topgold.ie teaches digital transformation in Ireland. Works with Ireland's Youth Media Team. #authenticstorytelling #AndAcyclist
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@topgold.ieFinding out again that it pays to serve.
Bernie Goldbach "topgold"
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@topgold.ie@topgold.ieLiving with Ireland's centrist budget: https://insideview.ie/2026/10/11/living-with-irelands-centrist-budget.html
I watched Ireland’s Budget being dissected last Tuesday and figured out it means getting a smaller pizza for the next year. That will be good for my diet and this simple downshifting...
@topgold.ieAll I can afford €100 a car and that doesn't fill the Q3's tank.
@topgold.ieI've been looking at Yudkowsky and Soares (#10) since early summer. Clear and Wynn-Williams are enshrined in my @readwise.bsky.social collection.
@topgold.ieKeep critical thinking at the front: https://insideview.ie/2026/10/11/keep-critical-thinking-at-the.html
The biggest impact I make when working with creatives is to show them how to keep their critical thinking at the front of content they create. This is challenging because many people want to ...
@topgold.ieI think @sabrinaramonov.bsky.social may be the one who causes me to use TikTok:
@topgold.ie@sm2n.bsky.social listening while waiting in traffic
@topgold.ieLet it germinate. Says my bookshelf.
@topgold.ieWhen the AI Bubble bursts, big tech bros will be more dangerous than ever.
@topgold.ieVoters want brakes on AI but Trump wants more breaks for tech bros
Gift:
Donald Trump’s untenable strategy for AI
www.economist.com/united-state...
@topgold.ieStill starting with pens: https://insideview.ie/2026/10/07/still-starting-with-pens.html
Every year I look at my Starter Pack. I still start with ink.
@topgold.ieLearning more about Camtasia Pro: https://insideview.ie/2026/10/07/learning-more-about-camtasia-pro.html
@topgold.ieMy brief morning walk needed to be 20 minutes longer to burn off one Americano and 300 ml of orange juice
@topgold.ieListening along the border of Northern Ireland and wonder if your campus visits could include Queens in Belfast or Ulster in Londonderry. We could meet and chat if you spent some time here in the North.
@topgold.ieWhat a party!
@topgold.ieIf I have a big clump of docs to review with Claude, I convert the docs to MD and save into my Vault. But that means an extra step to distill PPTX and PDF to MD. And if there are XLSX files, I ask Claude to analyse table structure first.
@topgold.ieTalking on my audio blog about how Instagram surprises me. But then I realise I introduced hundreds of third level students to Insta (and FB and Twitter before that) so many of them still follow my babblings.
@topgold.ieCross-posting boosts audio: https://insideview.ie/2026/10/05/crossposting-boosts-audio.html
I can’t keep up with all the cross-posting people do across social networks. That’s probably why all my besties will fit around a Tipperary Long Table.
@topgold.ieImaging how people used to think Big Tobacco was untouchable. Big Oil should start setting aside contingency funding.
Should Big Oil pay for climate change?
@topgold.ieWatching OCR help a hand injury: https://insideview.ie/2026/10/05/watching-ocr-help-a-hand.html
I am working with young people who often have challenges with their handwriting. At the moment my son Dylan can’t hold a pencil in his writing hand because of surgery.
