I think I caught a Clawd Fever
Last week I went all-in building with my Clawdbot / OpenClaw. This morning, I was burnt out, and questioning everything. Here's what happened — and what I learned.
It started innocently. I set up Clawdbot with a workspace, connected it to WhatsApp, and was blown away by how much power that unlocked. Simple use cases first — reminders, news digests, the usual.
Then things escalated. I started vibe coding. Gave it developer access to my personal repo project, hooked it up to the cloud to deploy and debug. Suddenly I wasn't just playing around — I was building real things, fast.
Every spare moment — and I mean every — went into building. Waiting in line? Building. Lunch break? Building. The excitement was intoxicating.
Then came the guilt. Any minute not spent building felt wasted. I used to do 10K runs every morning. I stopped. Building felt more important.
Late nights. Early mornings. Days blurred together. Tokens ran out on Claude? I switched to Kimi. Maxed that out? Minimax. I just couldn't stop.
Scrolling X made it worse. So much happening, so many people shipping. FOMO hit hard. The anxiety crept in. By the end of the week, I caught an actual cold. My body said what my mind wouldn't: slow down.
But here's the thing — getting sick gave me something I hadn't allowed myself all week: time to stop and think.
I asked myself: what's the purpose of all this? The answer was clear — to become better and to build things that help others. Not to burn out chasing every shiny tool.
So I'm setting boundaries now:
- Define when to work and when to rest.
- Accept I can't keep up with everything.
- Be purposeful and mindful, not reactive and frantic.
This feels like an adaptation phase. Something genuinely exciting and enabling landed in our hands, and it's natural to go overboard at first.
But sustainable and mindful > intense.
