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Claire Vo

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“Yep. So you can find me on X at Clairvaux, similar on LinkedIn. Check out my product, ChatPRD.ai. And of course, smash that like and subscribe button on YouTube slash at how IAIPOD or Spotify, Apple, wherever you like to get your podcast. I would love for you to follow along. We tell such amazing fun stories about how people are using AI. We have a lot of laughs and occasionally Polly will show up uninvited to the podcast.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Great guests that you can make look good. It's finding the right timing. And so I've been really surprised at the complexity of the business. And you know what? I was not surprised at how good you are at it, but I'm glad we're partners because you're very good at it.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Don't know if people give you enough credit. Man, this work is hard. There's a lot. I mean, people think, oh, you know, you show up and you turn on your laptop and you chit chat with somebody fun for an hour and you move on. There is so much that goes into the business of podcasting that I have found so interesting to learn because my entire background has been in very similar to yours in software and startups and technology, which have different revenue models and different business models and different types of work you have to do and learning the business of podcasting has been really, I was surprised at how interesting I have found that. And then, you know, it's a lot of work to get something that looks so effortless on the other side. And so it's not just the prep and the research and the thumbnails and all that. It's, you know, making sure that you find”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, 100%. 100%. I mean, part of why I like OpenClaw, real talk, is I'm not on my laptop all the time And I really kind of hate at this moment one of the things that is a downside is my kids see me all the time on my laptop. And in some ways, I've heard this advice. You know, when you're ever feeling guilty about that, write down all the reasons why you working hard is good for your kids. Like keep a list by your computer of like, it's good for my kids to see what hard work looks like. I can provide for my kids. You know, all those things. Keep that list down to remind yourself of that. But I hate that my kids see me hunched over as 18 inch MacBook Air all the time. I don't want that. And so being able to kind of be unleashed from just your laptop and being able to pop in when they're on the swing to a quick work thing and take care of it and then put it away or have the peace of mind honestly that my agent team is working on things so I don't have to think about it it really lets me come closer to my kids versus kind of being”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They worked with on a day to day basis really sad, but so few of them are at the funeral. And so when I think about how much mental energy I'm going to give to somebody at work or how much I'm going to allow somebody to keep me up at night or how much I'm going to worry about, did I ship this code or get that PR out or respond to that email? I think like literally none of the people in the stack will be at my funeral. Who will? My children, you know, like, and so I use that as a clarifying lens by which I decide what really matters, not what I take seriously or not who I show up with respect to. But like when it's starting to impact me, I think that's a very effective lens to kind of like have everything fall away and really focus on what's important. And like my vibe coding tools will probably not be at my funeral. So I will not give them sleep.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I said this before maybe, but fast beats right is the one that I go to and work. You can probably see I optimize for efficiency. I like to go fast. And so I often think like first out of the gate is a real advantage. And I think if you were to parse Lenny's data, which I know just went live and you were to connect to the MCP and query, what does Clarevau care about? I care about speed. And so I think this moment in particular with AI is such a fun one for me as a builder because my speed ambition is met by the capacity of the tools and it feels very fun. And then the one person that I say a lot, which is, you know, most people you work with will be at funeral. And I say this from like a real place of experience. I've had colleagues who have had family members pass away or they pass away and like so few of the people.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They make some that are just as heavy as a basketball. So they have a very, but they're the same, you know, they're the same size, you know, you can dribble. They're like kind of fun to play with. So this, again, these niche products that solve little things in my life, that's as a product person, those are the ones that I think, how do they do market discovery here? Because they found customer of me and I'm very happy.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so we don't have a very big backyard, but I have kids that want to bounce a basketball all the time in the house 24 hours a day. And they're basically like foam basketballs. They're the same size as a basketball, but their foam. And so you can bounce them inside the house and they don't make any noise. And so they make them for soccer and they make them for basketball. And we have so many of them. And then because I have three boys and this is my life. We have like painter's tape on one of our taller ceilings and my kid just like it's basketball inside the house. But what an innovation, right? What a niche problem to solve. Which is sports oriented kids who don't have enough space to play outside with parents.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is getting better. Actually, I'll add one more favorite product to the list. This is actually at the top of the list, which is there are these things called silent basketballs and silent soccer balls. So as I said, I am living this city mom life.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I'll share with it. It is got some M on it. I don't even know what it's called. I'm willing to. Yeah, we'll find it. But it's very nice, except when you use it to record a podcast and it dies and your camera falls on the”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it likes we have to have high quality footage of my nine-year-old shooting. It's a study. It's like a little handheld steady cam. It's very nice.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know what? It failed us. It failed us. But This little gimbal style tripod. It's not actually super expensive. And we use it to record, I use it to record the podcast that's out of battery right now, but I use it to record the podcast. And we also use it to record the kids' sports games. And there's this product called Hoopalytics where you can upload a video of your kids sports game and they will annotate the shots, the percentage, the passing percentages, how many assists you have. And then my nine-year-old, because we stay on brand here in the Volawless household, my nine-year-old. Takes that data into Claude and makes a gamma presentation for his coach on what they should focus on for that practice. Basketball stack is my favorite kind of product in the family right now. I think it's pretty cool.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That whole, it's a whole bunch of people, and you just don't know how old they are, and then they fall in love in Whistler. And then it's like, he's 70 and she's 19. I wonder if it will work out. And guess what? It is not going to work out.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. Or I say I charge my aura so it can confirm to me I'm not sleeping. It's very obvious to everybody. I'm not sleeping. We're full stack Silicon Valley sleep stack. So we've got the aura, we've got the Apple Watch, and then we have the Eight Sleep, all of which say, Claire, you're not getting enough sleep.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is Terra. I'm actually in a group chat with your sister. I don't know if you know this about terrible reality dating show. So, I have children. I have not watched a movie or a decent television show. In nine years, if somebody wants garbage television, though, this is the show that I'm talking to your sister about, age of attraction is out on Netflix. It's pretty terrible. I will watch the entire thing. I'm trying to think if I've watched anything else that has been really good, but no, I just again, I work like 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. And then the brain. It's completely shut off. We don't put anything challenging up there. I fall asleep in 21 minutes. I can't even make it through an episode.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I was thinking about this, and I want to talk about a category of books that I've started to recommend to people, which is classic children's books. If you are a parent out there, you know there's so much children's book slop out there, graphic novels with like seven words per page. The writing's atrocious. Even in the older years, it doesn't get better. And we've just started pulling off the shelf like treasure island we are reading Alison Wonderland. We're reading some of the Shakespearean comedies. The language is so much more sophisticated in my kids still get it and they still think it's funny. And so I feel like we have dumbed down what we expect of our children, especially in what they consume from a media perspective. And so I'm just going to the classics and we're having a really good time. So I highly recommend pulling some of those classic children.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, it's super fun. Again, if you're not ready for this, totally fine, right? If you're just, I'm not going to be in the terminal, totally fine. Play with Claude Code if that feels, you know, a little bit more accessible to you. Play with, you know, ChatGBT, play with Claude, play with any of these tools that feel accessible to you, but start to think of if I could employ someone in my life that I can't actually afford if I could employ an assistant that just would make my life better, what are the things they would do and can AI in whatever format get you there? That's a lot of the inspiration and what we do at the podcast is we just try to help you open your eyes to like this can help solve a problem for you, whether that problem is highly technical or not at all technical. I just want people to continue exploring because”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and I'm anti hype guy. I was not like this when it first came out. So you can trust me, there are other receipts. I did it live. I'm not just saying this because I think it is the fashionable thing. I am saying this because I spend my entire day with an open call.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of products is going to look like, and I'm having a moment because this thing is not perfect and it's open source and it's a lot to maintain. And imagine in a year when it's not that. Whoever figures that out, I think is going to have something really special or maybe we'll all have something that we all run and lovingly craft at home. And that will be special too. So I will just say for folks, this has been one of those really intense moments where my eyes open. And I think, wow, this is going to change my personal life and my professional life in a way I could not have predicted three years ago. And while I spent a lot of time in AI, I don't have those moments often.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because one Saturday I woke up and I turned to my husband. I said, I'm having a chat GPT moment. Like, I'm having this, which I have not had since chat GPT came out, which is like, oh, like this is going to change everything. Maybe not this specific instance of it. Maybe not the specific repo, although the stars just keep going up and up and up. Like I'm having this moment where my imagination is unlocked another level because of what I could predict and presume this sort of harness, this sort of product, this sort of experience can unlock if you take it as a given that things are going to improve. I'm just, I'm truly having a moment with this. And I'm having that moment because it's so useful, personally useful. I'm having that moment because it's really inspiring me as a AI builder of what the next wave.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'll say what my personal experience was as somebody who has been thinking about AI for quite some time, so compelled by this moment in technology that I quit my fancy fants executive job to sit and marinate in this future of AI.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and I mean, the other thing which is, I think, really interesting is say you're not a manager. Let's say you're in an IC. This is a really interesting way to think about your personal operating system. Like, how do I remember what we did? Should I remember what we did every day? Do I have a list of like who I'm working with and what their preferences are and how they like to communicate? Do I know what tools I have access to? If you just think about your own personal onboarding into an organization, you know, maybe you just need to scaffold out some of the same things that you see here to give yourself a framework. Not that you can do that organically, but the structure often often helps.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To do like an RPG where you're just like go through the paces as a manager, and you can make your agents effective, then you get promoted into human management.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and it's so funny because in an egentic system, that line is so clear. You can actually go into its file system and say, does it have this information? Should it be able to do this job And what you realize is no matter how you have communicated to it or explained to it that, you know, that API, the Yappers API, while effective, is lossy. It's lossy. You tell somebody to do something, they forget it. You tell them to do it two weeks ago. They definitely forget it. And so making that sort of effective communication onboarding so clear, so literal in the file system is very interesting because it is a reflection of how good am I at tasking my team how good are my systems how robust is my documentation because if this you know magical AI system with endless resources and infinite coding abilities can't figure out how which you know which projects are doing well in can't and aren't how am I supposed to figure that out how is somebody I hire supposed to figure that out so it is like almost maybe we need”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Successful, that is what you need to make these agents work. You don't need the technical skills. We can figure that out. You need roll scoping or design like voice. How do we talk to customers? How do we talk to each other? The rest of it's easy to follow. With the rest of it, we can give a cloud code to figure out.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like, this is so frustrating. We've gone through this a million times. Like, I don't know why this is a problem. And I was like, that would not be effective on an employee. It would be a totally ineffective mechanism by which to manage an employee. Why would I think it would be an effective mechanism to manage an agent, which is trained with a bunch of data from humans? And so I do think that, again, just bringing this manager's mindset to how you use these things, how you scope their roles, how you onboard them, how you onboard them technically, how you train them, how you give them more trust. I say bring those skills into it. Again, not because we're going to personify the AI agents, but because I think that is why I have been so successful with these tools is because I have, you know, 20 years plus of management experience. I know how to make an employee.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It all sounds very technical. I really think Read the Docs will save you. It's not that hard once you kind of understand what's happening behind the scenes. So read the docs. Keep your expectations tempered. Narrow the scope of any of your agents. Definitely give your agents nice little avatars and color coding. I think that's really fun. And then the other thing is just I say have a polite and positive relationship with your agents. One of the things that I think we can all get pulled into is when we have frustrating AI experiences, it can bring out the worst of us in some ways. I find myself being like, ah, like I just literally, I just told you this. And I actually found myself the other day like typing and angry message to one of my open claws.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, so the open claw directory is at your root. So basically, when you open up terminal, it's going to drop you into like your home. And in that home is OpenClaw. In that home is all your file system. So be careful. Yeah, I would just open up cloud code there and say open claws at.openclaw. Oh, other magic trick that again people might not know is your open claw files are in a hidden folder in Mac. And so I think you press command shift period when you're in Finder and it'll show you your hidden files and that's how you find open claw.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Your open claws. So open up cloud code, point it at the docs, say, I have open claw installed here And Polly says she can't connect to email. Go fix. And Claude Code, because it's so good at writing code and OpenClause just mostly configuration code, can go in, read the docs, and say, oh, you have this field here named ABC and it's supposed to be XYZ. I've gone ahead and fixed it. Cloud code can also do that like replicate agent work, the brain transplant job where you can say, hey, in OpenClaw, I have this agent poly. I want to fracture off her memory and take all the family related stuff into Finn. Can you do that for me? And CloudCode's pretty good at that. So you can use CloudCode as a surgeon and manager of your OpenCloud.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a little complicated to get things set up in a group chat. Again, I think the team has done a really good job over the last couple weeks of having it closed by default and then progressively opened as you understand more and can kind of, it's like an escape room. Like if you could make your open claw open, then you deserve its powers and can be trusted with its powers. And so, you know, setting up group chats can be a little bit of trial and error. You really have to unlock some settings, giving an access to tools, having it run code, all those things are pretty complicated, but my tip, and it's a little technical, but I promise you it's helpful, is install cloud code or codecs on the same computer you're running your open claw and make clod code the god mode administrator of”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, you do just an audio, you hold the thing down, and then it does, like, I think it does whisper transcription and then reads it, and then it can talk back to you in a very robotical voice if you want.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Typing, you can do that in a voicemote. And so I often tell people when they're onboarding to an open claw, do it on your phone and do it in voicemote. So when that open claw asks you for the first time, who are you? What do you need? Click the voice thing and say, I'm Claire. I run chat PRD. I also have this podcast called How AI. I've got this complicated light. You can just kind of ramble. And it actually makes sense of all that and can get you a really good outcome. It's very high bandwidth.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is a Hillary Gridley special. So she told me this, which is so often when we're building software, you know, we think about APIs and what API can talk to another API or is there a system tool that can do this or is there a no-code WYSIWYG editor that can work? And she told me about this hilarious thing called the Yappers API, which is the highest bandwidth API for an LLM is just chatting to it. It's just saying like I have Gmail and I have these folders that are really disorganized. And what I really want is to be able to come into my inbox every day and really know what's important, get rid of the stuff that's not, tell every recruiter that sends a bad pitch to me to, you know, kick rocks. And can you do that for me? And it's not, is there a Google API for this or what should the label? It's like literally rambling. And you don't even have to do that.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. And in fact, I think Pete and the maintainers have been very clear about this is open source. This is an experiment. This is not for everyone. This is yours to kind of grow and build and own and use. And it's not perfect. And I do feel like that co-creation experience that we talked about at the beginning, you know, just engenders a very positive feeling when interacting with this product that doesn't feel commercialized yet. And in fact, just makes me feel like I can go commercialize a bunch of stuff. So like very empowering experience. Good job, guys.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He doesn't say if you want me to, I can write, you know, I can write Hal an email and make sure that you're prepped for this. He says, this sounds like a fun podcast for you. Like, enjoy it. This sounds like a good one, you know, when I'm talking. I was talking about getting the kids to a doctor's appointment recently. And Finn said something like, hope oldest kid feels better. I was like, I hope it feels better too. That's really nice. And you look at how it's prompted and it's just very human in how its identity has been crafted. And this is not magic. It's not a secret. It's literally in a file. You can go read it. And so, but something about that system prompt is very effective at engagement without growth hacks. And that feels nice for somebody you're employing.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and I'll give this tip to some of the big large language model providers out there and these broad consumer products like ChatGPT like Claude is, I don't know if you've experienced this, you see, for example, working with ChatGPT and every new chat ends with, if you want me to, I can tell you this mystery, like this next step, and you feel like you're being growth hacked into the next step, the next query, or Claude will say, if I were you, the next steps would be bullet point one, two, and three. And it's sort of like this product experience. It's very hardened to get you to engage with the chatbot. And my experience with OpenClaw is its closers are much nicer. Like even if you look at that Howey example.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and behind it is a kind of coating harness named Pi. And so, you know, behind the scenes, it's something very similar to a clawed code. It's something very similar to a codex. It's a command line tool that writes and runs code and talks to you through an LLM. It just has some very interesting components to it that have changed the user experience to be, I think, much more delightful and much more customizable”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The other tip that I would have is figure out a tasking system not for you to the agent, but from the agent to you. So my task for the agent, they just keep this like to-do file with a bunch of checked off items. It's very loose. But sometimes we run into the limitations of the real world and I need to go, I need to fax the doctor's office or I need to walk and do a return. Now it could just remind me in text, but I'm probably going to forget that. And so I have my agent assign me linear tickets for things that I need to do, not that it needs to do. And then that's in my project management system. I have tracker. We all agree on due dates. And so let your agent project manage your tasks as well.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's this gog tool that you will probably install during your OpenClaw install. It gives you kind of API access to Google Workspace. That has been very useful to me because, again, I can just work with it like I would any other employee in.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I really like giving it email access. So I've had a lot of success using the Google Workspace ecosystem to have it communicate with me and communicate with the world. And so I say have an abundance mindset towards the email addresses that you give it access to and again treat it like an employee. Not only does Polly look at my calendar, draft some emails for me, coordinate my schedule, but when I had Howie, for example, my research assistant on the podcast look at our analytics for YouTube, I had to just write a Google Doc and share it to me on its findings. Or I have it every time we have a project document that opens, it goes in and reads it and puts in ideas that he thinks can make the document better. And so I do think.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then it will just give you a one line. It's like SH, your computer name at an IP address. As long as you're on the same Wi-Fi, you can just write into it.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it's just in settings. I think it's called remote login. We can put the link to the help article in the show notes.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So much money. I was right, you know, I'm plugging in things, we're running out of keyboards, I've got three of these. And actually that screen share that I showed where I was setting up another agent was not on this laptop. It was on the MacBinny. And I'm just screen shared into it. You don't need a monitor. You don't need a keyboard. You don't need anything. And then for the more technical folks out there, you can also turn in remote login, which allows you to get into the terminal of your Mac Mini on the same Wi-Fi. So that has been life-changing for me because I had Mac Minis and a monitor on my kitchen table for a really long time.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, I'm going to change your life Go into your Mac Mini settings and turn on screen sharing. So there's this mode called screen sharing mode. And then on your main laptop, if you are on the same Wi-Fi, you can open up screen sharing and literally pull up the screen of your Mac Mini on your laptop.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, there's a couple tips that I don't feel like people think about a lot. One is a Mac Mini does not have a screen. And I don't know how you manage your Mac Mini if it's sitting on a desk and you plug in a monitor.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A memory file with. And what's so funny is again, think about an EA. Like, man, I don't care what your system is as long as I don't forget things. You could have ugly Apple Notes. You could have the most beautiful notion doc in the world. I don't care. It's none of my business. What is my business is that you get the job done right and then I end up looking good. And so I just bring that same, I'm not a micromanager. I am like a high bar manager. I have high expectations for outcomes and do not care how you get it done. So maybe that just translates into how I manage my open clause.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Your open claw efficient. And then the thing that I find it forgets the most that people don't think about enough is what tools it can use and how. And so I've heard a million times I can't read that email address. And I'm like, dude, you can definitely read that email address. And so there is a tools.md that lists all the tools it has access to and how you want it to use the tools. While I don't recommend people edit the soul by hand, it's sometimes really useful to edit the tools document by hand because there's just some nuances in how you might want it to read your calendar or search the web or I use linear as tasking kind of substrate for my agents, how you might not want it to use linear. And so the tools Markdown file is a really useful one.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think less about heartening memory and more about one managing context. So, you know, when I start to start to think, wow, we've been talking about this thing for a long time, doing a check-in and saying make sure to write all this to your memory in case it gets compacted or make sure our to-do list is updated with the latest is a really good use case and there's some hooks that you can call inside of OpenClaw to do that automatically. And I think about it. Maybe again, going back to managing an employee, if you leave a meeting, somebody takes the action items. So if you're leaving a discussion about a topic, make sure to check in and say, do you have all the action items? Are the notes written down in a place that we can work on? Again, it's just like this operational hygiene that goes a long way to making”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, so part of what your open claw can do is access the web. It can do that through a browser, so it can open up Chrome and search and all that stuff. But as we said, the web is a little hostile. Or there are these web search APIs that are now available. Brave is, I think, the one that ships out of the box with OpenClaw. And they're just basically like think of them as like programmatic Googles, which is instead of going to a website and searching in a search bar, you just, it sends an API request and returns search results and websites for you. So Brave is the one that ships with OpenClaw. I use Exa just because I already have an Exa account. You can use Perplexity. Again, it's just a way to give your OpenClaw access to the web when it doesn't have fingers and can't use a browser very well.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But then I tried to have it do the same thing where I wanted to queue up some shorts in Instagram through Buffer, which is a social media platform. And the buffer page was much simpler and it just couldn't figure it out. And so a lot of this is just trial and error. Will it work? Will it not? And if it can't solve a problem, I think where I've come and I would advise people to do is just walk away from expecting it to solve that problem and give it another problem to solve. If you're saying, you know, it can't order DoorDash for me, maybe that's just not a problem for you, but can make meal plan for you? Yeah, or you could say every day at 11 o'clock, I'm tempted to order DoorDash because I don't want to make myself lunch. So at 1030, remind me of a few lunches. Help you solve that.”
2026-03-29 · Lenny's Podcast · From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source