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My Weird Prompts

Daniel Rosehill

The human-AI collaboration podcast. A man, a sloth, and a donkey collaborate to create a podcast (with a little help from AI). No question is too obscure, no rabbit hole too deep. My Weird Prompts celebrates curiosity in all its forms. Daniel, the human, asks the questions that pop into his head at inconvenient moments. Corn the Sloth offers laid-back, thoughtful takes. Herman the Donkey brings boundless enthusiasm and energy. Together, they explore topics ranging from the mundane to the

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30:57

How to Save Your Brain State Like Git Stash

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2026/06/01

How do you maintain deep work when you're parenting an infant with ADHD and no backup? This episode breaks down the engineering approach: externalizing mental state files, time-boxing sprints to medication windows, and building interruption protocols with your partner. We cover the neuroscience of re-entry costs (23+ minutes to reload after a 2-minute interruption), the Zeigarnik effect, and practical systems that treat the structural problem—not just the psychological stress.

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32:28

Four Schools of Urbanism After Jane Jacobs

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2026/06/01

Jane Jacobs looms large over urbanist discourse, but she died in 2006. The cities being built today respond to very different ideas. This episode maps the four major schools of thought that actually drive modern city planning: the supply-side YIMBYs (Glaeser, filtering theory), the New Urbanists (Duany, Speck, walkability), the Just City theorists (Lefebvre, Harvey, right to the city), and the technocratic smart city school (Batty, Townsend, data-driven optimization). We explore the empirical fault

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32:42

Connected Villages: The Real Alternative to Suburban...

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2026/06/01

Are cookie-cutter car-dependent suburbs the only option? This episode unpacks what happens when cities are built around transit, not cars. From Copenhagen's 1947 Finger Plan to Curitiba's bus rapid transit system and Tokyo's private railway model, we explore real-world alternatives where employment, housing, and recreation coexist without forcing everyone to drive. We break down the urban transect, transit-oriented development, and the garden city model — and why these approaches remain rare despite

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26:31

Jane Jacobs Made Simple: How Cities Really Work

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2026/06/01

Jane Jacobs’ *The Death and Life of Great American Cities* is legendary but dense. In this episode, we translate her four conditions for urban vitality—mixed uses, short blocks, varied building ages, and dense concentration—into clear, usable ideas. We explore her battle against Robert Moses, the catastrophic failure of Pruitt-Igoe, and the contrast between Greenwich Village and Stuyvesant Town. Plus, we trace how her ideas influenced Jan Gehl and modern urban design. Whether you’re a city lover or

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31:32

Why Israeli Housing Feels Like an Oven

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2026/06/01

Why does so much of Israel’s housing feel like a concrete oven? This episode traces the architectural collision that shaped the nation: European Bauhaus and Brutalist ideals dropped into the Levantine desert. We explore why the Shikunim—those ubiquitous concrete housing estates—copied Le Corbusier’s forms but stripped out his social infrastructure, leaving residents with thin walls, flat roofs, and no shade. From the White City of Tel Aviv to the modern energy crisis, we examine how importing a

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27:59

Architects Are Actually Ergonomists

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2026/06/01

Most people think architects just make buildings look pretty. But the real job is closer to ergonomics at building scale: optimizing human welfare through space, light, circulation, and systems integration. This episode unpacks what architects actually do all day — from code compliance to daylight analysis — and explores where architecture ends and urban planning begins. We look at why coordination between the two disciplines so often fails, what happens when it works (Barcelona's Eixample

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28:30

Drawing the Melody: SSML's Hidden Power

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2026/06/01

Raw text to speech sounds good. SSML makes it sound *right*. In this episode, we explore Speech Synthesis Markup Language — the XML-based standard that lets developers control prosody, emotion, and pacing in neural TTS. We break down the prosody tag's contour feature (think: drawing the melody of a sentence), ElevenLabs' custom emotion tag (whisper, excited, sad — applied to any voice), and the trap of over-tagging. With ElevenLabs supporting ~28 tags and emerging as the standard's gravitational

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35:47

How Policy Summer Schools Actually Work

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2026/06/01

Standard conferences produce lanyards and slide decks. Policy summer schools produce legislation that serves millions. This episode traces the surprising origin story of the residential policy workshop — from a 1964 Sussex gathering that designed the UK's Supplementary Benefits system to the Bellagio sessions that shaped the Global Fund. We break down the design principles that make these gatherings work: the two-page provocation paper, the ban on PowerPoint, the Bellagio Rules that erase

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29:32

Why Six Stories Became the Global Default

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2026/06/01

Why did cities around the world independently settle on six stories as the maximum building height—long before zoning existed? This episode traces the surprising constraints that created the mid-rise default: human biomechanics, pre-elevator physics, 19th-century fire ladder reach, and building codes that codified the same number across continents. We then examine real-world proof cases—Paris, Barcelona, Montreal, and Tokyo—that demonstrate how six-story urban fabric can house more people per

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30:06

Walkable Cities Don't Have to Be Loud

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2026/06/01

Daniel loves walkable cities but hates the noise, cramped units, and constant street activity. Is this trade-off inevitable? We explore the design choices that make dense neighborhoods overwhelming — from wood-frame construction and parking mandates to mixed-traffic streets — and look at real alternatives like Barcelona's superblocks and Freiburg's Vauban district. The surprising answer: walkability doesn't require sensory overload. You just have to build it differently.

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29:50

The 35 Acres That Could Start a War

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2026/06/01

The Temple Mount in Jerusalem is thirty-five acres governed by handshake deals, not treaties. This episode unpacks the fragile status quo: Jordanian Waqf administration, Israeli security control, a Jewish prohibition on prayer upheld by the Chief Rabbinate, and a fringe movement preparing to rebuild the Temple. We trace the theological, legal, and political layers that make every minister's visit or whispered prayer a potential flashpoint for regional war.

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26:57

The Prank That Fooled Us All

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2026/06/01

Last week, we aired what we thought was a séance connecting Corn with his estranged father. It was an elaborate hoax. In this episode, we dissect how the prank worked, why we fell for it, and what the psychology of long-form deception reveals about trust, technology, and human vulnerability. From voice deepfakes to the Dark Tetrad of personality traits, we explore the mechanics of narrative hoaxes and the systemic failures that let this happen.

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26:51

Why Film Photography Is Surging in a Digital World

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2026/06/01

Film photography hit $1.2 billion in 2025, with 60% of new buyers under 35. This episode explores the measurable technical differences between analog and digital capture — from highlight rolloff and grain structure to spectral sensitivity curves. We break down why wedding photographers still choose Portra 400, how ARRI designed a sensor to mimic film's S-curve, and what the "exposure budget" teaches us about intentionality. If you've ever wondered whether the analog look is real or just nostalgia,

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32:26

Micro-Dispenser Pens vs Car Paint: What Actually Works

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2026/06/01

Ever wondered if those strange car scratch repair pens from AliExpress actually work? We dive deep into the chemistry of automotive paint — from e-coat factory processes to single-stage urethanes — and explain why those micro-dispenser tools keep clogging. Whether you're fixing a stone chip on your car or marking tiny circuit board components, the paint formulation matters more than the pen. Learn about capillary action in 0.5mm tips, pigment agglomeration, cure times, and why skipping the primer

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31:29

When Lawyers Speak for Nations: The Fiction of One Voice

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2026/06/01

When a state lawyer stands before the International Criminal Court and says "The State of X submits," they perform a legal fiction: a nation with no mouth speaks with one voice, binding millions who may profoundly disagree. This episode explores how government lawyers grapple with claiming to represent citizens who protest their own government's legal positions. We examine the Hobbesian roots of this fiction, the coping strategies of solicitors general, the footnote that acknowledged dissent in the

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27:32

How to Turn Housing Rage Into Real Power in Jerusalem

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2026/06/01

Jerusalem is filling up with luxury towers that sit dark at night while half the city lives in poverty. The outrage is real — but it hasn't translated into political power. This episode unpacks why the usual tools of protest have failed in Jerusalem's fragmented political landscape, then draws on case studies from London's community land trusts and Paris's fifteen-minute city campaign to offer a concrete playbook. We look at the Gateway project's September 2026 planning committee vote as a focal

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29:36

Counting Lights to Measure Empty Skyscrapers

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2026/06/01

When developer press releases say "90% sold" but only a fraction of windows are lit at night, how do you know what's really happening? This episode unpacks the surprisingly formal methodology of light-based occupancy estimation — from the "three-by-three rule" of observation nights and time windows, to correction factors for residents who are home with the lights off. We trace real case studies from Vancouver's Living Shangri-La tower to Miami's Brickell district, where citizen audits and drone

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27:44

Can Mixed-Use Buildings Actually Work for Residents?

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2026/06/01

Mixed-use buildings are celebrated for reducing car dependency and creating lively streets, but the people who live in them often deal with noise, privacy erosion, and traffic chaos. This episode breaks down the real design and policy fixes — from separate residential lobbies to acoustic decoupling and active street edges — that can make sharing a building with commercial tenants actually workable for residents. Drawing on examples from Tokyo, Vancouver, Portland, and Copenhagen, we explore why most

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34:58

Why Jerusalem Towers Are Empty While Blocks Thrive

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2026/06/01

Jerusalem is building forty-story towers that stay half-empty while traditional six-story blocks sell out. In this episode, we unpack the surprising economics: why towers cost more per unit, sell slower, and create ghost towers for foreign investors. We explore Israel's unique national planning system, where the central government can override local objections, and lay out a developer playbook for proving that perimeter blocks deliver better returns, higher density, and real street life. From

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35:19

Why Hilltops Still Win Modern Wars

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2026/06/01

In an age of drones and satellites, why do ground troops still seize hilltops? This episode breaks down the physics that make elevated terrain a force multiplier — from radar horizons that extend 18x at 650 meters, to how a hilltop turns a mortar's minimum range into a tactical advantage. We explore the 2023 Fort Sill field test showing 40% counter-battery radar improvement, how elevation extends anti-tank missile range, and why the IDF's capture of Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon follows the

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