Bernie Goldbach

Learning with Fabric Spaces

’m using an AI that I have called “Kayak” to help me know what I have inside my Fabric Collection of AI-related content.

Learning with Fabric Spaces

That's Claude connecting handwritten notes

I enjoy planning sessions that integrate my handwritten notes with my Obsidian knowledge graph. Since early 2023, Claude has often helped me link my thinking, sometimes through the OCR service I get on my mobile phone.

That's Claude connecting handwritten notes

Sharing Obsidian with Claude on my windscreen

I learn much more about how to use things by sharing how I do things. At the moment, I’m chuffed whenever I hear Simon Toon talk about things I reveal about Obsidian. And I’m fascinated by Angie Carel’s cleverness.

Sharing Obsidian with Claude on my windscreen

Finding healthy food by asking the right questions

One of the most joyful activities I do happens when working with active retired people as we complete a set of tasks related to finding healthy food. I have workshops in different places that are two hours long, often with people who don’t speak English well.

Finding healthy food by asking the right questions

Hoping the web evolves into a big tent h/t @timbl

Steadily advancing towards the Open Web.

Hoping the web evolves into a big tent h/t @timbl

Tipping and tech at Brekkie

While in the Lyrath Estate for the Amplify 2026 conference in mid-June, I enjoyed a lovely five star breakfast in the Eden Bistro and then saw how a hospitality worker could earn a tip without actually working a table

Tipping and tech at Brekkie

Reading from the Book of Miessler

Since the beginning of citizen journals, back in the time of Live Journal and Geocities, reading text gave me a direct route to thoughtful people. Daniel Miessler, in his post Text is Thought, and Thought is Holy reverberates this essential truth

Reading from the Book of Miessler

Putting Guardrails on my Claude

I run dozens of routines with several AI models every day and I want to enforce constraints on them to (1) prevent hallucinations and (2) reduce token usage. One of the tactics I use involves setting guardrails through Maps of Content.

Putting Guardrails on my Claude

My dirty notes and my lake of knowledge

I run a set of scheduled tasks with Claude every weekday morning and they generate important Notes to Self worth reviewing.

My dirty notes and my lake of knowledge

Chill Work Desk

One of the problems with my current work desk is my laptop doesn’t recognise my face. And I have to share my bench seat with my cat.

Chill Work Desk

Enjoying my coworker as I enjoy sunshine

I have very polite coworker who combs through the things I’ve read and saved just before I open my computer. I appreciate the lightweight sycophancy when the AI’s routine comes up empty on a task so it politely recaps a relevant finding from a previous session.

Enjoying my coworker as I enjoy sunshine

Shopping with smart glasses

In 2023, we would go shopping with smart glasses because they often told us things we didn’t know just by reading the labels.

Shopping with smart glasses

Getting meaningful live updates from Scheduled Tasks with Claude

I am building an EducatorOS this summer, hoping to run into others doing the same. One of my core processes involves using Claude to update short courses that I run. During the summer of 2026 one of my focal points is “AI for Managers“ because that course’s framework will support EducatorOS.

Getting meaningful live updates from Scheduled Tasks with Claude

My four Playbooks

I have four analogue notebooks that I have mapped to online playbooks. My first playbook represents a place where I take notes, doodle, and set up checklists. When I have a pen in hand with this brown leather Roterfaden Taschenbegleiter playbook, I’m thinking with my hand. Occasionally, some …

My four Playbooks

Getting ahead with smart connections

After 20 years with a public profile on LinkedIn, I believe I have figured out a way to minimise noise here. In my case, it means figuring out how to make meaningful connections

Getting ahead with smart connections

Carefully using Fable 5 for the week

Anthropic is teasing me with Fable 5 but I’m only slow dancing with it. That’s because of its Burn Rate. Fable 5 relies on Adaptive Thinking and that feature is permanently turned on.

Carefully using Fable 5 for the week

Making videos programmatically

I’m reviewing AI course notes and including two ways of making videos programmatically. My favourite method uses an open-source pipeline called claude-shorts. It utilizes Claude Code to completely automate the longform-to-shortform translation without relying on an external SaaS subscription.

Making videos programmatically

First thoughts about AI Winter

I use my lens of “AI Winter” when reading vendor reports concerning the reach and capabilities of artificial intelligence. An abrupt “AI Winter” will occur by 2029, with reduced access to AI that will be driven by economic downturn and vendor failures.

First thoughts about AI Winter

Surely I could use Claude as a gardener.

It’s the Independence Day in America and I used part of the morning to cut loose years of unread emails in my Yahoo! I asked Claude to handle the job in a quick and dirty way while I did some yard work.

Surely I could use Claude as a gardener.

Developing age-friendly data literacy programmes with SOLAS

I’m at an education showcase with SOLAS, sharing how we train elderly people how to use AI on their phones. I’m running the free programme in community libraries throughout County Tipperary, Ireland.

Developing age-friendly data literacy programmes with SOLAS

My blog could leak secrets

As I read the Sunday Times in my sun-split garden yesterday, the sound of a helicopter overhead took me back to room 1D377 in the Pentagon. I rode there several times by an Army helicopter.

My blog could leak secrets

Powering my Personal Context Network

I track daily activities and attempt to spotlight successes with the word #win. One of my biggest weekly wins is discovering some gem I wrote decades ago and having it resurface through Brian Petro’s Smart Connections plugin for Obsidian.

Powering my Personal Context Network

Local first then smart plugins

It’s been two years since I adjusted my laptop’s white space to a look similar to that spawned by IA Writer. More importantly, I’ve kept my focus on writing–both on my keyboard devices and on my phone.

Local first then smart plugins

Thinking clearer with visual dashboards

I am trying to visualise my work more precisely by auditing my routines several times a week. The main focal point is a colour-coded productivity doughnut

Thinking clearer with visual dashboards

Hoping Siri gets as smart as my Gemini

I’ve bought six iPhones in my life and expect to buy only four more. It looks like the next two that I buy will come with Gemini-powered Apple Intelligence–but probably only if I buy the iPhone in the States with an American address.

Hoping Siri gets as smart as my Gemini