Bernie Goldbach

Teaching the ninth cohort of AI for Personal Productivity

Back in November 2023, Dermot Casey asked me what I was covering when he saw me delivering a post-graduate academic module in digital transformation. I told him about my syllabus and that it integrated ChatGPT in the hands-on workshops. We are running a distilled version of this training programme …

Teaching the ninth cohort of AI for Personal Productivity

Big fan of Veed.io for solving CODEC problems #win

I create and post-produce content for training programmes several times a week. During the past three months, the MP4 videos I create with Camtasia have been incompatible with H5P’s playback window. I solved the incompatibility by simply uploading to Veed and exporting from that service.

Big fan of Veed.io for solving CODEC problems #win

Keeping social parity intact

I have achieved social parity on three online networks. The top photo shows that I have an equal number of followers to following people on Bluesky.

Keeping social parity intact

PKM with AI profiles #enviroCORE

I am planning to teach a cadre of researchers how my process of note-taking links my thinking inside Personal Knowledge Management systems. I use both Obsidian and Notion to display different views of collaborative work. There is some good synergy when connecting PKM to AI, providing you know the …

PKM with AI profiles #enviroCORE

Using Calendar for better focus lately

In an earlier life, I operated with checklists in cockpits. I walked to those cockpits after attending pre-flight briefings two hours and 15 minutes from scheduled takeoff time. And when an aircraft commander …

Using Calendar for better focus lately

Using a framework with AI

Moving beyond simple chat interactions toward a structured framework is the key to mastering AI. I pulled three items from my Fabric Collection that emphasize this perspective.

Using a framework with AI

Intertextual Clutter

I am trying to refine clutter intertextually. I would like to restore the LINK REL=“bookmark” as a tag. Wasn’t that supposed to be the sensible way to provide addressable id’ed elements on your page? I want to make it work again.

Intertextual Clutter

Blowback with the lights on

People who know me often just look without understanding where I’m headed. I’ve seen reactions from bystanders when I train people to use complex technology.

Blowback with the lights on

Starting a another AI personal productivity training

Content shared from the IRDG Innovation Skillnet AI course.

Starting a another AI personal productivity training

Thanking @educatefran for smart edtech imports

I took one-on-one upskilling from Frances O’Donnell and she showed me how to upload and then quickly edit content inside H5p.com with its smart import.

Thanking @educatefran for smart edtech imports

Newsrounds with mobile phones

Knowing that many Irish radio stations draw their Monday content from the Sunday papers, I bought a Sunday Times in Ireland and selected a half dozen items worth sharing.

Newsrounds with mobile phones

Making a page of my AI work in the 2020s

While attending a Final Year Show on the TUS-Clonmel campus, I heard a graduate from 2021 share with other lecturers that he remembered me showing what artificial intelligence could do for knowledge workers.

Making a page of my AI work in the 2020s

Stop being creative traffic

I have a Moleskine from 2022 with passwords from ChatGPT 3 in it. I was made several attempts to integrate AI into simple workflows such as adding intelligence to my notes.

Stop being creative traffic

On air about Washington Correspondents Dinner

I spent 20 minutes on TippFM explaining to Tipp Today host Fran Curry what I remember from my past experience in the Washington Hilton Hotel around the time of the Correspondents Dinner.

On air about Washington Correspondents Dinner

360 Video Adventures

I’m continuing to think panoramically with my focus on making the post-production process smoother.

360 Video Adventures

Troubleshooting reasons for missing audio recordings in Camtasia

I enjoy creating problems that I can solve. My current problem concerns audio segments for Camtasia Editor.

Troubleshooting reasons for missing audio recordings in Camtasia

Disconnecting from Perplexity

It is time to call QUIT for my Perplexity Pro account. She served me well for more than a year.

Disconnecting from Perplexity

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.

Enjoying dawn chorus

Thanking @educatefran for showing me @D2L and H5P

I should write a major testimonial to Frances O’Donnell, an Instructional Designer in County Donegal, who showed me the magic of smart imports with H5P.

Thanking @educatefran for showing me @D2L and H5P

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 …

Cleaning old stash

Thinking panoramically

One of the most technically difficult items that I am learning to use is my DJI Osmo 360 camera. I realise it’s because I’m trying to think panoramically instead of just thinking in terms of line of sight.

Thinking panoramically

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.

Seeking Quiet Coffee Spots

Looking in the mirror through Claude

Learning wha Claude.ai thinks of me.

Looking in the mirror through Claude

On Local Radio Sharing American Politics

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

On Local Radio Sharing American Politics

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.

The joy of microblogging with coffee