Robin
@rdg.bsky.social
Multi-hyphenate
Multi-instrumentalist
Multi-cellular
Former CoS @Zoox
Former Many Things @Apple
𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙤𝙠𝙖𝙮
#𝕋𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕤ℝ𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤𝔸𝕣𝕖ℍ𝕦𝕞𝕒𝕟ℝ𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤 🏳️⚧️
Rev. Robin Goldstein, DDiv (Comedic Science)
Multi-instrumentalist
Multi-cellular
Former CoS @Zoox
Former Many Things @Apple
𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙤𝙠𝙖𝙮
#𝕋𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕤ℝ𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤𝔸𝕣𝕖ℍ𝕦𝕞𝕒𝕟ℝ𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤 🏳️⚧️
Rev. Robin Goldstein, DDiv (Comedic Science)
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Robin
@rdg.bsky.social
· Nov 15
I wrote a thing! It started off as a revision to the "Story" section of my Stanford Biodesign talk on Disruption, and just kept growing. And then I realized it might be useful to colleagues and clients too. Download for free at linktr.ee/tbg2est #storytelling #story
I recently watched a colleague get married on Zoom. It was a Jewish service and when the rabbi said, “…it reminds me of the story from Genesis…” the voice in my head said “…when Phil Collins took over from Peter Gabriel?…”
I keep telling you there’s something wrong with me.
I keep telling you there’s something wrong with me.
January 3, 2026 at 1:28 AM
I recently watched a colleague get married on Zoom. It was a Jewish service and when the rabbi said, “…it reminds me of the story from Genesis…” the voice in my head said “…when Phil Collins took over from Peter Gabriel?…”
I keep telling you there’s something wrong with me.
I keep telling you there’s something wrong with me.
In my 30s I decided I needed to visit the ocean on New Year’s Day. From Boston I would drive to Cape Cod. Now I come to Santa Cruz.
Here’s wishing everyone a healthy, joyous, & fortunate 2026.
“There's only one rule that I know of, babies-God damn it, you've got to be kind.” KV
Here’s wishing everyone a healthy, joyous, & fortunate 2026.
“There's only one rule that I know of, babies-God damn it, you've got to be kind.” KV
January 1, 2026 at 8:19 PM
In my 30s I decided I needed to visit the ocean on New Year’s Day. From Boston I would drive to Cape Cod. Now I come to Santa Cruz.
Here’s wishing everyone a healthy, joyous, & fortunate 2026.
“There's only one rule that I know of, babies-God damn it, you've got to be kind.” KV
Here’s wishing everyone a healthy, joyous, & fortunate 2026.
“There's only one rule that I know of, babies-God damn it, you've got to be kind.” KV
Yet is it far better to light the candle than to curse the darkness.
Chag Urim Sameach!
Chag Urim Sameach!
December 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Yet is it far better to light the candle than to curse the darkness.
Chag Urim Sameach!
Chag Urim Sameach!
Takes me back to my college days…
December 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Takes me back to my college days…
As today is Thanksgiving here in the US it is constitutionally mandated that you listen to Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice's Restaurant Massacree” at least once.
Sorry. I don’t make the rules. 🤷♀️
Sorry. I don’t make the rules. 🤷♀️
November 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
As today is Thanksgiving here in the US it is constitutionally mandated that you listen to Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice's Restaurant Massacree” at least once.
Sorry. I don’t make the rules. 🤷♀️
Sorry. I don’t make the rules. 🤷♀️
In honor of those commemorating the 2001 introduction of the original iPod remind me to tell you sometime how I came speeding around the corner of Mariani onto De Anza trying to beat the light and almost killed Steve as he jaywalked across all 9 lanes just a month before launch.
November 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
In honor of those commemorating the 2001 introduction of the original iPod remind me to tell you sometime how I came speeding around the corner of Mariani onto De Anza trying to beat the light and almost killed Steve as he jaywalked across all 9 lanes just a month before launch.
If the Democrats are “cracking like dogs” they’re looking pretty clever to me…
November 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
If the Democrats are “cracking like dogs” they’re looking pretty clever to me…
On Feb 24, 2006 I had a podcast (too soon is the same as being wrong) and created a parody in the style of Dickie Goodman covering the time that Dick Cheney shot his friend Harry Whittington in the face.
It was in poor taste then. It's in poor taste now. Please to enjoy.
It was in poor taste then. It's in poor taste now. Please to enjoy.
November 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
On Feb 24, 2006 I had a podcast (too soon is the same as being wrong) and created a parody in the style of Dickie Goodman covering the time that Dick Cheney shot his friend Harry Whittington in the face.
It was in poor taste then. It's in poor taste now. Please to enjoy.
It was in poor taste then. It's in poor taste now. Please to enjoy.
Wait. I thought Opus Dei was that band from Animal House 🤔 “Wait’ll Opus sees us! He loves us!” #DexterLakeClub
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
open.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Wait. I thought Opus Dei was that band from Animal House 🤔 “Wait’ll Opus sees us! He loves us!” #DexterLakeClub
The prompt was “Master pizza maker tosses three pies at once while a crowd gathers behind him and cheers ‘Go Pizza!, Go Pizza!’” Missed it by -that- much. 🤣 #Sora
October 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The prompt was “Master pizza maker tosses three pies at once while a crowd gathers behind him and cheers ‘Go Pizza!, Go Pizza!’” Missed it by -that- much. 🤣 #Sora
Ask me why I got my ukulele signed by the members of @everclearmusic.bsky.social last night…(oh, and they blew the roof off the Guild Theatre in Menlo Park. Just starting their “Sparkle and Fade” 30th anniversary tour. Rock and Roll lives!
September 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Ask me why I got my ukulele signed by the members of @everclearmusic.bsky.social last night…(oh, and they blew the roof off the Guild Theatre in Menlo Park. Just starting their “Sparkle and Fade” 30th anniversary tour. Rock and Roll lives!
@james.crid.land
From the other place. Guessing you’ve seen this, but if not…
From the other place. Guessing you’ve seen this, but if not…
July 14, 2025 at 5:33 AM
@james.crid.land
From the other place. Guessing you’ve seen this, but if not…
From the other place. Guessing you’ve seen this, but if not…
In 1969 this song was #23 on the Billboard Hot 100, #2 on Hot County Songs, and #1 on the Easy Listen charts.
What the fuck happened to us?
#tryalittlekindness
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3u8...
What the fuck happened to us?
#tryalittlekindness
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3u8...
Try A Little Kindness
YouTube video by Glen Campbell - Topic
www.youtube.com
July 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
In 1969 this song was #23 on the Billboard Hot 100, #2 on Hot County Songs, and #1 on the Easy Listen charts.
What the fuck happened to us?
#tryalittlekindness
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3u8...
What the fuck happened to us?
#tryalittlekindness
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3u8...
I'm going through a client's presentation & cleaning up inconsistent formatting & random font changes & graphic elements that shift by a pixel between slides and just looked up to the sky and shook my fist and shouted, "STEVE!!!"
I still bleed in six colors. (IYKYK )
#Apple
I still bleed in six colors. (IYKYK )
#Apple
July 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I'm going through a client's presentation & cleaning up inconsistent formatting & random font changes & graphic elements that shift by a pixel between slides and just looked up to the sky and shook my fist and shouted, "STEVE!!!"
I still bleed in six colors. (IYKYK )
#Apple
I still bleed in six colors. (IYKYK )
#Apple
Mini review of the new Mission Impossible:
Insanely entertaining & definitely worth seeing on a big screen. Are there masks? Yes. Is there running? So Much Running. Did I well up with tears? At least 10 times. Did I laugh out loud? At least as many. Big. Messy. Astounding.
Summer starts now.
Insanely entertaining & definitely worth seeing on a big screen. Are there masks? Yes. Is there running? So Much Running. Did I well up with tears? At least 10 times. Did I laugh out loud? At least as many. Big. Messy. Astounding.
Summer starts now.
May 23, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Mini review of the new Mission Impossible:
Insanely entertaining & definitely worth seeing on a big screen. Are there masks? Yes. Is there running? So Much Running. Did I well up with tears? At least 10 times. Did I laugh out loud? At least as many. Big. Messy. Astounding.
Summer starts now.
Insanely entertaining & definitely worth seeing on a big screen. Are there masks? Yes. Is there running? So Much Running. Did I well up with tears? At least 10 times. Did I laugh out loud? At least as many. Big. Messy. Astounding.
Summer starts now.
Did you hear the one about the Jewish Indian…
May 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Did you hear the one about the Jewish Indian…
Tomorrow is Dieter Rams’ birthday. Stream Gary Hustwit’s fantastic documentary for free.
www.ohyouprettythings.com/rams
www.ohyouprettythings.com/rams
May 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Tomorrow is Dieter Rams’ birthday. Stream Gary Hustwit’s fantastic documentary for free.
www.ohyouprettythings.com/rams
www.ohyouprettythings.com/rams
🎶Chickity China the Chinese chicken
You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin'
Watchin' X-Files with no lights on
We're dans la maison
I hope the Smoking Man's in this one
Like Harrison Ford I'm getting frantic
Like Sting I'm tantric
Like Snickers, guaranteed to satisfy🎶
You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin'
Watchin' X-Files with no lights on
We're dans la maison
I hope the Smoking Man's in this one
Like Harrison Ford I'm getting frantic
Like Sting I'm tantric
Like Snickers, guaranteed to satisfy🎶
May 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
🎶Chickity China the Chinese chicken
You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin'
Watchin' X-Files with no lights on
We're dans la maison
I hope the Smoking Man's in this one
Like Harrison Ford I'm getting frantic
Like Sting I'm tantric
Like Snickers, guaranteed to satisfy🎶
You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin'
Watchin' X-Files with no lights on
We're dans la maison
I hope the Smoking Man's in this one
Like Harrison Ford I'm getting frantic
Like Sting I'm tantric
Like Snickers, guaranteed to satisfy🎶
A long time ago I joined a secret project that became the Apple Watch. More than 10 years later I’m still finding new ways to close my rings.
Congratulations to all that came before and everything that comes next! #closeyourrings
Congratulations to all that came before and everything that comes next! #closeyourrings
April 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
A long time ago I joined a secret project that became the Apple Watch. More than 10 years later I’m still finding new ways to close my rings.
Congratulations to all that came before and everything that comes next! #closeyourrings
Congratulations to all that came before and everything that comes next! #closeyourrings
Got to see The Big Lebowski on the big screen last night in Monterey California at the Golden State Theater (-near- the In-N-Out on Del Monte) and it was followed by a Q&A with the man himself and at this point the merging of Jeff Bridges and Jeff Lebowski has become complete. The Dude Abides!
April 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Got to see The Big Lebowski on the big screen last night in Monterey California at the Golden State Theater (-near- the In-N-Out on Del Monte) and it was followed by a Q&A with the man himself and at this point the merging of Jeff Bridges and Jeff Lebowski has become complete. The Dude Abides!
Question: what did it say before “Stick”?
April 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Question: what did it say before “Stick”?
If you can keep your head when all about you, are losing theirs and blaming it on you…
then you’ve found a doctor who will refill your prescription for Xanax, and I’d really appreciate it if you could give me their phone number
then you’ve found a doctor who will refill your prescription for Xanax, and I’d really appreciate it if you could give me their phone number
April 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
If you can keep your head when all about you, are losing theirs and blaming it on you…
then you’ve found a doctor who will refill your prescription for Xanax, and I’d really appreciate it if you could give me their phone number
then you’ve found a doctor who will refill your prescription for Xanax, and I’d really appreciate it if you could give me their phone number
Age yourself with a cartoon you watched as a kid.
March 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Age yourself with a cartoon you watched as a kid.
Got to see the Member Preview of “Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64 at @famsf.bsky.social today. Some thoughts:
1. I knew they were young but damn they were young.
2. 73 Million people watched them live on Ed Sullivan. No YouTube. Wow.
3. There was a time when not every photo was crispy sharp.
1. I knew they were young but damn they were young.
2. 73 Million people watched them live on Ed Sullivan. No YouTube. Wow.
3. There was a time when not every photo was crispy sharp.
March 1, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Got to see the Member Preview of “Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64 at @famsf.bsky.social today. Some thoughts:
1. I knew they were young but damn they were young.
2. 73 Million people watched them live on Ed Sullivan. No YouTube. Wow.
3. There was a time when not every photo was crispy sharp.
1. I knew they were young but damn they were young.
2. 73 Million people watched them live on Ed Sullivan. No YouTube. Wow.
3. There was a time when not every photo was crispy sharp.