Chatgpt on Creativity Hacker

The Rip-Cord Protocol

jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 09:21:56 +0000

Every language course I’ve ever taken began with how to have a simple conversation, but I don’t think I’ve ever been taught what to do when those conversations break down. And they do break down. All the time. Especially for beginners.

This post recaps a conversation I had with ChatGPT about what I think is a crucial - yet often missing - first lesson in language learning: How to keep conversations moving when the bottom falls out.

I call it The Rip-Cord Protocol.

Verbal Emphasis

jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 09:06:54 +0000

There are a cluster of words I’ve been more or less ignoring in norsk; words like “jo” and “vel.” They seem to come scattered randomly in sentences, shifting the nuance somehow, but I’ve been so busy focusing on what the nouns and verbs are doing that I haven’t unpacked all those dangly bits.

Today I decided to take the plunge, in another installment of Useful Conversations With ChatGPT…

Kaffe Kan Fikse en Tregmorgen

jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 08:56:38 +0000

Join me for another installment of my “Conversations with Robots” series.

Shelter From The Storm

jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 12:45:04 +0000

Have you ever tried learning a language by watching TV and ended up feeling like a leaf in a language hurricane? That’s me. I want to improve my listening skills, but every norsk series I’ve tried seems to be competing in the mumble-Olympics, recorded in a drainage culvert. Surely it’s not all like that, right?

Tusenlapper

jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 08:52:30 +0000

It occurs to me that I frequently have interesting conversations with ChatGPT about the Norwegian language, but that I’m the only person benefiting from the resources I consume to generate it.

So in the interests of amortizing my carbon footprint, I’m going to start sharing those convos here. Let me know if you like the idea…

Ontology-2.0

jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 10:56:15 +0000

While trying to integrate the many episodes of CaveTV into the site, I realized that the ontology was getting cramped. It needs to be revised to better distinguish between internal projects, external brand identities, multiple deliverables within a brand, and distinct showrooms.

What follows is the scheme we devised for what the abstractions are, how they should be tagged in Obsidian, and how the files will be managed within Hugo.