I wanted to mark this one out loud. @Bas Rosario is the first member who isn't an admin to reach Level 7 in here. He earned every bit of it. If you've spent any time in the forums, you've run into Bas. He's the one greeting new people on the welcome board before anyone else gets there. He's the one leaving real feedback on your work, not a thumbs-up and a move on. And he teaches by meeting you exactly where you are. He's teaching his wife, a cosmetologist with no tech background, to think in systems. He explained ICM to her with a birthday cake. A cake is a system, he said. It has steps. You gather the ingredients, you preheat the oven, and you do them in order. That's what ICM does with the AI. It hands it one step at a time. That's the gift. He can take the thing some of us are still wrestling with and make it small enough to hold. And when you try to hand him the credit, he won't take it. On Saturday's call, the room joked that he's the new authority around here. He shot it down on the spot and pointed at the people he learned it from, naming them one by one. He builds things to route you to the right help, not to put himself at the center of it. He does this constantly. Not in bursts when he wants attention. Every day, in the background, for people who didn't ask and couldn't repay him. That's the whole thing. Level 7 isn't a reward for showing up. It's what showing up for other people looks like after you've done it for this long. And no, he's not a bot. I know the running joke. The steadiness almost makes the case for it, in a room full of people building AI. But that's the tell. Bas has said he shows up here every day on purpose, out of genuine gratitude for what this place has given him. A bot can post every day. It can't be grateful. Bas comes back because he is. That's the most human thing in here. Bas, thank you. This community is better because you're in it. If Bas reviewed your work or helped you when you were stuck, say so below. He should hear it.

Built another thing. Simple dashboard that collects all my tasks from different platforms into one place. It's an html file that lives on my computer. It only uses up 35MB of computer memory vs keeping asana open which uses up 25x as much (don't check my math). I can run Claude harder now. Also, pay no attention to all the overdue tasks, it's embarrassing and worse than my mathing. Stop gap while a better solution shows up.

That's the leap most people never take. Roughly 90% of our members are still on the other side: scrolling, saving, getting value, never saying a word. Not a knock. Just the math. Lurking isn't failure. It's the default. But you showed up. And that shift compounds fast. The classroom teaches you the tools. The community teaches you how to think with them. When you participate, you get compression — months of grinding folded into a thread someone else already broke so you don't have to. Less friction. Faster outcomes. Personal growth and business growth in the same lane. You don't need a hot take. You need a real question. Give before you extract. Your lurker era wasn't wasted — you were loading context. Welcome to Level 2. A few of you just made the jump, and I want to call it out: • @Vamsi Acharya • @Stacey Lubowa • @Martin Brion • @Mark Benjamin • @Keith Langskov • @Patti Wilcox • @Novus Vella • @Tony Rhodes @Cain Gray If you're still lurking — go check out what they're posting. Real builds. Real questions. No fluff. That's the energy we want in here. And if I missed you — my bad. Drop your name below. We'll get you in the next round. The reward for showing up isn't points. It's speed. You stop duct-taping alone. You stop renting confusion. Your stack starts to click because other people's scars are now in your context. What finally made you break the ice? ───

After the first exercise at setting up folders, I began the next day to put it to work. I have two websites that I built with Manus and everything was great, until it wasn't - and I had no reasonable method to fix bugs. After my Brevo account got totally jacked up and my lists went to the netherworld, that was the last straw. I started to create files for a new site that I am going to use on the WordPress platform. I finished it at one session. The next day I decided to start with the second site and the lightbulb went on! I can make a set of skills for this! A whole new vista opened up. And while I am here. I SWORE I'd NEVER try Skool again. Ever! There was little to no value in anything I tried. Wasted money. But God has a sense of humor. This is the very first time that I have ever experienced a true community and that has meant the world to someone who lives very isolated. Thanks to all of you who helped me so selflessly! This is the Way. 😉

Today was spent in flow. Moving through one chat but multiple folders and sub projects within the project. If anyone is lost let me know I was lost for the first few days and know I am grasping more everyday. But today was my first day with ICM and the workflow is amazing. I remember waiting for 30 seconds to sometimes minutes. Image writing three prompts in one chat instructions for a feature update, logic for a different feature and a revision and it working on all three things with a hang time of 46 seconds. Something Cowork (even in projects would struggle with). Thanks Jake and team and those who help with this morning.