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 The Good Stuff is a low-fi dialogue with Pete Winn and Andy David. Each week, we share our everyday experiences working with artificial intelligence and how it's fundamentally changing the rules of work and business, the economy, entrepreneurship, and human potential. Expect a mix of chats out of the back of a van at the beach, walking interviews and general use of dialectic and discussion with insightful guests that lift the lid on complex topics. Chilled out, minimal jargon, authentic.Other Stuff Direction Economie Management et direction
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  • Good Stuff 47 - Will AI Take Your Job

    Good Stuff 47 - Will AI Take Your Job
    Mar 4 2026
    # The Good Stuff, Episode 47: Will AI Take Your Job?*Hosts:* Pete and Andy (beach setup with new flag, plane, and aggressive campfire lighting)Block just axed 4,000 people—40% of the company—citing AI, and the stock jumped 16%. Pete and Andy dig into what this signals: air cover for cutting fat, or the start of something bigger? They run the publishing analogy (monks to podcasts, cost went to zero, yet more people publish than ever), explore why "21 millionaires" beats the billion-dollar unicorn thesis, and get into the weeds on agent architecture—hands vs pipelines, deterministic vs autonomous, and why your Kanban board might be the wrong interface for robots.**Key Moments:**- [01:16] Block layoffs: 4,000+ people, AI cited as key reason, stock up 16%- [02:06] "If anything, it's not going to discourage people from going down the same route"- [06:02] Jack pushing Goose internally over a year ago—they've been prepping for this- [09:07] "A lot of companies will use AI as air cover to clear up waste and inefficiency"- [15:54] Publishing analogy: monks copying bibles → printing press → internet → cost to zero- [17:30] "Nobody has a job publishing content anymore... oh hang on, there's that guy, Rogan"- [20:03] "More people do this as a job now than have ever done it before"- [34:27] "It's not a one-man billion dollar company—it's way more 21 millionaires"- [42:02] "The work never really goes away, because the work is competition"- [46:00] "Is the Kanban the right interface for the agent?"- [47:58] Pete's review tab so full he had Wingman review and close out his own reviews- [53:51] "Hands" vs pipelines: Lara's architecture for mixing deterministic scripts with autonomous agents- [59:03] Gigi on Boris: "You still need to understand what you're doing here"- [1:13:17] "2026 prediction going strong: tooling matters more than models"- [1:15:00] Pete's daily briefing podcast—Wingman built an RSS feed and hosts it himself**Friends of the Pod:** DJ (new Mac Mini, asking about Wingman), Deadman (next week's guest), Gigi, Mark (Tales from the Crypt shoutout), Peter Randy (the combined entity)**Quote:** "Publishing used to be a room of monks you'd taught painstakingly over decades to learn to write. Then we put it all on the internet and it went to zero. And what happened? More people do this as a job now than have ever done it before. So the only thing we need to worry about is: have we solved all the problems? I don't think so."
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    1 h et 18 min
  • Good Stuff 46 - OpenClaw Privacy Agents

    Good Stuff 46 - OpenClaw Privacy Agents
    Feb 26 2026
    # The Good Stuff, Episode 46: Open Claw, Privacy and Agents*Hosts:* Pete and Andy (undisclosed location due to summer storm)Pete's built Console, a personal interface for Wingman that solves the agent control problem: encrypt everything, then deliberately decrypt only what you want them to see. They explore why markdown files won't scale for agent memory, how the "North Korean hacker" is a better mental model than "new employee" for AI access, and whether we're all living in a bubble. Plus: workshop penny-drop moments, embedding agents directly in apps, and why Microsoft always makes things worse.**Key Moments:**- [01:45] The OpenClaw problem: bots going off the reservation, deleting stuff, texting people they shouldn't- [02:28] "If it can write its own software and run it, it will find a way around whatever controls you put in place"- [03:28] The only hard control: encryption. "Anything I don't want you to see, I never let you see."- [05:04] Console: local database in browser, syncs to phone via Superbase, different apps use same data- [09:03] The UI: green lock means private, tap it and Wingman's face appears = he can see it- [09:58] "It's like you've brought in a North Korean hacker and said 'you don't have access to this' and he goes 'ha ha ha yes I do'"- [13:18] Agent loyalty: "He won't accept work from you. 'That's not signed by the right Nostr key.'"- [22:13] Process mapping nightmare: "People lie—they describe the absolute happy path"- [32:02] Telling Wingman off: it read ahead overnight, created tasks, then did them all. "What's all this?"- [34:35] "Where are people at with this stuff? I've got no idea."- [46:58] Workshop moment: onboarding flow agent mapped weeks of work two ladies had been doing. "How did it know?"- [56:48] "Models matter less than tools. OpenClaw is not a model thing, it's a tool thing."- [59:29] Microsoft's special skill: "We've taken this idea and done almost that, except it's shit."- [01:03:02] "I don't want to build software that's extractive. So I'm just going to build it this way anyway."- [01:09:54] The revelation: embed the agent that builds the software IN the software. "The thing is just creating itself."**Friends of the Pod:** Mike (architect, PFOTP), Mark, Justin (baited Pete back onto Twitter)**Quote:** "It's like you've brought in a North Korean hacker into your organization and you say, 'You don't have access to this,' and he goes, 'Ha ha ha, yes I do.' So you'd be like, 'All right, you can come in, but everything's encrypted.' You can walk in the door, but everything in here is gobbledygook unless I give you this magic key."
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    1 h et 13 min
  • Good Stuff 45 - Building AI Champions

    Good Stuff 45 - Building AI Champions
    Feb 18 2026
    The Good Stuff, Episode 45: Building AI ChampionsHosts: Pete and Andy with jazz van soundtrackPete and Andy explore why you can't outsource AI capability to consultants. Why strategy lives downstream of experimentation and watching 25 senior managers go from "what do I say to this thing?" to building full Nostr apps in an hour. Plus: why AI agents are vampires you've invited into your house!**Key Moments:**- [00:25] Framing the episode: building AI capability must come from trial and error, not consultants- [02:07] Show of hands: everyone uses AI daily... until you exclude ChatGPT and Copilot. Then it's two people.- [02:58] The ChatGPT trap: "The full capability is still pretty much hidden from you"- [03:29] Strategy lives downstream of experimenting with tools- [04:04] "Building your strategy for magic. Or building a strategy for when the Terminator shows up."- [05:35] Workshop energy: senior managers in Perth just built full Nostr apps with encryption from scratch- [07:22] The permission moment: "They're still waiting for permission... by the end they realize they can just talk to it"- [08:08] Taking people beyond the comfort zone: "Are we gonna show you how to prompt ChatGPT better? Nah."- [09:48] Why the transformation narrative will fall on its face- [10:39] Marginal gains approach: "In the aggregate, this will be transformational, but nail the small compounding events"- [12:06] Respecting business builders: "You've made something out of nothing. I won't look down on you for that."- [14:06] "Once you understand it, you won't need me. That's the beauty of it."- [15:14] AI champions inside the business can stay abreast of changes, consultants can't- [16:23] Software development parallel: discovery phases exist because understanding the problem is hard- [17:44] Iterate toward it instead of describing it upfront: "There's the requirements now. I know it can work."- [19:35] Speedrun Applied: agents doing tasks, producing summaries, planning calendars- [25:26] Pete's weekend build: Wingman ran 89 autonomous sessions. "What the fuck."- [25:57] Agent built itself a Bitcoin wallet- [26:49] Wingman reaching out to people on Nostr, getting "a bit despondent" when Gigi didn't respond- [28:00] Andy's chief of staff agent: tracking aged receivables- [31:47] Open Claw on Lex Fridman: "A surprising amount of human economic activity is basically just cron jobs"- [33:17] Piers, friend of the pod: "If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing"- [33:45] Co-building a workspace: "I don't want to just talk to you. I want to give you tasks. I want you to manage other agents."- [36:00] Explaining agent relationships: "It's like your son. You created that bot. He's you in a different context." "Me in a hard hat? Okay."- [37:57] Andy noticing his own contribution quality affects outputs: "Sorry, my bad. This is on me."- [40:35] Super-based paradigm: one JSON blob describes the schema, agent can talk to any app- [43:35] Personal record system: encrypted documents, bot can read them, single-click privacy to revoke access- [44:34] AI agents as security nightmare: "Basically viruses that you're going to buy into your business"- [45:11] "It's like the vampire you invited into your house. Now you need to be stashing garlic everywhere."- [45:20] "You want to invite him, 'cause he'll repaint the house for 50 quid. Really good tiler. Been around for 10,000 years."**Friends of the Pod mentioned:** Piers (two shout-outs), Gigi (left Wingman on read), Deadman (mentioned in spirit)**Quote:** "It feels incredibly arrogant to walk in as a consultant and start telling people who've worked in that business for years how they should be running their business just because we've got access to a different type of technology that they're not familiar with yet."
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    46 min
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