## UPDATE ## Hey All made some updates to the extension, full changelog below but biggest thing is it's now in the Chrome webstore as an unlisted extension! To install for firefox should be a 1 click install below, and for Chrome follow the link to the web store: Firefox: https://github.com/rocleemusic/skool-view-dist/releases/download/v0.3.2/skool-view-0.3.2.xpi Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/skool-view/cffkfollpgckdnelbincojldcmhihfgm?authuser=0&hl=en BONUS: Edge users can install extensions from the Chrome Web Store (just for you @Jake Van Clief ) so you should be able to install it as well, just need to enable it because of permissions (see below). Note on the Chrome extension: It may be disabled by default because of permissions issues so you might need to enable it by going into your extension settings, but after giving it permission it should be good to go. Chrome signing / validation also takes longer so it may be on version 0.3.1 but after it passes review should auto-update to 0.3.2 Also special thanks to @M. M. who forked and added some features that I wrapped in to this release. Things I'm hoping to add: Real links to the posts, currently it caches the data. Search functionality, and export post as .md. ## ORIGINAL POST ## Browsing on Skool can be a bit overwhelming with it's UI (my eyes need a dark theme) and the great volume of stuff on CliefNotes makes jumping in daunting, especially if you're away for more than a day, so I wanted something that made browsing feel effortless and easier to navigate and see things and keep posts around that I wanted to dig into a bit more. So I built a browser extension that gives me a faster, cleaner view over the same Skool feed, posts, and comments.

2002. My first IT job with a big company. Fortune 500 medical device company. Chicago regional office. Boss was in Seattle. First initiative they handed me: evaluate copiers. Meet with Konica, Canon, Xerox the usual vendors. Because I was physically embedded in the office — not a remote help desk — I ended up golfing with the division heads. One of them ran order management. Told me the monthly process: 100-page legal order packets, photocopied, stuffed in FedEx envelopes, overnighted to field sales reps and to the hospitals. $50 an envelope. Six to eight at a time. That's why they needed new high-end copiers. OCR had just come out. Multifunction copiers in 2002 could scan to PDF, which meant no more printing. The finance guy mentioned a nightly Access export of all order data out of Siebel. I got my hands on a demo Canon copier. Built an HTML page in Dreamweaver. Scan the packet, name the file with the order number, it lands on a server. The page joins that to the Access database and links to the PDF. Field reps pull packets via VPN from the HTML page. $1M per office per year. 7 offices. Saved. Two hours of work. I got scolded by the IT Director and CIO back in Seattle — no change management, no approval chain. The people on the ground made me their hero. Trip to Cabo San Lucas. Met my wife. Life changed forever. --- The Seattle help desk had the same technical knowledge I did. They never found this problem because they were waiting for tickets. I found it at the golf course, listening to Jeff complain about FedEx bills. @Jake Van Clief dropped a Substack today: "You need to productionize your opinion, not just your process." The printer story is what that looks like before the productionizing starts. You need someone close enough to the workflow to have an opinion worth productionizing. The AI ROI gap most businesses are hitting right now — it's the same gap. The person deploying the technology isn't in the room with the people who actually know what's broken. They're managing the firewall. Attending vendor calls. Evaluating copiers.

Hello Clief Notes Family! You may have noticed that I have not been posting as much. Some of that has been intentional, I was posting a lot and being number 1 feels good, but seeing others who work so hard to bring knowledge and value to our community shining feels good also! Another big portion of why I have not been posting is that I have been chasing my dream, I have applied to many ambassador programs and I have been ghosted or I have not been the right fit for them. This does not mean I was not the right fit to be an AI ambassador! I wanted to share, that today is different, today I have won, I have been accepted as Generative AI Ambassador in the company I work for! I will be giving workshops, writing articles and sharing my knowledge with my colleagues everyday, I will be Teaching about AI, 2 of my passions in one place! Teaching and AI. I wanted to thank you all for being one of the most supportive, inspiring, and impactful forces in my life. You have all given me the confidence, the energy, and the care I needed to keep pushing for this. We truly learn, grow, and win together 🤓💪🏆 With all of my heart! THANK YOU 🙏

Earlier this week I confessed in here that I'd scoped about $60K of work for a client who paid me under $20K, and that she'd capped it off by sending me a "you didn't deliver" email at 11pm. A bunch of you commented. Some to encourage me. Some of you, I'm pretty sure, just pulled up a chair and grabbed the popcorn. Either way, you wanted to know how it ended. So here's the sequel. Nobody died. I'll lead with that. ------------------------------------ What I walked into ------------------------------------ Monday she blew a gasket. Strongly worded, escalated, the kind of email where you can feel the caps lock breathing through the screen. I did not respond like a calm professional. I spiraled. Half of me concocted a plan to pull up every receipt and go twelve rounds. The other half, the half I'm less proud of, came up with a half-baked plan to just roll over, apologize for stuff that wasn't even mine to apologize for, and turn myself into a doormat so the discomfort would go away. Running on no sleep, nursing a bruised ego, two bad plans and the stress of not having a newborn baby in the house yet... (wife's at 41 weeks, if she hits 42, she's gonna make that baby come out.) ------------------------------------ Then my COO blew up my whole game plan ------------------------------------ The day before the call, I got on with my fractional COO and word-vomited both of my terrible plans at her. She shut them both down. Didn't tell me to fight. Didn't tell me to fold. She handed me an actual plan. First, homework. Go build a point-by-point breakdown of all three agreements. Every deliverable, what's done, what's not, the percentages, and a whole separate column for the work we did that was never even in the scope. That document was her idea, not my heroic late-night brainwave. I didn't have it. She told me to go make it. Then the move. Don't walk in defensive, don't hand her the wheel. Lead with the full picture, so much clarity up front that she can't steer the thing somewhere sideways. She doesn't actually know what a finished marketing blueprint is supposed to look like, so I shouldn't be handing her the power to define "done." Show the whole list first, then talk.

@Jake Van Clief is the reason I was inspired to make this video. The reason I was able to have Claude create the script in my voice. The reason I was able to create an animation from that script with my branding palette. It’s amazing to see every day here what’s being made possible and so much of it is because of the knowledge being shared by everyone. Thank you Jake! https://youtube.com/shorts/9KSaHCcet8c?si=pymly_RgV9OHETag