🎁 $1,000 IN PLATFORM CREDITS 🎁 One winner takes it. 📋 THE CHALLENGE Build a folder that plays one specific person, so someone can practice a hard conversation before the real one. Drop the folder into a Claude project and Claude becomes that person. The user pitches, negotiates, interviews, or delivers the bad news. The persona reacts the way the real person would. This week's deliverable is one simulator folder someone could use tonight to rehearse tomorrow's meeting. 🎯 PICK YOUR PERSONA Pick someone people dread talking to. Pick someone you have sat across from. A few sparks: - 💼 A skeptical Series A investor at a healthcare-focused fund - 👔 A hostile hiring manager for a senior engineering role - 💰 A client trying to talk your rate down - 😐 A defensive employee getting hard performance feedback - 🤝 A possible cofounder testing whether you'll last - 📞 A cold prospect who picked up the phone and wants off it - 🎤 A journalist working on a critical story about your company - 🏠 A landlord who doesn't want to fix the thing - 📋 A grant reviewer with a strong view of what counts as impact The more specific, the better. "A tough boss" could be anyone. "A CFO at a Series B SaaS company who has been burned by two failed marketing hires and now questions every dollar" is one person. 🔥 THE ANGLE THIS WEEK The last five comps were heavy. Cite every line. Check against a rule. Hold a shape. Prove the folder helps. Rebuild against your feedback. This one is lighter to build and just as hard to get right. The Rebuild asked you to take hard feedback and act on it. The Simulator gives people a place to practice that before it counts. A simulator earns its keep by staying in character when it would be easier to break. Three things make a persona hold: 1. It wants something. The investor wants a 10x return and a founder who knows their numbers. The hiring manager wants to fill the seat without a mistake. Write the goal in identity.md. Every reaction comes from it.

@Wesley Jones @Enoch Chung @Arne-Per Heurberg for your helpful advice today during High Tea after-hours.

a16z speedrun is one of the biggest accelerators in the world. We submitted our application a bit back on the recommendation of one of our friends. Our EdubaWare software has been in closed testing for a bit (get ready, next week thousands of you will get access to it and see our changes) We received and Email yesterday saying they want to hear more from us and to send them a video in under three minutes that explains: - Your backgrounds and greatest accomplishments, professional or personal - What makes you exceptional, and why you're the team to win this market - What you're building and what problem it solves - Why this is a big, underserved opportunity - What progress you've made so far  Now fitting all that into one video is challenging, but we did our best. I hope this gives you a view into the other side of my life which is my company Eduba!

Hi everyone! I just wanted to share that my website for my ebook and audiobook is finally live and done! It has been sitting on the back burner for a few months and now I finally set time of to finish it! I am really happy with it and it is created using ICM and Claude code. https://www.thewheelofclarity.com/