Useless British Passport

“In France, I am Irish, thanks to my grandmother, born in County Antrim. In Canada, I am Canadian, having been born there. Albeit I left aged ten months. In Britain, where I spent much of my childhood, I am British, as my parents were,” writes Jonathan Miller in …

If you use LinkedIn, your best scrolling experience happens when you trust the LinkedIn algo to surface the content most relevant for you. #protip

Thinking about an F-35 that flew without a pilot

As a former flight safety officer and T-38 instructor pilot, I’m trying to read between the lines as F-35 Lockheed Martin strike fighter jets are grounded. One crashed last week in South Carolina near where I used to live. It looks like maintenance officers may want a close look again at fuel …

So we install fibre to the home last week. Tonight the kids started streaming content on two different TV sets. My laptop WiFi connectivity with some of my services is dropping. Time for some ethernet ports so I might reclaim 200 Mbps upload speeds.

Learning to Think Critically

I AM CARVING OUT four hours a week to immerse in a short course about Creativity and Critical Thinking. After a few hours in the classroom, I’m starting to think that critical thinking is at odds with creativity.

Power Words in Subject Lines

Reviewing my listing of power words because many of them work well on me.

Getting confused on first approach

Imagining hundreds of cars approaching the poorly marked entrance to our university campus at the start of our academic semester. And knowing that challenge will be faced by dozens of the young students who may feel stressed when they miss the entrance on their first attempt.

I have become snobbish about my preference for Miso Paper.

Donors Choose to Fund Emergency Drawer

My daughter Misty approaches teaching as a vocation. She wants “to help my students reach Self-Actualization–or at least some academic content–while at school, so I try to have an environment where students feel safe, loved, and included in my classroom.” So she has an …

While watching the cognitive decline of elders in my life, I see the story reverberating in news stories about American politicians. Behind Dianne Feinstein’s Headlines Lies Another, Untold Story www.nytimes.com/2023/09/0…

National Parents Council of Ireland has a quick survey that suggests where the content regulation battles will be pitched. Survey closes on 30 August. Start here: ykdb-zcmp.campaign-view.eu/ua/

In an earlier life, I had an armed guard riding shotgun as we counted locked containers inside a bunker. www.flickr.com/photos/ir…

Happy with Vodafone Fibre

Bernie Goldbach posted a photo: Consistently above 300 megabits per second on our ground floor within 15m of the router.

Respect the artist

Whenever I read the Designintech.report I remember John Maeda took down the 2020 Design in Tech Report after an organization cited a copyright violation for artwork within the Report.

Planning to republish my 2023 Information Management Process by incorporating logos from Notion and Mem.

Plenty of mid-level tech jobs out there

Paul Kedrosky points out that all eight of the Google-based authors of the seminal “transformers” paper that helped spark the current wave of large language models have now left Google to start various AI companies. That is more people than there were senior vice presidents at Google in 2004. …

We have a meter inside the house that shows how much carbon our home electricity usage spews. As expected, there’s a web service for that too. Here’s a look at Ireland, a country using a lot of natural gas to produce electrical power: app.electricitymaps.com/zone/IE

Rode Wireless Go Receiver

Bernie Goldbach posted a photo: Used by creative media students in Tipperary.

Spotted a worthy project that will help young teens stay focused during math classes: www.donorschoose.org/project/f…

56 Mbs Before Fibre Came to Ashgrove

Bernie Goldbach posted a photo: Using eir broadband before we connected our home to fibre.

I have more than 9000 contacts nestled inside my People collection on mem.ai and that seems like more than a workable network of connections.

My Personal Mem x

I am so happy to be working with mems. So many of my docs and decks can be downsampled as MD and then quickly imported to my mem.ai where I can see 20 years of my content in one easy access screen. I’ve started using mem for reminders, hashed notes supporting my Traveler’s Journal, and …

Waiting for the 0808 in Clonmel

Bernie Goldbach posted a photo: At the Clonmel railway ststion

Great Britain is Decaying

“Not since the 1870s … have home prices been so extraordinarily high compared to wages. This punishes the younger generation in the short term and deepens longer-term stagnation delaying marriages and kids. It also interacts in toxic ways with cultural debates.” Great Britain Is …

Some of the best restaurants in Dungarvan

Bernie Goldbach posted a photo: As shown on Google Maps.