As a product designer, I see that AI pushes design towards the middle of average. Even Claude Design produces some pretty generic outputs. I realized that what we need in order to make things feel more creative is to introduce more weirdness (https://github.com/sethjenks/weirdness-engine). In order to do that well and produce outputs that are not alienating I had to define the right level of weirdness. I did some research and created a “Weirdness Engine” to produce more interesting software designs. I would love it if you all tried it out and provided critical feedback. Let me know what you make with it.

Most people in property right now won’t say it out loud, but they feel stuck. Not because there aren’t opportunities. Not because the market is impossible. But because they’re hesitating. Watching. Waiting. Overthinking. Meanwhile, others are still moving. still securing deals. still building. The difference isn’t luck it's decision. A made-up mind moves. An action-taker finds a way, regardless of the market. “Action makes more fortunes than caution.” So here’s the real question Are you genuinely moving forward or just preparing to move, what’s one action you know you should be taking right now, but haven’t? Say it plainly

First off I want to thank @Jake Van Clief for sharing his knowledge and information to help benefit the rest of us. I took the ICM document that Jake provided and copied and pasted the lesson text into MD files and added them to a Claude project. I then asked Claude to walk me through building my own folder architecture, and it did it step by step because of all the information that was provided to it by the ICM document. The classroom lessons took time because you genuinely have to think about things and work out ideas and have some back and forth with Claude. Of course, there are times where I didn't understand what needed to be done or what the purpose of something was, and so I'd have to ask Claude. Because Jake provided such detailed information, Claude could give me a good answer and a good explanation as to why, and it started to make sense. The biggest mental switch that had to be flipped for me was realizing that this system is 𝒏𝒐𝒕 being built 𝒔𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏 remember where things go. It's being built so that 𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 remember where things go. Claude will do it all for me because we built out this system together. It's learning where things go. It's learning what to do at each stage of the process. It's learning how I want my deliverables to look. I had to stop and text my wife because I was so excited. It actually made me giddy going through this process. I was literally laughing to my self as I realized the massive unload of busy work that's taking place thanks to this ICP system. I felt so silly, but I didn't care. This was a huge win for me! --=𝐇𝐲𝐩𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞=-- I wanted to share something for others who may be like me and struggle with self doubt and impostor syndrome creeping in whenever you're treading into unfamiliar territory -- Hype man mode! The best way to explain it is to paste the protocol Claude generated: ## Mindset Protocol When Carl says "hype man mode", "I'm in my head", "imposter syndrome", or similar — read carl-receipts.md before responding. Respond with specific evidence from Carl's actual history of wins and actions taken. Not generic encouragement — receipts. Remind Carl that the inner monologue gets answered with evidence, not feelings. That is his own strategy and it works.

This is my first major win applying what @Jake Van Clief ef teaches. Since subscribing to Claude Code on March 19th, I’ve been able to show so much progress that my company has now upgraded me to the Max 5x subscription. Looking forward to pushing the boundaries of what’s possible and continuing to improve our processes! As a Finance Manager responsible for month-end closing, I wanted to see what Claude Code could actually achieve—and it delivered! Even without Azure or backend access to our ERP system (D365 F&O), I didn't let that stop me from being "efficiently lazy." Claude Code showed me how to use the Playwright MCP to control Chrome and handle the heavy lifting for me. The script now automatically downloads the monthly trial balance, populates an Excel template, identifies discrepancies via color-coding, and even takes screenshots to document numbers from various reports. I’m already tackling my next big automation project—a task that is notoriously tedious when done manually. Stay tuned for that post, as well as more month-end automation updates in the near future! I had Claude code describe the workflow: Common Reconciliation — Monthly Close Automation with Claude Code + Playwright MCP Every month-end I run a single slash command (/mec-common) and pass it a month number. Claude then drives the entire reconciliation process end-to-end, touching both a live D365 ERP system and a multi-sheet Excel workbook — no manual steps. The workflow in three phases: Phase 1 — Trial Balance Claude navigates to the D365 Trial Balance page, clears any stale filters, sets the correct date range, triggers a recalculation, and downloads the export. The Excel file is placed in the right folder, and the data is pasted (values only) into the reconciliation workbook's Trial bal D365 sheet. A full workbook recalculation is then forced before anything is read. Phase 2 — Revaluation Check Claude loops through ~50 reconciliation sheets. On each sheet it finds the last row where column C says "Revaluation" (there are two — the second one holds the actual diff) and reads the value in column G. If the diff is outside ±1, the sheet tab is colored red. One sheet (150070) is always flagged red and requires manual review regardless.

Hey Everyone, Just wanted to share a small win for me today. I managed to secure my first sit down with a possible client today. I got talking to our contract manager at work today just general chit chat talking about his role and what it entailed. We got onto how late he has to work and how it was hard on the family so so forth. I said to him what if i could give you that time back through implementing software that did a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to office admin. he laughed and asked how was that I explained lv learned how to use AI to build systems we went back and forth a bit about AI talking about where it might lead and such and I'm not going to lie basically regurgitated Jakes classes stating things like how its now to have a hand carved rifle will set you back a small fortune but way back when you would of been looked down on, I spoke about the part about human desire and how that will always be there. He was completely taken back to him I was now not just a vet and a carpenter I was the future and Iv been asked to come to the office tomorrow to sit down and talk. I know its only a sit down and nothing confirmed but when i first approached them i was basically laughed out the office and given work via what's app but that small amount of knowledge might be the reason my life changes for the better. So thank you @Jake Van Clief .for giving this course away and helping complete beginners like me a fighter chance of a better future.