Summing Summer with Workflows
Thanking Alastair McDermott for two hours of helpful hints.
Summing Summer with WorkflowsJoyful 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 …
Joyful Simple Daily Tick-off ListThe power of Obsidian Micropublishing
Thanking Manton for keeping radio userland microblogging styles alive.
The power of Obsidian MicropublishingUsing AI to authenticate self. First Up for RUNEUAI
Bernie explains how the selfie avatar method works. It’s part of the RUNEUAI programme.
Using AI to authenticate self. First Up for RUNEUAISmart 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 #RUNEUAISpice 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 …
Spice Bag Loses AuthenticityPlanning 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. …
Planning Workshops inside Library as Learning SpaceUsing 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 ObsidianSnipped 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 …
Snipped from Sunday PapersOffice 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 …
Office Sirens and Dons in ShortsSurveying 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 tasksAI 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 …
AI Implementation Policies for Schools #edulearn25More 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 …
More Joy from AndorSeating 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 …
Seating for Lunch #edulearn25Three 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 EducationMy 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 …
My edulearn25 Sleep DeficitFirst export from myRemarkable
Started playing with reMarkable PRO.
First export from myRemarkableRediscovering 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 AlphaThe 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, …
The Joy of Private NotebooksFan of Socrative as a Tick-off List
I often use Socrative to track activities in training workshops. This screenshot from Socrative revealed several things for me. First, the red responses show that two groups did not complete task 15 related to “authenticity statements”. And on group did not complete the task “use …
Fan of Socrative as a Tick-off ListUndersea Cables in Ireland
We have walked next to Marconi House, near one of the east coast landing points of internet connectivity for Ireland. I’ve often wondered about the threat to those undersea cables. John Mooney shares my concern in a Sunday Times article “Underwater Warfare” today. The threat level …
Undersea Cables in IrelandIreland Wants to Attract Academics Fleeing America
Ireland’s Minister for Higher Education, Research, and Skills has a message for my friends in America who have seen their research grants terminated and watched their collaborators rounded up by ICE. Here is what Minister James Lawless says. Behind every thriving economy lies a quiet, often …
Ireland Wants to Attract Academics Fleeing AmericaUsing AI to Track Apparel Worn in Crimes
I think it would be a very clever Crime Call show on Irish television if camera footage could match apparel to crimes. In today’s Sunday Times, John Mooney writes “Garda will Headquarters is planning to use artificial intelligence to solve crimes by tracking objects such as clothing, …
Using AI to Track Apparel Worn in CrimesFamous Irish DeepFakes
The shutdown of MrDeepFakes happened last week just after the US Congress enacted the Take It Down Act, which made it a crime to post non-consens sexual imagery. John Mooney, Investigations Editor for The Sunday Times, reveals “the faces of some of Ireland’s most celebrated female …
Famous Irish DeepFakesIrish Animation in Trump Crosshairs
Ireland has become a small powerhouse for successful cartoons on the big screen, but could a proposed 100 per cent levy on foreign movies coming into the US cause a fade to black, wonders Siobhán Maguire in The Sunday Times on May 11, 2025. The Irish animation industry leverages Section 481 …
Irish Animation in Trump Crosshairs