Rendezvous with Jamie McGlue

Episode 161: Thoughts On Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool when used to good ends, but can equally be used for harm; and given these AI tools are being produced by the most powerful corporations in the world (often in close collaboration with governments), we would be wise to not become reliant on AI. Use it when you need simple info fast, but whenever you have time to spare or when an issue is complex or controversial, do your own reading of various sources and make up your mind with good old-fashioned reflection, critical thinking and intuition. Just like the TV Dinners of the 1950s, serving toxic slop at record speed, AI gets the job done rapidly but thereby deprives you of precious opportunities to be creative, to gain skills and self-discipline, to use and exercise your brain. So enjoy AI and do what makes you happy, but I for one will use it sparingly, to always cultivate above all my own intelligence. CONNECT & SUPPORT My short stories collection is available now! "Rings Round the Mind: Short Stories & Tall Tales" https://amzn.eu/d/ien0Bcf As are my poetry books, "Homecoming To A Foreign Land" https://amzn.eu/d/3bC29Lu and "Aye Am: Poems in Search of Spiritual Awakening". https://amzn.eu/d/7cotrgb Paperback €10 and Ebook €5 https://jamiemcglue.com [https://jamiemcglue.com] https://buymeacoffee.com/jamiemcglue https://twitter.com/JamieMcGlue https://howthwarts.com https://www.instagram.com/jamie_mcglue?igsh=MTNxNmdrdjZmaXczMg== https://www.youtube.com/@rendezvouswithjamiemcglue

Episode 162: Wearing A Mask Obscures Your Vision

Just as a physical mask may to some extent reduce your field of vision – blocking out the peripheries and separating your in some way from your environment – so to do the masks of image-projection and inauthenticity limit our ability to truly see and understand life around us and even within us. We must spend brainpower to maintain our fictions and monitor perceived reactions to our charade; vital energy which could otherwise be spent on creativity and wisdom. And it's also a lot more fun and relaxing to be your true self, nothing to hide, everything to see. CONNECT & SUPPORT My short stories collection is available now! "Rings Round the Mind: Short Stories & Tall Tales" https://amzn.eu/d/ien0Bcf As are my poetry books, "Homecoming To A Foreign Land" https://amzn.eu/d/3bC29Lu and "Aye Am: Poems in Search of Spiritual Awakening". https://amzn.eu/d/7cotrgb Paperback €10 and Ebook €5 https://jamiemcglue.com [https://jamiemcglue.com] https://buymeacoffee.com/jamiemcglue https://twitter.com/JamieMcGlue https://howthwarts.com https://www.instagram.com/jamie_mcglue?igsh=MTNxNmdrdjZmaXczMg== https://www.youtube.com/@rendezvouswithjamiemcglue

Episode 163: Storytelling Contest Winners from Germany

I had a really great time giving workshops to schoolkids in Germany earlier this month – sharing the how and why of mindfulness, music and creative writing. As part of the programme, the classes were divided into groups and made up their own stories; then the whole class voted on their favourite story. In today's episode I read the winning stories – plus a few others as well! All of them are amazing in that those who wrote them got outside their comfort zone and had the confidence and openness to connect to their creativity and share what they came up with. But some of the stories also have genuinely genius little twists and details, so I hope you enjoy them as much as I did. May we all keep writing our stories – the stories of each day in our unique way. CONNECT & SUPPORT My short stories collection is available now! "Rings Round the Mind: Short Stories & Tall Tales" https://amzn.eu/d/ien0Bcf As are my poetry books, "Homecoming To A Foreign Land" https://amzn.eu/d/3bC29Lu and "Aye Am: Poems in Search of Spiritual Awakening". https://amzn.eu/d/7cotrgb Paperback €10 and Ebook €5 https://jamiemcglue.com [https://jamiemcglue.com] https://buymeacoffee.com/jamiemcglue https://twitter.com/JamieMcGlue https://howthwarts.com https://www.instagram.com/jamie_mcglue?igsh=MTNxNmdrdjZmaXczMg== https://www.youtube.com/@rendezvouswithjamiemcglue

Episode 160: Deleting Old Files (From The Soul)

Just as with your digital devices, where we from time to time must discard old unnecessary files taking up our limited storage, to make space for the new and the onward flow of the now, just so is it the same with the soul. We must let go. We must allow the past to die and the now to live. This means letting memories, failures, relationships, interests, goals, ideologies, and possessions leave our emotional orbit and sail away into the infinite nothingness of space – to let our heart and mind refocus, redefine and reimagine ourselves and our world, our plans and preferences. Out with the old, in with the new! Whoever or whatever calls you, it means your soul is curious. CONNECT & SUPPORT My short stories collection is available now! "Rings Round the Mind: Short Stories & Tall Tales" https://amzn.eu/d/ien0Bcf As are my poetry books, "Homecoming To A Foreign Land" https://amzn.eu/d/3bC29Lu and "Aye Am: Poems in Search of Spiritual Awakening". https://amzn.eu/d/7cotrgb Paperback €10 and Ebook €5 https://jamiemcglue.com https://buymeacoffee.com/jamiemcglue https://twitter.com/JamieMcGlue https://howthwarts.com https://www.instagram.com/jamie_mcglue?igsh=MTNxNmdrdjZmaXczMg== https://www.youtube.com/@rendezvouswithjamiemcglue

Episode 156: Story One: Deer Computer

I read the first of twelve short stories that make up my newly released collection, Rings Round the Mind: Short Stories & Tall Tales. It's basically a 20-minute audiobook! If you enjoy, please support me by liking/sharing the video, and purchasing (€10, wowza!) the paperback book off Amazon. https://amzn.eu/d/ien0Bcf [https://amzn.eu/d/ien0Bcf] (The author's permission is required for any republishing of the short story shared in this episode, copyright Jamie McGlue 2025.) CONNECT & SUPPORT My short stories collection is available now! "Rings Round the Mind: Short Stories & Tall Tales" https://amzn.eu/d/ien0Bcf [https://amzn.eu/d/ien0Bcf] As are my poetry books, "Homecoming To A Foreign Land" https://amzn.eu/d/3bC29Lu [https://amzn.eu/d/3bC29Lu] and "Aye Am: Poems in Search of Spiritual Awakening". https://amzn.eu/d/7cotrgb [https://amzn.eu/d/7cotrgb] Paperback €10 and Ebook €5 https://jamiemcglue.com [https://jamiemcglue.com] https://buymeacoffee.com/jamiemcglue [https://buymeacoffee.com/jamiemcglue] https://twitter.com/JamieMcGlue [https://twitter.com/JamieMcGlue] https://howthwarts.com [https://howthwarts.com] https://www.instagram.com/jamie_mcglue?igsh=MTNxNmdrdjZmaXczMg== https://www.youtube.com/@rendezvouswithjamiemcglue