Maybe a lot of people here are in a similar boat but trying to find work as been so difficult. I've been lucky to have a little bit of recurring work from my social media presence but it's barely enough to get by. I spend most of my time building, networking, and applying. That is my life, it is not enjoyable. Any ideas on what I need to add to my portfolio to have better success in finding work? https://portfolio.lightandlense.com/

🎟️ PRIZE: FREE SEAT IN THE LYCEUM 🎟️ Pick your cohort. Technical, Business, or Creator. Your call. 🎯 PICK YOUR DOMAIN The domain is yours. Pick something specific. Pick something you'd actually use. A few sparks to get you thinking: - 💻 Code review editor for a specific language and level (junior TypeScript, senior Python) - 📊 Pitch deck editor for pre-seed founders - 🎨 Grant application editor for arts nonprofits - 📄 Resume editor for career switchers into tech - 📰 Op-ed editor for policy publications - 🎙️ Podcast script editor for interview shows - ⚖️ Legal brief editor for civil litigation - 📋 Product spec editor for early-stage PMs - 🎓 Academic paper editor for one specific field The more specific, the better. "Writing editor" is too broad. "Op-ed editor for tech policy publications targeting a policy audience" is right. 🗂️ THE METHODOLOGY If this is your first comp, welcome. Here's what you need to know: This week (and every week) you're learning interpretable context methodology. Folders as architecture. Each file does one job well. Your editor is a folder with five things: - 📄 identity.md (who the editor is, what work they review) - 📐 rules.md (how they critique) - 💬 examples.md (what good critique looks like) - 📚 reference/ (style guides, checklists, frameworks the editor uses) - 📖 README.md (how to use it) Drop the folder into a Claude project. Claude becomes the editor. Reusable. Shareable. Portable. 🔥 THE ANGLE THIS WEEK An editor is NOT a rewriter. An editor doesn't do the work for you. An editor surfaces what's weak and pushes you to fix it. That distinction is the whole assignment this week. When someone hands the editor a draft, the editor shouldn't produce a "fixed" version. The editor should point at the three lines that don't work, explain why, and hand it back to the writer to solve. ✍️ Generic feedback like "consider strengthening your intro" is a fail. Specific feedback like "your intro assumes the reader already knows what a Series A is, but this pub is read by generalists, so lead with the stakes instead of the jargon" is what a real editor does.

We just shipped the alpha of Ledger 📋 —https://ledger.eduba.io the talent platform we've been building on top of this community. Free for VIP and Premium Members. Here's the idea, plain: every other job board matches on a resume. Ledger matches on ICM. Every candidate in there has been through the methodology you're already using here — that's the whole point. Companies aren't guessing whether someone "gets it." They know it going in. 🎯 It works kind of like a job board, but more anonymous — right? 🕶️ Employers see an anonymized profile: skills, bio, portfolio, a short video intro if you want one. No last name, no email, no current employer. Every conversation runs through the platform's relay instead of real inboxes, so nobody's exposing contact info before they're ready. Two doors in: - 🏢 Company hiring — freelance or full-time — sign up and get access to a pool of people who already speak ICM fluently. - - 🙋 Candidate looking for work — freelance or full-time — list yourself. Takes a few minutes: profile, skills, a short video if you've got one. We're vetting both sides before anyone gets full access — companies and candidates — so the quality holds up on both ends. ✅ That means it's not instant approval; you might wait a beat while we look at it. Bear with us there. It's alpha 🧪, so: things might be rough around the edges, we're watching it closely, and if something breaks or feels off, tell us — that's exactly what this stage is for. Be nice to us and we'll be fast about fixing it. 🙏 Sign up: https://ledger.eduba.io 👇

So I've been obsessed with creating interactive art experiences for awhile (though selling them is an entire different story) this one was inspired by Teamlabs Sketch Aquarium and I decided to make my own version. I have also made a dinosaur version (hopefully can sell it to a local dinosaur museum here in town) and a 3d plane version. This works with digital or real life coloring pages you can scan in. My favorite part is it works across the world so you can see other people color their Pokemon and see them swim around! If you want to try it out you can here: https://draw-a-fish-mu.vercel.app/welcome.html Definitely used ICM for this but largely ran into problems of animating it correctly. The process for both bipedal and quadrupeds could be better still.

There are two skills in Claude that I use over everything else that have been really successful for me. I love the folder system here and I use something similar just to keep things organized. As I'm sure most people have heard of Superpowers and I think it's good to a point. Superpowers is good at brainstorming and asking me the questions I didn't consider but it's bad on execution. That's where GSD or Get Shit Done comes in. It can take the plan from Superpowers, break it down into Phases and Waves and then you verify at every checkpoint to make sure a certain feature works. This effectively allows me to "one-shot" apps and make sure it works along the way. The part of the stack that I don't have nailed down yet (leaning into my cyber security background a bit) is security and just trying to make sure we cover stuff like prompt/code injection for example. Does anyone else have a similar stack or different process?