem to take longer to happen, objects fall more slowly, and they’re capable of comple thoughts in what would normally …
Reading the sky in the morning
Enjoying the look of a warm day ahead.
Shared Experiences FTW
A metaverse involves some kind of shared space and shared experience across a networked medium. Not only is it more than just doing things in VR, a metaverse doesn’t even require VR. -- kibwen on Hacker News
One of the most interesting features of Buiding a Second Brain is discovering many of my existing PKM highlights reappear on the printed pages. That’s because I have read or listened to so many of Tiago Fkrte’s ideas and now they jump out in my Readwise, Roam, or Notion accounts.
Our brains were never meant to be overflowing storage depots. A Second Brai is a trusted and organised digital repository where you can store your thoughts, ideas, and notes so that they can be developed beyond a momentary spark and accessed when you most need them. It removes the mental strain …
Will AIs treat humans as pets?
I started making quick words to self by using Otter.ai to record my ramblings and then Samsung Smart Select to grab the text. Yesterday, I wondered what happens with AI when singularity occurs. How will AI treat humans? Will the AI know that humans will resist being oppressed? Knowing that, will the …
I learn technical ideas and content ideas from Evo Terra. His thoughts on what to share resonate with me.
I’m a big fan of continuous sidewalks, especially the ones in Amsterdam. For the pedestrian, the sidewalk continues through the junction and doesn’t drop down.
Zuckerberg said that the percentage of content people see in Facebook and Instagram that comes from accounts they don’t follow will more than double next year. -- Alex Heath, [The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/27/23281294/facebook-meta-revenue-declines-for-first-time)
Listening to people talk about ways to make a just transition related to climate change.
We live in at the end of a small cul de sac where our telephone cable is compromised so 50 Mbps is all we get. If we lived in the country four miles west, we would have fibre gigabit service directly off the telephone pole in front of the house.
With @clonmeldigital exploring the corrosive effects of social media channels with university students and using TheDonald as a fulcrum of discussion.
Joining @clonmeldigital’s sunny skies.
Collaborative Pinpoints
by Bernie Goldbach in Cashel WE ARE EXTENDING communal expertise in the realm of pinpoints on a shared map. It means taking a measured step on a path that started with Cauwell pinpoint technology, meandered through both Nokia and Google Maps with social hiking and now involves the iCollab Community …
Snapped at OEB08
My first visit to Online Educa Berlin was in December 2008 where I joined a meet-up of microbloggers in the Marlene Lounge of the Intercontinental Hotel. When I posted this image, I used Photosynth to produce the group from a set of overlapping pans with my Nokia E90. Things have changed a lot as …
Books Are Alive
by Bernie Goldbach in Kilkenny I have four book sellers to choose from in the city of Kilkenny. Their shops have a steady stream of people selecting Christmas gifts and holiday reading materials. I went looking for The Mistressclass but had to settle for ordering it online because Michele Roberts …
Mozart on My Mind
ONE LOVELY SUMMER evening 10 years ago, I walked around the grounds of Schloss Mannheim with Stephanie Lower (above). It’s something I always associate with the month of August now. We enjoyed a gala evening of Mozart next to a fountain and under the stars. My life has changed a lot since that …