Sacha Mandel

@johann_sath I have an my backlog to build an 'execution spec' builder this would be great as one of the starting layers of that!

stop burning tokens "before we start, interview me. ask 3-5 clarifying questions. make sure you're 99% confident about what i actually want, not what i think i want"

@johann_sath that is very cool. Look forward to hearing how it tests in the wild!

just got meta glasses. integrating them with my openclaw the use case i'm most excited about: walk into a conference. say "who should i talk to?" my AI sees everyone through the glasses, reverse image searches them, cross-references my CRM, and tells me exactly who to approach. "blue shirt, 3 o'clock. CEO of a logistics company. still using spreadsheets. go." MIT students already built the reverse image search part. i'm connecting it to my pipeline. networking is about to change forever.

Week 2 into Openclaw as a "Normie": A pattern has emerged. Build. Break. Fix. Build. Break. Fix.

Mensch 'OpenClaw' Mandel Born 9th of March 15:12

The positive future of AI is long-term relationship protocols between humans and machine intelligence.

@EseKpeji I think @EseKpeji has become the Samuel Pepys of the London Tech Culture. 👏

@jordymaui I am about to embark on this journey. Setting up Openclaw today. Wish me luck :/

the thing nobody warns you about OpenClaw is the silence. you spend days setting it up. configuring memory. writing skills. debugging cron jobs at midnight. then one morning you wake up and everything just... works. briefing waiting for you. scans done. analytics tracked. nothing broke overnight. and you realise you built something that runs without you. that quiet moment is worth every frustrating hour that came before it.

@EseKpeji Great article. It’s refreshing to read something positive about the city I was born and raised in. I still have a deep romanticism for London. The energy you’re witnessing around AI feels, to me, like the soul of this place finding a new incarnation.

I solemnly swear before I take my OpenClaw pill: My nervous system comes first. Before productivity. Before speed. Before ambition. In this season of my life, what I build must protect my body and nervous system. I want to put the holy into my agent. To give it life, character, and depth beyond sub-agents. That takes time. Fermentation. Spiritus ante machinam.

@steipete Curious, what are the “scales” of OpenClaw building? I got to Grade 6 piano before I stopped. The other day I sat down and started doodling again, trying to remember half-forgotten pieces. What surprised me was how much I enjoyed just doing scales and arpeggios. It made me think: if I ever return to piano, I’d obsess over the scales first.

@QuoteJung Orientated

@itsolelehmann I think about building enviroments

don't think about building software anymore think about building an api

@tomosman @openclaw going mac mini hunting today! Wish me luck

Everyone i know who has got to a good @openclaw setup has chewed glass for 4 weeks. It's a battle but it's worth it in every way!

"The sicker I get, the wiser I get... when I'm dead I'm gonna be very smart" - Michael Corleone

@paulg The process of fermentation comes to mind

Playing the long game gives you such an advantage over competitors. Hardly anyone else is doing it. They haven't chosen not to. They just haven't explicitly thought about the question, and the default is not to.

@itsolelehmann I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently. I’ve been experimenting with how AI systems could be structured to protect the nervous system, not just optimise productivity.

I'm sure we'll get some neuroscience studies soon that constantly switching between different agent windows dramatically impacts your focus and memory I can feel it myself we need a product to manage all these agents that's build in a supportive way to our brain function our brains are NOT made for this constant switching If you work a lot with parallel tasks with AI, you probaly experience the same otherwise it will lead to mass nervous system disregulation (the science will come out and I will QT this at a later point) protect your brain

Just finished watching the Godfather this morning. It dawned on me that the ones who never loose their sh*t last the longest. Nervous system regulation might be the ultimate life skill.

In a world that wants you constantly sped up, your edge is choosing to slow down.