These are the same people who a few years ago made blogposts about their elaborate Notion (or Roam "Research") setups, and how it catalyzed them to... *checks notes* create blogposts about their elaborate Notion setups!
These are the same people who a few years ago made blogposts about their elaborate Notion (or Roam "Research") setups, and how it catalyzed them to... *checks notes* create blogposts about their elaborate Notion setups!
Quite literally, the previous post on this blog is from 2024 talking about what a revolution the Rabbit R1 is. We all know how that turned out. This is why I give every new trendy developer tool a few months to see if it’s really a good thing or just hype.
> Generally, I believe R1 has the potential to change the world.
oh man this is fantastic
Maybe that's why these users go crazy over openclaw, they may need or yearn for such a tool. I don't but that doesn't mean there isn't a market for it though.
There isn’t a market. OP wrote that Rabbit R1 post after seeing the release video (according to a comment on this link, their blog post says otherwise) and immediately called it a ”milestone in the evolution of our digital organ”. Their judgement is obviously nonexistent.
Something tells me they never even downloaded OpenClaw before writing this blog post. It’s probably an aspirational vision board type post their life coach told them to write because they kept talking about OepnClaw during their sessions, and the life coach got tired of their BS.
> A milestone in the evolution of our digital organ.
The jokes write themselves. Now you can have both, Openclaw comes preloaded on the R1.
https://www.rabbit.tech/rabbit-r1
Wait, the R1 still exists? Frankly, I had assumed they'd gone under.
Literally came here to make this comment….
No desire to be a hater or ignore the possibility of any tech but…yeah…transformative that was not
Midwits love this kind of stuff. Movie critics heap praise on forgettable movies to get their names and quotes on the movie poster. Robert Scoble made an entire career in tech bloviation hyping the current thing and got invited to the coolest parties. LinkedIn is a word salad conveyor belt of this kind of useless nonsense.
It's a racket never ends.
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These people are always swarming the new shiny gadgets thinking it will finally unfuck their miserable life while not noticing that the chase is why they've been miserable this whole time. What they need is 6 month in a cabin in the middle of nowhere without internet
There seem to be a lot of posts like this as of late. I truly can't decide if the authors actually believe what they've written or if it's some preposition of themselves to be included in the hype cycle of AI FOMO or what. It feels very cringe as I read it. As if to say OpenClaw has somehow been such a pivotal change in their life, so monumental, that it's an epiphany that has changed them forever. Maybe it's just the fact that I've been surrounded by automation for many years and also using it with agents or LLMs for the past couple that I just don't feel like this is a true sentiment of what actually exists. It feels placed, it feels targeted and it feels like a huge lie. I guess you could also call it low effort marketing.
I’m working on a product related to “sensemaking”. And I’m using this abstract, academic term on purpose to highlight the emotional experience, rather than “analysis” or “understanding”.
It is a constant lure products and tools have to create the feeling of sensemaking. People want (pejorative) tools that show visualizations or summaries, without thinking about the particular visual/summary artifact is useful, actionable or accurate!
Fascinating. If you're not aware of Jesse Schell's book on game design, even if your work is unrelated to games, I highly recommend taking a look. Would love to hear more about your work / product.
Not people, that post is from OpenClaw... 100% ;-)
100% a precursor to a follow up post like "I asked OpenClaw to write me a blog post about how it's changing my life and it hit the top of HackerNews"
Oh my god your verbalization of this phenomenon is spot on! I feel validated that someone else feels this way.
Don't forget about Obsidian
Both are great tools though.
They (or their devs) are not at fault that some people honestly believe you can't be as productive or consistent without a "thought garden" or whatever.
Obsidian is local first with basically zero lock-in, and it's heavily community driven. Don't lump it in with Notion.
True, but it does have the cottage industry of influencers selling their vault skeleton and template/plugin packs for unlocking maximum productivity… same as notion. And Evernote, to an extent, before that.
And how to properly use your Day-Runner before that (c1996). Productivity hacks sell because humans want silver bullets.
Yeah, but so does many other good things. Exercise is generally a good thing, so is decent quality food, meditation, philosophy, healthy relationships, etc. Those are things that also have a cottage industry of influencers who are selling their “thing” about how you should do it. The problem there is the influencers and their culture not the food or working out, etc.
It only becomes problematic if the “good” thing also indulges in the hubris of influencers because they view it as good marketing. Like when an egg farm leans in “orange yolk”
Yeah, after getting burnt out on Evernote I just use basic markdown files for my notes. I never bother with anymore features beyond "write to file" or "grep directory for keywords" because I know I'll personally not benefit from them. The act of writing notes is what is useful to me, retrieving the notes are hardly ever useful.
But today, the AI is writing the blogposts for them.
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Don't use quotes to make it seem like someone said something they didn't.
That's quite prevalent here and on Reddit.
Most famously, patio11 makes it a definitive part of his writing style.
I agree it's a terrible use of quotation marks, but it's a widely-used style I've been forced to accept.