Bernie Goldbach

32 Claude Shortcut Prompts

If you’re like me and you use long weekends to improve proficiency with command lines, these 32 Claude shortcuts from Ruben Hassid might interest you.

32 Claude Shortcut Prompts

Inspired by Jess Buckley's Note-Taking

I’m inspired every time I hear people describe how they capture ideas in real time. Jesse Buckley, star of the critically acclaimed Hamnet, explains to Stacey Wilson Hunt how she writes down things she hears and sees. And how when she performs, she’s able to draw on those thoughts …

Inspired by Jess Buckley's Note-Taking

Impressed with Google Personal Intelligence

I teach “AI for Personal Productivity” with the Irish Innovation Skillnet where we have hands-on exercises using Google Workspace. Cue discussions about privacy, security, and frameworks.

Impressed with Google Personal Intelligence

Sharing my Vibe Journaling with @educatefran.bsky.social

I have a set of hard cover notebooks containing ideas. I call it Vibe Journaling and I want to see if I can connect pages in the books with instructional designer Frances O’Donnell.

Sharing my Vibe Journaling with @educatefran.bsky.social

New Beginning with Home Note

I jumped into Nick Milo’s Ideaverse and got a new look with my primary Obsidian vault as well as a new Home Note for my daily flow. The most significant result is that I’ve reduced scrolling into the land of trolls and I’ve increased the depth of my reading.

New Beginning with Home Note

My Three AI Takeaways from 2025 #RUNEUAI

I’ve tagged this post with #RUNEUAI because the biggest things I’ve learned about AI came directly from the 15 weeks I worked with 18 students and two instructors during my last teaching semester at university level. That collaboration opened a portal of discovery and sharing that was a …

My Three AI Takeaways from 2025 #RUNEUAI

Using Copilot on my Mobile Phone

Along with Larry G. Maguire and the Irish Innovation Skillnet, I’m delivering the tail end of a 12 hour training programme designed to increase personal productivity through the use of AI. Today we will use Copilot on handsets to see what the mobile version can do with two data sets.

Using Copilot on my Mobile Phone

Questioning Everything More Than Ever

It is hard to flip through my daily flow without encountering something that feels like a human didn’t produce it. Because I teach people how to ethically use artificial intelligence, I often offer these five precepts to people who want to ensure they’re consuming authentic content. I …

Questioning Everything More Than Ever

While Amalgamating Leuchtturms

Hats off to @manton for configuring Microblog in a way that handles HD video right from my Android phone. My smartphone experience making, trimming woth Filmora, and uploading with the Microblog app is silky smooth.

While Amalgamating Leuchtturms

Another Foray into the Kunst Matrix

Mounting another students exhibition inside the Kunst Matrix. This time it’s in support of the RUNEUAI genre. That’s a playful way of describing an assortment of images, original voices, and video clips generated through both Camtasia on laptops and Vyond on both desktops and mobile …

Another Foray into the Kunst Matrix

Scoping Out a Workflow for Cross-Channel Info #RUNEUAI

​I’m running a 15 week programme called RUNEUAI that leads people through a process of creating practical workflows with AI. The first challenge I’m facing concerns how to build a workflow that elegantly shares content into the channels where students currently visit.

Scoping Out a Workflow for Cross-Channel Info #RUNEUAI

Using Claude When Diving into Spreadsheets #RUNEUAI

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.

Using Claude When Diving into Spreadsheets #RUNEUAI

Smart Connections Helped Me Write This #RUNEUAI

So grateful for Brian Petro’s Smart Connections Community Plug-in for Obsidian.

Smart Connections Helped Me Write This #RUNEUAI

Using Summertime to Dive into Smart Connections inside Obsidian

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 …

Using Summertime to Dive into Smart Connections inside Obsidian

Surveying small business about automating tasks

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. …

Surveying small business about automating tasks

Three Luminaries Thinking about AI in Education

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 …

Three Luminaries Thinking about AI in Education

Rediscovering Mem through its 2.0 Alpha

I parked my annual $96 subscription to mem.ai because I had my hands full managing content inside both notion.so and my Obsidian Vault I’m now test driving the Mem 2.0 Alpha and noticiing some features, such as calendar integration, voice capture, and the web clipper are still in …

Rediscovering Mem through its 2.0 Alpha

Leveraging Google Gemini to Create University Syllabi

While listening to Patrick Browne and Padraig Ó Catháin explain how they’ve leveraged AI to enhance their teaching, I learned a few things about prompting Google Gemini to generate a syllabus, to export the by-product as an Excel file and then to create a mail shot from part of the result. The …

Leveraging Google Gemini to Create University Syllabi

When NSA is accused of cyber attack

Chinese officials analysed the code used in a recent attack and they believe the NSA used AI to plan tool solutions, to explore vulnerabilities, and monitor traffic in the attacks. The AI could automatically and rapidly create dynamic code during the attack process. Chinese cyber protection staff …

When NSA is accused of cyber attack

Looking at Workflow. But without AI.

I have more than 10 years of content saved inside my Instapaper account. I’ve a Vimeo looking at the term “workflow” as I prepare a lecture for digital transformation students.

Looking at Workflow. But without AI.

From Obsidian to Public Working Notes

I have a system that starts at Markdown, moves to public view, and then gets micropublished with [content from Bernie’s topgold blog](Quick Notes after AI Workshop). I’m sharing the process with people learning [TUSdx])tus.ie/courses/c…) and they’re reciprocating with …

From Obsidian to Public Working Notes

Purposeful Pivot Away from Scrolling

I'm with Cheyenne Macdonald, "In 2024, using social media felt worse than ever. These days, it feels like every gathering place on the internet is so crowded with content that’s competing for — and successfully grabbing — our attention or trying to sell us something that there’s barely any room for …

Purposeful Pivot Away from Scrolling

Loving NotebookLM

While using NotebookLM, I discovered that each source can have up to 500,000 words. So I compiled a collection of snippets that I’ve saved inside Readwise into a single notebook. I have more than 5000 quotes in a single notebook.I capture hundreds of quotes every year by highlighting passages …

Loving NotebookLM

Let's Share Data Tables

Here’s a simple way to share tables of data: csvbase.com/about You get full multi-format support. All tables are available in multiple formats as a simple download, including: Just add “.parquet”, “.xlsx”, “.csv” to any table url or use the dropdown on the …

Let's Share Data Tables

Inspired by Cara Darmody

I shouldn’t be surprised by how technology keeps expanding capabilities. But I am so happy watching how technology can help students learn and how noninvasive tech can help young people connect with the real world around them. While watching a short chat between my 13yo son and a talented 13yo …

Inspired by Cara Darmody