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Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

Showing you my AI chief of staff (OpenClaw practical guide)

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

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.

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0:00.0

Two days ago, Goldman Sachs' chief economist said that AI investment had added, in his words,

0:06.1

basically zero to US GDP in 2025.

0:09.9

But here's the thing, they're looking at companies across the economy,

0:13.1

but they don't look at people like me.

0:15.3

A small number of us have already deployed what amounts to a five,

0:20.5

maybe a 10-person team working round the clock

0:23.3

on our behalf. I'm not special. I'm just early. The gap between the people who've started

0:29.2

and the people who haven't started is widening every week. Is this going to make me worse at

0:34.5

certain things? Am I going to think less carefully before delegating because the system is so capable?

0:39.6

Am I sharpening my judgment or losing the muscle that that judgment requires?

0:51.0

Welcome to Exponential View, the show where I explore how exponential technologies, in particular

0:57.2

AI, are reshaping our future. And it does feel like that future is coming ever closer and

1:05.0

becoming more like a discussion of the present. Now, each week, I'll share some of my analyses or speak with a guest to make

1:12.7

light of a particular topic. But this week, I want to show you something. What you're seeing

1:17.9

on the screen right now is a piece of software. It is a knowledge dashboard that I use to track

1:24.8

what I need to do each day. It brings together material from my internal systems, from our CRM system, from our research engine, from X, from my email, from other sources.

1:39.7

And it ranks the things that it thinks are important for me. And given my work, a lot of the things

1:46.3

that are important for me are outward facing. They're not necessarily about projects and things

1:50.8

that are happening internally. This is a live knowledge dashboard. The thing about this is

1:58.1

it's live now, right now, and it runs on a Mac Mini in my studio,

2:03.4

just over there. You can't see it. It's in an equipment cabinet. This didn't exist eight days ago.

2:09.2

I haven't written a single line of code of it. It was put together by six AI agents,

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