Blockbuster. Great read, thanks Michael! I have felt the chat traps, especially context drift. The most dangerous assumptions are the ones we don't see or even know about.
Very good. I have 2 agents set up, one doing full market brief and one doing a sector per day (started with deep dives and now just monitoring changes). It lives up to the hype of self improvement so far. Each week the reporting gets better. Also, will have one that just has access to my KB so we will see what type of content and marketing that will produce.
Many of your use cases sounds like digital intellectual over consumption at scale. It doesn’t seem like the right direction to encourage everyone to go down.
If you’re reading this article and getting that FOMO feeling see if you can slow down and feel the sensations of that feeling.
The speed of this industrial AI machine won’t let you be more human, it wants you to become a more intelligent machine. It’s hard to see the value in being human when so many of us are running the opposite way. I use AI but I balance that by Being. Simply being in nature.
I’ve sat with this and I think I’d describe it to you this way:
When you are continually in information consumption mode you unknowingly shut down other ways of knowing
Here are other core ways of knowing: heart/emotions and body/gut
Understanding from more than a head perspective opens you up to the millions of data points we don’t consciously register when we use our left brain thinking.
I used to read 4 books a month for years - to keep ahead of things and keep broadening my perspective - and LOVED it! As I got older (and had 5 kids!) I realized there were whole realms of life I was missing in my pursuit of knowledge.
Part of my journey has been to radically slow down and pay attention to these other forms of consciousness - somatic exercises that ask for hours of my time without thinking (grounding, meditation, mindfulness, emotional awareness).
We are currently in the ‘reign of quantity’ - which reduces everything to it’s measured equivalent. Much like reducing love down to a set of behaviors. Maybe we are meant to be more and experience life in the simplicity of our creature senses. Not simply scale our data accumulation.
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Just responded Steve! Looking forward to chatting.
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Hi Michael - Long time! Just sent you a message on WhatsApp.
Blockbuster. Great read, thanks Michael! I have felt the chat traps, especially context drift. The most dangerous assumptions are the ones we don't see or even know about.
Appreciate the comment and interest Rachel. Just DM'd you via Substack.
Interestingly powerful piece.
The compound interest framing is what actually got me.
I'd heard the "Chat resets every day" critique before, but framing it as simple vs. compound interest made it visceral in a way it hadn't been.
Love the article. So are you using OpenClaw or Hermes for those items you created? Or you are just creating them with ClaudeCode?
I’m using just Claude Code at the moment. Hermes / OpenClaw is my next step.
Ah, I need to dig into that more. Been using OpenClaw and just migrated to Hermes.
What do you think of Hermes so far?
Very good. I have 2 agents set up, one doing full market brief and one doing a sector per day (started with deep dives and now just monitoring changes). It lives up to the hype of self improvement so far. Each week the reporting gets better. Also, will have one that just has access to my KB so we will see what type of content and marketing that will produce.
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MT - Sent you a DM via Substack. Excited to connect.
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Jari - Sent you a DM via Substack. Excited to connect.
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Hey Piyush - Sent you a DM via Substack. Excited to connect.
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Hey Sean - Sent you a DM via Substack. Excited to connect.
Many of your use cases sounds like digital intellectual over consumption at scale. It doesn’t seem like the right direction to encourage everyone to go down.
If you’re reading this article and getting that FOMO feeling see if you can slow down and feel the sensations of that feeling.
The speed of this industrial AI machine won’t let you be more human, it wants you to become a more intelligent machine. It’s hard to see the value in being human when so many of us are running the opposite way. I use AI but I balance that by Being. Simply being in nature.
See what arises when you do too.
Hi John,
Can you expand on what you mean by “digital intellectual over consumption at scale.”?
Out of curiosity, what does “being more human” mean to you?
I’d love to reflect on what you’re saying, but not sure I understand.
I’ve sat with this and I think I’d describe it to you this way:
When you are continually in information consumption mode you unknowingly shut down other ways of knowing
Here are other core ways of knowing: heart/emotions and body/gut
Understanding from more than a head perspective opens you up to the millions of data points we don’t consciously register when we use our left brain thinking.
I used to read 4 books a month for years - to keep ahead of things and keep broadening my perspective - and LOVED it! As I got older (and had 5 kids!) I realized there were whole realms of life I was missing in my pursuit of knowledge.
Part of my journey has been to radically slow down and pay attention to these other forms of consciousness - somatic exercises that ask for hours of my time without thinking (grounding, meditation, mindfulness, emotional awareness).
We are currently in the ‘reign of quantity’ - which reduces everything to it’s measured equivalent. Much like reducing love down to a set of behaviors. Maybe we are meant to be more and experience life in the simplicity of our creature senses. Not simply scale our data accumulation.
Would love to talk further if that helps…
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Sent you a DM via Substack. Excited to connect.
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Hey Annette - sent you a DM via Substack. Excited to connect.
M