I just reached level two on here so it let me post :) As an artist, designer, and strategist I have not been impressed with AI and creative content. Strange riptides have developed around creating friction in the space and the race of the tools seem to be reductive to a race to make the greatest stock photography. UNTIL! I learned about digital typesetting and TYPST. I encourage everyone in this community to research Tex, LaTex, publishing history of the last 40 years. The introduction of a digital typesetting framework in 2023 is now my favorite framework to work in. I have a hard time believing AI will be a differentiator if everyone has access to the tools. The ones I think will succeed will be able to be really good at first mile and last mile strategy. Those human to human touchpoints will be analog. Digital is slippery, we gotta stay sticky. TYPST!

This course set me up with the knowledge. One of my clients is picking up 10 seats of Claude enterprise and I’ll be leading the team on how to get set up correctly for the long term. Cheers. Let’s hope this is just the beginning!

First Monday. First winner. Let's go. @Alexander Paschka topped the 7-day leaderboard with +454 points and earned himself free lifetime VIP access. (Thousands of dollars in value) He was already a paying VIP member, so we upgraded him to Free lifetime access. Free members get upgraded to Premium etc. That's how this works. You show up, you lead, you get taken care of. Now here's the part worth paying attention to. Alexander didn't rack up 454 points by gaming the system. He posted a real Win🏆. One of his clients is buying 10 seats of Claude Enterprise, and Alexander is leading the training. He learned how to do that here. Then he went out and sold it. The community went crazy because that post was useful. People wanted to know how he did it, what he said, how the conversation went. That's engagement you can't fake. You share something real, people respond. And that's the lesson buried in the leaderboard. The thing that got Alexander to #1 is the same thing that works on LinkedIn, on YouTube, on any platform where attention matters. You give people something they can use and they come back for more. The skills that make you valuable in this community make you valuable everywhere else too. I mean its the reason this community exists in the first place. And now you have a place to practice it, if it works here you know it will work every where else. Shoutout to @David Vogel at #2 with +221. David has been showing up in almost every post and every live class adding real, specific, helpful input. Consistent. Week after week. (He earned VIP early on) Keep watching that name. Millenial Cat and Shirsho Guha rounded out the top 4. Respect. The leaderboard resets soon. New week. New race. Whoever is on top next Monday morning gets the same deal. Free lifetime Premium if you're on the free plan. Free lifetime VIP if you're already VIP.

I was sharing our community with our senior developer/director and telling him that what we’re doing here is going to change how we structure things in the company and create better results using Claude Code. I’m currently part of the lead team developing the company’s AI assistant model with multiple structured agents and layered analysis systems designed to support precise sales and marketing execution. I told him that I couldn’t really afford an enterprise-level account for Claude, so I haven’t been able to fully test everything I’ve been learning here as a VIP member. He spoke with the higher-ups and secured a 5-seat plan for me so I can continue applying what I’ve been learning, help the business grow in the future, and train the team using @Jake Van Clief notes...

For those who want to take a deeper dive into my more philosophical writings. Wrote It a bit back. https://open.substack.com/pub/jakevanclief/p/calculating-consciousness?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3bot2i