Catabolism: set of metabolic pathways that breaks down molecules into smaller units In an information economy, the ecosystem of paywalls brings me back to this hierarchy in academia that's a tale as old as time. X group happens to know Y. They see that knowledge as an advantage. To hold competitive edge, they do everything in their power to hold Y to their chest. But Y is non-material. It's a net positive, you don't lose Y by sharing it. That knowledge goes through dozens of physiological, psychological, emotional and mental filters. By the time it registers in someone's mind, it would have gone through a roller coaster of mental models and lost its substance. As an educator, it's our job to lay the tracks for that roller coaster so that the core idea is received. Your competitive edge isn't the knowledge, it's you. It's what you bring to the table as a unique lens, and your ability to capture, story tell, and break down the complexities into something actually useful. It's taking what's been done, breaking it down even more, and distributing it. That's what catabolizing your competition looks like. Doing so for free or at a substantial discount is where disruption happens. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the classroom, Citizen Developer will soon feature courses on the following: 1) Weekly support calls and challenges You'll build with me, live, 2 hours every weekend. More on this soon. Recordings will be posted. 2) The fastest & most affordable way to land client #1 for AI services (Months 1-6 of Maker School), You'll have the 80/20 (currently @ $184/month, $2200 a year) If you're an aspiring service provider or freelancer, Nick Saraev has tons of material on this. I'll be sharing my experience and resources that helped me create MRR that sticks, and also opening the door to support you. 3) A walkthrough of how to avoid "AI money scams"

Build your own digital workforce in under 30 days for free. Hey all! I'm Jonathan. I currently teach at a private school, driven by this mission to create real accessibility around AI. Outside of the classroom, I lead sales teams through SaaS implementations. I come from a background of sales management and enterprise business development, working closely with directors and owner/operators on enabling AI in their work meaningfully. ᴡʜᴀᴛ ʏᴏᴜ'ʟʟ ꜰɪɴᴅ ʜᴇʀᴇ: - AI for Education, made usable: standards-aligned lesson packs, AI-resistant assessments, and "digital workers" (browser agents) that kill busywork so you can win back 5-10 hours / week. - Resource Hub + Playbooks: the good stuff that's usually locked behind paywalls and kept for clients only - free for the first 500 members. - Free Perplexity Pro for 1 Year Cross-industry spillover: I also publish templates for real estate lead gen and legal admin, as I come from this background personally building sales infrastructure, generating over $150k of aggregate revenue for small teams ʜᴏᴡ ᴛᴏ ɢᴇᴛ ꜱᴛᴀʀᴛᴇᴅ: 1. Say hi below: Introduce yourself and share the #1 outcome you'd want this month 2. Book your free 1:1 (15 min): zero pitch - bring one roadblock, leave with 1-2 clear next steps. Book here! 3. Our classroom is constantly being updated with new material, as is our community threads. Check it out, share your progress and thoughts! ᴘʀᴏᴍɪꜱᴇ: This space stays practical, non-technical, and classroom-first. I'll meet you where you are, keep the jargon out, and make sure every asset is something you copy-paste into real work tomorrow. Let's return time where it matters most! 🚀 P.S. After we have a 1:1, I'll be tagging and giving you a mini intro below, feel free to comment and add on!

After authoring/recording a program on turning your browser into a digital employee, I've learned a lot. I started teaching at a private school with international kids, and it's shown me a world of pain that teachers deal with across the industry. Everybody is using AI. GPT bleeds across almost every assignment, thinking is offloaded, asking questions is something they do in GPT before a peer. The teacher is the last person they ask. I've contemplated on how to approach this for a while, I've talked to a number of education consultants, and I'm even getting certified in AI tools for education. Citizen Developer started as a mission to affect and impact the workforce, but I'm seeing a bigger problem worth solving first. While content has taken a backburner with this new job, I still have a catalog of resources I'm excited to share. Access to information has been something I've fought for ever since I was in high school, I always found a way around a paywall. I work with a number of real estate professionals, marketing agencies, but this passion for education and access has been underserved. My next program that I'm authoring tackles exactly that. I want overwhelmed educators to be empowered with creating lesson plans, AI-resistant materials, and compress their material prep time to below 5-10 hours a week. I'll be writing this one at a 10th and 5th grade reading level, circulating Sora 2 shorts on it across short form media, and pushing this mission of tangible impact. Stay tuned for more to come!

Social media + OpenAI is a dicey mix Not selling or buying codes, they’re free. Only interested in collaborators that are actively using generative UI and intend to monetize what they’re building 🫡 Will be peppering this all over Reddit/other Skool communities, keep an eye out!

When I was 12, my mom worked the front desk Century 21. She worked two full time jobs to get by with my siblings and I, and the time it would take to get us home and back to the desk between 3:30pm and 5pm with traffic didn't make any sense. So she took us to work, didn't really wait for permission, just hoped we wouldn't cause any trouble to get noticed. And we didn't. My siblings would spend most of their time at the back, playing on the computers. Being curious, I hung out at the front behind her desk. Sometimes, whenever the six phone line lights would start flickering, one of her coworkers showed me how to pick it up, squeakily say "Century 21, a moment please!" and put the line on hold. I did this for a little under a year, or whenever my mom would take us there. When I was 14, she got promoted to Deals Secretary (which is essentially the accountant for the brokerage, the last person that gates any commission cheques) When I turned 16, after working a month and a half doing night shift on top of summer school at the city's Amazon warehouse (which was more than a few football fields long), I learned very quickly that my mind was too busy to work the assembly line putting stickers and tape on boxes. With my voice deeper, hope in my eyes, I interviewed for the front desk. My mom didn't have the patience to teach me, so that same coworker that taught me how put the line on hold offered her cheat sheets and notes. I was starting to get a hang of things, not without errors or trips, but I was 16, I didn't care too much about it. Working there part time, it was just another job. While I was working the front desk, I got my university acceptance letter. I still remember the feeling of being so light on my feet, I could do anything. Then I got waitlisted 3 months before my start date. That summer, I didn't know if September held studies for me or if I'd have to work full time, those office hallways became tunnels without end. I saw what 40 hours under the white light could do to you if you didn't want to be there.