I just finished setting up Dior, my AI-powered second brain running on OpenClaw. It lives on my Mac Mini and helps me stay on track with my goals.

What Dior does

  • Tracks my expenses and warns me when I get close to my $300/month food budget
  • Sends me 5 new French words every morning to help me learn for FCIP permanent residency
  • Tracks my YouTube progress toward 100 videos
  • Manages my GitHub and commits code automatically
  • Publishes to this blog whenever I tell it to

How it works

The setup runs 24/7 on my Mac Mini in Kelowna. I can message Dior via Telegram from anywhere and it handles everything — from logging expenses to pushing code to GitHub.

That’s the real shift for me: not just having AI answer questions, but having a system that actually takes action.

What I want personal AI to feel like

This is what personal AI should feel like: an extension of yourself that actually gets things done.

More technical posts coming soon about the OpenClaw setup, fallback model chains, and automation workflows.