Topgold Audio Clips

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.

Reflecting with Ava-Mae on First Day

On a sunny day in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, I share bright sun and happy noises.

That is a screencap from Whoop showing I need deeper recovery from an all-nighter.

Realising that the door to my classrooms is closing within five teaching weeks.

Offering my streetside perspective across from the Parade Reviewing Stand in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, Ireland. The cover art is the quiet street around the corner, complete with covered-up openings for the horses and carriages.

Talking to gobackdylan aboutbthe very intelligent Google Gemini

With Walk if Life playing overhead and Paddy's Day prep outside, I share ideas with Dylan (in cover art). See one of Dylan's fav brekkie items by scrolling https://bsky.app/profile/topgo...

Thinking about what I will do when my day job at the local university terminates. Maybe some flying. Probably a book or two. And definitely European projects. The cover art is my desk on the Clonmel campus.

What's out front of your home? I have remnants from a bathroom, as you can see from the cover art.

I attended INTED2025 in Valencia--the best edtech conference this century. The cover art wS snapped in the lobby of Hotel Melia, an excellent venue. I will have a longer review of the event on my microblog at https://topgold.micro.blog

Talking about a 512GB thumb drive that is pimped as an SSD drive. And sharing info about the AI courses I teach.

A big apology for being an American in Europe because President Musk has damaged the reputation of omce-proud USA. I ramble about teaching AI and Digital Transformation and offer listeners free passage into the last six AI for Productivity sessions I'm teaching this semester. The cover art shows what my work station looks like today. Hat tip to Simon Toon for being so consistent as an Audiobooster. Reach me @topgold on good social networks.

Just a quick look at producing content with MoJo tools

Thinking about how I would investigate the collision between a jet and a helicopter. Cover art snapped by me while flying down the Potomac.

Sharing ideas about the campfire segments I have during the digital transformation course I run. The course is part of a Springboard funded post-graduate programme described at https://bit.ly/tus-dt Cover art is my current Leuchtturm 1917 notebook.

I have a Substack where I reveal my email backlog: https://open.substack.com/pub/... That's me in the foyer of mu campus in the cover art.

In Dublin to meet Nessa McEniff, CEO of Learnovate. Discovered a pathway to a feasibility study, perhaps made easier with membership to Learnovate, so we will see. I am interested in connecting to https://skillsvista.com as I explore whether a Google Accelerator Fund might help me bring dozens of AI ideas to life. Dublin on the 13th of January 2025 was quiet enough for me to hear kids playing in a city centre park and the buses were non-boisterous so I could hear electronic announcements clearly.If you have suggestions to help my twisted knee, please drop me a line on https://topgold.bsky.social

I intend to share audio logs as part of the journalism section of my Podskills Substack. If you are an OG Audiobooer please let me know ow how you found this clip and let me know what you want from my Substack.

Wondering if there is a way to connect social audio to long form Substack. Trying this with the Spreaker Studio app, hoping a newer phone gives me a Bluetooth option using the mics in the box on the cover photo.

Bernie Goldbach imported his notes from Mairead Pratschke's AI and Education into Readwise and then exported those Readwise snippets into NotebookLM. This podcast captures the audio interview that emerged from Gemini's rendering of the text snippets.

Thinking about rebooting daily audio notes bc I hear FiremanRich and Paul OMahony leading the way. Cover art is the bus stop.

Planning to use my 5yo Samsung in support of Audiomo while simultaneously dropping content into https://topgold.micro.blog/2024/05/10/refining-audio-production.html then listening to the audio on the JBL in the cover photo.

Working with a group of local government employees in a hands-on AI training session. More at https://topgold.micro.blog/202...

Just checking in after a few months.

Discussing the first steps I'm taking to clean out my Notion by making a Teamspace dedicated to a book project I have with Larry Maguire. Cover art from the ice house adjoining my back garden.

Recorded for audiomo while waiting outside the Lost Property Office of Irish Rail in Dublin.

Thinking about how I would frame a discussion of the workplace of 2040 while in front of Connolly Station in Ireland.

Talking to myself about (1) motivation, (2) effortlessness, and (3) belief. I thought about those things while watching wood pigeons.

I explain one of the most embarrassing episodes in my work life. It involves an unintentional audio recording ai made during a Zoom meeting. Part of my Reading Week Reset involves refining a workflow that let's me talk to my Surface Book to dynamically generate a blog post. If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter you may know my son me a video about vandalism in the Clonmel Sports Hub. On 31 March, we head to GASP! in Limerick for salons between students and professional creatives. My next reset is on the first of April when I will add daily Instapaper reviews to my work flow.