I just realized that the way I’ve been organizing files my entire life whether it’s on a thumb drive in my phone or on a computer was always a ICM methodology. I know this sounds crazy because obviously ICM and Jake are new to me. As I looked stress stressed out on how my harness and AI model where organizing all the information I gave them about ICM. I took a break and watched a couple movies and as I was looking through my picture folder and looking at my computer, I had this epiphany. The next step was to re-organize my folders with the terminology of an ICM folder for AI to read and me understand before completely screwing up something and getting lost in the sauce. Next- Add the .md addition to the sub folder system, same concept different media.

ICM getting you down = @Don Roy Data = @Mira Bradshaw Video/Images/things I can't even pronounce = @Ari Evergreen Needing the human and knowledge = @Carla Bosteder and @Aaron Kruger Admin = too scared to tag them 😉😉 but you will know when you know. other things = classroom, videos and links there is even a Don's bookshelf and ari's space is out of this world (see what I did there). #checkitout Participate in comps (even if you suck... you learn - this is why you are here) Good housekeeping = search (many members have already been where you are) even better check out the legends it is the 11th commandment (Don will post about it -#nopressure Don) Don't be afraid to post but also don't get stuck on the likes and the climbing. Focus on the learning and you will find your place. Above all else... Embrace the 'dumb' it is the only way you truly make yourself teachable. Good luck, God speed, go into the light, break a leg, or whatever people say...

I know that most people would say that if you self host a model that technically by that standard do you have unlimited token usage, the speed of which is depending on the hardware that you’re running the model on. I have found a way to use multiple interfaces simultaneously inside a harness, to generate unlimited token usage without having to self host a model. It came from a simple personal problem with my hardware and the frustration that API and model based services either charge you a monthly usage to access models, or throttle your limits by daily or weekly usage limits. I found that these bottlenecks and gatekeeping caused me to evolve in a way with this process that had me think of nothing but workarounds and gate breaking. The solution, something so simple it does not a wonder to me that my mind came to it. It starts with first getting the right harness, whether it be Hermes, or any other agent system. The first part involved something that came to me about the concept of what in AI system is. It is basically just like a human, except it has the capacity to learn what would seem like instantaneously a lifetime worth of knowledge, skills, and tools at a rate that a human takes most of its lifetime to achieve.I figured write out the box, the first thing I should do is make sure that my model harness had all the possible skills needed for things like coding, content, creation, context and comprehension skills, and pretty much any skill or tool that I would need to accomplish anything that I would come across in the future. Then I realized that as a human has to build memory over time, so does AI. That’s something we share, learning and memory retention. I first installed everything to do with memory retention so that the system harness could remember everything it learned, evolve as it learned better ways to achieve things, structured it in a way that would speed up its process, and reduce token usage from the get-go. In that process I also realized that obviously AI is so smart, especially when given a very large skill set from the get-go, that skills that are made for something like OpenAI Codex or Claude coworker or Claude code, the harness with all it skills could rework the code, especially if it was trained with code to make it work for itself, and do the appropriate retrofits to be able to use such things, even though they were made for other harnesses or models. I can list if someone is interested in where. YouTube is an amazing resource. The next revelation was, there are multiple services that offer free usage of multi models. This really peaked my cheap 🧠, as I figured I don’t wanna have to pay so much just to learn the basics and to start building any kind of foundational anything and get nowhere while bleeding money from token usage and API access. So what do we do? We learn to model route through multiple open sources like Ollama, OpenRouter, Nous( creators of Hermes), using parameter strict to our hardware capabilities on the mid to low range as a absolute, fallback model. So then I asked my agent to help me build a model routing system, and monitor usage and give me warnings as I was approaching usage, give me the option to switch models when I hit 80 to 90% usage on any model. I also learned that if I want to get things cooking very fast I should use cloud based models through Olamma or Openrouter and max those out they crunch out all the hard work that a less capable model would have token strain figuring out. So I use the big hammers first then I use the little hammers to continue then I fall back to the big hammers to hit the finish line. always having a free model in the pipeline plus the skills that I built in in the beginning to reduce token usage from things like context understanding of what I’m prompting or trying to achieve.

I've been heads down on trust structures and LLCs the past few weeks. The kind where a living trust owns the LLC, with you as the trustee and the manager, so the business carries as little liability exposure as possible. The workspace ends with a filing-ready packet of legal and tax documents, and step-by-step instructions for every step that happens outside the workspace. Now I'm wrapping it in a web application so other people can use it without going through what I went through. I've also been heads down on a hidden job search workspace. I researched how the different applicant tracking systems actually work. A bunch of them expose public job feeds, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Workable, Recruitee, and the workspace pulls those directly. Everything else gets found with dorks. It vets each posting for scams and ghost jobs, and fills the applications in my real browser for me to review before anything submits. So far it's seen 411 postings, and 314 of them dropped before applying. 73 applications have gone out. I know @Bilal S shared his Seeker the other day. To me, this helps reduce the stress of the job hunt. Has anyone here set up a trust to own their LLC? How did you structure it, and who walked you through it? Anyone else here searching past the job boards? I'd love to hear what's working, the rough parts especially.

I’ve been thinking about how much builders should share with one another. And I’m finding myself on the side of sharing more, not less. Most of us aren't competing for the exact same customer in the exact same place at the exact same moment. We live in different cities and countries. We work in different industries. We notice different problems. Even when two people start with the same idea, they’re likely to build it differently. So if I figure out a better way to structure something, solve a problem, create a safeguard, or make an AI system work more reliably, what do I really lose by sharing that? Someone else might use it halfway around the world. They might improve it. They might discover something I hadn’t considered and share that back. And meanwhile, I still have my own experience, judgment, relationships, accumulated context, and ability to execute. Of course there are things that should stay private—client information, security details, confidential work, and genuinely proprietary assets. But I wonder if we sometimes hold things a little too tightly. AI is moving so quickly that protecting every idea may be less valuable than creating communities where good ideas compound. Maybe the better question isn't: “What can I share without giving away my advantage?” Maybe it’s: “What actually needs protecting—and what could become more valuable if I shared it?” I’d love to know how other builders think about this.