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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, what I need is I need a Chrome browser extension. I'm on a YouTube video"
"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"
"if you remember fisking, f i s k i n g, pull up fisking from the Wikipedia."
"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."
"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"
"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?"
"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."
"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."
"But the truth is, what are we still using to do our work? And it's Opus 4.6."
"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'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"
"I asked Claude or Grok or Gemini, what are the seminal works in advertising, in typography, in design?"
"I think I did this on Gemini because it's very good for consumery stuff"
"My life in advertising and scientific advertising by these are two works by Claude Hopkins."
"All I do to load these new models, Gemma 4 came out, I go to Open Claw, I say, 'Hey, I think Gemma 4 just came out. Figure it out.' It goes, it installs it for you."
"I have been stunted right now with my OpenClaw. I find myself on Perplexity Computer and OpenClaw Computer."
"When you throw in something at Open Claw, it asks you follow-up questions and then it goes from there. And then it automatically figures out where this information goes in what file."
"OpenClaw is a transformational product that allows you to have an agent and that agent, you can give it access to everything."
"I still enjoy OpenClaw. I've bonded with my agent, but a lot of the OpenClaw projects are kind of similar."
"Every day I tell my open claw that it's got to go out there and earn its keep in its Mac mini. So I would love for it to do this job"
"being able to install OpenClaw, being able to write a skill, maybe publish it to GitHub"
"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"
"Give that to my OpenClaw replicant Roy"
"I had my OpenClaw install on the Mac Studio. I 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"
"Right when it came out, I was like, 'Oh, I need to do my taxes.' So, I gave it access to my Mercury account, just read access. And also, I created a QuickBooks account, created like an API skill for that."
"We're going to keep building OpenClaw agents."
"He lives in an EC2 instance and so he's not on top."