OpenCLAW (formerly Clawdbot / Moltbot) feels like a glitch in my calendar here: one day it’s a clever demo, and the next afternoon it’s a social and economic actor gremlin-running errands in our browsers, operating our tools, booking meetings, moving files, touching credentials, and quietly turning “software” into something more like a resentful weed-smoking roommate.

The elation precedes both confidence and level-headedness; such is the nature of the human consciousness where we seem to be forever looking for something that will lead us to never-never land. That is the elation and the dread mashed up together like a weird new food trend ($12 avocado toast, anyone?)

General Seminar S07 / E03 is for anyone trying to keep their footing as agents go from novelty to (seemingly)infrastructure — and they do this before policy, standards, and (if any of it still exists?) common sense catch up. If you do strategy: you’re being asked to narrate what this is, what it’s for, and what it means for organizations that don’t yet have governance for it. If you build companies: you’re staring at a new layer of value creation — and a new layer of liability. If you’re just a person with a laptop: you’re about to have “co-workers” that never sleep.

Join me! Two sessions: one on February 18th at 10am PT (UTC-8) and another on February 24th at 10am PT (UTC-8).

We’ll treat the moment we are currently inhabiting like a live science-fiction action spectacular event: not “what do we believe,” but “what do we do when this becomes normal?”

Recent reporting has already flagged the obvious tension: OpenClaw’s viral momentum alongside serious security and privacy risks, especially via extensions/skills and exposed deployments. The confusion around these risks is compounded by the fact that the technology is still in its infancy, and there are no established best practices for securing it. This creates a perfect storm of excitement and anxiety, as organizations rush to adopt the technology without fully understanding the implications.

If you do strategy: you’re being asked to narrate what this is, what it’s for, and what it means for organizations that don’t yet have governance for it. If you build companies: you’re staring at a new layer of value creation — and a new layer of liability. If you’re just a person with a laptop: you’re about to have “co-workers” that never sleep.

In timeless General Seminar fashion, we’ll use signals, stories, and artifact-making to get past the hype — and we’ll produce tangible outputs you can carry back to your work or practice “on Monday”.

Here’s some stuff you can expct to bring back from our little hop into the agentic near future:

A map of the Agentic Wild West: the opportunity surface and the failure surface (security, privacy, authority, accountability).

A set of “agent artifacts” (memos, billboard ads, incident reports, a quick-start guide for an agentic sleep-ez pull-out sofa, an Ebay page for some vintage so-called “software”, onboarding docs, a new-fangled agentic kitchen appliance) that make tomorrow feel real.

A practical lens for answering the two questions everyone keeps asking: “What is it good for?” and “What can it break?”

(Bring your conflicting feelings, anxiety, antagonism, and curiosity. They’re all valid data.)