Enjoying dawn chorus

We live at the very edge of a town where our property borders a grove of trees where dozens of birds serve as our alarm clock.

Cleaning old stash

Every Spring I promise myself that I will attack the collection of copy books, Moleskines, Traveler Notebooks, and Leuchtturms. This year my resolve is no different but …

Seeking Quiet Coffee Spots

I plan to start analysing coffee shops where I can zone out to read and think and write. Today 4/14 tables were quietly reflective.

On Local Radio Sharing American Politics

I spent 20 minutes on local radion expressing my concerns about 47 shades of malignant narcissism.

The joy of microblogging with coffee

Every day I discover another way @manton has made it easy to snap, write, talk, and share simple things like a coffee chat.

Letting time rewind

It’s good to flick through old images and to replay memories. OneDrive serves me a daily video created with photos from my camera roll. In some cases, can hear or smell the place in the video.

My Morning Desk

I’m starting the day watching my cat listen to dawn chorus. You might be able to hear the birds by listening to the audio clip in the blog post.

Planning a week with a NTS

Starting out the week recording a note to self.

Stratification of intelligence

I read a lot of stuff from A16Z where the analysts have started qualifying what Marc Andreessen flogs as “the stratification of intelligence”

Memory of burning MC-130 in the desert

Thinking of USAFA friend who survived Iran in 1980.

Props to @garethoconnor and Studio 1 #AuthenticStories

Thanking @garethoconnor @Newschambers@mastodon.ie and the Thursday @virginmedianews crew for offering 14yo newshound son Dylan a behind-the-scenes look at how authentic stories are created.

Visiting the home of authentic stories

Today I took my 14yo newshound son to Studio 1 of Virgin Media where he had ay memorable experience.

New adventure with microblogging

This blog post was generated by otter.ai

Looking at a way to quickly share working notes with collaborators in public.

Collaborating through Artifacts

Looking at a way to quickly share working notes with collaborators in public.

Exploring my first Taschenbegleiter

I am trying to reduce the footprint I use on public transport so I’ve downsized to an iPad Mini with 190 pages in a notebook and a pen. I want to carry all those items in one hand so my attention turned to Roterfaden.de and their Taschenbegleiter.

When I planned wars

When I helped plan wars for the Pentagon, things were a lot different.

Planning to train people with Claude Co-work

Along with Larry Maguire, I have developed a series of five AI microlearning chapters that cover most of the functions that people want to use with Claude Co-work. The Claude Co-work training involves working with plugins that are comprehensive “role packages” that bundle together skills, commands, …

Well beyond Foursquare's Peak

Continuing to use Foursquare long after it peaked in Ireland because several OG bloggers I met more than 20 years ago still use it.

Black History Month Lecture at Harvard tonight

It must drive the White House crazy to know that “I’ll Make Me A World: The 100-Year Journey of Black History Month” is on this afternoon in Harvard University.

Reflecting on Social Audio's Rise and Retreat

I started today thinking about a thread on Bluesky about where social audio has gone. I had a few objects in front of my at the time as I started talking out loud. My phone recorded my thoughts and after I posted the audio clip into a Bluesky thread a marvelous spontaneous threaded conversation …

This little microblog has readership

I make a few (no more than 10) posts on my microblog every week. I’m impressed at how easy it is because I use a Samsung phone to make most of my meanderings on it. It’s interesting for me to see that people read what I share. Last week, a lot of people were very intrigued by what I …

Using this microblog with teachable moments

Two teens sit in the background of many things I do. Like when we’re rearranging the kitchen table to for a big Sunday dinner.

Three types of Americans nowadays

Lydia Polgreen in the New York Times asks people what kind of American they are. Accommodationist? Aggressor? Resistor?

US Tourism corroded by America First

We did our bit for US tourism by flying to California during the Christmas break. We dumped more than $7000 into the American economy during our week there. The numbers are in for 2025 and the United States is missing out on a key stream of foreign revenue. It was estimated that the economic impact …