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Welcome to Clief Notes. Here's where to start.
1. Watch the intro video and introduce yourself in the intro post here 2. Start with The Foundation (free course). Concepts, folder architecture, prompting framework. Everything else builds on this. 3. Check in at the bottom of each lesson. Polls, discussion posts, other members working through the same stuff. Use them. 4. When you're ready to build real things, move to Implementation Playbooks (Level 2). When you're ready to build your own tools, Building Your Stack (Level 3). 5. Post your work. Ask questions. Help others when you can. What are you here to build?
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Phil Randazzo joins me live Tomorrow
Friday, May 29th, 12:00 to 1:30 PM EST, right here in Skool. Phil founded American Dream U back in 2003. It's a nonprofit that helps service members and their families land on their feet after the uniform comes off, whether that means a civilian career, more schooling, or starting a business of their own. They've worked with more than 16,000 veterans and brought in real entrepreneurs and business leaders to teach and mentor along the way. The man has spent two decades on this. I served. I know how strange those first months out can feel. You go from bouncing between countries, cracking dark jokes with people who have suffered with you, to classrooms or offices with blank stares and a lot of well-meaning advice that doesn't quite fit. Phil built something for exactly that gap, and he has watched thousands of people walk through it. We're going to talk about his own move into entrepreneurship, how to think in systems instead of one-off tasks, and where AI is opening real doors in the economy right now. Come with questions. This works best as a conversation, not a lecture. If you're a veteran or you're getting close to your transition, bring the thing you're actually stuck on. Phil and I will both take a crack at it. If you know someone who's transitioning and not in here yet, send them the link. Worth their time.
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⚠️ HEADS UP: PHISHING ATTEMPTS IN THE COMMUNITY ⚠️
We've noticed people sending out phishing links in DMs and comments. Quick PSA to keep everyone safe. ---- 🛑 THE RULE If someone you don't recognize is sending you links, asking for money, asking for login info, or telling you to "claim a prize" outside of an official competition post, it's not us. Don't click. Don't reply. Just delete. ---- 💰 HOW WE ACTUALLY HANDLE MONEY We will never send you money out of the blue. The only time you'll hear from us about money is if you've won a competition. When that happens, Sonija is the only person on our team who will reach out to collect your payment info to send your prize. If anyone else DMs you asking for payment details, banking info, or "verification" to release a prize, it's not us. Report it!! ---- 🚨 IF YOU GET A SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE 1. Don't click any links 2. Don't reply 3. Screenshot it if you can 4. Send the screenshot to Jake, Matt, or a mod so we can deal with it We're going to keep this community a safe place to build and learn. Thanks for looking out for each other. 🙏
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Live telegram solution
I spent a full day trying to solve a Telegram bot integration problem for an automation system, and the lesson was clearer than the code. If you are trying to make Telegram “live” for approvals, commands, status updates, or operator control, don’t make Telegram depend on your laptop or local machine. The wrong architecture is: Telegram → local laptop poller → local process → approval/action That sounds simple, but in practice it creates loads of failure points: - the poller stops - the laptop sleeps - the process crashes - Windows kills child processes - callbacks get missed - approvals expire - local runtime state gets messy - multiple pollers can conflict - you receive the Telegram message, tap approve, and the system still doesn’t receive it properly The better architecture is: Telegram → cloud webhook service → database/inbox → local app pulls decisions → local app verifies → local app acts That is the key shift. Telegram should talk to the cloud. Your local system should talk to the cloud. Your laptop/local machine should not be the thing Telegram depends on to be “always listening”. The cloud service becomes the always-online operator console. It handles: - Telegram webhook - approval buttons - commands - status requests - reminders - expiry - confirmation messages - audit logs - durable storage But the cloud service should NOT execute dangerous actions. It should not: - run code - mutate local files - execute jobs - commit code - push to GitHub - deploy anything - bypass local validation The local system should remain the authority. The safe flow is: 1. Local app creates an approval request. 2. Local app sends it to the cloud Telegram service. 3. Cloud service sends the Telegram message/buttons. 4. User taps Approve or Deny. 5. Telegram sends the callback to the cloud webhook. 6. Cloud stores the decision in a database. 7. Local app pulls pending decisions from the cloud. 8. Local app verifies the decision. 9. Only then does the local app apply the result.
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Work Frustration Rant - AI, but not for you
Thanks for a place to vent :) The company I work for is an industry specific hardware and SaaS company. The corporate heads are preaching embrace AI. I have used AI to make Python tools our hole department (half QA half field tech support) and field techs use. All done without a premium subscription to anything. No local files or memory. just good prompting. The company set up an AI Committee, set out rules and people to ask for permissions. I have written evidence of what I have done and plans for the future. I hear nothing back. Not a refusal, nothing... I am building tools that talk to Jira, Smartsheets, Confluence, 2 separate internal APIs. building the hard coded infrastructure that we could lay agents on and increase efficiency of supporting a product that is leading the industry. Silence. Why I am hear. I am learning and building in my spare time and enjoying it. I am trying to embrace the future that the company claims to. They will miss me when I am gone.
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