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Field notes from the room.
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Dallas AI Club 2.0: Agentic or Degenerate?
Notes from our eleventh gathering — a tutorial on building a Claude-powered trading agent, five real approaches to agentic investing, and the question underneath all of them: do we want speed, or wisdom?
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The Small Room, The Second Nest
Notes from our tenth gathering — three of us at a new venue, an ElevenLabs voice-clone act of care for a spouse's language competition, and AI kept surfacing as an incidental thread inside life-questions that came first.
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From Digging in the Dirt to Meditating in the Eagle's Nest
Notes from our ninth gathering — farmers and potters as analogies for the phase we're in, live-iteration on an AI audit tool, members' ventures in development, and a hard look at the AI capital cycle underneath it all.
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The Eagle and the Sparrow: What the Tools Are Teaching Us
Notes from our eighth gathering — an eagle-and-sparrow parable from a Deep Tech Week trek, tribal knowledge as AI's near-term prize, and the vocabulary of tools and inner lives bleeding into each other.
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Intent Is the Bottleneck. Zombies Are the Overflow.
Notes from our seventh gathering — a live AI-coding demo that summoned actual zombies, Adaptive Intent-Driven Development, the reverse interview, and the rise of artificial wisdom as the deeper risk.
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Dear Butler in the Closet: Please Close My Mental Programs, Thank You!
Notes from our sixth gathering — closing the mental programs that run in the background of attention, the wish for a screenless 'butler in the closet,' and what Butter Tea and Three Robots reveal about the selves we are becoming.
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Temple Beggars in the Age of Abundance: Universal Basic Income vs. Universal Basic Purpose
Notes from our fifth gathering — the drill analogy, Vinod Khosla's Age of Abundance, and the Temple Beggar's Paradox: a warning that abundance without purpose corrodes the institutions that provide it.
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Never Doubt the Power of Organized Idiots
Notes from our fourth gathering — an agentic job-search stack walkthrough, Tristan Harris on Anthropic's trillion-dollar IPO, and the unfashionable idea that showing up together is itself the answer.
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All the Knowledge, None of the Wisdom
Notes from our third gathering — the gap between intelligence and wisdom, Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, and what may be worth protecting as everything else gets automated.
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Drowning Together — Learn to Surf or Seek Higher Ground?
Notes from our second gathering — opportunity paralysis, AI as a glorified intern, and the question of whether to learn to surf the wave or climb to higher ground.
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Our First Meeting: Discussing Death, Nick Milo, and Data Sovereignty
Notes from our first gathering — introductions, four memento mori pauses, Nick Milo on building your own AI OS, and a room that argued well over the future.
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Announcing the Dallas AI Club
Field notes from a weekly gathering of conscious creators in Dallas working with the most accelerating tools in human history.