Currently reading: Tekstzinnig by Ank van Heur and Brigit Kolen 📚 and since I read natively in English, I’m asking a lot of Dutch-to-English questions to my virtual assistant Claude.

I Remain the Tallest

Remembering how young Dylan (now taller than his mom) was only tentative outside his primary school five years ago. At the start of his secondary school education, he’s up earlier and eager to walk into Raheen College in time to get offered the first sausage roll.

We expect strong winds and the last time that happened several plants taller than 1.5 metres snapped. Hopefully, our two remaining Titan Sunflowers survive.

Filmora is another clever app that started using AI to complement workflows, showing professionals AI is more than prompting ChatGPT. #runeuai

Currently letting a wireless blood pressure monitor tell me what I already know. www.spreaker.com/episode/b…

Looking at wheels, some alloys too.

Summing Summer with Workflows

Thanking Alastair McDermott for two hours of helpful hints.

Joyful Simple Daily Tick-off List

Everybody has their own method of tracking progress. I’ve landed onto a simple daily note that I open every morning inside Obsidian on my laptop and then sync to my mobile phone. When I can tick off some of the checklist items, I feel like I’ve accomplished important things. On top of …

The power of Obsidian Micropublishing

Thanking Manton for keeping radio userland microblogging styles alive.

Using AI to authenticate self. First Up for RUNEUAI

Bernie explains how the selfie avatar method works. It’s part of the RUNEUAI programme.

Smart Connections Helped Me Write This #RUNEUAI

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

Spice Bag Loses Authenticity

We’re running #empower25 on the quiet campus of TUS.ie this week. One of the workshop tasks asks teens to use AI to produce a selfie avatar with cultural cues. So I asked Perplexity to make me as “a man looking like Robin Williams sharing a spice bag with friends from America on the …

Planning Workshops inside Library as Learning Space

I’m working inside a library as part of it converts to a learning space. We are creating a programme for Transition Year students in Ireland, enhancing critical thinking in young people. We are showing five purposes of communication in texts. We are tweaking various brainstorming techniques. …

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 …

Snipped from Sunday Papers

Irish Tourism The mainstay of Irish tourism in recent years has been the high-spending American market. According to the Central Statistics Office, visitors from North America spent €2.2 billion in Ireland last year. They might constitute only a quarter of all visitors but they contribute close to …

Office Sirens and Dons in Shorts

I’m reading about how to be an office siren because I’ve noticed advice on professional attire is being replaced by the idea that if you’ve got it, flaunt it. And now with Ozempic and everyone losing enormous amounts of weight, I see men and women becoming more daring with what they wear …

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. …

AI Implementation Policies for Schools #edulearn25

Two different presenters in Palma outlined frameworks for how AI could be efficiently introduced to colleges and universities and then leveraged for best effect. I snapped a shot during one of the presentations and then asked ChatGPT o3 to summarise it. I think this is a succinct school-wide AI …

More Joy from Andor

From Ron Bronson comes this excellent perspective of Andor. In Andor, rebellion isn’t sparked by righteous anger or sweeping ideology. It emerges from miscalculation. Staffing errors. Bureaucratic overflow. The real genius of the show lies not in its allegory, but in its accuracy. For all the …

Seating for Lunch #edulearn25

You can often tell a lot about a conference by the size of their dining area. During the final two days in June 2025, I’m attending EDULEARN, an international conference on education and new learning technologies. The photo shows some of the seats for more than 800 people who will attend the …

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 …

My edulearn25 Sleep Deficit

Headed into an intense three days at #edulearn25 in Spain, wishing I could lean on @educatefran while prepping a new team-based workshop. My Whoop tracker verifies I spent more time tweaking “Practical Workflows for Educators” than I did sleeping. But whenever we share the load before …

First export from myRemarkable

Started playing with reMarkable PRO.

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 …

The Joy of Private Notebooks

Henrik Karlsson shares my joy about private notebbooks. A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal’s Pensées, Simone Weil’s private essays, …