For the past week I’ve been tinkering with a personal assistant that lives on my own Mac, knows my routines, can speak back to me, and quietly builds things while I sleep. Reading Federico Viticci’s piece on OpenClaw felt like peeking into a near future where our digital helpers are not mysterious cloud services but malleable companions we shape and steward.
There’s exhilaration in the power — your assistant can run scripts, touch your files, and automate daily rituals — and there’s tenderness too: this kind of control invites a new kind of responsibility. How do we stay curious without becoming dependent? How do we shape tools so they serve us, not the other way around?
If you’re a teacher of attention or someone who cares about where technology meets soul, OpenClaw is a lovely puzzle: it asks us to bring ancient practices — clarity, boundary, self-study — into conversation with modern affordances. Try it like a practice: start small, notice what changes, and keep asking what the tool reveals about your own habits.
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