When my oldest daughter was five we bought her three piggy banks. One said “Spend,” one said “Give,” one said “Save.” My wife’s best friend was raised with the discipline of saving early and it served her well through life. We thought if we started our daughter with this framework young enough, the habit would stick before she had any reason to question it.
There was a moment a few weeks ago when I was reading about OpenClaw and wondered if this was a moment like when I first learned about Claude Code. It wasn’t. I kept watching to see what I was missing. Here was this open source project with a hundred thousand GitHub stars, people saying it cleared their inbox, booked their flights, fought their insurance company. Yet, all sorts of people were blogging, LinkedIn-ing (is that a thing?), and generally talking about it. I heard it mentioned in NY Times and Verge podcasts.
There was a time in my life when I went to a lot of shows. Not just to see the headliner, the whole night. I would show up early enough to catch whoever was opening, because that was how you found new music. You liked a band, you went to see them, and you walked out having discovered two more. Sometimes I wouldn’t make it to see the headliner because I was satisfied with the show. I remember that happening when I discovered the band Minus the Bear. I was so happy with their performance opening that I just went home afterwords.
I’ve automated my dev workflow with a zsh function that ties together git worktrees + Linear + Claude Code. One command now: parses Linear ticket from branch name → creates worktree → auto-claims ticket via GraphQL → copies dev assets (node_modules, .env, etc) → opens Claude Code and Zed.