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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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Clear filters"I just hit my applaud. I'm recording. I've got all of my notes taken care of. You want to get a Plaud NotePin S."
"I've started drinking IM8's daily ultimate essentials and it is delicious. I'm starting to notice a real shift. I drink it every morning and I just feel less tired."
"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."
"We've got a brand new partner here at Twist. And as fate would have it, we love and use their product... Also, I happened to be a shareholder in the company."
"We love and use their product. They acquired one of my startups and I am stoked. It's an amazing company."
"We love and use their product. If you need to hire, manage, pay, or equip your team members anywhere around the world, you need Deel."
"If you need to hire, manage, pay, or equip your team members anywhere around the world, you need Deel. They're going to take care of all the annoying human resources tasks that you don't have time for."
"If you need to hire, manage, pay, or equip your team members anywhere around the world, you need Deel"
"If you need to hire, manage, pay, or equip your team members anywhere around the world, you need Deel. They're going to take care of all the annoying human resources tasks."
"Founders scale faster on Deel. You can grow your company without borders and you can set up payroll for any country in minutes."
"I work with my Athena assistant on this. I call it super distribution. Okay. There's a ton of platforms out there. When you have a great piece of content for your company, for yourself, what people do is they're like, 'Oh, I had a great piece of content.' What you need to do is take that piece of content and then go super distributed"
"Athena, I'm the first investor. They are the greatest assistants in the world. For a great price, $3,000 a month. You get an awesome full-time assistant to work with you on your scheduling, on research projects."
"We're looking for a new producer for the pod. Where we found our next great hire, LinkedIn."
"For small businesses every hire matters but you've got limited time and resources. That's why there's LinkedIn Hiring Pro, your trusted partner."
"I'm going to turn on my Plaud pin. I press the button and now everything I say I'm recording. This thing's got like 1,700 microphones."
"We use it. We love it. My team loves it. Everything in HR settled down when we went to Gusto. No more drama. People want a perfect HR platform and Gusto is that platform"
"That's why you need Gusto. We use it, we love it. Take it from your boy JCal. Gusto's built-in tools are going to save you so much time."
"PaperOS has made the onboarding process so seamless for limited partners. They have saved me and my team hundreds, actually now it's probably thousands of hours."
"I use Quo. Why do I use Quo? Well, we use it for our syndicate where we have thousands of members calling us. And these are VIPs. We want to make sure somebody picks up the phone for them"
"More than 90,000 businesses rely on Quo to stay connected and consistently reachable. Plus, Quo has AI that automatically logs, generates summaries."
"I want to tell you about a product I'm obsessed with and everyone in tech seems to be obsessed with. It's called Whisper Flow... I've been using this product for 6 months. It is extraordinary."
"All you have to do is talk and Whispr Flow turns it into crisp, perfect writing instantly. Not just talking about dictation, but removing filler, fixing punctuation, and even formatting your text while you speak. It is mindblowing how good this is."
"I am obsessed with it. It's called Whisper Flow. I use it when I'm in Slack. I'll use it when I'm in Superhuman doing an email."
"Circle is the best place on the internet to start growing your online community... we couldn't find one. After we started digging and digging, we found the perfect solution. Circle.So."
"We've been using this product for 5 years at Founder University, well over 5 years now. It is the easiest to use all-in-one platform and so powerful."
"We've been using this product for 5 years at Founder University, well over 5 years now. It is the easiest to use all-in-one platform and so powerful."
"I've lost 40 pounds. I didn't do it alone. Ro.co. Get yourself a GLP if you're so inclined. I used to be 166, I gained 2 lbs a year, I woke up one day I was 213. Now I'm 172 again."
"Calera's eye serum makes your skin more resilient and leaves me looking well rested even when my sleep number dips a bit"
"This is the greatest device ever. I press that button and now I'm recording. I've been using it for months. I'm obsessed."
"All you do is you hit the button, you can start talking. Not only does it pick up everything that you're saying, but it actually cleans it up. It makes it nice. It keeps it organized and it recognizes everyone else in your area."
"I have the Plaud pen. I've got the Plaud Pro on the back of my phone. I don't miss a beat, folks."
"Then I lost 43 pounds thanks to ro.co and the magic of GLPs... they'll check for you right now if your insurance covers it."
"I have a Plaud pin and I have to applaud because I just press this button at the start... then I can save things to this like, hey, action item."
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"Grasshopper is a real federally chartered digital bank that's not trying to win you over with a rewards program. Instead, they're building deep integrations, treasury products that are going to actually help you expand your runway."
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