Seeking Berlin Christmas Market Suggestions

I will spend the first three evenings in December in Berlin. I have a Lazy Web request: what Christmas markets should I visit?

What are people ChatGPTing about

In his book Co-existence, Ethan Mollick shares the September 2025 OpenAI large-scale analysis of actual ChatGPT usage.

When better UX takes out the human

Ethan Mollick points to “the end of detailed summarized thinking traces for Claude and ChatGPT”. As a UX instructor, I think this might be happening to simplify the user experience. Ethan shares that view and he notes it is “likely done both to prevent distillation and to simplify …

Desk on Wheels

I am a power user of tables on rails and tables on wheels. Today I am taking a 90 minutes on a double decker bus ride to meet two co-authors and collaborate in writing an article for an edtech journal. I also made a two minute audio clip while traveling into the sunrise. You can hear that by asking …

REVEALED: Visibility comes to commentators

The numbers say I appeared on screens that LinkedIn people used 1,339 times during the third week of October 2026. Here’s the remarkable finding.

Inside Screamland Cashel

This is a blog post written by Dylan (15) from his handwritten notes (above). Claude wrote the blockquote text.

Planning a scary Halloween

In 2010, I was on the camera crew of the scary film The Devil’s Bit with a group of young people in County Tipperary. In 2026, I’m back with my Osmo Pocket 3 to document another scary event this Halloween

Saving the day with my cat

My best days start with me saving my cat from her hours-long nighttime starvation. I look at her on my phone and get busy.

Gemini cleans my video archive

I’m thankful that my LCA intern uses Filmora to stitch together a rough cut of videos and photos made during my teaching sessions. And then Gemini tells me what’s inside the clips.

Thinking with pens and pencils

I have a long-standing approach to daily thinking that starts with putting thoughts on paper.

Hoping for an American recovery

I learn a lot by listening to friends while sharing time in cafes and pubs in Ireland. Many of my friends hope for the recovery of America after 2028. However great the degradation of American ideals in theMAGA era, the United States of America has immense power, coast to coast resources and shared …

Thrilled by Blockers

From the inside cover I learned about Blockers: In early 2025,an army of young men invaded the offices of US government. Armed withlaptops and sleeping bags, a raft of prejudicesand a bulletproof sense of mission instilled in them by their new boss, Elon Musk, the tech bro acolytes of DOGE were on …

Superhuman sending some of my words

I’m trying to be faster while remaining authentic with my email. This means leveraging Superhuman Mail.

Thinking about Friends in Clonmel

I walk past the Quaker Graveyard in Clonmel several times a week and wonder if I could embellish the generosity and industriousness of those deceased Friends of Clonmel.

Restoring Expensive Tech

Expensive tech has a habit of sitting idle. I’ve bought plenty of it, and the value only arrives when I connect expensive tech into my actual workflow.

GPT 6.1 Sol during Innovation Skillnet

Larry Maguire and I begin teaching our 10th cohort of AI for Personal Productivity in early November 2026 with a group who use Microsoft 365 on the job.

Living with Ireland's centrist budget

I watched Ireland’s Budget being dissected last Tuesday and figured out it means getting a smaller pizza for the next year. That will be good for my diet and this simple downshifting will keep me centred.

Keep critical thinking at the front

The biggest impact I make when working with creatives is to show them how to keep their critical thinking at the front of content they create. This is challenging because many people want to start with new online tools like jumping straight into using AI.

Still starting with pens

Every year I look at my Starter Pack. I still start with ink.

Learning more about Camtasia Pro

I’m a long-time user of Camtasia Pro. I use only one of these premium capabilities so I’m attending webinars to learn more.

Cross-posting boosts audio

I can’t keep up with all the cross-posting people do across social networks. That’s probably why all my besties will fit around a Tipperary Long Table.

Watching OCR help a hand injury

I am working with young people who often have challenges with their handwriting. At the moment my son Dylan can’t hold a pencil in his writing hand because of surgery.

Making Joyful Christmas Shoeboxes

There are twice as many women jogging around my local area during the past month and many of them are training for the Irish Life Dublin Marathon. One of the daily joggers is Frances O’Donnell who plans to finish the marathon without injury while helping to give several thousand euro worth of …

I used three different colours of highlighters while reading The Last Good Day on the Internet: Finding Hope and Humanity in a Superhuman World by @marklittle.bsky.social 📚 The pink colour is for my 15 yo son so he can compare what I highighted to what Mark says in the audiobook version.

Looping with @educatefran

I follow @educatefran.bsky.social’s advice on many things edtech so when she loops back to MSFT Loop I listen.