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Welcome to Clief Notes. Here's where to start.
1. Go check out 📚Navigating The Course to see how to get around and what's here. 2. Start with The Foundation. 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 join in on our Biweekly competitions and win some real cash. ⭐ Competitions Mega Thread 5. If you are wanting to dive into the masterminds, grab all the past templates, artifacts and resources. Upgrade and head into the The Vault for Premium and The Drawing Room (VIP) for VIP 6. Post your work. Ask questions. Help others when you can. What are you here to build?
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🤝 NEW: The Connection Hub is live
👋 Welcome to the Connection Hub - The Vault · Clief Notes So I was on the onboarding call this today, and one thing kept coming up that I couldn't stop thinking about: The biggest value of this new age isn't just the tools. It's the people. 👥 Specifically — people who understand AI the way THIS community teaches it. Not "prompt hacks" and not "10x your output" nonsense, but actually building systems, thinking in workflows, and treating AI like a real part of how you work. That's a rare group. And a lot of you told me the same thing: 💬 "I'd love to work with someone who gets this." 💬 "I want to break into [industry] but don't know anyone in it." 💬 "Who else here does what I do?" So instead of letting those connections happen by accident... I built a place for them. 👇 🗂️👋 Welcome to the Connection Hub - The Vault · Clief Notes It's a simple set of pages, split by industry. You find your corner, drop a quick intro about what you actually do and what you're looking for, and connect with people who speak your language.
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📢 Recordings of Tea Masterminds are live: The Second Brain
🧠 This round was about what a second brain actually is: a context layer you and your AI both read, not a notes app. The Afternoon Tea is the teaching. The High Tea is the room putting it to work on scale, memory, trust, and security. Here is what I want you to understand about these drops, because it is the whole point of being in here. While the videos are valuable and being able to sit and answer your questions is a big reason for them that's not the only value they hold. 📄 Every drop is a set of working files. Markdown built to be used and reused. Each one ends with the exact data to give your AI for your own situation. This round also ships a starter folder you can open, run the self-audit on, and walk away with the skeleton of your own second brain in a sitting. 🤖 I build them expecting you to feed them to your AI. That is the design. Hand a whole round to Claude in a few minutes, whether or not you made it live. The room's thinking is in the files, so you lose almost nothing by catching it later. 🔄 They adapt. A prompt pack is frozen. These are meant to be reshaped: update the context, swap in your own work, bend the templates to your process. And they grow on my side too, as we learn together in these calls. The call is dialogue. The package is that dialogue, crystallized into something you can run. Next round builds on this one. ☕ Afternoon Tea 6 →Afternoon Tea 6 (Second Brain Chat) 🫖 High Tea 10 → High Tea 10 (Second Brain Deep Dive) 🧭 How you should use these: 🔹 Show up live when you can. Your questions shape the next drop. 🔹 When you can't, rewatch, or drop the files into your AI and run the prompt at the bottom. 🔹 Open the starter folder and build your own version. Rename it to your work. It is yours to keep. 📚 A mastermind ends when the call ends. What you get here keeps working after: a structured version of your own thinking (and some of my own thinking!) that improves every round. In my opinion that is worth more than the hour in the room. (or three as some of you stick around in these calls to chat)
Obsidian & 2nd Brains: Viability v Liability ?
***This message does not constitute legal advice. I am not a licensed attorney and any conclusions or opinions are my own. Should you have questions, please see a licensed intellectual property attorney. *** @Jake Van Clief @Jordan Shaw @Bas Rosario The issue here is, the environment regarding intellectual property as it's associated with LLMs and their use of copyrighted or other protected content for the training of their models was for quite some time very ambiguous. I myself began playing with tools for genAI purposes more than two years ago, but I could see immediately the potential liabilities from such activities due to my time in the film industry and in my experience drawing patent illustrations. Ultimately I stopped what I was doing and waited for clarity to be provided regarding the environment and potential liability that could arise from publishing genAI content or utilizing such tools in my work. Since that time we've had a couple cases come to completion to actually provide some clarity and begin to set precedent within the US legal system, the first of which is: Vacker v. Eleven Labs, In which the parties reached a settlement on August 18th 2025. The financial details regarding the settlement remain confidential under the terms of that agreement, so we aren't entirely sure as to the exact outcome; however, what is clear is that the risk is real. https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/08/23/parties-in-vacker-v-eleven-labs-tell-judge-theyve-reached-a-settlement-1st-in-the-ai-copyright-litigation/ More recently, there was an additional settlement agreement in Bartz v Anthropic, the news of which is detailed in the article below, which was from April 8, 2026. In this settlement we do know the monetary value the plaintiffs were awarded. $1.5B, was the amount, which was the largest copyright infringement settlement in US history... for anyone unfamiliar with proceeding, let that sink in.
Obsidian & 2nd Brains: Viability  v  Liability ?
Connection Hub:🌱 Solo, Student & Exploring
Intros for The Connection Hub - The Vault 👤 Who I am: (name + where you're based) 🛠️ What I actually do: (the specific work — not "I'm in real estate" but "I run a 3-agent team doing residential resale in Austin") 🤖 What I'm building with AI right now: (your current project, workflow, or the thing you're stuck on) 🎯 What I'm looking for connection-wise: (pick one or two) 💡 Someone who's solved [X] 🤝 A collaborator / accountability partner 👀 Just here to learn from people in my field 🧰 Trading workflows & systems 📬 Best way to reach me: (DM here / comment / link)
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