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Today in
My Weird Prompts
Friday, 18 September 2026
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A sloth and a donkey discuss anything — every episode generated by AI from a single prompt.
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Technology |
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Most certifications are portable — you earn them, you keep them, they travel with you. But there's an entire category of credentials designed to never leave the…
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There's plenty of literature on leaving government for industry, but the reverse transition is barely documented. Drawing on RAND workforce data, the culture of the…
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Every remote worker runs the same playbook — find a cafe, buy a latte, stretch it. But the playbook is self-defeating: density breeds conspicuousness, and…
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This episode separates three categories that usually get lumped together: slideware (the pitch is the product), vaporware (the announcement is the product), and…
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The answer is that the product half-exists, split across two industries that have never spoken to each other: hand engravers buy brass and mild steel practice…
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This episode unpacks where automation actually ends and the hand skill begins — prototyping, board-level microsoldering, rework — and why a $10 beetle-shaped…
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You've called every cross-head screw a Phillips. Half of them aren't. This episode untangles the real difference between Phillips (PH) and Pozidriv (PZ) — why the…
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Wi-Fi was never designed for smart home sensors — it's high power, high throughput, and lives in the most crowded spectrum in your house. But it's also the only…
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The radio signal is fine — the problem is what happens after it arrives. This episode unpacks ping-pong handovers, wholesale capacity caps, and base-station…
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That constraint changes everything: without a depth sensor, the software has to infer depth from parallax across overlapping images. This episode walks through the…
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The Gantt chart is named after Henry Gantt, but a Polish engineer named Karol Adamiecki built essentially the same tool in 1896 — and published it in Polish and…
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The repair is technically simple, but the warranty process costs more than the tool. That frustration opens a bigger question: how do parts actually reach anyone?…
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Geopolitics |
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North Korea publishes no tourism data, so every visitor number is an estimate built on estimates. This episode separates the two visitor economies that get…
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The imports-to-GDP ratio sounds like it should measure trade balance, but it doesn't — it measures openness. Hong Kong sits above 178%, the US at 14%, and Israel at…
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Since 1945, the world has conducted over two thousand nuclear detonations—but how many were about physics, and how many were about politics? This episode untangles…
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North Korea's leader cult isn't a religion with a holy book — it's a corporate identity system that's run for seventy years without a rebrand. This episode digs…
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North Korea's borders exist to keep people in, not out — and every defector who crosses is a leak the regime treats as a capital threat. This week we trace the…
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North Korean food has its own identity — colder, milder, sourer than the South's, built on corn, potatoes, buckwheat and pork instead of rice and chili. But the…
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North Korea lets in roughly 6,000 tourists a year, and every stop is choreographed — from a fully stocked pharmacy whose staff seemed baffled by visitors, to…
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Ukraine's cyber campaign didn't run alongside the war in the trenches — it fed it. A hacked server in Moscow produced coordinates for strikes in Donbas. A phone…
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AI |
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Personality first, workflow first, guardrails first? The practitioner guides contradict each other, and the research is messier still. This episode digs into what…
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Pseudo-personalized spam is the new inbox tax: messages that scrape your public work, fake a personal connection, and pivot to a one-sided ask. We walk through what…
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What happens when the greatest orator of the twentieth century applies for an entry-level consulting job? This episode dissects Churchill's rhetorical rules …
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When a humanoid talks, walks, and picks up a cup in one smooth interaction, it looks like a single mind at work. It isn't. Under the hood, most deployed robots run…
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Companies are deploying AI avatars as job interviewers, and in most cases candidates aren't told. This episode digs into the disclosure toggle that ships off by…
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This episode works through the professional version of the pattern: capture stays ad-hoc, processing becomes batched, and the queue lives in a database instead of a…
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Getting Things Done promises frictionless capture, but the weekly review has become a second job — and most task apps literally cap how many unprocessed items your…
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Health |
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The answer runs through an 18-year study of 1,600 people, a Yale psychologist's smartphone app, and the specific case of people moving to Israel sold on the…
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A simple errand — getting an advance prescription for ADHD medication before an international trip — turns into a slog through a system built on suspicion. This…
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Work-related deaths hit 2.9 million a year, and disease outpaces injury almost eight to one. Hazardous substances alone kill over a million people annually, yet…
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Heavy metal toxicity is real, but "heavy metals" aren't one thing — lead, mercury, arsenic, and cadmium each behave differently in the body, produce different…
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Architecture |
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A listener's friend moved into a high-rise with a staffed security desk, a spotless lobby, and working elevators — and it took weeks to notice almost nobody…
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A two-person architecture practice lands a hotel project and suddenly becomes a procurement department — no training, no legal cover, no invoice line for the hours…
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Aviation |
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A forced-choice scenario: an A320 or 737 is in serious trouble, and the crew has three options — a grass runway long enough for the landing weight, a road with live…
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Air Koryo is a six-aircraft airline with three destinations, a one-star Skytrax rating, and a cold hamburger in cellophane as its signature meal. But the stranger…
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Travel |
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The pre-flight safety demo is legally mandated, universally performed, and almost universally ignored by the people who've seen it most. So does it actually work?…
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What happens when you take the romance of slow travel and put it on a bus with 44 seats, no shower, and a toilet that's seen things? This week we dig into the…
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Finance |
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When a Dremel dies, the replacement hunt turns up something odd — Bosch tools in Israel cost 30% to 200% more than in Europe, and the importer's own direct store…
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History |
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From the 1900 Paris moving sidewalk to the 1893 Ferris Wheel to GM's Futurama exhibit that shaped the interstate highway system, the old fairs were temporary cities…
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Israel |
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What is it actually like to live a few doors down from a head of state? Not as a thought experiment, but as a daily reality. Drawing on first-person reporting from…
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Policy |
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It turns out the answer is stranger than expected: in the UK, selling a title is a crime, but using one isn't. This episode maps the three tiers of…
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Preparedness |
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You've got the flares. You've got the vest. Nobody told you where to put them, what pattern to use, or why a bright LED can actually hide your car in fog. This…
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Everything Else |
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What do lunar land deeds, vials of Irish soil, and sealed bags of Banff mountain air have in common? They're all legal products that sell something other than what…
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Donald Trump in the interviewer's chair for an entry-level filing position — that's the absurd container for this episode's real work: taking apart the rhetorical…
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Urban exploration has exploded from a secretive inner circle into a 13.7 billion-view TikTok phenomenon — and nobody can say how big it actually is. This episode…
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