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There's something happening in here that I feel like I need to surface. I just cut a short from our conversation with Brian Clark on Bullhorns & Bullseyes. If you don't know Brian, he's the founder of Copyblogger—started it as a one-man site in 2006, before "content marketing" was even a phrase, and it's been called one of the most influential blogs in the world. He didn't invent blogging, but he's about as close as anyone to inventing what blogging became for business. Near the end of the episode, he says... "We're tribal. We can't shake our evolutionary upbringing, where you are attracted to people like you. That used to be based on appearance or geography, and now it's identity. And what is identity? It's a bundle of beliefs." He'd just said belonging is going to be more coveted, not less, as AI floods everything with things we can't tell are real. And the belonging that's left standing isn't geographic. It's not "we live near each other" or "we look alike." It's "we believe the same things." Now, for those of us in this community, we didn't all show up already agreeing on everything, and we didn't converge here because Jake is the guy to follow. We converged because @Jake Van Clief said something true first, and a few thousand of us recognized our own belief in it before we had words for it ourselves. That's how this works—someone has to say it first, most of us here, especially in the beginning, didn't need to be convinced. We were being reminded. This concept isn't new. It takes the same shape as every real reformation does. Belief stops living inside one person or institution and starts living in whoever recognizes it. Jake didn't build a following. He built a mirror, and we all walked up and saw ourselves in it. @Ruben Aguirre already did this in here—put his actual beliefs on the table, not a bio. If you're willing, I'd like to hear yours, too. But I'll go further than that. You've already been doing the belief work if you've built an ICM.

First off, I wanted to thank everyone for all of the positive feedback on the podcast episode that @Curtis Hays and I shared! It's been incredible to see people like @Mira Bradshaw and @Greg Faysash running with the idea, testing it, and putting it to work in their ICM projects. I especially appreciated what Mira added to the discussion. One of the things I appreciate most about cognitive functions is that it isn't a box to fit people into. It's a starting point to build upon, whether you're working to better understand people or to build agents that approach problems in different ways. And on that foundation, you can build something much deeper. To help with that, we published two new articles in David's Corner that I wrote. They're meant to serve as a foundation and reference for anyone interested in using cognitive functions to design agents. If you have any questions, feedback, or thoughts, I'd love to hear them! The Podcast: https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/if-your-specialized-agents-dont-think-differently-they-should?p=09e9a36a Mira's Post: https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/curtis-and-brooke-are-on-to-something-but-tread-carefully?p=34b21988 The Articles: https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/classroom/c7f102c7

Something clicked for me across two recent threads here with @Mads Skak and @Alex Brown, so I mapped it out as a table. I've been trying to work out where I actually need to sit when an agent is working through files. Turns out that's not a preference, it's a property of the task. Cynefin classifies problems by how predictable they are; ICM gives you the instrument for each type. Put them side by side and you can see where the human needs to sit. The row that matters most is **Complex**. When there's no pre-known right answer, forcing a pass/fail check into a markdown file is a lie. The pipeline will look gated and be nothing of the sort. For that work you don't review the final output, you live inside the loop and co-edit the intermediate files as they form. Every output is an edit surface. **Complicated** work is different. There is a right answer, binary in principle, but only human judgement can confirm it. So the worker never self-certifies. You sit at the gates, start and end, and stay out of the execution loop. **Clear** work is machine-checkable and needs no human at all. That's most of the background volume (Jake's 10/30/60 split). **Chaotic** is not a delegation situation. One-line advice at most, human hands on. And the one I nearly missed: **Disorder**. If you can't tell which domain you're in, treat it as Complex until it declares itself. Misclassification is where the damage happens. The long game is moving work down the table, Chaotic towards Clear, as probing stabilises it. But only what has genuinely stabilised. Force the move and you fall off the cliff. Table below. Tell me where this is wrong.

One of the side benefits of this comment is finding that space to fit in. Being able to communicate with like minded people. With others trying to learn this process and keep up with the fast paced world of AI.I truly believe this process will endure where all the other big new things today you have to learn will fade in a hour, day, week, etc. This one is so adaptable. BUT, making connections and having a place to keep our minds focused and feedback, learning from one another. That is a great benefit of this community. I just started pondering that after seeing a snippet of a podcast on LkdIn. I'll shamelessly plug it for @Curtis Hays https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hayscurtis_brian-clark-said-this-on-the-latest-podcast-ugcPost-7480944701035077632-rh8l/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAApL28B3wPHMoB3qhiNwS8JLeQGz6xrWKs