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        Tadhg ‘Tehran’ Hickey — The Antisemitic Hate Speech Ireland Allows To Blossom In Plain Sight  
  
Published: 2025-06-22 
    Custom GPT List — August 2024  
  
Published: 2024-08-20 
    A Custom GPT To Summarise Communications From Abusive Or Toxic Individuals  
  
Published: 2024-07-30 
    An Iterative Cycle For GPT Prompt Engineering  
  
Published: 2024-07-25 
    Getting My Life Organised With HomeBox (Open Source Inventory Management)  
  
Published: 2024-02-26 
    Ireland’s Political Pogrom Of Israel Continues Unabated  
  
Published: 2024-02-23 
    HomeBox For Home Organisation (Open Source, Self-Hosted)  
  
Published: 2024-02-14 
    A Letter To My Irish Friends About Antisemitism  
  
Published: 2024-02-13 
    Ireland Basketball’s Israel-Shunning Carried The Silent Imprimatur Of Its Prime Minister  
  
Published: 2024-02-09 
    The Ireland-Israel Disconnection Plan: A Harm-Reduction Approach To Foreign Relations With Dublin  
  
Published: 2024-02-09 
    16 facts about Ireland to get Israeli & Jewish tourists excited about visiting  
  
Published: 2024-02-08 
    M-Disc vs. Blu Ray Inorganic (HTL): Optical Media Ageing Experiment 2  
  
Published: 2024-02-07 
    Why I’ve Been (Reluctantly) Writing About Ireland And Israel Lately  
  
Published: 2024-02-06 
    How Israel’s Only Kosher Korean Restaurant Came To Be (VIDEO)  
  
Published: 2022-09-13 
    My home office decor upgrade (August 2022)  
  
Published: 2022-09-02 
    M-Disc: The World’s Most Durable Archiving Medium (Photos, Video)  
  
Published: 2022-09-01 
    The Israel Egypt Border In Photographs — As Taken From Highway 10  
  
Published: 2022-09-01 
    Driving On Route 10 — Israel’s Spectacular Road Along The Egyptian Border  
  
Published: 2022-08-27 
    A Koala Drinking Beer In Ireland — And Other Weird Things I Created Using DALL E 2 This Week  
  
Published: 2022-08-04 
    My Videography Journey To Date — As Told In Photos  
  
Published: 2022-05-30 
    What Book Publishing And Documentary-Making Have In Common For Emerging Thought Leaders  
  
Published: 2022-02-07 
    Using Video For More Efficient Note Capture: The How And Why  
  
Published: 2022-02-06 
    The Jerusalem Trail — In Photos And Videos  
  
Published: 2022-01-31 
    Why Your Online Reputation Is Like Your Marketing Bank Balance  
  
Published: 2022-01-30 
    Snow In Jerusalem (January 2022) — Photos  
  
Published: 2022-01-26 
    English-Speaking Immigrants To Israel Have Never Had Wider Job Options (Thanks To Remote And Hybrid…  
  
Published: 2021-12-21 
    In photos: sunset over Gaza, as seen from Israel  
  
Published: 2021-12-02 
    The Remote Job Marketplace Has So Much Potential. But It’s Also So Badly Broken.  
  
Published: 2021-11-17 
    “Salary Confessions” Page Helps Lift The Lid On Salaries In Israel  
  
Published: 2021-10-28 
    2 Tech Hacks To Make Job-Hunting Online Easier And Less Frustrating  
  
Published: 2021-10-24 
    What is mental healthcare like in Israel for immigrants (olim)?  
  
Published: 2021-10-11 
    The Case For The 3 Hour Freelancing Workday  
  
Published: 2021-10-10 
    Israel’s housing crisis: could fixing the rental market be a better aim?  
  
Published: 2021-10-08 
    3 Great Reasons To Begin Posting On Reddit (And Not Facebook)  
  
Published: 2021-10-05 
    Did You Know? Reddit Has Its Own Search Language. Here’s How To Use It.  
  
Published: 2021-10-04 
    The Largely Untold Story Of How One Guy In California Keeps The World’s Computers On The Right…  
  
Published: 2021-10-04 
    The Quiet Rage That Comes With Getting Mentally Well  
  
Published: 2021-10-04 
    Tomorrow’s Internet Will Be A Bot-Infested, Mind-Warping Wasteland  
  
Published: 2021-10-04 
    How To Keep A Running Backup Of Your Reddit Account Using Zapier  
  
Published: 2021-10-03 
    How Did Being An Israel-Critical Zionist Become An Oxymoron?  
  
Published: 2021-09-24 
    3 (Major) Obstacles Currently Standing In The Way Of A Truly Remote Global Workforce  
  
Published: 2021-09-23 
    What It’s Like To Work In English In A Non English-Speaking Country  
  
Published: 2021-09-23 
    Content Marketing: It’s About More Than (Just) Lead Generation  
  
Published: 2021-09-22 
    Freelance Writers: How To Rebrand Your Service Offering To Get Past The Financial Struggle  
  
Published: 2021-09-22 
    Iron Dome Defunding: A Timely Wake Up Call For Israel’s Commitment To Safeguarding Its Own Security  
  
Published: 2021-09-22 
    Content Isn’t “Crap.” It’s Just Hopelessly Vague.  
  
Published: 2021-09-21 
    The 5 Must-Haves In Every Prepper’s Home Office  
  
Published: 2021-09-20 
    Why The 43K Milestone Matters For Content Creators (And Why It Doesn’t!)  
  
Published: 2021-09-14 
    How To: Set Up A Cellular-Backed Highly Available Home Internet Connection  
  
Published: 2021-09-13 
    Tamid V1.0: The Israeli Home Internet Connection That Never Goes Down  
  
Published: 2021-09-13 
    If “Nobody Reads Online” Why Bother With Content Marketing At All?  
  
Published: 2021-09-12 
    3 Damaging Myths That Keep Writers Poor And Undervalued  
  
Published: 2021-09-10 
    If You Run A Work From Home Business, Consider Investing In Backup Internet  
  
Published: 2021-09-06 
    For Freelance Writers, Revision Requests Can Be A Major Income-Draining Headache. And Here’s Why.  
  
Published: 2021-08-29 
    Open Sourcing Isn’t Just For Code — The Value Of Sharing Know-How Even When (Almost) Nobody Is…  
  
Published: 2021-08-29 
    Tired Of Lousy Home Internet? How To Use 4G/Cellular Backup To Boost Connection Stability  
  
Published: 2021-08-28 
    A Thoroughly Ridiculous (But Functional) Way To Practice Setting Up Guest Interviews In OBS Studio  
  
Published: 2021-08-25 
    Remote From World: How The Gold Standard In Digital Nomadism Is Still Surprisingly Evasive  
  
Published: 2021-08-24 
    Video, Podcasts, Or Blogs? What Format Should You Be Creating Content In This Year (And Beyond)  
  
Published: 2021-08-24 
    Why Sticking With Content Creation — Over The Long Term — Is Essential To Its Success  
  
Published: 2021-08-23 
    A More Efficient Way To Create Custom ‘Related Posts’ Sections on Medium  
  
Published: 2021-08-16 
    Forest Fires Are Lighting The Jerusalem Sky Red  
  
Published: 2021-08-16 
    The strange linguistic weaponization of specifying who “reached out” first  
  
Published: 2021-08-16 
    How Israel’s Draconian Defamation Laws Shield Abusive Businesses From Consequence  
  
Published: 2021-08-13 
    Is The Canon Vixia HF R800 A Good YouTube Camcorder? You Be The Judge! (Review)  
  
Published: 2021-08-13 
    Picked Up A Client Referral? Now Pay Attention To What They Say (And Think) About You  
  
Published: 2021-08-13 
    5 YouTube Channels From Israel I’m Watching At The Moment  
  
Published: 2021-08-12 
    Remote Work: Why Discussing Its Flaws Is A (Hugely) Positive Sign For Its Future  
  
Published: 2021-08-04 
    Marketing Consultants — And Why Elephant-Spotting Should Be A Core Part Of What They Do  
  
Published: 2021-07-23 
    Intelligence Gathering Is A Core Marketing Skill — And Other Lessons About Marketing Consulting…  
  
Published: 2021-07-22 
    Welcome To A Remote-First Working World. Here’s What’s New Around Here.  
  
Published: 2021-07-06 
    It's been a while since I followed this whole story, but I did notice that during the interview she…  
  
Published: 2021-07-05 
    Async Communication: You Mean Those Things Us Deep Work Folk Already Use And Love?  
  
Published: 2021-07-04 
    What Do Marketers Really Think About Salespeople?  
  
Published: 2021-07-04 
    “Green Flags”: Tips For Recognizing High Potential Leads In Your Freelancing Pipeline  
  
Published: 2021-07-01 
    A Remote World Will Be Better For All Its Workers  
  
Published: 2021-07-01 
    How To Block Tracking Pixels When Reading Email On Your Android Device  
  
Published: 2021-07-01 
    Here’s A Free Rebranding Strategy For Pro-Israel Advocacy  
  
Published: 2021-06-30 
    The Short And Dirty Playbook To Finding Better-Paying Freelance Clients  
  
Published: 2021-06-29 
    Does Text-Based ‘Content’ Have A Future In The Age Of Video?  
  
Published: 2021-06-24 
    Here Are Some Random Business Ideas That You Should Totally Steal From Me  
  
Published: 2021-06-24 
    Is Content Marketing ‘Just’ Advertising? And Other Tricky Questions For Content Marketers  
  
Published: 2021-06-24 
    The Silent Audience Effect — And Why You May Have Never Heard The Names Of Your Biggest Fans  
  
Published: 2021-06-24 
    We Need To Stop Judging ADHD Patients By Their Expected Cover  
  
Published: 2021-06-23 
    Email Open Rate Tracking Is Creepy And Weird. Should Marketers Be Using It At All?  
  
Published: 2021-06-22 
    I Post A Lot On LinkedIn. And No, I’m Not Looking For A New Job  
  
Published: 2021-06-22 
    I Participated In An “Extremist” Flag March In Jerusalem. And All I Saw Were Noisy Teenagers.  
  
Published: 2021-06-20 
    Why I Always Ask Prospects To Explain What Their Companies Do  
  
Published: 2021-06-20 
    Why I Decided To Share Publicly About Having Adult ADHD  
  
Published: 2021-05-28 
    Irish parliamentary motion: assert that Israel has “no place … among the international community”  
  
Published: 2021-05-26 
    My ADHD Diagnosis Story  
  
Published: 2021-05-25 
    The 3 Defining Features Of Irish Anti-Semitism  
  
Published: 2021-05-24 
    Many Irish Want Israel’s Dublin Embassy Shuttered. Why Doesn’t Israel Act First?  
  
Published: 2021-05-23 
    Palestinian supporters rally in Dublin, Ireland; call Israelis “a bunch of rats.”  
  
Published: 2021-05-23 
    Calls Or Documents: What’s Better For Briefing Creatives?  
  
Published: 2021-05-04 
    How Limiting Revisions Can Actually Help Your Freelance Writing Clients  
  
Published: 2021-05-04 
    The Personal Brand Builder’s Case For Creating With Abandon  
  
Published: 2021-05-04 
    The Pros And Cons Of A Career In Freelance Writing  
  
Published: 2021-05-04 
    The Staggering Gulf Between Salaries In Israel’s High-Tech Sector And The Rest Of The Economy  
  
Published: 2021-05-04 
    The Type Of Freelance Writing Clients You Encounter At Various Price Points  
  
Published: 2021-05-04 
    Horrible Corporate Jargon That Needs To Go Away Right Now (Part 2)  
  
Published: 2021-05-03 
    3 English-Speaking Jerusalem Influencers To Follow On Social Media  
  
Published: 2021-04-28 
    The Ultimate Long Game, Content Marketing Demands Its Own Mindset Too  
  
Published: 2021-04-27 
    The Dangers of Chasing After Social Engagement Metrics  
  
Published: 2021-04-26 
    This article contains some interesting insights, but I believe that we really need to stop…  
  
Published: 2021-04-26 
    What Browsing Wikileaks Cables Taught Me About Report Writing  
  
Published: 2021-04-26 
    Why Books Remain The Gold Standard Thought Leadership Asset  
  
Published: 2021-04-25 
    The Case For Israel To Move To A Monday To Friday Workweek  
  
Published: 2021-04-19 
    A basic guide to thought leadership  
  
Published: 2021-04-16 
    How can I become a thought leader? A step-by-step guide to get from A to B  
  
Published: 2021-04-16 
    5 Social Issues Facing Israeli Society  
  
Published: 2021-04-14 
    Why might you want to use your real name on Reddit?  
  
Published: 2021-04-07 
    There are a lot of reasons why I find Fasulo's whole approach disingenuous.  
  
Published: 2021-04-06 
    Is “six figure” culture income-shaming ordinary earners into depression?  
  
Published: 2021-03-26 
    Please don’t tell me that there’s no anti-Semitism in Ireland. There is.  
  
Published: 2021-03-24 
    Why I Have Suspicions About Alex Fasulo’s Claimed Fiverr Income  
  
Published: 2021-03-17 
    I’m based in Israel. And I’m not hiding that fact from anybody.  
  
Published: 2021-03-15 
    International Websites That Ship To Israel  
  
Published: 2021-03-12 
    In Israeli “high tech,” all that glitters isn’t gold (or ethical)  
  
Published: 2021-03-09 
    Digital Wallets Are Coming to Israel. Why Does It Matter?  
  
Published: 2021-02-22 
    Things Horrible Freelance Writing Clients Say  
  
Published: 2021-02-21 
    We Need To Stop Expecting Aliyah To Be ‘Immigrant Life Lite’  
  
Published: 2021-02-21 
    A (Totally Free) Guide To Freelance Writing  
  
Published: 2021-02-19 
    Things I Learned About Freelance Writing From My Therapist  
  
Published: 2021-02-18 
    Why we don’t need “Anglo” representation in Israel  
  
Published: 2021-02-18 
    A Reading List For Those Planning Aliyah  
  
Published: 2021-02-10 
    The Value Of Zoom Networking With Other Freelance Writers  
  
Published: 2021-01-28 
    A 4 Point Lead Qualification Checklist For Freelance Writers  
  
Published: 2021-01-18 
    How To Write For Living In Israel  
  
Published: 2021-01-17 
    How To Research Salaries In Israel  
  
Published: 2021-01-13 
    The Missing Middle Ground In The Debate About Israel  
  
Published: 2021-01-10 
    Every Lead Is A Node To A New Network  
  
Published: 2020-12-15 
    Webinar: What Is Thought Leadership? (Video and Podcast)  
  
Published: 2020-12-15 
    Why ghosting — and ghosts — simply suck  
  
Published: 2020-12-14 
    Pragmatism, not bridge-building, governs Israel’s emerging peace ties  
  
Published: 2020-12-13 
    Does Cold Emailing Work To Find Freelance Clients?  
  
Published: 2020-12-11 
    Guest Posting Is Often A Scam  
  
Published: 2020-12-01 
    Medium, LinkedIn, or your blog: where should you publish your thought leadership?  
  
Published: 2020-11-29 
    A Daily Marketing Keep Fit List For Writers  
  
Published: 2020-11-27 
    To Grow As A Writer, Write About (Slightly) Uncomfortable Topics  
  
Published: 2020-11-27 
    What Can Thought Leadership Do For Me — Or My Business?  
  
Published: 2020-11-02 
    My Thoughts On Simona Weinglass’s ORM Exposé  
  
Published: 2020-11-01 
    My Top Tips For Starting A Freelance Writing Business  
  
Published: 2020-11-01 
    How To Find Email Addresses To Resolve Customer Support Problems  
  
Published: 2020-10-30 
    What Does Bragging on LinkedIn Actually Achieve?  
  
Published: 2020-10-29 
    Life hack: Using Speech To Text Processing on Social Media Voice Notes  
  
Published: 2020-10-24 
    A Backup Calendar To Keep Your Computer In Good Running Order  
  
Published: 2020-10-23 
    What To Know Before Working With Freelancers in Israel  
  
Published: 2020-10-21 
    How big is Israel compared to Ireland?  
  
Published: 2020-10-03 
    The History of Jewish Cork — As Told By YouTube  
  
Published: 2020-10-01 
    What Was It Like Growing Up Jewish in Ireland?  
  
Published: 2020-09-27 
    Apps and Websites For Plotting the Coronavirus Radius  
  
Published: 2020-09-24 
    Technology Trends Explained: A YouTube Playlist  
  
Published: 2020-09-23 
    A look inside Israel’s kosher goat meat revolution  
  
Published: 2020-09-22 
    A Whistlestop Tour of Israel’s Borders  
  
Published: 2020-09-21 
    Why I Think Hasbara Is A Waste of Time (And Resources)  
  
Published: 2020-09-15 
    Is Criticizing Israel Kosher?  
  
Published: 2020-09-14 
    A Model For Sharing Only Essential Coronavirus Information  
  
Published: 2020-09-13 
    Is Being Self Employed in Israel Really Nigh On Impossible?  
  
Published: 2020-09-11 
    My Freelance Hourly Cheat Sheet  
  
Published: 2020-09-08 
    Where Are Jerusalem’s Embassies Going To Go?  
  
Published: 2020-09-06 
    How To Take An Offsite Backup Using Synology NAS  
  
Published: 2020-08-28 
    Project: Offbeat Offsite Backup Storage  
  
Published: 2020-08-27 
    Is Hiring A Ghostwriter Legitimate?  
  
Published: 2020-08-23 
    Embassies and consulates in Jerusalem — my map  
  
Published: 2020-08-19 
    My Jerusalem food and drink recommendations map  
  
Published: 2020-08-19 
    Translation apps and websites with Hebrew text to speech (TTS) support  
  
Published: 2020-08-07 
    How To Freelance Internationally. From Israel.  
  
Published: 2020-08-05 
    Using Checklists To Reduce Human Error in Business  
  
Published: 2020-07-30 
    The Unspoken Extra Skills That Are Needed For Freelancing  
  
Published: 2020-07-26 
    My Approach To Backing Up My Online Writing  
  
Published: 2020-07-06 
    10 Things I’d Like To Change About Life in Israel  
  
Published: 2020-07-05 
    Code Red Thought Leadership Study (For IT / Cybersecurity): Study Findings (And Podcast)  
  
Published: 2020-06-28 
    How To Back Up Shared Hosting Onto A Linux Host  
  
Published: 2020-06-26 
    4 Ways To Backup Linux Workstations Onto A Synology NAS (With Videos)  
  
Published: 2020-06-22 
    How to save a Clonezilla full disk image to an NAS over SSH  
  
Published: 2020-06-21 
    Synology DS920+ Unboxing and Setup Photos  
  
Published: 2020-06-17 
    What is thought leadership?  
  
Published: 2020-06-15 
    Ubuntu Desktop — My Complete Backup Strategy (V1.3)  
  
Published: 2020-06-14 
    The Piracy Risk of Using File Sharing Websites  
  
Published: 2020-06-07 
    The 5 People You Will Encounter in Facebook Medical Groups  
  
Published: 2020-06-05 
    On The Value Of Sharing Kind Words With Others  
  
Published: 2020-06-02 
    My Three Year Long Non-Fiction Reading List (150+ Books)  
  
Published: 2020-05-31 
    My Gallbladder Surgery Story. And: The Water Party Project  
  
Published: 2020-05-29 
    Five Common VPN Myths — And Responses  
  
Published: 2020-05-21 
    Book Review: Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage  
  
Published: 2020-05-17 
    My Gmail Organization System for Managing Bills (in Israel)  
  
Published: 2020-05-05 
    User Data Export Approaches of SaaS / Cloud Service / Social Media Providers — An Overview  
  
Published: 2020-05-01 
    How to Extract Your Data From Quora and Reddit  
  
Published: 2020-04-30 
    Tech project: Wedding thank you videos with Mailchimp  
  
Published: 2020-04-29 
    How to Set Up On GreenInvoice.co.il (Freelance Platform in Israel)  
  
Published: 2020-04-28 
    5 websites you’ll start using when you move to Israel  
  
Published: 2020-04-24 
    How to: Use Multcloud For Cross-Cloud Backups  
  
Published: 2020-04-22 
    How to: Backup Your Web Hosting (According to the 3–2–1 Principle)  
  
Published: 2020-04-20 
    Review: Ubuntu GUIs for Managing AWS S3 Buckets  
  
Published: 2020-04-20 
    How To: Create A G-Suite Address Just For Account Signups  
  
Published: 2020-04-19 
    How to: Set Up Open DNS On A Partner Router in Israel  
  
Published: 2020-04-17 
    The Pros and Cons of Living in Israel  
  
Published: 2020-04-08 
    A Look Inside The Weird World of Zoom Bombing  
  
Published: 2020-04-02 
    How To Use Super Pharm To Order Prescription Medications Online (in Israel)  
  
Published: 2020-03-19 
    Corona Diaries 1: Socially Isolating in Jerusalem  
  
Published: 2020-03-18 
    Corona Diaries 1: Socially Isolating in Jerusalem  
  
Published: 2020-03-17 
    If you’re noise-adverse and working-from-home consider buying this gear  
  
Published: 2020-03-17 
    The Corona Diaries 1: Social Isolation in Jerusalem  
  
Published: 2020-03-17 
    How to Make Your Home Office a Productivity Haven  
  
Published: 2020-03-10 
    Tutorial: Creating a custom module in Zoho CRM to send clients work  
  
Published: 2020-02-13 
    Internal Referrals — An Under-Tapped Way To Grow Your Freelance Business  
  
Published: 2020-02-12 
    How to Work With The World — From Israel  
  
Published: 2020-02-09 
    The Real Person’s Guide To Buying From Aliexpress  
  
Published: 2020-02-07 
    “You Have To Be Authentic. Every. Single. Day”  
  
Published: 2020-02-05 
    Some Must-Have Accessories For Multimonitor Workstations  
  
Published: 2020-02-05 
    How To: Save Gsuite and Gmail Storage Space by Archiving Old Emails and Files To AWS S3  
  
Published: 2020-02-04 
    Know Your Freelance Client (KYFC): Basic Due Diligence For Freelancers  
  
Published: 2020-02-03 
    Some great workstations from /r/battlestations  
  
Published: 2020-02-02 
    Graphics cards (GPUs) that support six (and more) outputs  
  
Published: 2020-01-31 
    Customer Service in Israel (And My Blacklist and Whitelist)  
  
Published: 2020-01-25 
    Tutorial: Creating a Password-Protected Wordpress Staging Environment Using Softaculous And…  
  
Published: 2020-01-24 
    Freelance Writing Pricing: Per Word, Per Hour, or Per Project? And How Much Of Each?  
  
Published: 2020-01-20 
    The Unusual Tactic I’m Using to Attract High-Intent Inbound Leads  
  
Published: 2020-01-19 
    What do Israelis mean when they talk about working “in high tech”?  
  
Published: 2020-01-17 
    My current Ubuntu (desktop) backup strategy  
  
Published: 2020-01-06 
    My (Unorthodox) Productivity Resolution For This Year — Be Less ‘Responsive’!  
  
Published: 2020-01-01 
    My (Meandering) Guide to VESA Monitor Mounts  
  
Published: 2019-12-30 
    Four FinTech Products I Would Like To See Roll Out in Israel  
  
Published: 2019-11-26 
    Why You Need Gastronorm Pans In Your Life  
  
Published: 2019-11-11 
    Some Creative Uses For Google Groups  
  
Published: 2019-10-29 
    How to: set up“virtual number” call and SMS routing for ~$30/yr.  
  
Published: 2019-04-01 
    OSINT adventure: Pillaging media lists from Google  
  
Published: 2019-02-19