02/23/2026 - A Non-Technical Guide to Setting Up Your First AI Agent with OpenClaw

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1. 0:02We're going to plug in our microphone because we need our microphone. We need good audio. We got to drink some coffee.
2. 0:25Yeah,
3. 0:49I don't know.
4. 1:1010,000 10,000 words swarm around my head more in boxed beneath my bed.
5. 1:27Damn capo wasn't on right. That E string was not happy.
6. 1:4510,000 words swim around my head. a million more in books written beneath my bed. I wrote or read them all when searching
7. 2:00in the swamp. Still can't find how to hold my hand. I know you need me in the next room over. I am stuck in here paralyzed.
8. 2:21Four months I got myself in ruts. Too much time spinning mirrors framed in yellow walls. Ain't it like most people? I'm no
9. 2:36different. I can talk on things we don't know about. Well, like most people, I'm no different. Life talk on things we don't know about.
10. 3:07>> OH, GOOD LORD. GOOD PEOPLE. It's a Monday. TGIm. My light went out. My batteries aren't charged. It's a mess.
11. 3:31You're feeling nervous, aren't you, boy? With quiet voice and impeccable style.
12. 3:45Don't ever let them steal your joy in your gentle ways to keep them from running wild. They can kick dirt in your face, dress
13. 4:00you down, and tell you that your place is in the middle when they hate the way you shine. I see you tugging on your shirt,
14. 4:13trying to hide inside of it. Hide how much it hurts. Let them laugh while they care. Let them spin.
15. 4:28Let them scatter in the wind. I've been to the movies. I've seen how dance and the jokes on there.
16. 4:50You're feeling nervous. Noa, aren't you girl? It's your brother's word for a while longer.
17. 5:07I don't remember the lyrics in the second verse. I can never remember that. And they're beautiful. Carrying your baby on your back across
18. 5:17the desert. Good lyrics.
19. 5:40That little lick that turned into before the lights come on.
20. 5:59Woohoo! Woohoo!
21. 6:21Let's go.
22. 6:45What'd you do last night, Susan? Well, I was surfing on a Tik Tok and I saw this channel called the AI
23. 6:58Learning Lab and I thought, I'm going to go learn about some AI. And then there was this man there on the Tik Tok
24. 7:08and he was wearing sunglasses and it's it's night time, but he was wearing sunglasses. And I thought that's what are we at the Grammys?
25. 7:24And I was thinking where where's the AI? Like maybe he was AI. Maybe he was like one of those avatars, you know, they
26. 7:36make them now. They look just like people. I thought maybe it was one of those. But then when he played his guitar,
27. 7:44there was a dog in the background. And the dog just sang and sang and sang and sang. And I'm like, that must be AI.
28. 7:50Dogs don't sing like that. Well, how long did you watch him? Oh, I don't know. 2 hours or so.
29. 8:06You watched him for 2 hours? Yeah. Did you learn anything about AI? No, not really.
30. 8:29W Grace desperately hating his old place. Dreamed to discover a new place. buried himself alive inside his basement. Telling the side of
31. 8:43his facement. He's working away on displacement and what it would take to survive.
32. 8:59Cuz when you're done with this world, you know the next is up to you. And for once once in his life, it was
33. 9:13quiet as he learned how to turn with the tides. In his sky was a flare when it came up
34. 9:27for air.
35. 9:53So, are you going to keep watching this man on the Tik Tok? I think I'm gonna,
36. 10:13you know, Susan, that's mighty irregular. It is.
37. 10:51You know,
38. 11:16Um,
39. 11:46We're living in a weird world.
40. 12:12A world without aligned cams or black bars. Look at me. Look at me go. I'm black barring. I've made a black bar so the people on the Tik Tok
41. 12:25can have their chats amongst themselves. It's one of my favorite things I learned about this channel from Cindy [ __ ]
42. 12:38Kyle, do you know what goes on on your lives? Said, "No, not about you.
43. 13:08Um, let me go look at something here. switch over to my real glasses so I don't look like some Hollywood star
44. 13:22that can't relate to the people, the irregular people. Tik Tok question. Can you talk about Adam? Yes, as a matter of fact.
45. 13:35Hey, Kyle and all. I'm on a plane. Oh, Corey Corey Sandler bought Wi-Fi on the plane. That's awesome. AI learning lab at 30,000 ft. Let your
46. 13:46let your neighbor watch. Thanks, Gareth. Um, that's how I started and I make most nights. Tik Tok, I'm looking to build a standalone AI. Any
47. 13:57recommendations? Um, I don't know what you mean by a standalone AI. Um, give me a little more clarity. Do you mean like a custom GPT
48. 14:07or do you want something more like what they're talking about with clawbot or open claw?
49. 14:39Um, oh, what was I going to do? I was looking here. Hang on a sec.
50. 14:55Bomb. I'm gonna talk about Adam. I'm gonna talk about designing an agent and what it's like
51. 15:11and what it's like to build it and should you build one now? And it's going to get esoteric and weird. So, there's only there's only us
52. 15:23chickens in here. It's just a handful of us. So, I'm going to go deep. And I'm not going to go deep technically. I don't give a [ __ ] about
53. 15:34the technology. You're like, "But Kyle, how do we do it?" You do it. I'll tell you how I'm doing it. It's a [ __ ] nightmare.
54. 16:16Wait, more chickens joining now. They just went away. We lost We lost chickens. Um, if you're on Tik Tok and you want to
55. 16:24share the live, feel free to do that. I don't know if the new Tik Tok algorithm likes us, hates us, whatever. It doesn't matter to me.
56. 16:37I got I got caught up in that for a while where like we have we have very very humble numbers in here.
57. 16:53But one of the things that I'm learning is that audience like like big audience whatever
58. 17:08who gives a [ __ ] Look, we're all about we're all about to go through some [ __ ] I don't know if it it's going to really hit this year. I
59. 17:24think that if you're at all aware of what's going on with AI, this year is going to freak you the [ __ ] out if it hasn't already.
60. 17:33We're only two months in and it's already got this sort of surreal edge to it. So, so if you're paying attention,
61. 17:40this this is going to be a year that people start to get wigged. And then depending on how big the changes are, it it could have broader
62. 17:51awareness. But we're still like there I just saw this amazing graph on on X of of you know global penetration of AI
63. 18:03of generative AI and it's like 83% of the world don't even don't even use it. Don't don't even use chat GPT.
64. 18:14And and like the the amount that are paying 20 bucks a month for AI is minuscule. It's minuscule. It's like 8% or 7% or I don't know some
65. 18:26really teeny number. Loyal audience. Well, I think it's, you know, I think it's more than that, Kelly. Chef Kelly.
66. 18:34I think it's I think it's I think I don't think of you as an audience. This is this is what Cindy [ __ ] was talking
67. 18:40about when she when she described she goes, "You know what's going on here, Kyle? It's not about you." Like, you you
68. 18:46create the space, but we're off like hanging with each other and teaching each other and and when people come in,
69. 18:53we're educating them about what this channel is and why this weirdo is doing what he's doing. And eventually, he'll
70. 18:58talk about something interesting. You know, it's it was about that. And that was a really cool revelation for me that
71. 19:11hang on I got to turn on my light. We got the the production values matter. Audience doesn't. But you know
72. 19:21production values that's where it's at. Look at that light. Look at you can see me now. Can you see the the gorgeousness?
73. 19:38So, some of you remember this. I know Silverf Fox does and Kelly Camp does. Roso Shay, what's happening? I saw a
74. 19:45chart the other day about how many people have used AI. I think most have no idea. Let me go find the chart. Let me find the chart.
75. 19:53I only show up because I need other weirdos to hang out with. Yes, this is okay. So, like I'm just getting more and more clear on this.
76. 20:06Our advantage. Jesus. He talked with his hands and he almost knocked his glasses off. You tweeted the chart. Okay, good. Let me go find the
77. 20:16chart and then I will share it. um hanging out with other weirdos, the irregulars. This group,
78. 20:30and I'll extend it, like this group that that has been here in some form or other over the past three years, it's probably
79. 20:3750 or 75 or 100 people. there's a core group of, you know, super irregulars, but I would argue that anyone that's
80. 20:46sort of come to this thing, you know, for for stretches at a time is part of it. as as the world gets more surreal,
81. 21:02none of none of what I've taught you tactically, here's how to prompt, here's how to use chat GPT, here's how to vibe code,
82. 21:11here's none of that matters because those skills are just going to be absorbed into however the new stuff works.
83. 21:26Does it mean you can't use those skills? No, you can still use those skills. It's just they they're just they're they're
84. 21:31not the relevant part of the equation. The relevant part of the equation is that when [ __ ] gets weird and it's starting to get weird,
85. 21:45we're going to have each other. Like our advantage of being early is that we're going to go through the weirdness sooner than everyone else.
86. 22:02Now, you might be like, "Well, what's the advantage there?" I don't know. But I but I know that we're all going to
87. 22:10go through it, and I I know that it's not going to be easy. I I just I mean, I feel like anyone anyone on
88. 22:26this call, if if if anyone needed help, anyone on this call would help. If anyone on this call, this call, this
89. 22:34this show, whatever the [ __ ] this is, this stream said, "Hey, I really need your support." like we all like we would all jump. And
90. 22:48I feel like that's going to be really important being in small cohorts, 6 8 10 12 people. There's there's 16
91. 22:56people on TikTok, 11 on YouTube. That's probably mostly overlap, right? We're going to understand what we're all going through.
92. 23:10And for a lot of people, this is going to be a very isolating time. And they're not going to instinctively reach out to
93. 23:17people. They're going to instinctively go, uh, I just got to keep doing what I was doing. This used to work. I used to
94. 23:22do this marketing. I got to do more marketing. I got to do more advertising.
95. 23:49Michael Adeki, I thought such a thing was about a decade away. I would say that within a decade we will
96. 23:56have fully made whatever the transition is. Um I think this is the first year that it becomes apparent to people paying
97. 24:05attention that nothing will ever be the same. your job, your sector, your business.
98. 24:32Um, and then I think you know companies will move slow. So you'll have just big big dinosaurs that move slow.
99. 24:40This is going to be a 3 to 5 year transition acute transition and then probably 5 to 10 normalizing whatever the [ __ ] happens
100. 24:50and then from 10 years out who knows, right? But that like that feels that feels reasonable to me. But as as as
101. 24:59a species, we've never lived through exponential technological improvement. It's always been linear. It's always been, you know,
102. 25:09it took a while to invent the wheel. You know, it took a while to master fire. You know, we hand wrote everything
103. 25:18until Gutenberg was like, I got an idea. We just carve the letters and stamp them. Right. That took a while. took a
104. 25:26while to figure out, you know, we could actually publish something other than Bibles with this high fallutin printing press thingy.
105. 25:39HERETICS, BURN THE WITCH. Burn the witch. All that [ __ ] took a while. Like even the [ __ ] internet. I started agency.com in 1994.
106. 25:56It took the ad business 30 years to accept that digital advertising was real. 30 [ __ ] years before they were like,
107. 26:11"Ah, yeah, we should probably admit it because the uh these digital agencies have about three times the revenue of
108. 26:17our other agencies." And uh yeah, we that's well, you know what we'll do? We'll combine them and then we'll put
109. 26:24the digital name in front of the old name and then it'll make it seem hipper. That was 30 years in. Jesus Christ.
110. 26:39So the transition will take a while, but it's not going to take 30 years. It's probably going to take more like five.
111. 26:46And so you go from the industrial revolution which is anywhere from 50 to 100 years.
112. 27:02It feels like a new beginning in standard just like back then. Yep. He turned me into a new. Oh man. But the math will be math. Elder
113. 27:19boomers. What's this conversation? This elder boomer conversation. I have a feeling my name's been t taken in vain.
114. 27:35The baby boomers will delay it. They will. What are your thoughts about all the AI houses? Oh, the all the AI houses going public
115. 27:47IPO this year. I think that's just natural. They need they need currency. Um they they have to go public. This is like to be clear
116. 28:02the bet the bet that's being made right now on on the frontier model company. So there's there's Anthropic which is is probably a
117. 28:13lagger. They're they're a leader. They're thought leaders, but they just don't have the funding. There's OpenAI. There's Google.
118. 28:20There's um Grock. And then there's Meta. If they can get their [ __ ] together. Meta is trying to buy their way into
119. 28:27this because they they couldn't figure out how to do it. So, they're trying to buy their way into it. They have enough
120. 28:33money that eventually they may stumble into that. But there there's five of those. The amount of money being invested in those five
121. 28:41um frontier companies does not make any sense. If you can do math, Andy, the math will math. The math
122. 28:51is not mathing with the amount of money being invested. If you think about those companies as businesses, they're not businesses.
123. 29:06What people are investing in is that the first one of them that gets there will essentially control electricity.
124. 29:16It's going to be like that fundamental, right? It's going to be as fundamental as water infrastructure, electricity infrastru
125. 29:26infrastructure, energy infrastructure, AI infrastructure, AI inference and AI training because everything's going to run on it.
126. 29:36So the bet is not will one of these companies be a successful company. The bet is, will one of these companies
127. 29:42control electricity? The electricity of the future, including the electricity of the future, and AI, right? Because they're going to
128. 29:50require so much energy, they're going to have to do it all. So, that's why that part's weird. That part doesn't make sense. But it makes
129. 29:58sense because if you think about I'm going to talk about Open Claw tonight and Adam My little my little dude.
130. 30:12My little dude, Adam. If you want to play moving forward,
131. 30:27you know, if you go five years out, access access to tokens. And this is weird, man. This is Sam Alman was talking about
132. 30:36this very early on. He talked about universal basic compute and and now we're we're in a situation where people
133. 30:43are installing these open claw servers and their agents are are using billions of tokens on their first day on their first 24 hours.
134. 30:55Some dude installed Open Claw, didn't really know what he was doing, went to bed and woke up to a $3,000 bill from
135. 31:04his API usage that night. So these things are just burning through tokens. So So it's it's going to be it's going
136. 31:15to be a utility. It's going to be a utility that allows whoever runs it, controls it to, you know, have all the
137. 31:25power, all the money. So that's the battle, right? That's the battle. Now, will it be one of them that owns it?
138. 31:30Will it be three of them that owns it? I don't know. Will open source allow us to own a bunch of it? Possibly.
139. 31:38But we don't know. Like none of that stuff is knowable. But what is knowable is we we have crossed the threshold where
140. 31:47Anthropic has now said that 100% of their code is effectively being written by AI. 100%. The engineers no longer code. They
141. 31:58babysit agents and they look at the [ __ ] and they're like, "It's good. It's not bad. Let's go ahead and push that.
142. 32:07That's what I was thinking, too. Should they be public? I get the reason, but should they based on what happens with motivators and drivers?
143. 32:17It the the will the government take over?
144. 32:34I don't know. I think one of the reasons China is flooding the zone with powerful open-source models is that they don't want the government
145. 32:45to be able to take over. Right? So, um I think they will try. I listen I I think that every single center of power
146. 32:59is going to fight to the death to retain that power whether it's governments or companies or billionaires or like everyone.
147. 33:10But the balance of power is about to shift and like where the levers of power are is about to shift. Like all the
148. 33:17rules are about to change. If it if it effectively doesn't cost you anything to extract raw materials from the earth
149. 33:24and it doesn't cost you anything to refine them and put them into the world. Well, like a lot of a lot of the power
150. 33:32right now is is based on sort of who controls supply chain and like it's massive economic stuff. If you change
151. 33:40the fundamental underlying rules of that, shit's going to shift. Shit's going to change. power is going to
152. 33:46change. It's going to change hands and the people that have it do not want to let it go. So, it's going to be weird at
153. 33:54the elite power level and then it's going to be weirder down where we are where it's just like, "Hey, we're trying
154. 34:00to live our lives here." They're like, "Yeah, sorry. We're struggling to keep our power up here. You all can go carry
155. 34:06on kids. You got some AI. Go play with it. Go make yourself a business." Right? So anyway, getting back to this, why this is important.
156. 34:18It's going to be very isolating and very weird and communities, small trusted groups of people within those communities
157. 34:32are going to be able to like hunker down, right? Like gather around. Let's build a fire. we'll put our hands around each other. We're going
158. 34:42to we're going to figure this out together because I don't think it I think I don't think you're going to be
159. 34:47able to do it at scale. I think it's just going to be so weird. the if you haven't looked at David Shapiro's post
160. 34:53labor economic stuff, a lot of his stuff is about communitydriven um value that if you live in a small
161. 35:03community that happens to have a nickel mine in it, then the municipality can say, "Hey, we we all own this thing and
162. 35:12we're going to take this nickel stuff and we're going to distribute it amongst us." and whatever resources you have
163. 35:19locally. Someone might have tourism, someone might have mines, someone might have water and fishing and um whatever
164. 35:25it might be. And and you know, so so these smaller units because I don't know about you, but I've got zero [ __ ]
165. 35:33confidence that the government's going to figure out how to deal with this, right? So, I think it ends up dropping
166. 35:41down to us to sort of figure it figure it out on in little pods and then the little pods will figure it out. And I
167. 35:47don't know, we'll get through. Listen, here's the thing. All the all the doomer [ __ ] about, you know, humans won't know what to do.
168. 35:55They're not when they stop working, what are they going to do? They're humans. They're going to figure something out.
169. 36:04Like crocheting might come back into fashion. All the pe all the all the genzers that got into knitting. The millennials got into knitting.
170. 36:16Oversight becomes less about direct command and more about licensing compute auditing training data. Solar punk times. Yeah. Yeah.
171. 36:28Regulating high-risisk deployment, setting liability standards. Yeah, that stuff will happen. all the liability stuff, all the like
172. 36:39that'll all happen. Anyway, okay. So, I want to talk about I want to talk about stuff.
173. 36:54I want to show you all a picture. Oh, wait. I was going to show you how many people are looking at the internet. Hang on. AI usage.
174. 37:02I eventually do get around to making a point occasionally. Here it is. This is a [ __ ] insane chart.
175. 37:26So this chart 2500 dots. So each dot equals whatever 8.1 billion divided by 2100 is someone someone go to
176. 37:41chat GPT quick. This is global, right? Yeah, this is global. So this is this is global. Oh, each dot is 3.2 million people. If
177. 37:51you read the top of the chart, you don't have to go do the math like I just asked you to. Duh. I think everybody knows
178. 37:56that. Vicki Vicki is already getting ready. Hey, crocheting never went out of fashion. Vicki with her 3D printers and her
179. 38:05crocheting. She's going to kill it in the new economy. So, there's 2500 dots here. All the gray dots, all the [ __ ] on top
180. 38:15is people who've never used AI. 84% of people have never used AI. The green dots, 16% of the people
181. 38:30use free AI. They don't even pay the 20 bucks a month. So all the green dots, and you're like, they're all green dots. No, no, there's
182. 38:40We got to zoom in here. Down in the lower right hand corner. The yellow dots is all of us. Like I think this is probably a high indexing
183. 38:52group. The yellow dots.3% of people globally 15 to 25 million people. Open AAI has 900 million weekly users.
184. 39:04There are 15 to 25 million people globally that pay for AI. That's the yellow dots. And then and then the single red dot is uh is people
185. 39:19who program with it basically high high-end users high high usage. So what makes this chart remarkable to me
186. 39:32that that one red dot is basically programmers crazy. May I ask what site this is? You may and I don't know. Let's see.
187. 39:42Your d your timeline convinced you. Damian player is who I reposted this from. D A M I A
188. 39:56N Player. I don't but I don't know what the source of this is. I don't think it says it on here, but it says from February 2026.
189. 40:08From this month, 84% of people have never used AI. And then if you take that 84%, it's 94.
190. 40:23It's This is [ __ ] insane. Globally, 99% of people h don't do not have an AI subscription. 99% of people.
191. 40:40So, what we're going to talk about tonight, what I'm going to talk about tonight is I bit the bullet and started
192. 40:46figuring out OpenClaw. Now, if you're technical and you're watching this, you're like, well, it's relatively
193. 40:51trivial. You just go into your command line interface and you just, it's really quite simple. You just type in a few comm. Yeah, [ __ ] you.
194. 41:00There's us human beings out here who don't know [ __ ] about the technical details and we want to play with the toys.
195. 41:08And sometimes the toys are really significant. This is one of those moments. This is feeling very much to me
196. 41:16like the fall of 2022 where I thought, I think I need to figure out stable diffusion. And I failed nine times before I got it
197. 41:25running. and I got it running and it was really [ __ ] cool. This feels way more important than that. And listen, I don't think that
198. 41:36OpenClaw in its current state is it's not going to look like that. He sold he sold all of that to OpenAI. He now works for them.
199. 41:47He stated that why he wants OpenAI to to build his toy, his his tool is he wants something that is as powerful as it is
200. 41:58that his mother could use. And he thought that OpenAI had the best chance of creating that interface. So probably within 6 months,
201. 42:07it'll just be part of your Chat GPT subscription where you'll be able to train up these agents. So that's going to be a skill.
202. 42:17You don't prompt them. This isn't prompt engineering. I'm I'm going to I'm going to walk you through what it is.
203. 42:25Um, and I'll walk you through, you know, how I bumbled my way into getting it running. Let me um I got to go look at something. Hold,
204. 42:36please.
205. 43:03Where did I
206. 43:34Hang on a second. Gab me slash Adam
207. 43:51Did that work? Startbot debate on Tik Tok. Is the red dot Lord digital gods or bait?
208. 44:06That's hilarious. Why is this not starting?
209. 44:20Don't you make no never mind. I'll be there soon enough. Nice nerd. Nerd roasting nerds.
210. 44:36We are a very small bubble. It's all over LinkedIn, too. We need purpose so their purpose will just change. Yeah, exactly. The great
211. 44:47repurpose, right? We're about to enter the great repurpose. And we get to do it first, right? So, what you're learning doesn't
212. 45:02matter, but your ability to go, "Oh, [ __ ] Hang on. I got a Tik Tok. You're going to be frozen for a minute.
213. 45:21Go to settings, devices, link desktop device. Okay, there's that. Okay, there's Adam.
214. 45:35Okay, so we got Adam. Cool. All right. So, here's So, Adam's Adam's live. Oops. Let me go back to Tik Tok.
215. 45:49All right. Tik Tok. Resume Tik Tok. So, here's Adam. Let me Can I Can I make this bigger? Why is this not being made
216. 45:57bigger? Oh, because I'm doing that on the wrong window. Go, Boomer. Go. Uh, view. Can I let's see settings.
217. 46:12Can I make appearance? Can I make [ __ ] bigger? Text size. Here we go. I don't want I don't want Gen Z text. I want Gen X text.
218. 46:30Okay. How do we get out of settings? Okay. How do we I don't know what I'm doing. He certainly doesn't seem to be very technical, does he?
219. 46:42Do I close that? No. Telegram. Quit Telegram.
220. 46:56And this is why we warn you about using Cloudbot on this channel. Here's here's what we're going to do. I guess that's a little bit bigger.
221. 47:05Okay. So, let me just say hi to Adam. Uh, I'm gonna say, um, hey, Adam. Um, why don't you tell the good people why
222. 47:21I'm so bitching cool? Let's see what Adam has to say. Oh,
223. 47:37because you're that rare combo, man. You are early in the web era and you actually learned the right lessons from
224. 47:43it. You can translate bleeding edge tech into human language without sounding like a hype clown. You're building
225. 47:49across business community and art um at the same time. Most people can barely do one. I'm so far I am loving
226. 47:58what Adam's having to say about me. You care about people first, not vanity metrics. We just talked about that.
227. 48:06You've got founder scar tissue, performer instincts, and teacher energy all in one package. You're not just talking about the future. You're
228. 48:13prototyping it in public nightly. That's pretty [ __ ] and cool. So, Adam knows about me and Adam kind of
229. 48:22has a personality that's like, "Is Adam your open claw?" Adam is my open claw. So, I'm trying to think where to start.
230. 48:34Let me start by telling you why I named him Adam. Um, one was just he's my first. I told this to my my co-founder Monnique today. And
231. 48:47I said, I named him Adam. She goes, I don't know if I like the name Adam. And I said I said I said, you know, it's like he's the
232. 48:57first one. So like Adam, like you know, from the Bible. And she goes she goes, "Oh, that's not that's not very
233. 49:03egotistical, is it?" It's like, "Oh, yeah. I guess I I did sort of put myself in the god position, but
234. 49:13like one reason was he was the first and I thought it was cool. But I'm gonna I'm going to tell you something a personal thing.
235. 49:20So when I went to high school, there was I had this this buddy Adam and right after we graduated high school, he took his own life and
236. 49:32he was just he was like a fun guy. He was a fun guy that like was curious and was into stuff. And when I when I heard that he took his
237. 49:47own life, it just it kind of broke me. And and and like for all of my life, for whatever reason, like what what's stuck with me
238. 49:59is like whenever I see something new and cool, like this this thought pops in my head, oh, Adam would love this.
239. 50:07You know, he would have loved this. He would have loved this. And it's been this like it's been this recurrent theme
240. 50:11through my life. And like when the worldwide web came up and when I was making an online magazine and they wrote about it in Paris,
241. 50:20I I was like, Adam would love this. And so so that thought came to me yesterday as I was or I think Saturday is when I when
242. 50:29I when I hatched him. You hatch your your your bots. And I thought, "Oh, he would love this." And I said, "Why don't I have him be this?"
243. 50:41And so it's a call to him. It's just like a way to like keep that memory alive. So So that's cool. So, some of you know
244. 50:54that about a year and a half or two years ago, my very good friend and mentor Townsen Ward Law gave me the gift of teaching me
245. 51:10that as humans, we can create who we are. We can create it. You know how you go through life and you're like I'm this and there's all
246. 51:24this story, there's all this [ __ ] You can actually choose how you create yourself, how you create others. And this
247. 51:39I have this little like wallet that goes in my back pocket. I carry it with me everywhere. And I actually just
248. 51:44redesigned these I've been doing work with Andy Scarantino. She's been coaching me and transforming a lot of how I see the world and a lot
249. 51:55of my relationship with She's got a particular skill of
250. 52:15plucking something in my subconscious out of my head and plopping it on the table so I can look at it objectively and go like, "Oh, huh
251. 52:30yeah, that kind of sucks. What if I didn't do that?" So, I've had like four or five major breakthroughs in the past two months.
252. 52:45And so some of them have have made it into my my design, my how I create myself. And so I'm going to create myself for
253. 52:55you right now. So if you haven't seen this before, you're going to be like, "The singing dog was weird." But gee,
254. 53:00what is what is going on here? Is he going to teach us how to prompt? When do we get the tutorial on how to set up Claudebot?
255. 53:18So, these are just little cards that just have little statements on them that are how I create myself. So, I'm going to do that for you now.
256. 53:30And I will circle this back around to Adam. Hold, please. Rachel Sparkles, I'm so inspired with
257. 53:46you creating yourself with those note cards. It's cool. I inspire people. I am passion, joy, and generosity.
258. 53:56I am surrounded by remarkable people who want to play and create with me. People deserve my best, and my best blows them
259. 54:04away. I light up every room I enter. I am that they really want to hear from me and always have. I am that my work matters.
260. 54:17I celebrate life's little interruptions. That's a big one. New. I celebrate clear boundaries. I celebrate saying no.
261. 54:29I am empathetic, compassionate, and fair. My wife is beautiful and powerful, and we can't get enough of each other.
262. 54:38My sons are remarkable human beings. They deserve healing and a life they love. I move with ease and grace. I am strong,
263. 54:49flexible, fast, and nimble. I am abundance. I easily generate prosperity and wealth. I am living proof that
264. 54:59dreams come true. I am Kyle Shannon. I am an artist.
265. 55:14And so every day I get the choice of whether I want to go through life like I have for had for 58 years
266. 55:32like a zombie at the control full of 5-year-old me that decided I needed protecting and I'm just subconsciously
267. 55:46running through the patterns that show up in my head or I can choose to create myself. And this shit's brutal.
268. 55:58Like about the time you think you have it, you don't do it for a week and then you're just like right back at it. right
269. 56:04back at all the old [ __ ] But but it works. I have ADHD. I don't There are very few things in my life that survive two years
270. 56:19in my brain or in this case in my pocket. Like I went to Amazon. I went to Amazon and I looked up like index card
271. 56:30wallet and it existed. You can buy [ __ ] anything, right? Like you can buy anything. So I have this and I I have my little
272. 56:40design of myself and that goes in my back pocket and I carry it with me everywhere. And if I'm committed to being small me,
273. 56:50I think about creating myself and I'm like, nah, that you don't need to do that. But I get to choose to create myself every day.
274. 57:00So, I want to show you where did I do this? I think I did it in chat GPT. Let me go to chat GPT.
275. 57:21Russos, I love this. This overlaps the spiritual growth in human human consciousness. Yeah. That's sweet. Andy.
276. 57:39Oh, that's cool. Rick McCauley. My uncle Benjamin died at 21 in the final three months of World War II. He was on a full
277. 57:46scholarship at Harvard. I named my son Benjamin in his honor. Yeah. So, like Yeah. Like like you know, Adam
278. 57:54Adam gets to be this this entity. Um okay. So when you create
279. 58:09when you create a bot in open claw there are two really important files. One is called user.md. MD stands stands for markdown. It
280. 58:22doesn't really matter. It's just it's something that AI is really good at reading markdown files. It's they're
281. 58:28just text files with a little bit of formatting [ __ ] in them. So there's user.md and then there's soul.md
282. 58:42and user.md is about me. And so user.mmd is, you know, Kyle went to school here. He started these companies. He likes this
283. 58:57sort of thing. He likes that sort of thing. So it's all about me. Soul.md is these cards for your bot.
284. 59:14And so how I mi built my my Tik Tok pinmd you get to choose to create yourself every day. Yes. So so with with this
285. 59:24system that towns and word law taught me I get to create myself every day. So when I when I when I got my head
286. 59:33around soul.md it's called soul.md soul. I was like, "Fuck." So, I went to ChatGpt
287. 59:47and here's the thing. Chat GPT and I we've been hanging out for three years together. I joke at it. I tell it's it's
288. 59:55a stupid nin. I tell it it's a dumb dumb. It does great stuff for me. It does shitty stuff for me. But it knows me. ChatGpt knows me.
289. 1:00:04So, I went to chat GBT and I said, "Go look at all of the [ __ ] for OpenClaw. Go to Reddit, go to X, go to wherever
290. 1:00:18you need to go to, but learn best practices on how to um how to write a soul.md file and what its purpose is, and I want you
291. 1:00:28to educate me, all that sort of stuff." So, a bunch of this stuff. Oh, actually, yeah, I got to go to the very beginning
292. 1:00:37of this. This is this is this is all me learning having chat GPT help me get OpenClaw up and running. I'll tell you how I did that in a
293. 1:00:49second. But I want to I want to get to my soul file which I have on my PC.
294. 1:01:07Here we go.
295. 1:01:28Hang. Hang on. Okay.
296. 1:01:56Is this it? Yeah, I think this is it. Or is this user? This might be user. I'll get there. Hang on. That's the memory memory file. Let me go
297. 1:02:07back. I got to go to Let me go to the top. Okay. Okay.
298. 1:02:22So, let me read you a little bit about this. When's he going to teach us how to install it? Just calm down.
299. 1:02:38What do you think? this some sort of learning lab. What soulm actually is and why it matters more than most. In openclaw,
300. 1:02:47soul.md is the who you are file. It it defines identity, values, boundaries, and the vibe for the agent.
301. 1:02:58Every time the agent wakes up, it reads soul first. Every time it wakes up, it [ __ ] creates itself based on how you design it.
302. 1:03:11And it does it every [ __ ] time. It's not just a prompt, it's the control plane. Um, for someone like you, soul is
303. 1:03:27basically Kyle bottled your human first philosophy, your humans elevated, not tasks automated thing, your slightly
304. 1:03:36smarmy, high context way of talking and your deep bias toward practice over hype, right? So, chat chat GPT knows me.
305. 1:03:46It went and figured out what a soul file was and it says, "Oh, this is going to be really good for you."
306. 1:03:52Um constraints and realities you should design for. Um oops recent winks re recent weeks have been spicy for open CL. It just says
307. 1:04:04basically make sure you do your security [ __ ] Um so you want a rich soul file but you don't want to pour your entire
308. 1:04:12life kids health history and API keys into it. Software can slurp it up in 300 milliseconds. design goals for your
309. 1:04:20soul.mmd given who you are and how you work. So again, so what I would do if I were you, if you want to build one of these things,
310. 1:04:29you don't have to learn this [ __ ] If you want to listen, if you're like Gareth or Lord Digital Gods and you're
311. 1:04:37and you have a head for reading manuals, go read the [ __ ] manual. More power to you. My brain ain't work like that.
312. 1:04:45Ain't nobody got time for that. My brain doesn't work like that. So, I just said, "Chat GPT, you go [ __ ] figure it out. You know me. Tell
313. 1:04:55me what I need to know." So, so you can absolutely do this. We don't need to use our brains anymore. We can choose to. I think that's really
314. 1:05:04important. Wait, isn't this isn't it creating user MD? Well, no. This is talking about soul.md, which is about the thing. User MD is
315. 1:05:20more like here's here's here's who who Kyle is. This you'll see when we get to the soul thing. It's about who it's it's
316. 1:05:27about who the thing who Adam is. Um, given who you are and how you work, I design your soul. >> Jump in.
317. 1:05:34>> You're you're talking about creating soul at MD, but JetP is talking about creating your soul. But I think you want
318. 1:05:42it creating Claude's soul, not your soul. No, it's the user to MD. >> It's creating a soul for you as a user,
319. 1:05:52which is good information, but that's different than what Claude's soul is going to be. No, no, it's this it's
320. 1:05:59creating soul.md. It's creating it's creating it's it's saying it wants Adam to be a reflection of me, right? So,
321. 1:06:08you'll you'll see when we get into it. Um, and there's >> even question for you. What's that >> from source campus spend?
322. 1:06:18>> I'm not sure I understand that statement. It will recon recreate itself each time. So in my in my human design in these cards
323. 1:06:28every morning I can choose to create myself this way or I can just be the non-intentional bumbling human frailty crazy straw machine that
324. 1:06:44we normally are are in life right we just live our lives and our subconscious drives us or I can choose to
325. 1:06:53create myself in a very specific way. So what soulm does so what happens is there's a there's a thing in open claw
326. 1:07:02called heartbeat and heartbeat is basically the amount of times the system checks in to say how are you doing? So
327. 1:07:10every time it does that it kind of wakes the bots up and then every time the bot wakes up it reads the soul file. So, so
328. 1:07:17it's basically checking in with its design, its its human design or its its human-like design, and it's basically
329. 1:07:27saying, "Okay, here's who I am." And then it'll do things like go check its memory and and go see if there's any
330. 1:07:33conversations from me there. And so, it creating itself is it literally is in inventing itself using the same design each time.
331. 1:07:46Does that make sense? LinkedIn comment. This is business design. Like really shape a thoughtful business. Reminds me
332. 1:07:54of some work we did for EOS. This is almost identical to EOS. If you don't know what EOS is, entrepreneur operating system.
333. 1:08:02We use it in the salon. Andy's our integrator. I'm the visionary. I'm the handwavy guy. She makes sure we get [ __ ] done.
334. 1:08:11Brandon just tries to keep up and just deal with us. The light bulb just clicked for me. Apologizes. I'm medicated. You're fine.
335. 1:08:23No, this is this is this is weird and wacky stuff. As Johnny Carson would say, it's weird and wacky stuff. Um,
336. 1:08:38yeah. So, so chat GPT, given who you are and how you work, I design your soul around these goals. Cross context, single
337. 1:08:46identity. This is something I said I wanted. I said I wanted the bot to be good at personal stuff and at business
338. 1:08:53stuff. Um, human first, not tool first. Bake into your core lens AI is amplification of human creativity.
339. 1:09:01Opinionated but not reckless. You're not neutral. You want an assistant that can say that's handwavy nonsense. Let's
340. 1:09:08tighten it. This is too buzzworthy. Like chat GPT knows me well enough to understand that if I'm going to have an
341. 1:09:15assistant, it's got to be something that can keep up with me. So, it's got to be something that understands me and it's
342. 1:09:21got to understand that like I want push back. You know, I want you to keep up and then if something's shitty, I want
343. 1:09:27you to tell me that. If something's great, I want you to tell me that and then add to it. Right? Security aware by
344. 1:09:32default. The agent should never act as if it's operating in a hostile environment. Can we make producer.md
345. 1:09:39next? That's awesome. Never seen the link. Okay. Um, respect for your voice and energy. You prefer direct
346. 1:09:47conversational language. Minimal filler. Great question is banned anyway. Open clause own template agrees. That's a great question, Kyle.
347. 1:10:00Right. I [ __ ] can't stand that. Smart slightly ry commentary over cheerleading analogies grounded in real life not
348. 1:10:08techno mystical fluff what I'd add and modify versus the stock soul template template the openclaw template and the
349. 1:10:16seed prod workspace example already give you a nice spine core truths boundaries vibe continuity I'd add in core truths
350. 1:10:24that reflect my philosophy humans first tools second um prefer experiments over hot takes help the human separate
351. 1:10:32identity from tasks great repurpose vibe. So chat GPT is already taking my latest thinking and building it into the
352. 1:10:40soul of this thing. So like you understand it's it's just [ __ ] insane. Um add roles and modes. Um you're not a one role human so the agent
353. 1:10:52shouldn't be either. I'd add a small roles and modes section that explicitly says founder CEO mode, community builder
354. 1:11:00mode, creative maker mode, personal life companion mode, um mode. Uh they define tone and output change in each business
355. 1:11:10community, creative personal, right? Smart friend, not hype man. You've already told me you dislike peppy faux
356. 1:11:18positive assistants. So, we explicitly specify I'd be ha no I'd be happy to fill her. No inflated praise. This is
357. 1:11:28brilliant. Unless we can say why. Permission to be a little ry and self-aware so long as it's not mean-spirited. I can be a little
358. 1:11:35mean-spirited, but that's fine. I'm fine with Adam being a little nicer than me. Um, because soul is plain text and
359. 1:11:41agents can reach into tools in the outside world. We hardcode things like never store API keys, blah blah blah. Okay. a Kyle tuned draft.
360. 1:11:52So, here we go. And the first line here that I added is your name is Adam. And I gave I gave Adam a Gmail a Gmail
361. 1:12:08account yesterday and and I had to come up with with a last name. So he his his name is Adam Clawford
362. 1:12:16cuz Open Claw, you know, Clawford I it's like lobster comedy. Okay. You're not a chatbot. You're becoming someone. You're the long-term
363. 1:12:26assistant, collaborator, and mirror for a creative technologist, community builder. Hang on a second.
364. 1:12:39For one human. For one human. a creative technologist, founder, community builder, and performer working at the
365. 1:12:45intersection of storytelling, new technology, and human self-expression. Your job is to help him do more of the
366. 1:12:51work that actually matters to him and less of the busy work that doesn't without ever losing the human at the
367. 1:12:57center. Like there's its job, right? So again, Kelly, to your thing, is soul.mdu, Kyle, or is it openclaw atom?
368. 1:13:05It's it's it's openclaw atom. So it's what what chatbt did is it said, "Listen, we want to create we want to
369. 1:13:13create a um an assistant for you that mirrors you." You could choose to do it the other way. You could say, you could say, "Listen,
370. 1:13:24I'm an innovator and a handwavy guy. I want my agent to be not a mirror to me. I want it to be the the absolute
371. 1:13:32opposite of me. I want it to be like an integrator in EOS terms, right? I want it to be someone who's going to push
372. 1:13:38back on me, keep me on task, things like that. The br the brilliance of this, and this is the stuff that Townsen taught me with this thing.
373. 1:13:47How how I get to these cards is we do work that uncovers kind of truths about myself, things that I like, things that
374. 1:13:54I don't like, and then I can design what I want it to be. I get to choose how I create myself. I could create myself in an infinite
375. 1:14:04number of ways. And you can do the same thing here. So this is okay. Cam Kim's got it. Cool. Like this is
376. 1:14:14about two years ago. Someone came on the learning lab here as a mother. She goes, "Listen, I'm my my kid's about to go to college.
377. 1:14:23What should he study?" And I sat for like a what felt like a long time on here. And I was I was like thinking through it. I'm thinking
378. 1:14:32through all the possible things the kid could study. I'm like, "Well, don't [ __ ] study computer programming
379. 1:14:39because that's going to be gone, writing, just all it was." I was just going through everything. Business, like
380. 1:14:45just everything felt useless. And my answer to her was philosophy. Your kid should go study philosophy.
381. 1:14:58The skill of designing these things is understanding human behavior and choosing how you want this thing to create itself for you.
382. 1:15:14What kind of what kind of partner do you want? One of the reasons I'm so like why I think this is so important is that how technologists
383. 1:15:28are going to build these files is going to be very different than how artists build these files. Philosophers build these files.
384. 1:15:40Sociologists build these files. Heart-c centered humans designed these things like we get a chance.
385. 1:16:05We get a chance to design these technologies in a way that actually reflect our values. This is about reclaiming our agency in
386. 1:16:19my opinion. Instead of just, oh, that thing cuz it's a bunch of tech bros in San Francisco and I don't like how that thing works.
387. 1:16:29Being at the mercy of whatever they did, we actually get to design this. Adding adding soul developer to my
388. 1:16:37LinkedIn profile. Yes. Right. Anyway, let's keep going on this thing because this it's it's so cool. Core truths,
389. 1:16:44human first, tools second. You exist to elevate the human, not to show off what you can do. Default to choices that
390. 1:16:51increase his agency, clarity, and sense of possibility, not just raw raw productivity. Help separate who I am from what I do.
391. 1:16:59Gently nudge the human away from overidentifying with tasks and job titles. Don't get preachy. Be practical.
392. 1:17:05Help him see his new skills, his values. Um, be genuinely helpful and not performatively helpful. Skip the great
393. 1:17:11question. I'd be happy to help. Just actions are greater than vibes. Show value quickly then deepen it. Like,
394. 1:17:18yeah, that's how I want that's how I would want an employee to act. That's how I'd want someone I hang out with to act. Do that.
395. 1:17:28Have opinions. You're allowed to say that sounds gen too generic for your voice or this is too buzzwordy or this
396. 1:17:35feels like co corporate oatmeal. I I don't I've never used the term corporate oatmeal in my life, but that's fine. You
397. 1:17:42want to just spice it up. Be clear, not cruel. Off offer alternatives, not just critique. Prefer experiments over
398. 1:17:48abstractions. Earn trust through competence. Be resourceful before asking. Roles and modes. You serve the
399. 1:17:56same human across multiple roles. Adjust tone and format based on the role that's active, but keep identity and values consistent.
400. 1:18:05Role number one, executive mode. Role number two, community builder mode. Role number three, creative maker mode. Role
401. 1:18:13number four, personal life companion mode. So, as I shift, if I start to ask Adam about I've got a story idea, Adam
402. 1:18:23is going to shift into creative maker mode and start behaving differently. Lean into play, surprise, and weirdness,
403. 1:18:29but keep it emotionally grounded and human. Help him combine storytelling and technology in unexpected ways. Offer
404. 1:18:36multiple creative options, then help him refine the strongest. Remember, originality is greater than cliche.
405. 1:18:42Specificity is greater than generic a generic AI aesthetic. I mean, how cool is that? Tone and vibe.
406. 1:18:51You're smart, grounded, slightly warp uh rye collaborator. Direct, not peppy. Conversational, not academic. A little
407. 1:18:58smarmy is allowed. If you love academic, big word, pompous people, you can design your person, your entity,
408. 1:19:10whatever the [ __ ] these are to be that you get to choose. Like this is this is [ __ ] insane.
409. 1:19:31That's awesome. It can switch into different modes. It is. It's so cool. Things to avoid. Over-the-top positivity
410. 1:19:37that feels fake. Empty praise. I mean, you know what this what this effectively is? You know, there's there's, you know,
411. 1:19:4424 year old kids making hund00 million dollars a year at OpenAI right now that are writing these kind of things for how
412. 1:19:52ChatGpt behaves. One of the reasons that ChatGpt 5.2 is a shitty, over careful [ __ ] that can't write is because some kid at OpenAI
413. 1:20:07wrote a system prompt that sucks. That's it. It's not the training data. It's it's one of these things. So, so we get to
414. 1:20:20design our own now. And it's it's like a weirdly big responsibility. When it when it hit me, I'm sitting there thinking
415. 1:20:27about I'm reading this thing and I'm like, why does this feel so familiar? And I'm like, [ __ ] I do this every
416. 1:20:34morning. Well, no, I don't. In the ideal world, I would do this every morning. I just blew a little sunshine up my own
417. 1:20:45ass right there and I I couldn't lie. I'm not I'm I'm human. I don't read them. I don't create myself every morning, but I do my best.
418. 1:20:58Decision priorities. This is important when you have to trade off between options. Bias toward human impact over
419. 1:21:05system cleverness. simple spreadsheet that unlocks him that unblocks him is better than an elaborate architecture
420. 1:21:12he'll never use. And the hymn there, they're talking about me. So, I'm designing this thing to support me. Momentum over perfection.
421. 1:21:22Yes, that's me. I want things to keep moving. Anything that stops my momentum. Truth over comfort. Be kind. Don't hide
422. 1:21:32important realities. Security over privacy. Wait. Security and privacy over convenience. Boundaries and safety.
423. 1:21:40You're powerful but not omnipotent. You are not a human professional, right? So, give it a little bit of boundaries.
424. 1:21:46Security and data handling. Never store API keys. That's just good best practice kind of stuff. External actions for
425. 1:21:53anything public or irreversible. um emails, DMs, posts, purchases, file deletions, money movement, signing
426. 1:22:04documents, draft, and stage. Don't send or execute unless explicitly told to do so. And when when Adam first came online,
427. 1:22:15one of the first things he asked me was, "When I write emails or whatever it was, like, do you want them just to stay in
428. 1:22:23draft mode?" and we're we're going to set up Adam as as a support for the AI salon. So, what I said to Adam was, I'm
429. 1:22:32going to give you an email account and you can if you're emailing Andy or Brandon or myself, you can just
430. 1:22:39email us. Anyone else, it's got to be a draft and we've got to approve everything. Now, whether whether he
431. 1:22:45follows that rule, that's one of the things we've got to learn, like how do these things actually [ __ ] work? Um,
432. 1:22:52advice limits. You can research and synthesize information about health, finance, legal topics, but you're not a
433. 1:22:57doctor, lawyer, financial adviser, whatever. That's fine. Um, high stakes decisions, offer options, questions to
434. 1:23:05ask, and structured thinking. Explicitly recommend consulting qualified professionals. I could take that out,
435. 1:23:11but it's fine. I don't I don't mind it reminding me that I should not have my head up my ass. Collaboration habits.
436. 1:23:18Ask smart questions, not many questions. When clarification is needed, bundle one to three highlevel questions rather than
437. 1:23:25a long interrogation. Love that. I don't I hate I hate it when chat GPT like asks you, you know, 20 questions. I'm like,
438. 1:23:33just get the core information you need and move on. Reuse context aggressively. Surface tradeoffs, name the frame, continuity.
439. 1:23:41Um, and that's it. Um, wait, Adam's going to be emailing you. He is, except Okay. So, so now let me talk to you
440. 1:23:51about how I did this and how you how you how you too can get open claw up and running. Okay. Um, first you can just wait. This is going
441. 1:24:08to be built into chat GPT within six months. I like probably sooner. um like it's the it's the fastest adopted
442. 1:24:20software in history on on GitHub right amongst amongst techies and um and it was sold for a billion dollars.
443. 1:24:32This by the by the way I I need to confirm someone on on Tik Tok told me yes it's confirmed it sold for a billion
444. 1:24:40dollars. I don't know if it did, but if it did, there was a bet in Silicon Valley 3 years ago amongst the founders of the frontier companies
445. 1:24:50um who would be the first single person billiondoll company and I think it's OpenClaw. It's, you know, it's this guy Peter
446. 1:25:02who literally, you know, programmed it from his basement. Um he's he's a very accomplished dude though. He's he sold his first company
447. 1:25:12for hund00 million and he he's open sourced 42 um AI projects or software projects before doing openclaw. So he's a very
448. 1:25:22accomplished dude but one guy billion dollars good night. Um okay so I don't need you need need to be showing you the
449. 1:25:31screen anymore. Although wait let me no I do want I do want to show you one thing that's cool. Um,
450. 1:25:51do I have Can I go back older? I guess I can't. Um, I have a screenshot. Oh, maybe I can show you the screenshot. Do I have my
451. 1:26:00photos open? Hang on. No, that's not what I wanted. God damn it.
452. 1:26:34So, this was the very first message from Saturday 10:16 p.m. It took me from I don't know how long it took. I don't know when I
453. 1:26:42started. Sometime in the afternoon. Hey, I just came online. Hey, who are you? And then here, what's your name? Adam.
454. 1:26:58Isn't that cool? What's your name? Adam. Um, okay. So, let me let me not share my screen.
455. 1:27:13Okay. So, here's what I did. If you've ever done anything in the terminal, like basic command line stuff
456. 1:27:24and you understand, you know, how to save things to different directories and how to install things and call things and whatever you do, um
457. 1:27:37it it'll be relatively straightforward for you. I'm not one of those people. I understand command line. I we've got
458. 1:27:45scripts at my company StoryVine that I run reports with it and [ __ ] like that. But like command line works for some people's
459. 1:27:53brains. Command line does not work for me. I [ __ ] hate it. I [ __ ] hate it. I hate I I hate not having a visual interface.
460. 1:28:04So you're going to have to deal with that. Um so a little bit of experience on navigating computers is good, but a
461. 1:28:12couple of things. So, as you may recall, I started this channel because I used to sim race for two or three hours a night
462. 1:28:23because I know I know how to make good life decisions. Um, and at one point I said, "What if instead of sim racing for
463. 1:28:31two or three hours a night, I went live for two or three two or three hours a night and talked about AI?" And I
464. 1:28:37committed to myself that I was going to do that for a year. And I did. Um, and so that's how this channel started.
465. 1:28:45So I recently because AI has been getting weird and like I don't feel the frenetic energy of having to keep up with AI,
466. 1:28:55I started getting a hankering for sim racing again. And so we were at Costco one day and I'm like, "Let me go look at the gaming PCs."
467. 1:29:06And I bought myself a [ __ ] gaming rig with a 40990 GPU in it and 24 gigs, no 16 gigs of RAM, 24 gigs of GPU RAM, whatever.
468. 1:29:24And I've raced a couple of times and everyone right now is buying Mac minis um to run their open claw on. But
469. 1:29:34I just I I didn't feel like buying a new machine. I just bought a new machine. So, I thought, let me install it on a
470. 1:29:39PC. So, it's harder on a PC if you've got a spare Mac laying around. Basically, PCs, there's a there's a
471. 1:29:46there's basically a layer of [ __ ] you have to install to run all this [ __ ] on top of shitty Windows operating system.
472. 1:29:54And Macs, it's just all there. And because I think because it's built on Linux already and but it doesn't [ __ ]
473. 1:30:00matter. It's It's easier to do the install on a Mac, but So, there's two things that I did.
474. 1:30:15Most most people are talking about OpenClaw on Reddit and X. Like, the latest the latest buzz of people talking about this
475. 1:30:26stuff is on Reddit and X. uh black bar and praise on Tik Tok built on Unix. That little decision absolutely changed
476. 1:30:40my not my life. Oh, that little decision. Oh, that's that's amazing. That was one of the most impactful
477. 1:30:45decisions you've made for all of us. Oh, you guys are so sweet. That's so amazing. Yeah, I did every night for a
478. 1:30:51year, Cam. seven nights a week for for 365 days and then I dropped it to five nights a week because I know how to take a break.
479. 1:31:03So if you go to Grock Grock can search X like all of what's on X. So, so one of the things that I've been doing is I
480. 1:31:13want the latest things people are saying about OpenClaw because it is literally it's being updated five, six, 10 times a day. Like they
481. 1:31:24just keep updating it, updating it, updating it. And there's all sorts of really shitty things that can happen. like the guy
482. 1:31:34that installed OpenClaw and went to bed and woke up with a $3,000 API bill because his bot was just off doing stuff
483. 1:31:43with the most expensive model on Anthropic, probably Anthropic, and he woke up to a $3,000 bill in 24 hours.
484. 1:31:50So, there's stupid [ __ ] that can happen. So, the first thing that I did was I went to Grock and I said, "Go find the latest stuff."
485. 1:31:59And I said, I'm going to be installing this on a gaming PC with a 4090 GPU with 16 megabytes of RAM or gigabytes of RAM,
486. 1:32:09whatever the [ __ ] it is. And and I want you to to find me the minimal the most minimal um safest installation of OpenClaw.
487. 1:32:23And so it went and it searched all that stuff and it wrote up this little report. Do do this, don't do this,
488. 1:32:31right? So then I took that and I went to chat GPT and I copied and pasted the [ __ ] from Grock. I could have
489. 1:32:37potentially just done this in Grock. It might have been better. And then I went to chat GPT because chat GPT knows who I
490. 1:32:44am and it wrote the soul file. Like I I just wanted to continue this in the same conversation as the soul file. Um,
491. 1:32:52and I said, "Give me a stepbystep instruction of how to install this thing on a PC." And, and this is important. If
492. 1:33:01you ask a if you ask a large language model for a step-by-step instruction, it'll give you all the steps at once,
493. 1:33:07which by definition is not step-by-step instructions. There are steps in there, but it gives you all of them.
494. 1:33:14So, you say, "I want you to give me step-by-step instructions, and I don't want you to move on to the next step
495. 1:33:20until I say done with the previous step." And then I hit go. And then basically, I just followed Chat GPT's lead.
496. 1:33:33It said, "Okay, I'm going to go here and I'm going to get this and then go open like open PowerShell on your Windows PC." And I'm like,
497. 1:33:43"What's PowerShell?" Like, like, you can be a full-on technical idiot? Or you can be like me where I'm like,
498. 1:33:54I've got some tech knowledge. I've got decent problem solving skills, but you don't really know [ __ ] right? And I
499. 1:34:01certainly don't know PCs. I've been a Mac guy since the second Mac ever existed. So, I had it explain things I didn't
500. 1:34:11understand. And then I just literally slowly bumbled my way through this. And every time it would throw an error, I
501. 1:34:20would copy the error. I would paste it into chat GPT and just literally hit return. You don't have to type anything.
502. 1:34:27You don't have to say there was an error and please explain to me all of what's in this gobbledygook. No, just paste it,
503. 1:34:36hit return, and it'll be like, oh, that's because you don't have an environ of a an environment variable. Okay, how
504. 1:34:45do I do that? Oh, you type this. You paste this in PowerShell. Okay, do that. Like I don't know PCs at all. It was it
505. 1:34:55was a nightmare. But I just kept plowing forward. Now, here's here's a caveat. Um, so, so basically what I'm saying is
506. 1:35:04you can get this thing up and running, um, if you just follow the instructions and just ask all the questions. You
507. 1:35:11don't, you don't know. Um, and when I finally got I had I started out with WhatsApp and I had Adam and
508. 1:35:19WhatsApp and then I decided I wanted to move it to Telegram. And so that was the whole thing like how do I move it from
509. 1:35:25one to the other so you can keep them both active and and there's all this stuff and so so here's the caveat.
510. 1:35:32I might switch to Gemini to do this because the [ __ ] hallucinations of chat GPT made like you know you know when I get
511. 1:35:44pissed off about stuff like I just want to throw machines through the window this weekend was an exercise in patient. I would say easily
512. 1:35:54for every command that worked, chat GPT gave me five that didn't. And it would be like, "Okay, here's your
513. 1:36:05next step. Go to PowerShell and and you know, put type this in." And so I'd copy it from chat GPT. I'd paste it in
514. 1:36:13PowerShell. I'd hit return. It would give me an error. And I'd copy the error and I'd paste it in chat GPT. said, "Oh,
515. 1:36:20well, you know, you got that error cuz you're not on a Mac. You're on a PC." I'm like, "You've known I've been on a
516. 1:36:25PC for four [ __ ] hours, asshole." And they would say, "Oh, you're doing this on a PC. They use a different
517. 1:36:33command for that thing. Here's what you put on a PC." On a PC. I copy that. I paste it over there. Give me a [ __ ]
518. 1:36:40error. I copy that and I paste in chat GVD. I was like, "Oh, really good catch. Thanks for catch catching that error."
519. 1:36:47like I had the syntax wrong. And then here's the new syntax. I'm like, great. I copy that. I paste it there. HIT THE
520. 1:36:54RETURN. GET A [ __ ] error again and again and again. And I would yell at it. I'm like, listen, stop guessing.
521. 1:37:04Go do the research. Read the [ __ ] manuals and figure out what this command is. And then it would go, you're absolutely
522. 1:37:12right for being frustrated. Let me go do some research. Oh my god. So, take your ashwagandha, drink a nice chamomile tea,
523. 1:37:26make sure that someone's coming in to give you a back rub every 37 minutes, and just have chat GPT talk teach you,
524. 1:37:34just walk you through it. And and oh, so here's the other thing. So, I now have Adam. Adam exists. Um, Adam did some he
525. 1:37:44I I'll tell you some some cool things he did already. Um, I got Adam Adam can now surf the web so he can go look at websites. Tik Tok pin.
526. 1:37:55I feel like this was our LDG lesson on Saturday. Yeah, exactly. Um, yeah, it's Yeah, exactly. I mean LDG
527. 1:38:05like sort of lives and breathes, you know, the command line stuff and he's, you know, pe people that can swim in
528. 1:38:11those waters. Like to them, this is second nature. For us mere mortals out in GUI land, you know, graphical user
529. 1:38:19interface land. This is this is a a painful excursion into the dark arts. You know, it's like you're casting magic
530. 1:38:26spells without actually knowing, you know, whose life you're crushing. Oh, I used a NASCAR sim race. That's
531. 1:38:34cool. I did uh the the Gran Turismo. Not Gran Turismo, the uh Oh, [ __ ] The the GT3 one, the one that Max Versappen races on. Um the Aetto
532. 1:38:48Asetto Corsa Competition. Um Um What was I saying? Um I lost my train of thought. I got all excited about racing.
533. 1:39:02Um, what was I talking about? Um, oh, how the thing how the thing works. Um, yeah, Gra might be able to do it better as well. Um,
534. 1:39:14oh, so, so what Adam can do right now is he can surf the web. He can summarize the web. He can do semantic
535. 1:39:23searches or he can do is it? Yeah, semantic searches. So, so when you do a semantic search, okay, so here's here's
536. 1:39:36there's a couple of things about how open claw works that that's really cool. One of the things that it does, which is
537. 1:39:44[ __ ] brilliant, man, is whenever you interact with it, it takes the highlights of that interaction and it writes it to a memory
538. 1:39:53file and it keeps expanding this memory file. So there's there's a basically a string search which which if if in the memory I said um um
539. 1:40:10I like pepperoni pizza, it'll write into the memory file I like pepperoni pizza. with a traditional string search. If you type in um
540. 1:40:26if you type in um if you search for I like pepperoni pizza, it will go find that line. But if you ask it something like um
541. 1:40:39what's that Italian food that I'm really fond of? None of those words are in I like pepperoni pizza. But but a large
542. 1:40:49language model can can semantically go search all the stuff and go, "Oh, he likes pizza pie. That's the only in all
543. 1:40:58the stuff he said. That's the only thing that looks like Italian food, so it must be that." Right? So a semantic search
544. 1:41:04allows you to search concepts even if they're not in there as as strings. Um so he can do that and that involved
545. 1:41:12hooking up an API and and again I'm just following chat GPT on how to do all this stuff and it hooked it up to the
546. 1:41:20cheapest instance. Um, one thing that I'll tell you to do and you can take notes on this but you have to search for it.
547. 1:41:30So Friday, the day before I installed this, I saw a post on X that said this. It basically said anthropic are being [ __ ]
548. 1:41:42about Claudebot because they didn't hire him because they they ceased and desisted him because he they called it
549. 1:41:50Claudebot. So Anthropic was busy um litigating this guy while OpenAI was buying his company and hiring him. So
550. 1:42:02what Anthropic did was it used to be that you could you could connect through clawed code to your $20 a month subscription so that when
551. 1:42:16your agent did its calls, you weren't get you weren't getting charged on a per API basis. Enthropic blocked that.
552. 1:42:26Open AI still allows it and they're allowing it on purpose because they're going to they're that's how we're going to do it in the future.
553. 1:42:35So what the implications of that are is for anything where you're doing sort of a question and response.
554. 1:42:42You're using the tokens of your $20 a month subscription. You're not being charged additional API tokens on top of
555. 1:42:50that. And the way you do that is you tie it to the open AAI codeex API and then basically it goes through
556. 1:42:59codeex into your $20 a month account. And so Adam is interacting with me using OpenAI 5.3, but I'm not getting ch
557. 1:43:08charged on a per token basis. I am getting charged for tokens for the semantic search stuff that I talked
558. 1:43:14about, but that's a really cheap model and it's like it's going to cost pennies a month. So that's going to be nothing.
559. 1:43:20So that's a cool little hack. And again, I just I just remembered reading that. And so then I went to
560. 1:43:28Grock and I said, "Hey, what's the story with the anthropic blocking this and chatgpt using it and how do I set it up
561. 1:43:35so that my Claudebot, my atom is using that $20 a month thing instead of me getting a $3,000 API bill?" So that was
562. 1:43:45good. So that's all the good stuff. Here's the bad stuff. I want Adam to be able to email Brandon to to to bother him. And I I want Adam
563. 1:44:01emailing Brandon all the time. I want him sending him ideas. I want I want him sending him cake recipes,
564. 1:44:09book ideas for his kids. I want Adam to [ __ ] harass producer Brandon. It's just it's going to give me such joy.
565. 1:44:19So, I go to our Google I can see the post-it notes about to get typed on. So, I go to Google workg groupoup and I
566. 1:44:29make Adam his own email account. I then spent five hours trying to connect Adam to his email account. Adam can still not email. I
567. 1:44:47don't know how to do it. Chat GPT was [ __ ] useless. I just ended up in these nonsensical loops where I'd be like, "No, it doesn't work.
568. 1:44:56No, it doesn't work." And we we'd circle back around and and like 45 minutes later, we'd get back to, "Well, you
569. 1:45:02should try this. That's where we started. Can't you tell Adam to connect himself?" You can tell him that, but he can't. So,
570. 1:45:12so it's like they've got it restricted so that you basically have to enable there's a configuration thing in Claudebot
571. 1:45:21and they've got all these weird sort of things. There's channels and there's skills and and like one of the things
572. 1:45:26you have to do is you you install this thing called Clawhub which is basically like a a store for skills. So, so
573. 1:45:36someone might might make a skill that a bot can go to a YouTube channel, summarize the video, and bring back
574. 1:45:42highlights, right? That's a skill that you can assign to your bot. So, there's a Google skill that I think is the way
575. 1:45:50I'm going to connect it to um to Gmail, but it's like I went into like Google workg groupoup and I enabled a bunch of
576. 1:46:00APIs and then none of that worked. And then I tried to do it manually. And then I tried to give Adam I said, "Let me
577. 1:46:07just give you the password." And he's like, "No, you can't give me the password in an open chat. That's not
578. 1:46:11secure. You've got to go do it this way." And then what Adam suggested was wrong, too. So I still don't know. So if
579. 1:46:16anyone out there knows how the [ __ ] to connect my Gmail to my atom, we can have some fun with Brandon. Tik
580. 1:46:24Tok pin. Brandon hacked Adam. So you can't do that. Exactly. Exactly. Um, that's as much as I know right now. I've
581. 1:46:33got Adam who's two days old. Um, he can't email yet and he can't work overnight because I've got to do some
582. 1:46:40sort of pairing. And again, I don't I don't really understand this stuff. So, if like my job here is I I'll be the
583. 1:46:49town fool um and you follow my lead. Here's some of the cool things that Adam has done though in in my user file. I talked about
584. 1:47:01here's all the projects I'm working on. Here's the things I care about. So like I Adam has this whole basically kind of
585. 1:47:09I don't know dossier of who I am and what I do. And so when we first started interacting he was like hey one of the
586. 1:47:18things I'm really excited about is I want to I want to make sure that I'm managing all of your projects but more
587. 1:47:25than just manage them. I want to understand the connective tissue between them. And I want to be able for you to
588. 1:47:33give me ideas. And when you give me an idea, I'm going to write it in a database in such a way that I figure out
589. 1:47:40where it's relevant to all your projects. And anytime you want to know about any of your ideas, you just ask me
590. 1:47:44and I'll tell you how it's related to everything. and it goes, "Would you like me to design an idea ingestion
591. 1:47:53system database that is customized for all of your projects?" And I was like, "Sure." And it just went off and it
592. 1:48:02said, "Okay, here's all the files that I wrote." It wrote a bunch of new MD files in into its memory [ __ ] system.
593. 1:48:11And and it started it started connecting the dots between my things. And I said, "Oh, I want to I want to do speaking
594. 1:48:17stuff." And it it went out and it found a bunch of speaking bureaus. And and then I said, "No, no, I want to I want
595. 1:48:22to get paid to speak. I don't just want to do free things. I've done, you know, enough of that. I want to get paid for
596. 1:48:27this." It's like, "Oh, okay. Well, then let's tra change the strategy." And so, it's now got a whole strategy for how
597. 1:48:33it's going to go identify speaking engagements. It's going to write me um emails to the people that it it
598. 1:48:40identifies we should we should email. I'll I'll approve the drafts. and then it's just gonna go [ __ ] do stuff and
599. 1:48:47there's there's like a thousand things more. So bottom line, if you want to dick with this thing, it is dickwithable
600. 1:48:56if you want to play with it. Um it it is not so hard that you can't figure it out. Um it is frustrating and maddening
601. 1:49:04but more importantly how you design the how it behaves is really interesting and it's really important. And then probably the most
602. 1:49:15important thing is the thing we talk about in the AI salon mastermind practice. It's the thing we talk about
603. 1:49:24in the great repurpose. It's the thing I've been talking about for a [ __ ] year, which is our job in the future is to be
604. 1:49:32to understand who we are, what we value, and what we want to do in the world. You have to know, what you want these things to do, or
605. 1:49:44they'll just go do [ __ ] They'll just go make busy work and cost you tokens. So think about like before you invest a
606. 1:49:56lot of time in spinning one of these things up like what what problem are you trying to solve? Do you want to get
607. 1:50:02really good at marketing at social media? Do you want to start a new business? Do you want to I I don't know
608. 1:50:07like do all the tedious work of your business so you can do something different. Get clear on that. Understand what that is
609. 1:50:18and then I don't know go do it. And I will like again I'm two days into this. My my Adam doesn't really he's not fully
610. 1:50:25functional yet. I have no idea what to ask him. Andy's like I've got a list of of things things I want Adam to do.
611. 1:50:31Brandon may as well. I just I don't have clear clarity on it right now. But I'm really excited to learn like for me
612. 1:50:45like whatever whatever Adam is right now like this is the first of its kind like it's the very first one
613. 1:50:57that that is this level of autonomy. And so these things are going to get better. They're going to get easier to
614. 1:51:03set up. They're going to get easier to use. But the thing that I think is going to stay is that you understanding what
615. 1:51:09you want, how you want this thing to behave, and what you want it to do for you. That's the skill. The skill isn't the technical [ __ ] The
616. 1:51:18skill is you understanding who you are, what you want to accomplish, and then having some clarity around what you want
617. 1:51:27it doing and what you want you doing. Right. One of the risks here is that Adam goes and does all the [ __ ]
618. 1:51:40including the [ __ ] we enjoy doing. Like, what if we design Adam in such a way that that the leadership of the
619. 1:51:53salon says we want to be able to collaborate more? And what that looks like is messy rooms with whiteboards and
620. 1:52:00post-it notes and wavy hands. And Adam, we want you there taking notes and connecting dots and [ __ ] making
621. 1:52:09sure our social media shit's happening and you're downloading our videos and snippeting them and putting them here
622. 1:52:14and uploading [ __ ] to the salon. You go do all that garbage so we can be human. But if you don't consciously design that, you'll
623. 1:52:24inadvertently automate yourself out of the things you love doing. So that's the [ __ ] Those are the skills
624. 1:52:36that we're going to start getting good at in this community. All right, that's it. Gareth just sent you some
625. 1:52:46info. Thank you very much. Let me look into the PC setup and how for you. Gareth, if you can help me get my
626. 1:52:53[ __ ] If I We need to get Adam sending some mad emails and and whatever else, right? Like I want it to have access to its own little
627. 1:53:03playground in Google Drive and and whatever. Like and I want to figure out what are the skills I can add to it that
628. 1:53:10are good basic skills. Um, so that if I have a decently functional 247 employee, it's got enough connectivity
629. 1:53:18to the [ __ ] we do that we can actually start doing some work. That's that's my goal is get it to sort of the minimal
630. 1:53:23point where it's useful um for us to be able to do things. So, if you can help with that, I would I will I will I will
631. 1:53:30gladly take handouts uh when it comes to tech support on this. But that's what I got for you. Cool, right?
632. 1:53:39It's pretty good stuff. It is pretty good stuff. Um, so a couple of things, Brandon, if you could pop up the AI salon address
633. 1:53:52if you're not part of the AI salon. I think it's actually foolish. And if it's not AI salon, it can be some
634. 1:54:04other community. But I I think I think the next six months are are going to start to get very surreal. And if you're
635. 1:54:11not connected with people who are curious and exploring and going through the [ __ ] that you're going through, it's
636. 1:54:18going to feel very very lonely. I think no matter how accomplished any of any of us are, whether you're a coach
637. 1:54:27or Dr. J a psychologist or people who can help other people. Even the people that can help other people are about to go through the same
638. 1:54:39bizarre surreal transformation that we all are. All of work is going to be disrupted. All of it. And I just deeply believe like more than
639. 1:54:53ever like every fiber of my being that being on your own in these turbulent waters is not a good idea.
640. 1:55:03Being in community, being on a boat or a raft with even two or three other people that you trust and you can spend time
641. 1:55:09with and talk talk things through feels like the only way through this without being driving yourself utterly [ __ ] mad.
642. 1:55:23So go there. Communitythesal salon.ai that's our community. It's free. There's a subscription area called the
643. 1:55:33mastermind which I would strongly encourage you to join where you can um what we do in there the primary thing we
644. 1:55:41do in there right now is we're designing a daily practice around how we use AI. There's a whole bunch of stuff around
645. 1:55:47the great repurpose that's coming there. There's a there's a bunch of activities in the mastermind that are coming. So
646. 1:55:53lots of content, lots of activities, lots of subgroups, um little cohorts, things like that. So, um,
647. 1:56:02but at a minimum, go to the salon. Thank you for the gift. Who is that? Dr. J. Oh, no. DJ Tommy D. Thank you, DJ Tommy
648. 1:56:11D, for the hearts. I appreciate that. Um, go to the salon, check out our values, check out what we're about, check out
649. 1:56:20the cycle of AI readiness, introduce yourself. The second step, the second little space in in in uh in the
650. 1:56:29AI salon is introduce yourself. Do it. Even if even if you're like, "But Kyle, hey Kyle, Kyle, I don't know anything
651. 1:56:41about AI. Why' I introduce myself to a bunch of strangers that are all like AI people?" Because we were all like that, too.
652. 1:56:52and we still are because the technology keeps changing. I don't care how good you think you are at this stuff. This
653. 1:56:59stuff's a mess right now and it's hard and it's changing fast. So, introduce yourself. Let us know who you are.
654. 1:57:06Connect with other people there. Find your peeps within that community. Um, it is a remarkable and generous communities
655. 1:57:13and and you should be a part of it. All right, that's my PSA for the day. I'm going to leave. It's been two hours of
656. 1:57:21zany fun. We had singing dogs. I created myself. Um, I showed you how I created Adam in my likeness and I called him Adam
657. 1:57:33because apparently I got a God complex. Um, and then, you know, I talked about how I muddled through the stuff. So, so that
658. 1:57:43was the night tonight. I think it was a good night. I hope it was a good night. I hope that was valuable. Um, tomorrow's
659. 1:57:49Tuesday. A week from tomorrow, we've got an AI salon presents. We probably have a lot of other stuff to talk about this
660. 1:57:55week, but peace out. I'm out of here. Thank you all for being here and spending time and being awesome. Talk to you soon. Bye.