Celebrate Creativity
This podcast is a deep dive into the world of creativity - from Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman to understanding the use of basic AI principles in a fun and practical way.
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616 episodes
Turning It On!
Hello, and welcome to Celebrate Creativity. I’m George Bartley.In the last few episodes, I have been talking about Voice Control in a broader way — my own background, some of the reasons I care about it, and some of the larger philos...
Looking from Both Sides
Looking at Life from Both SidesHello, and welcome to Celebrate Creativity. I’m George Bartley. And I promise that starting in the next episode, I'm going to begin to teach you how to use voice control.But today, I want to tal...
What It Feels Like
Welcome to Celebrate Creativity and the second part of Voice Control on the Macintosh: Why It Matters, and What It Feels Like to Learn It.I hope you realize by now that this podcast has been talking about the importance of voice cont...
Voice Control on the Mac
Hello - welcome back to How to Talk to Your Mac. And this is part one of Voice Control on the Macintosh: Why It Matters, and What It Feels Like to Learn It - in this and the following episode I want to talk about the philosophy behi...
Voice Control - Promo Two
Now I believe I mentioned that at one time I was doing up to two and three podcasts episodes a day. As a teenager I had a series of epileptic seizures, and was told that I should not swim - but after I started taking a new medication a...
Voice Control - Promo One
Hello this is George Bartley. And no, I have not fallen off the face of the Earth. In fact, my podcast Celebrate Creativity - with its current emphasis on William Shakespeare was in high gear - at one point I was doing two and even thr...
The Mouse Trap
Up to now, Hamlet has lived inside questions.“Did my uncle really do it?”“Can I trust the Ghost?”“Am I being manipulated?”“Am I losing my mind—or pretending to?”Act 3 Scene 2 is the moment Hamlet says, in effect:“...
Get Thee to a Notary!
Master Shakespeare, are you ready?SHAKESPEARE:As ready as any man may be, entering a room where love is examined like evidence.GEORGE:That’s exactly it. Because what happens here is not romance. It’s a controlled expe...
Spies and Players
GEORGE:So right away: the scene begins with the king and queen acting like concerned parents. But it feels… staged. SHAKESPEARE:Because it is staged.Mark their language: they crave a cause, a label, a tidy diagnosis ...
Short But Loaded
Part 1 — Polonius coaches surveillance (Polonius + Reynaldo)Polonius sends Reynaldo to Paris with money and messages for Laertes.But Polonius doesn’t say, “Go check on my son like a normal person.”He says—basically—“Go invest...
The Ghost Speaks
Today we’re in Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5 — the scene where the ghost finally speaks.And I want to emphasize something from the start:The ghost’s message doesn’t just give Hamlet information.It changes Hamlet’s operating system.<...
Follow It!
Today we’re in Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 4.Act 1, Scene 2 gave us the court saying, “Get over it.”Act 1, Scene 3 gave us family advice that’s really control.Now Scene 4 takes us back to the battlements — the cold night air — where the...
Advice That’s Really Control
GEORGE:Master Shakespeare, why do we go from the public court scene into this private household scene?SHAKESPEARE:Because the disease is not only in the crown.It is in the rooms of the home.GEORGE:Let me parap...
Get Over It!
The scene begins with the king saying - Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death The memory be green, and that it us befittedTo bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdomTo be contracted in one brow of woe...
The Ghost Arrives
MASTER SHAKESPEARE:Good even, sir. I come where questions are sharp and nights are sharper.MR. BARTLEY:And the first question is simple:Why begin Hamlet with guards on watch instead of opening with court life, or the prin...
Rhetoric as Wildfire
Tonight is Antony— the man who takes grief, wraps it in poetry, and lights Rome on fire.And the terrifying part is that he does it while sounding… respectful.The conspirators imagine a clean reset.They kill Caesar and th...
Cassius the Manipulator
The audience sees this manipulation in terms of Cassius’s treatment of Brutus and his use of flattery and reassurance to bring Brutus into the conspiracy to kill Caesar. Later, the audience learns that Cassius is willing to gain money by mea...
The Falling Sickness?
What we honestly have is ancient testimony, not “medical proof.What the ancient sources actually sayTwo major biographers written well after Caesar’s death report episodes that sound like seizures:Suetonius (writing...
Man, Myth, and Problem
The Caesar Shakespeare gives us is not a cardboard tyrant. That’s important. If Caesar were obviously monstrous, the play would become an easy sermon: “Kill the tyrant and save the republic.” But Shakespeare refuses the easy version. He make...
Macbeth Is Not Hard
Macbeth is not hard. It’s human.Here’s the whole play in one simple truth:Macbeth made Macbeth.Let me say that again:The witches tempt. Lady Macbeth pressures. But Macbeth chooses.They light matches all around him—but Mac...
Macbeth’s Last Days
Macbeth’s tragedy ends when fear disappears—not because he becomes brave, but because he becomes numb and falsely certain.Now let’s locate ourselves.HOST:We’re in the final stretch.Act 4 Scene 1: Macbeth returns t...
Hell Is Murky!
HOST (George):In Macbeth, evil rarely arrives waving a pitchfork; it arrives wearing a suit and offering a reasonable argument that elections are no longer necessary.That’s how it works in public life—and it’s how it works in this pl...
Macbeth's Morality
Macbeth does not become evil because he’s confused. He becomes evil because he learns to call evil “reasonable.”Let me repeat that, because that’s the whole episode:He starts using good logic for a bad purpose.That’s how ...
