Posts by Steve Weaver
OpenClaw 7: Skills, Integrations, and What’s Next
p>Seven weeks in. I’ve written about the setup, the soul files, inbox triage, an HVAC purchase, nightly investment research, and a briefing system that started embarrassing and got useful. For this last post, I want to explain the underlying architecture that makes all of this possible — the skills system — and show you where…
Read MoreOpenClaw 6: The Morning Briefing Disaster (And How We Fixed It)
Every morning at 6am, Jax sends me a briefing via iMessage. Weather, news, markets, calendar, fitness summary. The idea: I pick up my phone, scan it, and walk into the day already oriented. No doomscrolling, no piecing together information from five apps. That’s what I wanted. What I got the first week was something considerably…
Read MoreOpenClaw 5: Overnight Investment Research While You Sleep
Two things I am interested in investing in: rental properties and small businesses. Both require the same kind of work — finding deals before other people find them, running numbers quickly, and not letting a good opportunity sit in a browser tab for three days while you decide what to do. The bottleneck has always…
Read MoreOpenClaw 4: Jax and I Team up Against the Furnace
My furnace and AC were original to the house — almost 30 years old. The furnace finally gave up in January, which is the worst possible time and also the most predictable outcome for a nearly three-decade-old HVAC system. I needed replacements fast. My city has one HVAC company that advertises everywhere, and is in…
Read MoreOpenClaw 3: Inbox Zero on Autopilot
My work email through Pinnacle — an Office 365 account — had been quietly accumulating chaos for years. Five hundred unread emails when I started this project. Maybe a thousand. I’d stopped counting. Then, during an Exchange sync that went sideways, the unread count exploded to over 10,000 messages in a few hours. Newsletters, receipts,…
Read MoreOpenClaw 2: Teaching Your AI Agent Who It Is: The Soul Files
There’s a version of AI assistants that’s all surface and no depth. They’re polite, they complete tasks, but there’s nothing underneath. No consistent personality. No sense that they actually know you. Every conversation starts from zero. That’s not what I wanted. I wanted something closer to a real chief of staff — someone who knows…
Read MoreOpenClaw 1: From Zero to Chief of Staff: Setting Up OpenClaw in an Afternoon
I’ve been playing with AI tools for some time now. GPT, Gemini, Claude, local models, you name it. The usual pattern: you open a chat window, type something, get an answer, close the tab, and forget about it by tomorrow. Useful for one-off tasks. Not transformative. Not something that actually works with you over time.…
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