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18 Jan 2026 The Cognitive Revolution Pioneering PAI: How Daniel Miessler's Personal AI Infrastructure Activates Human Agency & Creativity
“I could use OpenAI inside the car, but I prefer to use Grok inside of the car because the user interface.”
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- 18 Jan 2026
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- The Cognitive Revolution
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…But what about this kind of other? Does, in practice, is your number of third-party SaaS products used trending up or down? Because I feel like mine is still trending up. And I think it sounds like yours is trending down. That's an interesting question. I would say, I would say maybe down, but I'm definitely experimenting with new things all the time. Oh, and the other thing is in my workflow, if I triple tap the back of my phone, it opens OpenAI chat because it's the best of breed. Inside my car, I could talk to Grok and Grok is getting extraordinarily good. And like the conversational flow, the voice, it's just amazing. I could use OpenAI inside the car, but I prefer to use Grok inside of the car because the user interface. I am also sampling all these different tools. I don't see Pi as a conflict as a competitor at all with any of these because Kai is and the Pi project is just unification around self. And what one other thing I would say, it's not so much that Pi is putting you at the center. It's more like it's putting your goals at the center. Right? It understands what you're trying to accomplish and it keeps that locked on for its ability to help you do things. But no, I'm still other than agentic platforms, I'm not really messing with right now because I'm on Claude Code. But in terms of like model capabilities, yeah, specific sort of niche products, I will either use them natively or I will have Kai learn how to use them and then that'll just be part of the ecosystem. Do you have any thoughts for like how folks who are making these products like Task Club Shortwave, obviously tons and tons of others, should think about the world that you're envisioning? Like, I still am wondering if the right way for me, even as I said all this stuff up, right, and get my goals instantiated and build up all the context, should I be like going to that terminal and saying, go triage my inbox and tell me what I need to respond to and have the responses drafted that way? Or should I do it in a product that was really built for email and have that product kind of call into the Nathan Oracle for what context or judgment assistance it needs at any given moment in time?…
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