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"I had my OpenClaw install on the Mac Studio, a way to rip videos... I just ship the link to the video and my OpenClaw downloads the video, puts it into a Google drive for me, then puts it on a notion page for me"
"I want them to fire up Claude code and have it build them an app and then run it because I think if you once you discover that that's possible then AI does feel like the old bicycle for your mind thing."
"I love the Grok button because a lot of times I don't understand the context and then it takes one to five minutes to understand what gooning and look maxing all this stuff... I just hit that Grok button. Boom. I'm up to speed."
"I've been trying to get Slack to play nice with OpenClaw and I want my agent to have like root access."
"Anyone can buy Tao on Coinbase. You can't buy tow on Robin Hood or other places yet. On Coinbase, you can. So, I got a Coinbase set up"
"I just moved mine Dave to a Mac Studio. the reason I got the Mac Studio is because I wanted to run Qwen 2.5 locally"
"my OpenClaw downloads the video, puts it into a Google Drive for me, then puts it on a notion page for me"
"I am a bookmark guy. I have a bookmark list on TikTok, on X, on Instagram."
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"We have our OpenClaw agents running in an AWS EC2 instance and I feel like it's holding me back."
"Anthropic is terrible at DevRel. They are the worst company I've ever seen do developer relations."
"They shut down their self-driving car. They would be neck and neck right behind Tesla."
"They're slogging it out with these AR glasses that weigh 12 lbs that nobody uses and then puts on a shelf."
"I'm incredibly frustrated with this Bank of America. The worst bank ever."
"What do we get instead? We get Apple Play in our cars."
"Remember Solyndra, Tesla, and Fisker and one of the companies paid it back."
"Literally, their entire marketing strategy is illegal undisclosed advertising. They pay influencers to go say Higgsfield's incredible."
"this started as an IPFS network and we basically pushed IPFS to its limits especially in terms of what developers needed in terms of absolute latency immediate availability"
"Oh, they're just giving Intel 10 billion dollars because Intel's a disaster and they can't make a real business."
"I've tried MyFitnessPal in the past and I'm not going to log my food. I just have learned that about myself. The answer is I won't do it"
"the trust in the New York Times and media is at an all-time low"
"Siri would work. It's garbage. It doesn't know how to spell my last name. It doesn't know how to play music."
"Remember Solyndra, Tesla, and Fisker and one of the companies paid it back."
"Not a fan of UBI cuz it takes away purpose. But I am for taking a look at the disparity in wealth."
"So there's the YouTube downloader and that gets shut down all the time and then you have to deal with like all these like popups or whatever."
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"So I put into my agent, give me a business plan, an open-source Bittensor business plan based on content CMS's and I got back the most brilliant business plan."
"I've got an investment in the space, is I've got a couple different investments in the subnets, and I've bought TAO directly, and I might even be a little underwater now based on where I bought it."
"This is a co-pilot for developers running on the BitTensor network. What Bitcoin does for stranded energy, BitTensor does for stranded talent."
"The last version is 50 bucks off. Sony WF1000XM5. And I actually prefer my my my XM5s better. They fit better."
"I am a fan of Sony earbuds. Now, everybody goes for the Apple ones. The Sony ones are so much better. And these are expensive, folks. These are $300. Um and I've I've bought two different versions of these. The Sony WF1000XM6."
"I bought another $50,000 in Tao today. I'm 750K into this which is a small bet for me. I placed a 750K bet on Tao."
"TAO, the token associated with the Bittensor network, fell sharply last night after a major project declared it was taking its business elsewhere."
"I have probably a half million dollars in tow I've bought. Personally"
"You know what I'm going to do with your capital? I'm going to buy $TAO."
"So you can go buy Tao like you buy Bitcoin."
"What do I drive every day? I drive a Model Y. Cost 50K. I think you can get it used for 30K with 20,000 miles on it. I use the FSD."
"So, what I need is I need a Chrome browser extension. I'm on a YouTube video"
"if you remember fisking, f i s k i n g, pull up fisking from the Wikipedia."
"I am very excited to be a shareholder in a fan of and partners with Poly Market. What will the median home value in Austin, Texas metro area be on April 30th?"
"I just want to take a moment to applaud Claude. I just hit it. I got the haptic. I'm now recording the conversation and all my action items are on here."
"I asked Claude or Grok or Gemini, what are the seminal works in advertising, in typography, in design?"
"Making the checklist is even better for OpenClaw. It's even better for Claude co-work."
"I fed it into Claude and I just started having a conversation with Claude. What do you think about this? This would have taken me 12, 15 hours. Claude took care of it in an hour."
"I noticed Claude added specifically skills. So you can add a skill to Claude co-work now."
"Claude is I think the best language model out there and it's the most helpful for us"
"I want them to fire up Claude code and have it build them an app and then run it because I think if you once you discover that that's possible then AI does feel like the old bicycle for your mind thing."
"being able to use Claude to work to make a reoccurring job"
"It competes with Claude and Cursor. It's comparable or better than Claude."
"It's a sign of how strong the adoption has been for coding tools like Claude Code."
"This is our tool and we don't want you to use it for areas where we think it's prone to abuse or that might be illegitimate."
"one of the pens that she liked was the Zebra G750 that I literally bought it. Now, I didn't happen to buy it from Staples, but I did follow her."
"This is my um Zebra G750. But as fast as we're talking, I'm not going to get it all down right. I might write down two or three words."
"I was on TikTok and I stumbled upon the Staples baddy."
"I am a bookmark guy. I have a bookmark list on TikTok, on X, on Instagram."
"In the modern era, it's let me make a launch video, let me do a TikTok, let me write a blog post or let me do a creative brief."
"which is hard in an ADHD era where you've got TikToks waiting for you and emails"
"I have a bookmark list on TikTok. I got a bookmark list on X, I got bookmark list on Instagram"
"You ever have like you want to grab a video off YouTube or you want to grab a Instagram video or a TikTok video but you can't download it"
"Uber has a courier service. The courier service is like 10 bucks, but you have to coordinate. So, what do we do? My Athena assistant looks at their menu at 7 a.m., finds out what's new on the menu because they change it every week"
"Apple stores were faced with this and so were Starbucks and coffee bean and everybody else when Uber and DoorDash came out. It turned out working for one or two hours picking your own schedule and making $21 an hour was better than getting up at the crack of dawn, showing up at 5:30 a.m. at a Starbucks"
"Uber had done it first and I think Dropbox did it before them"
"That's why Uber has introduced AI solutions to help your company build great AI products on top of worldclass data."
"I'm even buying these kids Plaud devices now because they're so good"
"I put my Plaud pin on, I press my button, I get a nice little haptic, and I'm recording now. Now I have every detail so I can say, 'Hey, after the show, make sure you don't forget to go over the newsletter stuff for the This Week in AI newsletter.' Boom. Now it's an action item. I won't forget it."
"I am addicted to this. I literally put the car in park, walked back to the house and got my Plaud pin."
"I have my Plaude pin on. I press the button. It records everything I do. It syncs it. I don't lose anything. I don't lose any of these great ideas we have. Everything is recorded."
"I take my Plaud pin. Oh, you use it on the wrist. And I press the button. Here we go. I'm now recording everything and I have all my action items."
"I love Plaude. I'm using my Plaude pin right now to record this very conversation... it's got the red light so I'm being privacy first... when I'm hiking around the ranch or I have a moment, Plaude, take a memo, action item."
"I use it for less of that and more as my personal scribe for when I'm holding a child and I want to remember a thought, an idea, a task, a to-do. An absolute lifesaver on my end. I'm a huge fan."
"I'm obsessed with a lot of technologies including my Plaud pin. I got you on the Plaud train. I'm recording my Plaud right now."
"This has made my life like I'm saving hours a week with this thing."
"I hear you got one for your mom, huh? I did. My mom watches our show and she's like, you know, they should be advertising these to seniors, not executives, because I'm forgetting stuff constantly. So, she's hitting it like all during the day."
"I have the Plaud pin here. It records what I'm doing. Obviously, you know, you want to do this with disclosing to people you're doing it. And when you're in a meeting, instead of like fumbling with your phone and trying to find a recording app, you put this on the back. See this? This is the Pro. And when you press the button, hold it down, it gives you a nice haptic"
"Plaud Salah is saying in the chat like imagine if Apple bought Plaud. Then you could really... It goes right to your phone. They could make the your AirPods box could have been the Plaud device where it's got enough computer in it that you just press the AirPods box, it's recording."
"that was some of my cursor research when I found"
"Sentry works alongside coding agents like Cursor, passing along an idea for a fix that can be applied to your codebase."
"If you're not coding so you're not using Claude code or you're not on Cursor or whatever."
"Sentry works alongside coding agents like Cursor, passing along an idea for a fix"
"who are automating using Claude code, using Perplexity computer, using OpenClaw"
"It competes with Claude and Cursor."
"But the truth is, what are we still using to do our work? And it's Opus 4.6."
"I just bought a new MacBook Pro because I had like a four-year-old Air. When you put 48 gigs of RAM on these things and this new M5 processor, it is like scary how much faster."
"this is a step up from HP and a step down from your MacBook Air, MacBook Pro"
"I'm gonna take out YouTube. I'm gonna take out ChatGPT. I'm gonna learn how to be a carpenter"
"Most people think AI is ChatGPT."
"The average person has asked ChatGPT to write them a poem four times at this point in time. And that is not enough, I think, to get your feet wet."
"I'm trying to Ogilvy on advertising. This was like an old book on advertising."
"I own TAO directly myself through Coinbase. It's not on Robin Hood yet."
"Anyone can buy Tao on Coinbase. You can't buy tow on Robin Hood or other places yet. On Coinbase, you can. So, I got a Coinbase set up"
"I asked Claude or Grok or Gemini, what are the seminal works in advertising, in typography, in design?"
"Grok automatically translating and recommending posts from other languages is starting to work... the translation is so good that nothing is lost in translation."
"I love the Grok button because a lot of times I don't understand the context and then it takes one to five minutes to understand what gooning and look maxing all this stuff... I just hit that Grok button. Boom. I'm up to speed."
"I love the Grok button on Threads because when I don't understand the context, I just hit that Grok button. Boom. I'm up to speed"
"Grok automatically translating and recommending posts from other languages is starting to work."