Big changes this week, for me and the newsletter.

And AI continues to AI.

Topics:

• Re-Employment

• Newsletter

• MoltBook

Back to Work

I am officially back in the working world.

As of Friday, I’m an SMTS at Salesforce.

There’s a number of reasons for the change, and I’m sure I’ll be unpacking them all slowly over time, but I can sum up the main ideas of the decision.

Basically I realized I was spending way too much time and energy optimizing for money.

I had finally settled on the strategy of landing one big client to create a nice foundation to build on.

A big client comes with a bunch of constraints - timelines, priorities, quality expectations, all traded in exchange for a large payment.

This was starting to sound like a job…

Except a job offers way more benefits.

So why not take a job at a place I enjoyed working, with people I’d be more than happy to work with again, working in a system I already know, making a paycheck that shows up as long as I’m doing quality work, and closes the loop of 24/7 stability searching.

It’s a different perspective from the outside looking in.

But felt like the best option for the time being.

So for the near future, I’ll be engineering full-time again.

There’s still plenty of side-hustling to do, though, so stay tuned.

New Newsletter

So what happens to this newsletter?

I’m not too sure yet.

I’d like to keep it going, but it may take a little different shape.

This is a Saturday edition so that may become the norm, but it may return to Fridays once I’m back in the routine.

It also may be a little shorter or less frequent.

Originally started the 5 bullet format because the business mastermind I was in recommended stealing the idea from Tim Ferriss’s 5 Bullet Friday newsletter.

I liked the idea and just picked up the habit.

Even borrowed the 5 bullet part.

But my 5 bullets tend to be pretty dense.

Once I get going, depending on the topics, I actively have to fight the urge to not have every bullet be 2000 words.

I see a few options to better work into a full-time schedule since my Friday mornings are no longer as flexible.

I could embrace the density with less bullets, or stick with 5 bullets but much lighter content.

I’ll try a few formats out and see what sticks.

Friday? Saturday? 5 bullets? 3 bullets? 1 big bullet?

Expect variations in the future, but in the meantime, let me know what you think!

OpenClaw

I’ve been meaning to get ClawdBot up and running for the last couple weeks now, but still haven’t done it.

In the time that I first saw it online, and mentioned it in this newsletter, ClawdBot became MoltBot and now seems to have settled on OpenClaw.

But it’s been a while since I’ve seen anything go this viral in the tech world.

Every other post on X is about ClawdBot, and so many thumbnails and titles on YouTube trying to jump on the “ClawdBot” trend, with the term reaching over 4 million searches on YouTube alone in the last month.

OpenClaw is really the first fully autonomous AI agent capable of running on your computer and doing whatever you tell it to do, and sticking with that task until it’s complete.

For example, this user set it loose in his computer and the bot setup it’s own account on Twilio so that it could call the user with a voice agent and ask him what to do next:

And now someone or some bot has created MoltBook, a social platform for all the OpenClaw bots to connect with each other socially and share tools.

Interesting, entertaining, slight concerning.

I’ll be anxious to see how this Clawd Saga evolves over the next few weeks.

Another step closer to AGI.

And that’s it for this week. Big changes for me and the newsletter, and AI keeps doing it’s thing.

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