Hey everyone!! Jake and I are rebuilding Clief Notes around Edubaware, Eduba's own platform. We're aiming to launch it between 10 December and 1 January, and if that date moves, you'll hear it here first. Clief Notes stays free to join, and always will. Here's everything else that changes, starting with the part that has a deadline. ⏰ Lock in today's prices by Sunday 15 November ⏰ Right now Premium is $11 a month and VIP is $97. Join by 11:59 pm EST on Sunday 15 November and you keep that rate for as long as you stay subscribed. After that, new members pay $14.95 for Premium and $499 for VIP . If you already pay $11 or $97, your rate doesn't change. 💰 $1,000 of Edubaware credit 💰 Every Premium member on Clief Notes through 9 December gets $1,000 of Edubaware credit at launch. Every VIP gets $5,000. It's paid in full on day one, and members on the $11 rate and lifetime VIPs get it too. Join Premium by Sunday and that's $1,000 of credit for an $11 month. Anyone who joins after 9 December doesn't get it. Premium and VIP also get founders pricing on Edubaware: 50% off your first year and 25% off your second, for as long as you stay subscribed. VIPs get 50% off for both years. 🚀 Early access, over the next few weeks 🚀 Premium and VIP members get into Edubaware before launch. We'll be onboarding people over the next few weeks, not all at once, so David and Kay can set each of you up and check in once you're in. If your invite arrives later than a friend's, that's why. Every Premium and VIP member gets one. Every Tuesday, David or Kay posts an Edubaware update here. ⭐ What Premium gets ⭐ Everything new lands in Premium first: - A build tutorial from Jake every month, one full build from start to finish - Ask Jake: post your question in the monthly thread and Jake answers the most-liked ones on video. The first thread opens Monday 16 November. - Master sessions, run live here by the Masters of ICM - The Masters' drop: a new template, workflow or walkthrough from every Master, every

In my strategy consulting, I often tell people if they really want to grow and scale, find a way to become a platform It can be one of the secrets to massive scale… if that’s what you’re wanting for your business “A lot of little lights can become a sun” Become a platform “Build a virtuous cycle where everyone wins, and you’ll come out the biggest winner of all”. – Reid Hoffman. Here’s where and how I think the next trillion dollar company in SAAS and Services will come from… Find the areas of your business you can open up and let other companies build with you. The App Store Google Play Salesforce Shopify ClickFunnels Chicken soup for the soul Instagram Airbnb Facebook All of these companies scaled using this model. So can you. And so will the trillion dollar company. Check this out and buckle your seatbelts..... Chicken soup for the soul was created by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen in 1993. (The idea was turned down by 144 publishers) They created 250 titles, sold 110 million copies, and grossed OVER $2 Billion dollars. And they did it all without writing a single word. Every story in every book was sent in sent in by readers. $2 Billion in sales from books they did not even write. Read that again and let it sink in a little. The winning SAAS and Services platform will find a way to let everyone win a little bit by being part of the platform, and in doing so everyone will win… The platform will just win a little bit (ok a lot) more than everybody else. At least that’s how I think it’ll happen. Anybody want to build it with me?

EDUBA @Kay K has had the challenging task to redesigning my Company website to fit the folder and Unix theme. It may seem odd at first but as you scroll down through the site you will see the influence of traditional and fundamental structures, the simplicity of it is what I love. Figured I would share this here and share his hard work as I love the idea of making a website folder based, because as you know, I love my folders. EDUBA

You've got questions. Jake's got answers. Let's make it happen!! Submit yours here: https://forms.gle/WzWFxK1cDgE6YUDP8 Here's the deal: Jake is going live across all platforms at random times to answer YOUR questions. Yes, yours. The ones you've been sitting on. The ones you typed out and deleted. The ones you thought were too basic or too weird or too specific. Send them in. Missed the live? No stress. Every session gets recorded so you can catch it later. One submission per person. The form closes Sunday, March 29th at 11:45 PM EST. Name, email, question. Takes 30 seconds. This is your shot. Don't overthink it. Just ask.

There is a new resource in The Vault (under the classroom tab) It is called the 🏦Vault Toolkit🏦 and I want to explain what it actually is because it is not what most people are "selling" in this space. Here is the problem I keep seeing. Someone buys a "prompt pack" or a "template library" from a creator or a course. They paste the prompts into Claude or ChatGPT. It works okay for about a week. Then it stops working because the prompt was built for someone else's workflow, someone else's voice, someone else's problems. You are locked into their structure or you are back to square one. Neither is useful. The reason templates fail is the same reason copy-paste code fails. It works until your situation is slightly different from the original author's situation. And your situation is always slightly different. So I built something different. The Vault Toolkit is a constraint library. Each file is organized around a problem you have already hit. "AI keeps writing like AI." "My output drifts from what I asked." "My context window is a mess." "I cannot get consistent results between sessions." and many more like that... Eight problems. Eight files. But here is what makes it different from a prompt pack. Every constraint file has three layers. The first layer is the traditional principle that solves the problem. Most of what makes AI output bad is not new. Orwell wrote six rules in 1946 that diagnose 80% of AI writing problems. Parnas wrote about separation of concerns in 1972 and it is the exact reason your context window turns into soup. These are not AI problems but rather information architecture problems that are decades old. The constraint files teach you the principle so you understand why the fix works, not just that it works. The second layer is the existing tool or skill that already handles part of the problem. The humanizer skill on GitHub. The Hemingway Editor (free, online, takes 30 seconds). Grammarly. n8n for workflow automation. Spreadsheets for the tasks you should not be burning tokens on.