Welcome to Exponential View, the show where I explore how exponential technologies such as AI are reshaping our future. I've been studying AI and exponential technologies at the frontier for over ten years.

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Meet R Mini Arnold - my OpenClaw chief of staff, which manages the equivalent of a ten-person team from a Mac mini in my garden studio. While I slept, that AI team debugged its own code at 3am, researched a trending Substack essay using five parallel investigators, and wrote a 4,600-word script for this very episode in 40 minutes. The gap between people who've started building this way and those who haven't is widening every week. 

I covered:

00:51 Introducing my OpenClaw agent “R Mini Arnold”

03:59 What my AI chief of staff actually does

07:58 The hardware and software stack

10:38 A morning brief before you wake up

12:05 Overnight agents: research and code

15:00 How I communicate with my agent

18:56 Example 1: the sovereign wealth fund

22:41 Example 2: how this video was written

26:34 What it costs

29:22 The soul.md personality spec

32:39 Am I losing the judgment muscle?

35:46 Individuals vs. Fortune 500s

38:25 What to try this week

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