Most of what I share here and on Instagram is practical. Folder systems, workflows, how to build things that work. That's the mission of the Skool side of Clief Notes and it always will be. But I also write about the bigger picture. Where AI is actually heading, what it means for governance, for knowledge, for who gets to say what counts as credible. I've been working on a treatise called Rise of the Virtual Vanguard for the last three years and I'm serializing it on my Substack alongside essays on consciousness, academic gatekeeping, computational orchestration, and the economics of expertise. This is the opinionated stuff. The long-form thinking that sits underneath everything I teach here. If that interests you, the first installment is live. https://jakevanclief.substack.com/p/before-the-singularity No paywall on this of course. Read it, disagree with it, tell me where I'm wrong. The best ideas get sharper in conversation.

Tell us three things: 1. What you do (job, industry, student, career-changer, whatever) 2. What brought you to Clief Notes 3. One thing you're trying to figure out right now related to computing or AI I'll respond to every single one. And read each other's intros too because the person who's stuck on the same problem as you might already be in this thread. I'll go first I am Jake, I have been working in tech for 15 Years, building with Generative AI for 3 Years straight now! Excited to teach and learn! That's it. Simple, scannable, gives you data on who's joining and what they need, and keeps the feed clear for content that retains people past week one.