// life timeline
1985UK government IT (VAX era)
1995Trading-floor support, London
2000Business continuity from Y2K
2022Parkinson's diagnosis
2026First Linux: Omarchy
// 00
The rundown
Lee Shand spent four decades keeping other people's systems running. He started in UK government IT in the VAX era, moved to trading-floor support in London, and from Y2K on ran business continuity and crisis management for a global asset manager in London, New Jersey and then Nashville. About four years ago he was diagnosed with Parkinson's, mostly cognitive: memory, balance and fatigue.
He had never used Linux. Today Omarchy is his only computer, and he says it is the best one he has had for a brain like his: keyboard-driven, no mouse hunting, everything open without fear, and problems fixed by asking an agent instead of digging through settings. His AI, which he calls TARS, builds and maintains an Obsidian vault that holds his notes, reading, efforts and tasks, so he never has to open Obsidian himself.
Lee is shipping, too. He wrote two Omarchy plugins ("Where Was I?" and Omarchy Briefing), runs the Wired Differently Substack with a full guide to switching to Omarchy with cognitive issues, and wrote a book, Not Just Shaking. He co-founded Omarchy for Different Minds with Fred, and he owns the concept.
“For people like me, if I don't have AI anymore, I don't have a life.”Lee Shand · L90
// 01
The ideas man who finally got his hands
Lee calls himself an ideas man who was always bad at implementation. AI fixed that. ↳ jump to L463 He describes Omarchy plus AI as keeping him "blinkered like a horse" on one thing at a time, which beats the apathy that comes with the disease.
“I'm s*** at implementation”Lee Shand · L463
// 02
A vault he never has to open
He tried Obsidian four or five times and gave up. Then he had Claude study a prebuilt vault, study him, and build his system. Readwise pulls articles in, the agent files and links them and writes wiki pages, and he gets daily and weekly updates, a dashboard and ranked efforts. ↳ jump to L78 ↳ jump to L82
“That's where all my cognitive function lives, is within Obsidian.”Lee Shand · L82
// 03
Two AIs, never one
Codex does most of the building. Claude checks Codex's work. Hermes keeps context across models, local ones included. The open problem he named is memory drift: what was true six months ago may not be true now, and a vault never learns that unless told. ↳ jump to L427
“I never trust, um, one—one AI. I always get one to check the other.”Lee Shand · L427
// 04
Why Omarchy works for different minds
"You almost don't have to think to use it." Keyboard-first means fewer decisions, and a broken setting becomes a sentence to an agent. ↳ jump to L154 ↳ jump to L360
“how you almost don't have to think to use it”Lee Shand · L154
// 05
Building for people like him
His plugins came from his own needs: "Where Was I?" reads his notes and tells him where he left off, and Omarchy Briefing explains what each update installed. His Wired Differently site adds First Steps, a symptom log people can take to their doctor. ↳ jump to L255
// their setup
Setup
hardware
Omarchy desktop with a GeForce RTX 4070daily · gaming pc
tools & models
codexclaude-codehermesobsidianreadwisehyprlandcloudflare-pagesgithubcodexclaudelocal-llmagent workflow
Codex builds→Claude checks→Hermes keeps context
// learn from Lee
Learn from Lee
Run your life in Obsidian with an agent beginnerLet an agent build and maintain an Obsidian vault you never have to open yourself.
Never trust one AI: build with one, check with another beginnerLee builds with Codex and has Claude check the work, with Hermes holding context across models.
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L1Fred Nix: Hey.
L2Fred Nix: What's up, Tully?
L3Lee Shand: Hey, dude, bud.
L4Fred Nix: I'm fantastic, man. More importantly, how are you?
L5Lee Shand: I'm doing all right.
L6Fred Nix: That's good to hear. Where are you in the world?
L7Lee Shand: Um, Mount Juliet, Tennessee.
L8Fred Nix: All right, all right. I'm in Atlanta, downtown.
L9Lee Shand: Oh, nice. Yeah, we had an office down there, actually, back in the—well, one of our, um, kind of like wealth management offices for the company I work for.
L10Fred Nix: I got you. Hey, cheers.
L11Lee Shand: Cheers. It's the only thing that keeps me sane.
L12Fred Nix: Fair enough. Me too, man.
L13Lee Shand: So, thanks for giving me your time, bud. I appreciate it. I know you're a busy man.
L14Fred Nix: That's enough. That's enough.
L15Lee Shand: Um, I was going to say one thing. S***, what was it? Hang on.
L16Lee Shand: Um, something like cloud storage, and I know it.
L17Fred Nix: How did you find that, man? Whoa. Holy crap.
L18Fred Nix: You did your research. Oh, man.
L19Fred Nix: My goodness.
L20Lee Shand: Visa, visa, visa, visa, visa, visa.
L21Fred Nix: Wow. You don't mess around, Dily.
L22Lee Shand: Uh, I worked in intelligence for a little bit, so, uh—
L23Fred Nix: Okay. You run some OSINT with me?
L24Lee Shand: Huh?
L25Fred Nix: You run a little bit of OSINT with me?
L26Lee Shand: Yeah, exactly.
L27Fred Nix: That's cool. Wow.
L28Lee Shand: No, I just—I just wondered if you had a website, if you had a YouTube site doing any of your stuff. That was—that was the only reason, to be honest.
L29Fred Nix: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's hilarious. That's hilarious.
L30Fred Nix: What do you do? What do you say you have an office down there?
L31Fred Nix: What do you do? Are you still kicking it with that, or are you done with it?
L32Lee Shand: Nah. So, a little bit of background about me. I won't go like when I was a kid, but, um—
L33Fred Nix: First, first, first, earthquake.
L34Lee Shand: Yeah. Um, actually, I will do a little bit of kid. I started off in IT within the government, and then, um, that was in the day of—we're probably about the same kind of age, I guess, you know, VAXs and stuff like that.
L35Lee Shand: Um, then I moved into like computer support for—for the government, and I used to do a ton of stuff around, um, like all the NATO sites and, um, strike command and fix all the computers in Downing Street and all that kind of stuff. And then, um, got made redundant from there because they privatized that part of the government.
L36Lee Shand: And then I got into real—the real world, and I would—I would—I, uh, got into trade floor support, uh, in London in the stock exchange. And then around about the year 2000, everyone was panicking about the world was going to end, and, um, I can't remember who it was, but someone came up with this term, business continuity, and they said, "Lee, that's—you're going to do that."
L37Lee Shand: And I'm like, "Okay." And then that's how I got into business continuity, and then from there I progressed, um, till I, uh, got working for a company called Alliance Bernstein, um, kind of a wealth management company based in New York.
L38[redacted: money figures and family job, lines 38 to 47]
L48Lee Shand: So I got into that, and then so I worked for them in London for a year, and then I was—I was coming back and forth so much, they said, you know, move to the US. Moved to the US, um, worked in New Jersey, business continuity, crisis management, incident management.
L49Lee Shand: Um, then they moved the headquarters to Nashville because, you know, tax, um, incentives. Moved down here about, ugh, I don't know, 6, 7 years ago.
L50Lee Shand: And then I got diagnosed with Parkinson's about, I want to say, 4, 4 years ago.
L51Lee Shand: I was.
L52Fred Nix: Yeah. Sounds like you were like killing it.
L53Lee Shand: Oh, yeah. Yeah. And I—I don't have any—if you look at me, if you—if you met me outside, you would never know I had the disease.
L54Fred Nix: You're about that tall now.
L55Lee Shand: Yeah. Yeah, all my stuff is cognitive and, um, mental health kind of related, and walking into walls and not—not and balance and stuff like that. So, uh, uh, it's—it's—it's tough.
L56Lee Shand: I—I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. You know, I weigh up sometimes.
L57Lee Shand: Would I have—would I rather have like the movement stuff more, or would I rather have the cognitive? And there's really no—there's no great—sometimes I sit here and I think to myself, you know, I wish I had cancer because—and I know that sounds horrible to someone, but there's a means to an end.
L58Lee Shand: You either die, or you survive it and you get on with your life, right? This is—yeah, this is just, oh, dude, it's—you know, I—I'm—I get up at 1 o'clock in the morning and, uh, so f****** tired these days.
L59Lee Shand: But anyway, so that—that was my background.
L60Fred Nix: Cool.
L61Lee Shand: And—and then—and then so I was out of work, and I took up day trading, um, and taught myself to day trade. And—and it was okay, but without having Parkinson's, right, making those—you can't be emotional when you day trade, right? And—and I'll cry over a blade of grass, right?
L62Lee Shand: I'll—I'll probably have tears when we talk about something in here, not because I'm—not because I want to cry. It's just I just can't help it.
L63Lee Shand: Um, and so I kind of finished with that, and—and I was looking for something to, um, to—to really, um, help my brain focus. Um, and if you look behind me, there's the hobby box.
L64Fred Nix: That's a—that's a—
L65Lee Shand: Yeah, it's paint, it's models, it's—but dude, here's the thing. I spent thousands of dollars on s*** like this, right? And you do it when you have Parkinson's because you always—the fun part is spending the money, right?
L66Lee Shand: Because it gives you that dopamine hit, right? And you always think, right, tomorrow I'm going to build that model.
L67Lee Shand: Tomorrow never comes. And I wasted thousands and thousands and thousands on s*** like this thinking it would be the next best thing.
L68Lee Shand: And it was sitting right in front of me, actually. I had a conversation with one of my friends in England, um, and he said, "Look, you've got to start writing stuff down.
L69Lee Shand: Just write stuff down." And I started writing stuff down in a journal, but, you know, I—Parkinson's, right?
L70Lee Shand: The next shiny thing will come along, and, um, you know, that—you won't continue with that. Then so I'd had it in my head that I've got to write this s*** down.
L71Lee Shand: Then I—then I was looking for ways of, um, uh, feeding back to my neurologist about my symptoms, because I would always forget I'd—I'd go to the neurologist, and I'd have a list of things that happened the last month, and I—I couldn't tell her because I—I'd forget. So then I'd be playing around with AI, right?
L72Lee Shand: You know, what's the weather like? What's the weather going to be tomorrow?
L73Lee Shand: You know, where everyone starts, right? Find me a great recipe for XYZ.
L74Lee Shand: And, um, I—I don't know what it was. I must have asked it a question one day.
L75Lee Shand: It's, "How can I—how can you help me get all this information down?" Long story short, I spent a lot of time looking at, um, um, tools and—and—and applications that could help me, and finally settled on Obsidian.
L76Lee Shand: And I tried that 4 times, 4, 5 times, and I—
L77Fred Nix: I've installed it a bunch of times, and I've installed it.
L78Lee Shand: Well, here's the thing. I—I use it now extensively, but it—but it took AI to—to do that for me. My goal with Obsidian is I never want to be in that application because I can't stand it, but.
L79Fred Nix: You let it work through AI, though. You probably have to connect to it, and it just builds up.
L80Lee Shand: But that's where my life lives. That's where all my memory lives.
L81Fred Nix: That's amazing.
L82Lee Shand: That's where all my cognitive function lives, is within Obsidian. And once I got AI, so what I did, basically, is I got an off-the-shelf Obsidian, which you think is going to be great, but they're never—they're not built for anyone. They're built for the person that built it, really.
L83Fred Nix: Sure, sure.
L84Lee Shand: Um, so I got, um, at the time, I told Claude, "Go look at this in its entirety." And I was only—I was only on the, like, the [redacted] plan or something for Claude, right? So it took a few attempts because I was asking it to go through so much data, right, that it would, you know, just wipe out my tokens.
L85Lee Shand: But in the end, it went through this build of Obsidian. I said, "I want you to understand it, um, everything about it, and then you're going to understand everything about me, and you're going to build me the system that I need to continue to function."
L86Lee Shand: And then that's where it all started. It started with the building a second brain.
L87Lee Shand: It started with the fact that I—I never run out of context anymore in—in any AI, in any, uh, local, um, in any LLM. Um, it started the journey of reaching out to companies to try and get some hardware to—to review.
L88Lee Shand: It started the journey of Substack and writing all of the, um, the, uh, the articles on my Substack, everything. And it's changed my life.
L89[redacted: personal finances]
L90Lee Shand: heads up Claude. I can't remember the guy's name is. For people like me, if I don't have AI anymore, I don't have a life.
L91Lee Shand: And—and God's honest truth, nothing is going to give me what AI and Obsidian gives me in terms of, um, being able to remember and giving me, um, a means to an end, a life. Now I'll have a tear, but that's just because it's emotional.
L92Lee Shand: Um, but—but yeah, that's—so if this ever gets taken away from me, I—I don't know what I'll do. And—and the cost of it is just massive for—for—for people that—that can't afford it.
L93Lee Shand: So that's why I want you to speak to those people. But anyway, I've got so much I want to talk to you about and explain to you about, but give—give me a—give me a bit about you.
L94Lee Shand: That—that's my kind of life in a nutshell as it is at the moment.
L95Fred Nix: Oh, man. I don't know. Dude, dude.
L96Lee Shand: Well, hang on a minute. I've seen your website, which I've fallen in love with and want to get to a stage with at some point, but you're not a boring person. Go ahead.
L97Fred Nix: Um, and I already—I already—look, we're going to—we're going to end on this note. Not—we're not ending now. We may be hours, and that's fine.
L98Fred Nix: I've already thought about what I'm going to ask you to do in the homework, and it's going to—it's going to tie into your Obsidian.
L99Lee Shand: Yeah.
L100Fred Nix: And it's going to—and it's going to be so much fun for you to learn more about yourself. And it's going to use AI. What do you—what do you call—when you talk to your AI, what do you call it?
L101Fred Nix: Like, what's its name?
L102Lee Shand: I—I—I've called it many things. Tars. I've called.
L103Fred Nix: Tars?
L104Lee Shand: Tars. Tars. T-A-R-S.
L105Lee Shand: You know, out of the, um, movie.
L106Fred Nix: Oh, Tars. Yeah, the Tar—yeah, the, uh.
L107Lee Shand: I can't remember the name of the movie. Yeah, but.
L108Fred Nix: Tardus, like a Tardus.
L109Lee Shand: No, no, no, no. T—um, with Matthew McConaughey. What was it called?
L110Lee Shand: Space movie.
L111Fred Nix: Oh, I know what you're talking about. Uh, Infinity or.
L112Lee Shand: Wormholes.
L113Fred Nix: Yeah, the—the one that's, uh, where he goes back and—yeah, I know what you're talking about. Uh, Interstellar.
L114Lee Shand: Interstellar, yeah.
L115Fred Nix: All right. I'm writing a prompt for you to give to your AI, and I'm not going to give it to you to the end because I don't want you to—I want to stay in the conversation. But if you—if I were to give you a prompt and you gave it to your AI, what would that AI's name be?
L116Lee Shand: Tars.
L117Fred Nix: T-A-R-Z?
L118Lee Shand: S. T-A-R-S.
L119Fred Nix: T-R-X.
L120Lee Shand: No, T for Tommy, A for Apple, R for Robert, S for Sugar.
L121Fred Nix: Got it.
L122Lee Shand: Let me turn my mic gain up.
L123Fred Nix: All right, all right.
L124Lee Shand: And before we end, I'd like to show you a bit about my Obsidian and, um, AI interaction. But no, but you keep going. You keep going.
L125Fred Nix: Um, grew up as a storage kid, uh, worked for a company called EMC that was a—that's a big EM—uh, you've probably heard of them. Uh, they're now Dell. Um, did a bunch of startups, uh, some successful, some not.
L126[redacted: personal details, lines 126 to 128]
L129Fred Nix: Um, I'm—you know, knock on the door one day. Who knows?
L130Fred Nix: You know, I—I went a little crazy in my 40s. Um, I'm happily married now.
L131Fred Nix: My wife's at work. Um, I'm really—you know, Omarchy, uh, Omarchy, however you say it, has really, uh, I kind of got bored with AI for a while, as you can tell by my website.
L132Fred Nix: Like, I was making every f****** thing I could think of just because I was so bored with it.
L133Lee Shand: Yeah, yeah.
L134Fred Nix: And Omarchy's really, uh, really given me, like, a purpose and a goal, and, uh, the community is amazing, and.
L135Lee Shand: Yeah.
L136Fred Nix: And I don't know if you've seen, there's some haters out there that.
L137Lee Shand: Oh, yeah. It's fine.
L138Fred Nix: People are, like, vicious to me about, "You're an idiot for using Omarchy." And I just laugh. Like, I don't get angry about much of anything anymore because it's just wasted emotion, so.
L139[redacted: private invited group, lines 139 to 142]
L143Fred Nix: Um, I put—I—I do a bo—you know what a PR is? Like, a—a change your—like, a PR to a GitHub?
L144Lee Shand: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
L145Fred Nix: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I've—you know, I've put a lot of Linux. Like, if you're running Linux, uh, you're running some of my code.
L146Fred Nix: It's all tied in there. Um, and I've got a bunch of, uh, PRs that have been accepted by, uh, Omarchy and DHH and the rest of the crew.
L147Fred Nix: And, um.
L148Lee Shand: Let me just interrupt, and I—and I will interrupt from time to time because.
L149Fred Nix: No, let me too.
L150Lee Shand: If I have a thought, it'll—it'll go.
L151Fred Nix: Try to get it out.
L152Lee Shand: Um, something about just the Omarchy, and I know you're on—on this thing, but—and this is not just for me, but something to feed back is, for people with cognitive issues, Omarchy is fantastic. Just because.
L153Fred Nix: Oh, I know.
L154Lee Shand: Just because—just because the—how it works, how—how you almost don't have to think to use it, right?
L155Lee Shand: It's—it's so intuitive with your fingers.
L156Fred Nix: Yes.
L157Lee Shand: Right? And the fact that you don't have to use a mouse, and you—you can have everything open without the fear of it chewing up resources. You don't have to think about solving problems as you did on a Windows OS, right?
L158Lee Shand: You—you know, I had this horrible little problem, you know, 3 weeks before, you know, and I'm not—I'm not stupid, right? I've worked with IT all my life.
L159Lee Shand: But it was a—it was an issue with, um, with a, um, uh, uh, a Logitech mouse driver, right, that would keep on pulling or putting—yeah, that it would keep on putting, um, in your, uh, Event Viewer, right? It would keep on pinging something.
L160Lee Shand: And it was an issue with—was actually an issue with the Logitech G Hub software, but—but they would never.
L161Fred Nix: You're not in the Logitech G Hub software?
L162Lee Shand: No, G Hub. H-U-B.
L163Fred Nix: Okay. You're actually in G Hub.
L164Lee Shand: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, and—and—and they would never—and they would never fix it, right? And I probably could have fixed it myself, but.
L165Fred Nix: Sure.
L166Lee Shand: But when I get an issue like that in Omarchy, right, it—it—I just—Omarchy even solves it for me. I just tell Codex to go and find the fix, and it fixes it for me.
L167Fred Nix: Are you on Codex or on Claude?
L168Lee Shand: I—I use both, but mainly Codex.
L169Fred Nix: Okay, okay. So the one that I'm going to send you, I need you to run through Claude.
L170Lee Shand: Okay.
L171Fred Nix: Cool, cool. Appreciate that.
L172Lee Shand: So.
L173Fred Nix: I'm going to run—that'll be later because I don't want to—like, I got—I got all the time in the world for you, man. This is f****** great.
L174Lee Shand: So let me—let me just share my screen. Just.
L175Fred Nix: Please do.
L176Lee Shand: Actually, no, let me not do that. Let me—let me go to, um, I—I made some notes, right?
L177Lee Shand: Let me just run through these. We might have already covered some of this off, but I've already gone over the fact that using AI and Obsidian, it—it gives me a place to hold the thread, right?
L178Lee Shand: And—and giving you examples about that, right, is I can stop halfway through something unfamiliar, leave a record of what I've tried or what I've discussed with AI, right, and then I can come back to the whole story because my AI will just, um, log it into Obsidian. Um, so—and that brings me onto the—I mentioned that Vault OS thing I'm working on for, um, people with—it doesn't have to be people with cognitive issues, but it's going to be an iteration of my Obsidian that
L179Lee Shand: basically you hand a person a zip file with everything in it. You will type a command in whatever AI you're using, Claude, Codex, and then it will ask you a bunch of questions and then set up Obsidian the way that you want it set up.
L180Fred Nix: Okay, I got you.
L181Lee Shand: Rather than you having to sit there and—and spend 6 weeks to—to—to—to go through it. So let me just.
L182Fred Nix: Pull it up. That can be an amazing contribution that you can do for—like, you can show leadership in the Parkinson's community by bringing them to Omarchy and having it literally already set up for people for, you know, you could do an—you know, they're doing that Omarchy for kids. Have you seen that?
L183Lee Shand: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've seen that.
L184Fred Nix: Let's—let's you and I do one for people with Parkinson's.
L185Lee Shand: Yeah, that'd be awesome. Um, hang on a minute. Let me share my screen.
L186Lee Shand: I'm going to share everything.
L187Lee Shand: All right.
L188Lee Shand: Okay, so here—here's my Obsidian, right?
L189Lee Shand: Can you see that?
L190Fred Nix: I do.
L191Lee Shand: So everything—I'll just—I—I—I always show people this, but it really means nothing, but.
L192Fred Nix: Wow. That's a lot.
L193Lee Shand: Yeah. That's—that's everything that I've ever thought of, talked about, um, what.
L194Fred Nix: All right, hang on. I want to screenshot that. Smile for me real fast.
L195Fred Nix: All right, that's—that's about us.
L196Lee Shand: Yeah, so you can see you zoom in, right, and it just connects. Everything could—well, you know how Obsidian works, right? Everything connects with.
L197Fred Nix: I've never seen one this detailed, though. That's crazy.
L198Lee Shand: Everything connects with, like, backlinks and—and forward links and all kinds of links, but, uh, if I click here, it's my efforts. It's kind of my projects, right, and that will link off, and then this one's here is—wait, this one's something.
L199Fred Nix: That is sick.
L200Lee Shand: Yeah.
L201Fred Nix: I've seen you a lot of time in this.
L202Lee Shand: Well, I haven't. AI has.
L203Fred Nix: Um, are there different sections? Like, do you have, like, a hobby section about painting and everything you can think of?
L204Lee Shand: Yeah. So, yeah. Well, so, yeah, if we went back to the—if I went back to this graph for you, right, so everything in here is all the movies I've watched, right?
L205Fred Nix: Wow. That's crazy.
L206Lee Shand: Um, everything here is, like, quotes that I like.
L207Fred Nix: Do you keep it backed up, I hope?
L208Lee Shand: Yeah, yeah. It's in—it's—it's in the cloud, yeah.
L209Fred Nix: Well, we're a BC guy, so.
L210Lee Shand: Yeah. Um, everything on my blog, right? Everything, um.
L211Fred Nix: What's your blog?
L212Lee Shand: Well, I mean, I call it my blog, but it's Substack.
L213Fred Nix: Oh, what's your blog? What is it?
L214Lee Shand: Um, Wired. Hang on. Let me, um, if I go back here.
L215Lee Shand: That's it.
L216Fred Nix: Hang on one second so I can find it. Is it in chat?
L217Lee Shand: Can—can you—can you see it on screen?
L218Fred Nix: Yeah, I'm on an OCR fast. I can grab just the—the letters. All right, hang on.
L219Fred Nix: Boom, boom. I didn't even grab it.
L220Fred Nix: Hang on one second. Will you, uh, read me off the?
L221Lee Shand: It's basically shaggyrs6.substack.com. S-A-H-A-G-G-Y-R-S-6.
L222Fred Nix: Shaggy, yep, RS6. R-S-6. Substack.
L223Lee Shand: Yep, dot substack.com.
L224Fred Nix: Uh, I'm surprised.
L225Lee Shand: And you'll even see one in there. I switched from Omarchy—I switched to Omarchy Linux, and it's got my full guide in there, how I did it from someone with cognitive issues.
L226Fred Nix: Right.
L227Lee Shand: Um, there's a PDF attached in there, exactly what I did to—to do the whole switch, to make sure that I brought all my Obsidian over, all my applications over, yada yada.
L228Fred Nix: Right, right.
L229Lee Shand: Anyway, back to, um, back to this. So, um, so within here, right, I'll—I'll even have, like, um, like a dashboard that kind of keeps me on—on focus, right, on everything that I'm. Let me, uh, enlarge this a little bit so you can see it.
L230Lee Shand: I'll even have, like, a dashboard in here so it keeps me on—on target with all the things I'm working on.
L231Fred Nix: Right.
L232Lee Shand: Um, all my efforts ranked, right, all the stuff that I work on the most. I created my own wiki, actually, within here. Every single piece of information that I want, I import it via a tool called Readwise, and then AI will create a—a wiki page for it.
L233Lee Shand: So if—if you wrote an article for—for example, I'd use Readwise to capture that entire article. It imports it into my Obsidian, and then AI will—will put it in the right place for me.
L234Lee Shand: It'll—it will create forward links and backlinks and then make a wiki entry if it thinks that it's wiki, um, worthy.
L235Fred Nix: That's crazy.
L236Lee Shand: All my open—all my open tasks. This is all my inbox stuff.
L237Fred Nix: Oh, wow. Where are you? I made the Obsidian.
L238Lee Shand: Yeah, I made a—I made a cheat sheet for us so I—I wouldn't forget what we would need to talk about.
L239Fred Nix: You're really using it well.
L240Lee Shand: Yeah. And—and—and the way in which I—so I don't—the thing is, I don't want to be in here, right? Because it's just another thing for me to do.
L241Lee Shand: So everything that I do, pretty much, from—with Obsidian, right, is—is done through my AI, and that's why I never lose context, right? I don't ever have to worry about losing this little context thing down here in Codex.
L242Fred Nix: Does it use it as a memory thing so that your AI can reference your?
L243Lee Shand: Yeah, ex—exactly what it's doing.
L244Fred Nix: So AI is great in memory. Writing down things, it's wonderful. Recall is where the difficulty is.
L245Fred Nix: How well does it recall?
L246Lee Shand: It recalls really well. One of the things that I'm finding, right, with all that information in Obsidian now, and I wrote an article on it, it's in my Substack, is what—what I remembered then, right, to be true might not be what I remember now to be true. Do you understand?
L247Lee Shand: So I might remember something and write it down 6 months ago, right? You know, Fred was a wonderful person, right?
L248Fred Nix: Well, that'll change.
L249Lee Shand: But—but that's my point. In another 6 months, I might think you're—you're an asshole, right? But the—that's the gap, right?
L250Lee Shand: Unless I tell it, "Fred's now an asshole," it's never going to know.
L251Fred Nix: Got you.
L252Lee Shand: And that's—that's the gap I'm having right now, and I'm trying to solve for that, how I can make that more automated. But at the end of every day, and at the end of every week, I'll just tell, um, my AI to do a daily update so it updates my day's work with AI, and then at the end of each week, it will do that. So the way I'm using this, right, is I'm—I'm trying to think of something that I've not talked to it about in
L253Lee Shand: a long time. I might say to it, "Hey, um, I have run out of ideas for articles on AI. Um, what have we spoken about in the Vault recently?"
L254Lee Shand: Now, I also did this, right? I created a plugin for Omarchy because I'm always forgetting what I worked on last.
L255Lee Shand: So I created, um, this little thing called, um, "Where Was I?" So if I click this, right, it—it looks at my—it looks at my, um, Obsidian notes, right, and it will—it will—it will tell me where I left off on everything.
L256Fred Nix: Wow.
L257Lee Shand: Right? So I can scroll down here, right, and—and that plugin, very quick. So again, I don't have to open Obsidian.
L258Lee Shand: I don't even have to go into my—my AI tool, right? That tool within Omarchy just tells me, right, where I left off, and then it will—it will populate, um, this was an article I wrote on Hermes, right?
L259Fred Nix: So you're really hard on Omarchy. That's interesting.
L260Lee Shand: Yeah.
L261Fred Nix: Why did you do that? That's cool.
L262Lee Shand: I—I don't know. I just—it felt more Windows familiar, I guess.
L263Fred Nix: I got you. I got you. Now, do you still go back to Windows or have you converted to Google?
L264Lee Shand: No, I don't have Windows anymore. It's all gone.
L265Fred Nix: Oh, that's amazing.
L266Lee Shand: Um, I also created this, right, which—which is, um, I actually put this on the—on the GitHub repo? It's an Omarchy briefing, so it'll—because I'm new to Linux, right? I've never used it before.
L267Lee Shand: It was installed and all this s***. I didn't know what it meant, right?
L268Lee Shand: So, like, the Node stuff and the My stuff. So this now, every time an update is run on Omarchy, right, it tells me what the f*** it's actually installed.
L269Fred Nix: Do you use your stuff on the repo?
L270Lee Shand: No, not—not the other one. I'm still testing that "Where Was I?" This also gives me news from Reddit and Omarchy and a few other sources, X as well.
L271Fred Nix: Oh, I love that. I love to install that Omarchy briefing. That's cool.
L272Lee Shand: Um, and then there was another one I did as well. What was it? Or maybe I didn't.
L273Fred Nix: And if you're—if you're on X, if you're tweeting stuff like that, I'll—I'll retweet it and get you a bigger voice.
L274Lee Shand: Yeah, that—that would—that would be awesome. So yeah, I will do that. That—that would be awesome, and I'd be very, very, very thankful for that.
L275Lee Shand: Um, so that—this is what my AI come back to me, right? It's gone through my Vault and it's found a bunch of s***, right, that we've talked about in the past.
L276Fred Nix: That's too small for me to read, but I get the idea.
L277Lee Shand: Um, hang on, hang on, hang on.
L278Fred Nix: There you go.
L279Fred Nix: Didn't understand my Linux. Oh, that's cool.
L280Fred Nix: Yeah, so you got the history of how you got where you are.
L281Lee Shand: Yeah.
L282Fred Nix: That's really nice. Wow.
L283Fred Nix: That's cool. I love that you didn't know Linux before.
L284Fred Nix: I've been—I've been on Linux for decades, but it was always server headless. I never used a desktop.
L285Lee Shand: Um, yeah, no, I—I'd never used Linux before in my life.
L286Fred Nix: That's great. That's awesome.
L287Lee Shand: Um, so yeah, that's how I keep all context. I'm just going through my notes here. I don't mind you reading these at all.
L288Lee Shand: Um, what did I say? I've told you all about that.
L289Lee Shand: The Vault OS, I've told you about that. Um, I've showed you my example.
L290Lee Shand: I've showed you—oh, I also created a, um, I also created a website for Parkinson's people as well. I don't know if you're interested in seeing that.
L291Fred Nix: Yeah, yeah.
L292Lee Shand: So this is—this is my website website. This is my dev website.
L293Fred Nix: Can you drop that URL in the chat?
L294Lee Shand: To what?
L295Fred Nix: Okay, so grab that URL.
L296Lee Shand: To this webs—oh, sorry, to this website, you mean? Yeah, hang on.
L297Fred Nix: Yeah, there's a chat box inside of this talk. Just drop it in there so I can pull it up because it's really small.
L298Fred Nix: There it is. Wired differently.
L299Fred Nix: Okay. Wow, you even got your own web.
L300Fred Nix: That's cool. You got your own useful system for brain that thinks differently.
L301Lee Shand: Yeah, that one. Click on that.
L302Fred Nix: Follow on Substack or?
L303Lee Shand: Oh, no, no, no, no. Wait, sorry. Um, if you click on Projects.
L304Fred Nix: Yep.
L305Lee Shand: And then scroll down to First Steps.
L306Fred Nix: Uh, I got Omarchy briefings. I got Waveshare. Oh, there it is.
L307Fred Nix: First Steps. Yep, yep.
L308Lee Shand: So this was a—this was a web app I'd—I'd—I'd started designing. It still needs a little bit more work, but it's about either people—people with cognitive issues or Parkinson's or people that think they might have Parkinson's a way for them to, um, plug their symptoms in, right, and be able to take that information to their primary kind of carer to start discussing next steps. And that's basically why I called it.
L309Fred Nix: Where do you host Wired differently?
L310Lee Shand: Um, Cloudflare.
L311Fred Nix: My man. Do you use Wrangler?
L312Lee Shand: What's that?
L313Fred Nix: Okay, good. Do you—where do you—okay. So there is a CLI script that is produced and maintained by Cloudflare called Wrangler.
L314Fred Nix: And all you have to do is tell your AI to install Cloudflare Wrangler.
L315Lee Shand: What does it do?
L316Fred Nix: It—it is a program that goes through the Cloudflare API, and all you have to do is tell Codex, like, "I want you to put this website at this address," and it handles all of the DNS entries, the—the Cloudflare pages, everything. You don't have to do s***.
L317Lee Shand: Yeah. It—it might be using that already because everything I do for that website, I do, um, just within Codex here. I just tell it to do it.
L318Fred Nix: Okay, okay.
L319Lee Shand: And it updates everything for me in here.
L320Fred Nix: That's it. Then it's—then it's using Wrangler. You're just behind the scenes.
L321Lee Shand: Yeah, let's see. Do you use Wrangler?
L322Lee Shand: See what she says.
L323Fred Nix: Now, are you—do you have the connector to Cloudflare connected to Codex? It might be doing that.
L324Lee Shand: Yeah, yeah, I do—I do have that.
L325Fred Nix: Same thing. Same thing.
L326Lee Shand: And then it's using something called, I think, Astra. Oh, there you go. So it pushes a commit to GitHub, then Cloud.
L327Fred Nix: Cloudflare pages hosted. Yep, that's it. Wrangler Cloudflare command-like tool?
L328Fred Nix: It's so small. Okay, but you know what?
L329Fred Nix: Don't change the thing you're doing if it's working for you. It looks like you're using the connector to Cloudflare, which is effectively doing the same thing.
L330Fred Nix: It's just an MCP doing all of the work for you.
L331Lee Shand: Yeah, that's—that's amazing.
L332Fred Nix: That's amazing. Wow.
L333Lee Shand: Um.
L334Fred Nix: I—I think that you're flourishing, Lee.
L335Lee Shand: Yeah. Do you know, my only issue is if it all gets taken away. That's—that's my issue, and that's why I wanted a—well, that's why I wanted a bigger reach.
L336Lee Shand: That's why I wanted to talk to, um, that's why I wanted to talk to people like you, right, just to—I—I guess, you know, I'm—I'm not here to make a million dollars, right? That's not the point of this conversation, right?
L337Lee Shand: I am.
L338Fred Nix: You're not worried about it.
L339Lee Shand: Yeah, I am. But I am, at some point, wanting to try and make some money out of this, right? You know, I'd love to get AMD to send me some of their, um, you know, their AI boxes or Nvidia to send me some of their—just to review, right?
L340Lee Shand: I know they're not going to give me these things, but when you get that review material, you—people start listening to you then, right, or talking about you. Um, and that's—so that's where I want—I want to go with this, is I want to do as much as possible for the—and the number one thing on my mind is, "Make me forget I have this disease."
L341Lee Shand: The number two thing on my mind is, "Help people that have diseases like mine." And the third—and the third, right, this comes third, funnily enough, is try and make a little bit of money out of it.
L342Fred Nix: Yeah, that's irony. That's really cool. Wow.
L343Fred Nix: I mean, like I told you before, man, I've—I've had—you can't tell. You're doing well, man.
L344Lee Shand: You'll notice as I've gone through this conversation that my voice is starting to get a little bit croaky, and I've—I'll start to stutter, and that's just because I've got—there's nothing left in the tank now.
L345Fred Nix: Yeah, you're—you're getting old.
L346Lee Shand: Yeah, it's exactly what it is. And that's how I refer to it in all my posts, actually, from a technical perspective, is that, you know, my GPU just—yeah, it's just gone, and—and—and—and stuff like that starts happening. I wasn't like that at the beginning of this conversation.
L347Lee Shand: And it's funny, my family, who still don't completely understand—in fact, I wrote a book that's called, um, "Not Just Shaking." It's on Amazon to help my family, but they don't get the—you know, they're saying to me, "You could get just, like, a simple job."
L348Lee Shand: I'm like, "There's no way." You know, I'd last two seconds stocking shelves in a grocery store.
L349Lee Shand: You know, I—I—I get confused by something in that kind of environment. Yet I can sit here and I can build stuff like this and talk to people like you all day long, right?
L350Lee Shand: But I'll go to the post office and try and fill a form out, right, and I'll be like a shaking wreck.
L351Fred Nix: Right. Oh, man, that's rough. So rough.
L352Lee Shand: So that's what I'm about.
L353Fred Nix: That's really nice, man. That's really cool. Um, you ought to come and tell your story tomorrow at 3 o'clock on the Omarchy space that I run.
L354Lee Shand: Yeah, I could. Yeah, I—I could do. Yeah.
L355Fred Nix: Yeah, if you—if you'll join us.
L356Lee Shand: Yep.
L357Fred Nix: Uh, I'm one of the co-hosts, and I'll make sure I make you a speaker. And I'd like you to, um, like, build—build your talk track and, like, you know, build out exactly what you want to say about how you want to help people and all that stuff, and, um, tie it into Omarchy.
L358Lee Shand: Yep.
L359Fred Nix: Like, if you just say, "Here's my story," and I'm just being honest with you. If you just say, "Here's my story," people won't listen. But if you say, "My story, and here's how Omarchy helps me," that's the key.
L360Lee Shand: Yeah, I mean, listen, the way that I've been, um, significantly more productive has been when I installed Omarchy, just because of the.
L361Fred Nix: That's it. That's it. Story until tomorrow.
L362Lee Shand: Just—just because of the ease. It's the agentic approach to it, right? It's just, I live off of AI.
L363Lee Shand: That is my life, as you can see, right? And Windows couldn't give me that like this gives me that.
L364Fred Nix: That's amazing. So when—when that's what I would like for you to do tomorrow, is talk about how Omarchy, like, makes your life better. That's the topic.
L365Lee Shand: Yeah, sure. I can do that.
L366Fred Nix: All right, I'll put you up for sure.
L367Lee Shand: Yep, I can do that.
L368Fred Nix: If you—it's at 3:00, 3 o'clock Eastern tomorrow.
L369Lee Shand: Yeah, that—that—that works for me because at 3 o'clock—at 3 o'clock Central, I'm dead.
L370Fred Nix: Okay.
L371Lee Shand: I run out of juice by that time.
L372Fred Nix: I hear you. I hear you. Yeah.
L373Fred Nix: Oh. I helped a guy.
L374Fred Nix: So I—I on the—on the side, I kind of—well, it might be my full-time job now that I got fired. Um, I helped a guy since 9 o'clock this morning to basically start from zero and install Claude code and help get it all configured.
L375Fred Nix: Do you know Tailscale?
L376Lee Shand: Tailscale. Hang on, that rings a bell. It's, um.
L377Fred Nix: So if you don't use it, you need to be. Um, it's a free VPN that affects. So do you know what a Layer 3 switch is?
L378Fred Nix: Like, okay, do you know what a Netflix? Do you know what an unmanaged, dumb Netflix switch is, where you plug s*** in and it can talk to each other?
L379Lee Shand: Yep, yep.
L380Fred Nix: That's it. So Tailscale is free up to 100 devices, and I'm guessing you don't have 100 computers.
L381Lee Shand: No.
L382Fred Nix: No. Okay. So all Tailscale does is, no matter where a device is in the whole world, it virtually plugs them into the same network switch so that they can all talk to each other, no matter what firewall they're behind, no matter where they are on the internet.
L383Lee Shand: Right.
L384Fred Nix: Tailscale is—I'm telling you, take a look at it and install it to Omarchy. It's built into Omarchy. It's that good.
L385Fred Nix: So if you just do a launcher and—and do Tailscale, it's up there. It's—it's so good.
L386Lee Shand: But give me a—give me context about how you would use it.
L387Fred Nix: All right. So like I have Linux boxes and servers, uh, that are hosted up on the cloud, or like AWS, or like my iPhone, or my—every—every device that I have, it has a free client for it. So if I go take my laptop to Starbucks and my server's in the cloud and I have a home machine here, all of them can talk to each other just like they're on the same network with—with no complexity whatsoever.
L388Lee Shand: So could I talk to my—because I have a Windows laptop here, right? Could I—could I talk to my Linux PC from—from a Windows laptop?
L389Fred Nix: Absolutely. And if you took one of them to China, it still talks to each other. It doesn't matter where they are as long as they're connected to Tailscale.
L390Lee Shand: And turned on, obviously.
L391Fred Nix: Yeah, and turned on. So think of it as like, um, like you take your laptop to Starbucks, you're—you got a machine up on AWS, you got your thing at home, all of them can talk to all of them, no matter if they're behind firewall. It doesn't matter.
L392Fred Nix: It just makes it like they're all on the same LAN. And it's free.
L393Fred Nix: And it's amazing. So like I have inference servers and GPUs that I keep in a data center.
L394Fred Nix: I have Tailscale on them. And so no matter where I go, I can—all of my machines, no matter where they are, can use all my resources.
L395Lee Shand: How—how—if you don't mind me asking, how do you—because that's the—do you pay for those things that you have hosted? Or have you installed them somewhere?
L396Fred Nix: Yeah, and some of it was, uh, work-related that I had. And so I just have access to it all. Um, I did two jobs ago, I had access to like 1,000 GPUs and stuff like it.
L397Fred Nix: Yeah. Um, I'm—I'm trying to become more of a local LLM guy, but it's just kind of—and it's just not there yet.
L398Lee Shand: Yeah, and that's why, you know, you can't—as much as people tell you you can do it, I mean, I have a—a GeForce 4070 card, right? But as much as people tell you it can be as good as, you know, Codex or Claude, it really can't. It's not there.
L399Fred Nix: If you've ever tasted—my knees hurt, so I got to stand up.
L400Lee Shand: Yeah, yeah, that's cool.
L401Fred Nix: Um, if you've ever tasted a frontier like Claude or Codex, you can't go to local. It won't do it for you.
L402Lee Shand: Yeah.
L403Fred Nix: Yeah.
L404Lee Shand: Yeah.
L405Fred Nix: It's just not the same. But, you know, um, 0x, the guy that, uh, DHH just hired to—to work on it, like, the Omarchy team has got a guy that's, like, really f****** smart that—that's what he does is local. And his—his, uh, challenge that DHH gave him is that by this time next year, that 50% of your prompts stay local.
L406Fred Nix: So imagine if you still have—and so, like, we're not anywhere close to getting rid of Claude or getting rid of Codex. But imagine if you still had that subscription, and maybe you could either cut it in half because your local's taking care of half your prompts, or you can just do that much more because you still have your subscription.
L407Fred Nix: And so then there's—I've wrote some software that's an LLM router. So like if you go to Claude and you give it a big task, it breaks it down into like eight subtasks.
L408Lee Shand: And then kind of.
L409Fred Nix: And then it says, "These are the hard ones they have to go to Codex. These bottom five I can do locally for free."
L410Lee Shand: But like open router.
L411Fred Nix: Yes. Yes. Yes.
L412Lee Shand: Okay.
L413Fred Nix: But we'll get there. And I think within five years, like, it's not too—too much longer, maybe three years, before you'll probably buy like a [redacted] machine at home, or like a pretty big server, and it'll just all stay at home. Like, it'll be the smartest thing you've ever used, and it'll all be private and local.
L414Lee Shand: Yeah, that'd be awesome.
L415Fred Nix: It's coming. It's definitely coming.
L416Lee Shand: Yeah, that'd be awesome.
L417Fred Nix: The—the open weights models are getting better by the week, but they're, you know, like we just said, like, if you've ever—like, you can set—if nobody's ever seen AI before, you can point them to like a Quinn or something local, and they'll be pretty impressed. But as soon as they get a chance to, like, use ChatGPT and then you put them back on local, it's terrible.
L418Lee Shand: Oh, yeah. For sure.
L419Fred Nix: It's just what you expect.
L420Lee Shand: Yeah. I mean, you know, I've done stuff, just simple stuff, comparing Codex and Claude to a—to a Quinn or a—or a Gemma. Or even like a DeepSeek, right?
L421Lee Shand: And there's—there's just no comparison. They can't—they can't do the same thing.
L422Fred Nix: Yeah, so I've got Kimi too, and Kimi does all right.
L423Lee Shand: Yeah, I've never—have I tried Kimi? Maybe I have tried Kimi. Can't remember.
L424Fred Nix: It's kind of—I mean, there's—in my—in my flavor, and I'm not even a—I'm not even a big fan of Fable. I think Opus 5.5 is, like, the best thing that's ever been made.
L425Lee Shand: Barely. Well, I use Claude to—I was 100% Claude, and now I'm 100% Codex, but what I keep Claude around for is to check the work that Codex does.
L426Fred Nix: I gotcha.
L427Lee Shand: Because I never—I never trust, um, one—one AI. I always get one to check the other.
L428Fred Nix: Yeah, and that's the cool thing about Omarchy that you can't do on Windows, is that you can be inside a Codex and just say, "Hey, get Grok to go check this out for me."
L429Lee Shand: Well, I use Hermes.
L430Fred Nix: Oh, my man. I don't know, man. I guess Hermes for me, I just—I don't need something that's always on.
L431Fred Nix: I don't—it's just for what I do, like, I want to—I don't know. Um, Hermes, I—I like to see what it can do and all that, but it—I don't know.
L432Fred Nix: I've tried to use—you know those things where you try to use them and you try to use them and it just doesn't stick? Hermes doesn't stick for me.
L433Lee Shand: Well, the thing—I think the difference in the way we probably use it, right, is I use it because, you know, I'll very commonly forget what I want to tell the other. So if I've got an important piece of work that I'm doing that I know that's going to run between the two of—two of them, AI and Codex, I'll use Hermes because it keeps—it keeps that context across every single model.
L434Fred Nix: Right.
L435Lee Shand: Right? And then I could even—I can even bring—I can even bring my local LLMs into it as well, right? And it'll—it'll still keep the same kind of context.
L436Fred Nix: I got you. That makes sense.
L437Lee Shand: And I'm all about keeping context, right? That's—that's my number one thing that I must do is—is—is never have my AI forget the context.
L438Fred Nix: Yeah, and I've never really thought about the context window and how important it is, but you frame it in a way that I understand how important context windows are.
L439Lee Shand: Yeah. Yeah. That—that was my number one.
L440Lee Shand: Because, you know, if I went back to sharing my screen, I won't, because I've already bored you with it, but.
L441Fred Nix: No, no, I love it.
L442Lee Shand: You'll see all—I have very few project files, folders for my Codex sessions. It's generally all one session, and I—and I'm—I'm really bad at not using chat when I should be using chat, and I'll use Codex as a chat session.
L443Fred Nix: I got you.
L444Lee Shand: And I'm only now realizing there's a bit more power now if you treat chat as chat and Codex doing what Codex is best at.
L445Fred Nix: Yeah, I don't know if you've seen on my posts, I talk about Larry. I've been building a private AI that—that works with me, and it is inside of Claude code. And, uh, like, I can—he's got Wrangler and GH and all the things, you know, and it knows me over time.
L446Lee Shand: Yep.
L447Fred Nix: And, uh, he's, uh—so my Claude has its own private GitHub repo, and it stores all my conversation sessions in the repo. And so it has a rule that if it doesn't—if I ask it for something it doesn't know about it, it uses GH to go out and look through GitHub and uses my private GitHub repo as its memory, kind of like you use it for.
L448Lee Shand: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's smart.
L449Fred Nix: Same idea.
L450Lee Shand: Yeah, I had, you know, a few months ago, I was using, um, Gemini a little bit more. I don't use it at all now. It's poo.
L451Lee Shand: But, um, I was using Gemini, and I—and I always fell short of Gemini not knowing what I was doing, right? Because that didn't have any hooks into Obsidian.
L452Lee Shand: So I built this little thing that would, um, and actually, um, Google shut me down, and then it started working again on its own. But I built this little thing that would, um, upload my daily notes and weekly notes to, um, Google Drive.
L453Lee Shand: Then I—then I created a gem to download that every time that I went into Gemini, and then Gemini knew everything that I was doing in Obsidian as well. And I think Google must have cottoned on to me doing that, and they didn't—they didn't—they didn't like that.
L454Lee Shand: And—and all of a sudden it stopped working. And then about three weeks ago, for—for whatever reason, I logged into Gemini, and it said, "Oh, you've been working on something," and this was very recent, and it must have started working again.
L455Lee Shand: So I don't know what that was about.
L456Fred Nix: Yeah, it's not working well.
L457Lee Shand: Yeah. I didn't think I was doing anything wrong, but I just—they probably didn't like the fact that I was feeding information from—from two other, you know, from Claude and, um, ChatGPT.
L458Fred Nix: What other ideas are you working on?
L459Lee Shand: Um, they just come to me, mate. Like conversations like this, I'll—I'll have a little spark that generates. I speak to not a lot of people, but actually speaking to a woman, she wants some help, much like you give the guy some help with Claude on Tuesday.
L460Lee Shand: And people will just say something to me. And here's the thing, and this—I wrote a note down for that conversation tomorrow.
L461Lee Shand: I—I was always an ideas man. I've always been an ideas man.
L462Lee Shand: I've always had the greatest ideas, right? And what really pissed me off at work is I'd have ideas, right, that people would shoot down in meetings, and all of a sudden, six months later, you know what?
L463Lee Shand: My boss came up with that f****** same idea, and it was the best thing since sliced bread. And the reason is, is because I'm s*** at implementation, right?
L464Lee Shand: Now I'm not s*** with implementation because I have AI. So I'll have that thought straight away, and, um, bang.
L465Lee Shand: You still there?
L466Fred Nix: What AI does for us is it takes the typical barriers down so that if you have an idea, you can implement it.
L467Lee Shand: Yeah, and for me, it's not even so much the technical barriers. I know what I'm doing technically. I just won't do it because, you know, I have no empathy or apathy.
L468Lee Shand: I just can't be bothered, right? Unless I'm being blinkered like a horse to focus on that one particular thing, I will never do it.
L469Lee Shand: And that's why Omarchy, um, and—and AI working together is—is so important to me.
L470Fred Nix: That's amazing. Well, let's, um, you know, whenever you tweet something out or—or something that's important that you want me to retweet it, just hit me with a DM and I'll pop it over. I mean, I don't have the hugest channel, but, you know, I'll do what I can.
L471Lee Shand: Yeah, I appreciate that, bud. I appreciate that. And I really appreciate today's conversation, honestly.
L472Fred Nix: Well, when can we schedule the next one?
L473Lee Shand: Um.
L474Fred Nix: Like, when do you say, like, how about Wednesday after your Tuesday session? I mean, if you want to. I would love to talk to you another time.
L475Lee Shand: Yeah, let's do Wednesday, as long as it's, um, as long as it's before 3:00 my time.
L476Fred Nix: You bet. I'll shoot you an invite. Um, and—and I really, really want you to join the spaces tomorrow, and I want you to talk about how Omarchy—how important Omarchy is to you.
L477Fred Nix: And, like, I'll just let you talk as long as you want. Is it okay tomorrow, when we're on there, that I mention that we had this conversation?
L478Lee Shand: Yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah, there's no secrets with me.
L479Fred Nix: Okay. Is it okay after we're done, and I'm not going to share anything personal about you, but is it okay if I go on there and say, "Hey, you had a great conversation. I appreciate it"?
L480Lee Shand: Yeah.
L481Fred Nix: Okay, good.
L482Lee Shand: Yeah, no, you can tell people what you want. There's no secrets with me. I'm—I overshare, which is.
L483Fred Nix: So is it okay? I mean, I won't do anything personal, but can I go into a little bit of detail?
L484Lee Shand: Yeah, I mean, I think that's important.
L485Fred Nix: Okay, then that's awesome.
L486Lee Shand: Yeah.
L487Fred Nix: And I respect you, and I inherently know where the line is and what I can say and what I can't say.
L488Lee Shand: Yeah, no, no, you can say anything you want. I think that's important for people to know.
L489Fred Nix: Fantastic. All right. So tomorrow, 3:00 Eastern, and then Wednesday we're doing this again for another hour.
L490Lee Shand: Yeah, and send that prompt across for Claude as well.
L491Fred Nix: Oh, let me do that right now. This is going to blow your mind, bro. So it has to do with a thing called Telos.
L492Lee Shand: Oh, no, yeah, I did that already.
L493Fred Nix: You did? Did it integrate into, uh, did it integrate into your, um, Obsidian?
L494Lee Shand: Yeah, and I sent you, um, I sent you my feedback.
L495Fred Nix: I'm sorry, man. There's, um, I don't.
L496Lee Shand: It's all right.
L497Fred Nix: It's just, there's—I won't forget now because I got a face, but, like, there's 10,000 people and they just all blurt.
L498Lee Shand: Don't worry.
L499Fred Nix: So I'm sorry.
L500Lee Shand: Don't worry.
L501Fred Nix: I apologize.
L502Lee Shand: No worries.
L503Fred Nix: All right, tomorrow, 3:00, and Wednesday in the afternoon.
L504Lee Shand: If I don't show up, text me because memory.
L505Fred Nix: I get it. I get it. And if you don't feel like it, I don't take it personally.
L506Fred Nix: We'll just reschedule.
L507Lee Shand: I appreciate the time.
L508Fred Nix: You're important to me, Lee. You're my friend now, and we're going to—we're going to get to know each other, okay, buddy?
L509Lee Shand: Appreciate it.
L510Fred Nix: Later, brother. You're f****** cool, man.
L511Lee Shand: Take care.
L512Fred Nix: You too, bud.
L513Lee Shand: See ya.