Either these guys have been talking, or they just independently arrived at the same architecture! He describes a local-first, folder-based "Room", with a routing table as the first entry point... This is awesome validation that this is the way forward!

Creative reference libraries rot. You save things, you forget them. Your aesthetic lives between your eyes and your past work, and re-explaining it every brief doesn't scale. I run two streams. Trend cards distil external references: one card, one thesis sentence, operative moves. DNA profiles map my own work: every claim cites a real anchor example. Different questions. Don't mash them. Nothing publishes without passing a HALT gate. No card without a thesis I'd defend. No DNA claim without an anchor I can point to. Read the deep-dive: https://www.aris-space.com/documents/tools-and-plugins/lens Taste is a structured artefact, not a vibe. The gate is the discipline. //A<3

Twenty-four days ago I posted about Jake's folder system video. This is what happened next. Same foundation — markdown files, orchestration prompts, clear roles. I just kept building. Fifteen named specialists. Each one with a soul file, guardrails, and a playbook. Duke orchestrates. Cash writes. Trace pulls the data. Hank runs the financials. Clint handles the MCP integrations. Behind each one is either a human counterpart doing the real work alongside them — or a role I can't afford to hire yet. Katie who's been with me for 18 years, now has her own orchestrator running the same system. Twenty-seven client folders. Twelve live MCP integrations. One shared repo. The folder system isn't replacing my agency. It becoming my agency. Jake gave me the unlock. This is how it's going.

Hey everyone, Ever since Jake started featuring our content, I’ve been focused on finding the best way to highlight the outstanding resources our community creates every week. And today @Deacon Wardlow asked A Better Way? ✨ VERSION 1 - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/classroom/c7f102c7?md=59285d6b92ed425cae7f439761e26acf VERSION 2 - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/classroom/c7f102c7?md=e97c96e116694175974ba3baa726b4b6 Yesterday’s first version of David and Jake’s Picks was a solid start, but I quickly realized it still wasn’t easy for you to scan the list and decide at a glance whether a piece was worth your time or relevant to you right now.👀 So I listened, reflected, and went back to the drawing board. Today I’m excited to introduce Version 2. We’ve made meaningful improvements to the format: clearer summaries, better context upfront, quick relevance signals, and a cleaner layout so you can make faster decisions on what to read.📖 This is still a work in progress, and I want it to serve you as well as possible.I’d love your honest feedback👇 on this new version. Does it help you scan and decide more easily? What’s working well? What could be even better? Drop your thoughts below — I read every reply. Thank you for being such an incredible community ❤️ Your input directly shapes how we do this. Let’s keep making it better together. Constructive criticism and insights are always welcomed!

Whatever model you're using right now is good enough. The question isn't capability anymore. It's taste. Capability has been commoditizing for eighteen months. The benchmarks plateaued in the territory where the difference stops mattering for most work. The model is no longer the lever. Watch what the labs are shipping right now and notice the same thing from two directions. Anthropic shipped Claude design. Identity, typography, layout, voice, the editorial spine the whole product runs on. The brand has a point of view and they're letting it carry the surface. OpenAI shipped pets. Floating overlay. /pet command. Custom personality presets. The brand is leaning into character, presence, attachment. Don't read these against each other. Read them together. Both labs are reaching for the same lever at the same time, in different registers. Both are admitting taste is now load-bearing. Two flavors of the same lever Editorial taste fits a power-user surface. Rigorous. Stable. A design system signals reliability. Character taste fits a wider surface. Warm. Present. Pets signal companionship. Neither is "better." They're aimed at different rooms. Picking which room you're in, and refusing to be a generic version of all rooms, is the work. What this means for the rest of us If the labs are now competing on taste, the same thing is happening one layer down. To everyone using them. When AI gives you all the tools, your taste is the differentiator. To some extent. Craft, distribution, relationships still matter. But the lever that just rotated for the labs is rotating for the rest of us too. The model can't tell you what to make. Your judgment about what to do with all of it can. The takeaway The model is good enough now. The next leverage point isn't more capability. It's the judgment to use it well. Taste is the lever. For them. For us. Full breakdown. The good-enough plateau, the two registers of taste, and what it means for makers, all live here: https://aris-space.com/documents/thoughts-and-scribbles/the-taste-transition