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🏆 WEEKLY COMP #11: THE CARTOGRAPHER 🏆
🎟️ PRIZE: FREE SEAT IN THE LYCEUM 🎟️ ($4,750 Seat) Pick your cohort. Technical, Business, or Creator. Your call. 📋 THE CHALLENGE This is a weird one, and you may feel lost at first. But it's up to you to make a map for those who come after and if there is no map, you must get lost to make one. Build a folder-based cartographer that can walk a body of work and leave a map a later reader can wander and show what that map is. The later reader is often an AI. Sometimes it is a new person. Same map. Same job. Not why it failed. Not how to fix it. Not a tour of how the week goes. What the nouns are. How they move. What else moves if you touch one. What is live, what is leftover, and what is a ghost with a name and no wiring. This week's deliverable is one cartographer folder someone can drop into a Claude project, point at a real body of work, and get back a map a cold reader can enter without reading the whole thing. 🎯 PICK YOUR TERRITORY Pick a body of work you have actually been inside. Something a new person or a cold model would get lost in. Something someone will change, not something you will only describe. A few sparks: 💻 A repo you own. Even a small one. The map is for the next developer, or the next session, that has never seen it. 📂 A client delivery folder a VA or a contractor has to inherit next month. 🧩 A Make, GHL, or n8n pack someone else will edit without you on the call. 📒 An Obsidian or Notion vault a collaborator has to add to without breaking the spine. 🧾 The live records behind how a job gets quoted, approved, and invoiced in your shop. The files. The objects. Not the story of a bad month. 🎓 A course or L&D library someone will update after you. 🏭 The asset and work-order objects in a plant system you actually touch. The more specific, the better. Maps how our business works is too broad. Maps the five objects a new hire has to understand before they touch the invoicing folder is right. 🧠 WHAT YOU ARE ACTUALLY LEARNING ICM has six forms. You have been living in the first ones. Pipeline. Coach. Editor. Diagnostician.
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my submission: https://github.com/rocleemusic/game-project-cartographer I mapped a live game project caught mid-engine-pivot: two engines, a narrative pipeline, and a thousand files of debris. The map lets a cold reader change one system without eating the whole tree — catalog → one card → the source, then stop. I designed it so that an agen reads the final cards, a human reads an html artifact. My philosophy nowadays is that data is abundant and AI handles data well, but humans need a good way of ingesting data that makes sense, is intuitive, and invites flow. So i spent the most time designing how I want to see the data once its been organized. I borrowed the ICM Architect skill's forms — the card-and-catalog shape, the one-door discipline — but hand-built the folder for mixed-material territory: code, content files, design docs, and an external task board Repo has an example run, the game is playable here (still in process): https://rocdoessound.itch.io/the-festival-of-souls pw: rebirth example artifact attached. And the game repo is here and can be used to test the game-project-cartographer: https://github.com/rocleemusic/game-project
Do I need to know what I don't know?
The preface: Anyone near my age (60) knows what it was like to take math classes and forced to do write out every answer on paper and show their work. Calculators were barred from classrooms. "You won't have a calculator with you all the time to work out math problems" Well, that was a lie. Whatever I need to do I can do on my phone. Calculators? Everyday folks don't even use them. The problem: I read a comment a few days ago from someone who has a tech (coding) background stating that people who vibe code need to understand what the code does. I'll be the first to admit, I don't know what all goes into the things I make. Since I used to create websites (and worked for a web hosting company), I grasp the fundamentals (html, css, but I don't know a lick about Python or a host of other programming languages. But I create some really cool stuff. I built a full AR system for my sister and her husband's solar farm business. I created a "Planner Factory" which allows me to create bespoke journal pages for new products. I designed a "Guide" that gives visitors encouragement, provides scriptures and prayers and helps them find the products that match their needs on my site. I made a "Logistics Review Tool" that runs against my builds to verify 16 operability lenses + ICM. I just finished a "Prayer Video Studio" for YouTube shorts. I'm finishing a "Mockup Studio" for my Simplify to Glorify brand of products. (and more...) Do I know how they work? Nope. At least not entirely. I know the basics. Does that matter? I don't know - and that's why I am asking the question. Where my mind goes with this: I can make mayonnaise but I have no idea what the whole chemical process is that makes it happen. I can play the piano and know when something sounds good (or awful), but I don't have a background in music theory. Do I need to know what makes it work?
1 like • Jul 22
I think it’s not an either or question, the calculator analogy is a great example. I personally don’t like the term vibe coding, it feels elitist in a way that isn’t helpful. Like Curtis says there is a discipline and skill to using AI, I think the first icm everyone in this group used shows that immediately. Will knowing the step by step math help? Yes, absolutely, but that doesn’t mean don’t use the calculator. And if the calculator can help make it easier to achieve your goals then I think it’s a big win for the person who invented the calculator. I really like what Jake says about augmentation, which is what skillful use of ai allows. The one caveat here is when what you build grows beyond personal use, if it touches the internet or requires an api key or private data that could potentially be accessed by someone you don’t want, that’s the only place where I think we need to be extra careful about what we make.
I built a custom browser extension to browse CliefNotes -- Now in ChromeWebStore!
## 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.
I built a custom browser extension to browse CliefNotes -- Now in ChromeWebStore!
1 like • Jul 14
@Scott Smith it should work on any skool community, but I'm only in Cliefnotes so I haven't tested
1 like • Jul 18
@Carl E ii it should because Brave is built on top of Chrome
🏆 7-Day Leaderboard: Carla Bosteder 🏆
Carla took the top of the leaderboard this week. 🎁 What @Carla Bosteder wins: She was already a VIP member, so we're converting her account. ✨ Free VIP for life. ✨ The Drawing Room. High Tea. Bespoke folder builds with Jake. All of it. Forever. No charge. ⏰ The 7-day clock resets. Next Monday someone new takes the top spot. 🎯 How it works: - 📝 Post things worth reading - 💬 Help people in the comments - 🛠️ Share what you're building, what's working, what's breaking - ❤️ Engage with what others are putting out there The leaderboard tracks all of it. 🎁 The prize, depending on where you're at: 🆓 Free member? You get lifetime Premium, free ⭐ Already Premium? We convert your Premium so you stop paying 👑 Already VIP? We convert your VIP so you stop paying Either way, you stop paying. Carla, congratulations. Well earned. 👏
2 likes • Jul 14
congratulations @Carla Bosteder !!
New VIP Member has arrived to the arena!
New VIP member checking in! as excited as i am for my journey, It wasn't an easy decision, but I know knowledge pays dividends.This was an investment in myself, and I'm committed to making it count. Time to bunker down, learn, grow, stay disciplined, and put in the work. Looking forward to being part of this community.
New VIP Member has arrived to the arena!
1 like • Jul 1
welcome! good to have you! Looking forward to what you build
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