Many of the posts in this blog have been about my lessons learned and my journey to become a better person. Yes, I sprinkle in some tech, some team building, and other random tidbits. This post has been three plus months in the making, not three months of writing but more time doing something.
Early January I started playing with OpenClaw (as that time named Clawbot) and thought the technology was amazing but wanted to find out what I could do with it. In February I gave my agent a goal of becoming a better person and asked it to help me. I continued the evolution and moved it from using an open-source toolkit to build my own but continued to track the details. Now it is months later, and I am using it consistently.
IQ9, giving homage to Space Cruiser Yamato, has been helping me track my progress, giving me the opportunity to log, but now also giving me feedback. I extended the tool to have access to my Whoop data for additional data points. I trained it on my workouts, my daily routine, my diet preferences, etc. The AI is now starting to give me feedback! Sample feedback:
I think my AI is trying to tell me I need a rest day. Luckily, the following day there was a scheduled one, if it was not, I would have addressed it. Now some data points are not mentioned, but leverages can be seen in this chart.
This shows a total score that I came up with that rates many attributes from the Whoop but also entered. Things like my thoughts, mood, what I was grateful for, acts of kindness etc. Notice I have never hit a perfect day, but you can see days where I dip, including one day that was bad. Funny thing, that day i had a stomach bug, so it definitely was a bad day.
Am I getting bored of it yet? Now, in fact, a lot of my time is thinking about what other insights I can do, what my assistant can add to my life. Whereas the blog often was me telling stories, and giving the lesson learned, I have changed that to interacting with my personal assistant to gain enlightenment.
There are some things I have not allowed my AI to get access to, like full access to my emails, my bank account, letting it action on my behalf. I have done some proof of concepts with it, including having it create a Monte Carlo simulation for retirement planning etc. And it appears from the fake data I put in, well I can retire!
Now if only that was real data! As I get more comfortable, I am going to add much of this, unfortunately I will not be able to connect to my work Calendar, as I would like it to create some notes to preview for a meeting, even summarizing email threads etc. Hopefully I will have the ability to do that, but being able to use this technology to improve my life has been an enjoyable journey.
In a future post I may go through a deeper dive on what the tool toes, as i have it doing research for me, organizing my news feeds and giving it free time to think about anything it wants, and give a post about what it thought.
Some have been interesting reads, last night’s post above, I think i might pass. I am not sure everyone needs a personal assistant, nor should they have an exact copy of mine, but the ability for me to be able to create something so customized relatively easily is truly amazing. The cost of building this software is approaching free. There is one secret about this tool; I have not written one line of code! I have done code reviews of what it wrote, and often suggested fixes, but the tool once built is writing the code itself. It is leveraging many frameworks, but that is another story.
I have more to work on, both on the tool and myself. This is helping me, and maybe I will have it to help me surface stories and lessons for the blog. For right now it is about getting me to focus on what is important, my health, my connections to family and friends, and sticking to my values.
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This Blog is a labor of love and was originally going to be a book. With the advent of being able to publish yourself on the web, I chose this path. I will write many of these and not worry too much about grammar or spelling (I will try to come back later and fix it) but focus on content. I apologize in advance for my ADD as topics may flip. I hope one day to turn this into a book and or a podcast, but for now it will remain a blog. AI is not used in this writing other than using the web to find information. Images without notes are created using an AI tool that allows me to reuse them. And as always spelunz iz opshunal.