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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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31:12

Why No AR App for Infant CPR?

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2026/07/05

Daniel, a new parent in Tel Aviv, took a first aid course before his baby arrived. Six months later, searching for a refresher on the infant recovery position at 2AM, he found only a static PDF from 2014. His phone has LiDAR, a GPU, and pose estimation — yet the most critical just-in-time knowledge is locked in a four-hour course and a forgotten certificate. This episode explores why no major organization has built the obvious solution: an interactive, AR-driven first aid app that uses the hardware

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29:02

The First Aid Knowledge Gap That Shouldn't Exist

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2026/07/05

A motivated parent, a smartphone with LiDAR and ARKit, and a shocking discovery: there's no validated, interactive first aid refresher system anywhere. Despite CPR skills measurably decaying within three to six months post-training, the entire ecosystem is stuck on static web pages and one-time certification courses. We explore why this gap exists, what technology already makes the fix possible, and whether the answer lies with institutions, private companies, or communities building their own

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37:47

Can Shared Faith Bridge Jerusalem’s Deepest Divides?

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2026/07/05

Jerusalem is the only city on Earth whose primary export is holiness—yet it’s also one of the most physically divided places in the world. In this episode, we explore a listener’s question: among the devout Christians, Muslims, and Jews who make pilgrimage to Jerusalem’s sacred sites, does a shared religiosity connect them more deeply than their theological differences divide them? We trace the city’s history of managed separation—from the Ottoman millet system to the Status Quo at the Church of the

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23:05

Guilt as a Feature: How Judaism Processes Failure

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2026/07/05

When you drive through Jerusalem on Shabbat carrying a knot of guilt in your chest, you're experiencing something the system was designed to produce. But is that guilt a useful signal or a corrosive burden? This episode traces how monotheistic religions generate guilt, why Judaism's version is structurally different from Christianity's, and the surprising built-in mechanism—buried in the texts—for processing that guilt productively. We explore the difference between guilt and shame, the halakhic

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41:46

When Thoughts Feel Like Facts: Ego-Syntonic Thinking...

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2026/07/05

Daniel's catastrophic thinking feels like an intruder he wants to evict. But what if those same thoughts felt like a loyal bodyguard — the only reasonable response to a hostile world? This episode explores the gap between ego-dystonic and ego-syntonic thinking, and why classic CBT techniques hit a wall when someone can't see their own thoughts as distorted. We examine cognitive fusion, the collaborative empiricism problem, and how third-wave therapies like ACT and schema therapy found workarounds

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26:17

Understanding Egosyntonic: Why Explanations Fail with...

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2026/07/05

When someone with a personality disorder pushes everyone away, the instinct is to explain, reason, and plead: "Can't you see what you're doing?" But what if they genuinely cannot? This episode explores the clinical concept of egosyntonia — where harmful behavior feels like self, not symptom. We unpack why standard communication strategies fail, how defense mechanisms operate automatically, and what understanding the architecture of personality disorders can offer to the people in the blast radius

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36:13

What an Earthquake Actually Feels Like

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2026/07/05

Jerusalem sits on the Dead Sea Transform fault, and the last major quake was 1927 — magnitude 6.2. Daniel, a listener living there, wants to know what an earthquake actually feels like, not the Hollywood version. We explore the sensory reality: the P-wave jolt that feels like being hit by a truck, the S-wave roll that follows seconds later, and why the ground doesn't split open beneath you. From the faint rattle of a magnitude 2.5 to the visible ground waves of a 7.0+, we break down what survivors

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24:54

Overpressure Not Airtight: How Mamads Actually Work

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2026/07/05

How can a room with visible gaps — around the door, through wall jacks — still offer genuine CBRN protection? The answer is overpressure, not hermetic sealing. In this episode, we unpack the engineering principle that makes Israeli safe rooms work, why the leaks are actually a safety feature, and why internet access in a mamad is mental health infrastructure. The physics is the same as a hospital isolation room, just reversed: push clean air outward, and contaminants can't drift in.

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33:43

How to Pick a Dolly That Won't Fail on a Curb

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2026/07/05

Daniel bought a Stanley platform trolley for his urban move in Jerusalem and watched it jam, tip, and drift on every curb. In this episode, we break down the three hidden specs that separate a $45 frustration device from a $200 tool that actually works: wheel diameter, dual-locking casters, and handle ergonomics. Plus, why pneumatic tires matter for nighttime moves, and the rental hack that gives you professional gear for $25 a day.

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30:43

When Do Sprinklers Become Mandatory?

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2026/07/05

Why do new high-rises in Tel Aviv have sprinklers while 1970s buildings don't? This episode traces the history of fire suppression mandates from the 1872 Pratt patent through the MGM Grand and Dupont Plaza hotel fires to Israel's 2014 Ben Yehuda Street fire that produced Amendment 5. We explore the 29-meter ladder limit, the physics of stack effect in tall buildings, and the retrofit crisis facing thousands of older apartment buildings where collective ownership and cost barriers block safety

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36:17

Cardboard vs. Eurobox: Phasing Out Disposable Storage

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2026/07/05

After a brutal move where his IKEA boxes shattered on the pavement, Daniel discovered the Eurobox — an industrial polypropylene container built to the VDA 4500 standard. But at 100-150 shekels each, buying 30 at once isn't feasible. This episode explores the logistics of a phased migration: using temporary cardboard with a 30-day expiration date, designing shelving around the 60cm Eurobox footprint, and leveraging empty shelves as commitment devices. It's a masterclass in transitioning from

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36:25

The AC Photo That Taunts You

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2026/07/05

That photo of your AC vent isn't a solution — it's evidence of a system failure. This episode explores why home maintenance logging is broken, testing HomeZada, Centriq, Airtable, and Trello against three key requirements: home-specific structure, rich media attachments, and multi-user access. We also examine the deeper problem: when renters move, their maintenance knowledge disappears, and landlords have no incentive to preserve it. No app on the market as of July 2026 cleanly solves all three

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30:43

Mental Parking Spots: Systems vs. Improvisation

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2026/07/05

When Daniel realized his car maintenance app wasn't about the data — it was about creating a "mental parking spot" for thoughts — he uncovered a fundamental cognitive divide. This episode explores why some brains instinctively build external systems (Notion, Todoist, spreadsheets) while others thrive on improvisation and memory. We dig into the working memory bottleneck, the ADHD connection, and the fine line between useful scaffolding and productivity theater. Is systems thinking a cognitive style,

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38:23

Where Busyness Tips Into Burnout

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2026/07/04

When does being busy stop feeling good and start breaking you? This episode unpacks the science of busyness, from the evolutionary drive to avoid idleness to the allostatic load that erodes joy. We explore the U-shaped curve of happiness and activity, why the cost of overwork exceeds the cost of underwork, and how personality traits like neuroticism and extraversion shift the threshold. Plus: why losing the capacity for joy is a diagnostic clue, not just burnout.

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35:59

How to Pack a Rental Van Like a Cargo Pilot

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2026/07/04

Rental van costs are up 18% year over year, and more people are doing DIY moves. But most treat a rental van like a big trunk, not realising that an unsecured washing machine carries the same kinetic energy as dropping it from a ten-metre height. This episode borrows from aviation cargo principles — centre of gravity calculations, friction coefficients, and proper strap ratings — to show how to load a van so your belongings (and you) arrive safely. No engineering degree required, just a bathroom

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22:30

The Hidden Billions of Rental Churn

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2026/07/04

Rental housing debates focus on rent levels and supply—but there's a third cost hiding in plain sight. Every time a tenant is forced to move, they burn thousands in truck rentals, agent fees, painting, cleaning, and dozens of hours of lost time. Multiply that across millions of households moving every two to three years, and the number is staggering: eight to ten billion shekels a year in Israel alone, with zero productive output. This episode builds the first public cost model of rental churn—the

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27:02

Embedding Models vs LLMs: What Actually Connects?

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2026/07/04

Daniel asks two sharp questions about RAG pipelines: does your embedding model constrain which LLM you can use, and why are new embedding models still releasing if embeddings feel like a solved problem? We break down the architectural decoupling between embedding models and LLMs — they're different neural networks trained for different objectives, and any embedding works with any LLM. But that clean answer makes the second question more urgent: the real innovation in embedding models isn't about

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35:43

How Your Brainstem Can Learn a Wrong Pattern After...

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2026/07/04

After gallbladder surgery, some patients develop severe bloating that has nothing to do with gas. The condition, abdominophrenic dyssynergia (APD), is a mechanical coordination breakdown where the diaphragm and abdominal wall contract against each other instead of relaxing in sequence. This episode explores how surgery can disrupt visceral-somatic signaling through the vagus nerve to the brainstem, locking in a maladaptive reflex that conscious effort can't override. We cover the diagnostic

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24:43

Why 20% of AI Scripts Loop on Themselves

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2026/07/04

About twenty percent of AI-generated podcast episodes suffer from a strange repetition loop — the scriptwriter generates a section, then generates it again, producing duplicated content. In this episode, we diagnose the three interacting causes: attention collapse as context windows fill, low-temperature sampling that locks onto patterns, and word-count targets that incentivize padding. We also explore why the obvious fix — a review agent — introduced its own failure mode by leaking commentary into

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24:58

Tall vs Short: Which Floor Survives an Earthquake?

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2026/07/04

Are you safer on the second floor or the thirtieth floor when a major earthquake hits? The answer depends on soil type, building frequency, and distance from the fault — not just height. This episode unpacks Israel's Standard 413 seismic code, the principle of "life safety" design, and why earthquake-proofing isn't a product you install but a layered philosophy of controlled failure. We explore the 1985 Mexico City disaster, the Loma Prieta quake, and what the Dead Sea fault's overdue major event

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