Topgold Audio Clips

Soaked soaked soaked. Also feeling for end of life cancer advice given to a friend's mom.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/topgold-audio-clips--2663090/support.

I have a training programme for people who have started to pay for Claude Pro. The microlearning sessions revolve around five business use cases explained on my blog at https://insideview.ie/2026/02/...Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/topgold-audio-clips--2663090/support.

Sharing why I still use Swarm. More at https://insideview.ie/2026/02/...The main reason is so I can see friends during their international travel as they check into places they may want to remember on their expense reports.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/topgold-audio-clips--2663090/support.

Sharing cover art snapped on the streets of Clonmel, Co Tipoerary, IrelandBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/topgold-audio-clips--2663090/support.

Chatting with Roger Overall about authentic storytelling. Includes a snippet with Jimmy Kimmel and Dua Lipa as well as thoughts for Brigit Kolen. See the video at Vimeo.com/1165714650 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/topgold-audio-clips--2663090/support.

Bernie thinkis we should try a community project using Obsidian. It's starting with a small project between Roger Overall, Brigit Kolen in The Netherlands, and Tim Ereneta in California. Bernie just heard something interesting in the podverse and by Adam Curry, the podfather. He is using Obsidian.Can you imagine?Here is what Adam had to say inCasting 2.0 for February 13th, 2026, episode 250, Dopaminergic:"Obsidian's my jam. I live in Obsidian. A lot of people use Obsidian. I use it as an outline. You can use it in many different ways, and it's completely scriptable. So an example: every day it has a new folder for the year, month, day. I use a markdown widget on the browser. So if I see an article that I want to save, then I just hit that little widget and it will save the title and the URL. And on desktop, it'll actually save a markdown version of the page. The whole thing is based on markdown files.And even if I get something from Gemini, I have a prompt that says put it into an Obsidian template. It does tags and all the stuff I need to just have a database, a knowledge base of stuff, and I can search it and I can organize it. And so when it comes to show day, regardless of what show it is, I'll check on the tags, as I mark all the different shows I do with tags. And then I drag it into a show folder with topics. And then I have a script which will export it to OPML and I can import that right into the Freedom Controller. It really is nice. But you can also, if you want, turn it into mind mapping. I don't use that. I just use it as an outliner, knowledge-based storage system, and it syncs between all my devices. I live in that. I just absolutely write down a note, boom, got it, because you can find it. You can really find stuff. Yeah, I probably need to look at this because Alex Gates turned me on to it. Ever since I got Obsidian, like, oh man, I love this. This thing is awesome. It really is. My whole life is in it. You can put code in it. Code blocks. Yeah, it's Markdown. So, yeah. Hello. Yeah. Hello. Pretty cool."So that's Adam Curry talking about Obsidian, my favorite knowledge management system.With Roger, I'm hoping to connect a vault in Obsidian between Roger, Brigit Kolen, a creative media writer in the Netherlands, and myself as we talk about authentic storytelling.Another partner, and it would be Tim Ereneta in Berkeley, may row in.  For you then, Simon, if you think you'd be interested in connecting up a vault that would generate OPML, that would be handy.I think I can figure it out based on the community plugins that are inside the Obsidian community, but who knows?This is interesting.And the other thing I want to do is use Airtable iframes inside of Obsidian.And that should be as dead simple as buying the right plan with Airtable and then injecting, inserting the iframe.Different plans allow different kinds of dynamic insertion. Some are just a view. Some are allowing in and out.But those are two things: Obsidian in its native form to generate OPML. And Obsidian with in and out Airtable.This is interesting to me because I know it moves the ball down the pitch of authentic storytelling.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/topgold-audio-clips--2663090/support.

Babbling for 5 minutes about the labels on my 2025 notebook shown in cover artBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/topgold-audio-clips--2663090/support.

Thinking about a way to write notes carefully in my few remaining pages of my Leuchtturm journals. Cover art snapped of the journals on my kitchen table.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/topgold-audio-clips--2663090/support.

A quick reply to Clay Lowe, Simon Toon, and Paul O'Mahony about the low interest around social audio. I fell into that space by following Christian Payne and Mark Rock. Today, most of my time and interest revolves around what Maton Reece has developed with microblogging. You can see my microblog at https://insideview.ie and you can see the case of the mic I am using by looking at the cover art of this episode.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/topgold-audio-clips--2663090/support.

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 because she has processed them beforehand.I use Obsidian's note-taking system by free-writing ideas during the day, capturing handwritten notes with OCR, and producing written transcripts of snippets from podcasts. It's part of Nick Milo's Linking Your Thinking process. It is the underlying foundation of how I have learned from primary school through several careers.Watch this on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/1161375991?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ciBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/topgold-audio-clips--2663090/support.

My 100W Verbatim fast charger was damaged when a USB cable was ripped out of it sideways. You can see this on my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gU6Xk_7MikBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/topgold-audio-clips--2663090/support.

Using a single Bose Earbud to record this next to a stack of Moleskines.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/topgold-audio-clips--2663090/support.

Thinking about Simon Toon and the imminent arrival of my son @gobackdylanBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/topgold-audio-clips--2663090/support.

I pay for Google Personal Intelligence. Do you?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/topgold-audio-clips--2663090/support.

I didn't mention this but--I have created and now can share one pagers inside Miro and also embedded into Obsidian. #bigwin My one pagers often extend from the Leuchtturm journals in the cover art. At the top sits a heading followed by a problem statement, a workflow or a solution. KPIs or data sets. Contact info, links, or QR codes.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/topgold-audio-clips--2663090/support.

Appoaching a six week teaching programme with the Irish Innovation Skillnet. We run multiple AI tools in hands-on sessions so trainees get the confidence of usage. One of the frameworks I use involves supporting an itinerary, perhaps one originating from a calendar. We also set up brainstorming sessions in one of the AI training programmes that I do. And I fet some of the best feedback when evaluating complex questions. I will break down each of these four points in blog posts I write at https://insideview.ieBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/topgold-audio-clips--2663090/support.

An Irish breakfast with thoughts of the Ideaverse becoming my RISE26 Obsidian vault. The top nav bar may link to these folders: Recents, Mindmaps, Garden, Visuals, Orphanage, X. This is a Tier One deliverable for me and I will write about it on https://topgold.ie The cover art is my first Irish Breakfast of 2026. Venue: Esquires of Clonmel.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/topgold-audio-clips--2663090/support.

Nick Milo invited me to a webinar where I am learning about Linking My Thinking with Milo's Basic Training Wing . Somehow a half dozen images related to the event dropped into my phone's gallery, perhaps from a calendar item. One of the images is cover art for this episode.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/topgold-audio-clips--2663090/support.

Discovering the AI image-making tool on my Samsung S25 Ultra phone. I made thr bike in this cover art just by drawing two circles and a line. So much fun! On a day when it is very icy outside.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/topgold-audio-clips--2663090/support.

More than 30 consecutive hours of travel. Now back on the free llcal link bus at my stop 11448 in County Tipperary.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/topgold-audio-clips--2663090/support.

Planning to meet long-time friend Tim Ereneta in The Clift Royal Sonesta Hotel. We may embark on a project with authentic storytelling.

I got a set of Bose earbuds and this is my first attempt at using them inside Spreaker Studio. I plan to upload the audio to https://skillnet.h5p.com to see what happens. The interactive book is at https://skillnet.h5p.com/content/1292726552447795327 and the cover art is a photo of the earbud case. Read more of Bernie's daily activities on his https://topgold.micro.blog

Using Spreaker Studio in a noisy local cafe. Offering Paul OMahony a cuppa if he jumps the 245 bus from Glanmire to Clonmel Poppyfields.

Hoping this short audio blog works because I sabotaged my last clip. I am reading the last book on novel writing I will ever need.

Chatting outside my local Tesco after buying butter and cereal.

Starting work with students inside the Kunst Matrix Art Gallery online.

Sharing a snap of an empty chair that could be filled by Paul O'Mahony is we ever meet for another coffee chat. I would share adventures with https://Claude.ai and recap by lovely journey to Eindhoven.

Using a new iPad Mini on the largest desk I ever occupied to announce I am starting a new phase in my creative life. Wish me luck. The cover art is a snap of my desk as I sort through things to toss away while musing at https://topgold.micro.blog/202...

Planning to use my Bambook to complement my 15 week RUNEUAI course. Its low tech eraseability takes me back to my days of spycraft.

Thinking about our bountiful and colorful garden.

Wondering if it is smart to put all my content eggs in one basket. I'm consolidating my core content into a Microblog called topgold.micro.blog

I am packed up and transitoning today, no longer tied to a timetable as a university lecturer. Here are some of the other phases of my life.

This is my final day of working with a government paycheck since I am officially retired. I earned a stamp from Irish immigration that allows me to stay in Ireland for 90 days as a businessman but the stamp limits my employment options. No bother--I also have a National Immigration Card that gives me three years of greater flexibility. I was surprised to see that the immigration officer's scan of my passport did not show the existence of my other (more robust) permission to enter Ireland. The cover art shows the faded green ink of the Irish Immigration Service.

I met two lovely people in Brussels and in Eindhoven. We plan to share our superpowers as we collaborate in research of AI-assisted production processes for authentic storytelling with multicultural audiences. #iceri2025

Enjoying my last night in Belgium. I want to return.

It is a warm evening at the end of August and I am amazed at the diversity of sounds, aromas, clothing, and people on the streets of Brussels Belgium.More images at https://flickr.com/photos/irisheyes for the period 28-30 August 2025.

Remembering my days as a hard running long distance jogger and cyclist as my left arm feels the auto-measuring blood pressure monitor.

Letting 18 your fantasy play out on a used car lot. Thinking of @sm2n's forest as I recall ours. Wondering if the military grade phone case obscures my voice.

Shout out to Simon Toon as I look at our lovely back garden.

It is a beautiful day in the sunny southeast of Ireland. Hope yours is as bright as well

Thinking about how people trust services they use more than the experts they could ask.

Discussing the Power Cut Lopper by Wolf Garten, a new garden tool that is used by gardeners like Dylan.

Just three more Monday morning coffee mug fills on my campus.

Explaining the workflow from video to Camtasia to Vimeo. Props to Ava Mae Healy

You can tell a lot about a person by their hands.