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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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🚀 Ledger is live — alpha, go kick the tires
We just shipped the alpha of Ledger 📋 —https://ledger.eduba.io the talent platform we've been building on top of this community. Free for VIP and Premium Members. Here's the idea, plain: every other job board matches on a resume. Ledger matches on ICM. Every candidate in there has been through the methodology you're already using here — that's the whole point. Companies aren't guessing whether someone "gets it." They know it going in. 🎯 It works kind of like a job board, but more anonymous — right? 🕶️ Employers see an anonymized profile: skills, bio, portfolio, a short video intro if you want one. No last name, no email, no current employer. Every conversation runs through the platform's relay instead of real inboxes, so nobody's exposing contact info before they're ready. Two doors in: - 🏢 Company hiring — freelance or full-time — sign up and get access to a pool of people who already speak ICM fluently. - - 🙋 Candidate looking for work — freelance or full-time — list yourself. Takes a few minutes: profile, skills, a short video if you've got one. We're vetting both sides before anyone gets full access — companies and candidates — so the quality holds up on both ends. ✅ That means it's not instant approval; you might wait a beat while we look at it. Bear with us there. It's alpha 🧪, so: things might be rough around the edges, we're watching it closely, and if something breaks or feels off, tell us — that's exactly what this stage is for. Be nice to us and we'll be fast about fixing it. 🙏 Sign up: https://ledger.eduba.io 👇
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🏆 WEEKLY COMP #9: THE EDITOR 🏆
🎟️ PRIZE: FREE SEAT IN THE LYCEUM 🎟️ Pick your cohort. Technical, Business, or Creator. Your call. 🎯 PICK YOUR DOMAIN The domain is yours. Pick something specific. Pick something you'd actually use. A few sparks to get you thinking: - 💻 Code review editor for a specific language and level (junior TypeScript, senior Python) - 📊 Pitch deck editor for pre-seed founders - 🎨 Grant application editor for arts nonprofits - 📄 Resume editor for career switchers into tech - 📰 Op-ed editor for policy publications - 🎙️ Podcast script editor for interview shows - ⚖️ Legal brief editor for civil litigation - 📋 Product spec editor for early-stage PMs - 🎓 Academic paper editor for one specific field The more specific, the better. "Writing editor" is too broad. "Op-ed editor for tech policy publications targeting a policy audience" is right. 🗂️ THE METHODOLOGY If this is your first comp, welcome. Here's what you need to know: This week (and every week) you're learning interpretable context methodology. Folders as architecture. Each file does one job well. Your editor is a folder with five things: - 📄 identity.md (who the editor is, what work they review) - 📐 rules.md (how they critique) - 💬 examples.md (what good critique looks like) - 📚 reference/ (style guides, checklists, frameworks the editor uses) - 📖 README.md (how to use it) Drop the folder into a Claude project. Claude becomes the editor. Reusable. Shareable. Portable. 🔥 THE ANGLE THIS WEEK An editor is NOT a rewriter. An editor doesn't do the work for you. An editor surfaces what's weak and pushes you to fix it. That distinction is the whole assignment this week. When someone hands the editor a draft, the editor shouldn't produce a "fixed" version. The editor should point at the three lines that don't work, explain why, and hand it back to the writer to solve. ✍️ Generic feedback like "consider strengthening your intro" is a fail. Specific feedback like "your intro assumes the reader already knows what a Series A is, but this pub is read by generalists, so lead with the stakes instead of the jargon" is what a real editor does.
Risk Management & Intellectual Property: An Expose
I propose, my friends: A SPECIAL 3-hr Presentation (1hr. Presentation, 2hrs: Q&A, to address all your concerns at once) on Risk Management and Intellectual Property. As I do not want to see so many in the community create liability for themselves or the products they're developing. I have shared a few points here and there, but there is so much more to know, SO MUCH! I've barely scratched the surface and have been contacted by many of you to request a Zoom, etc. I am happy to help, but let's be efficient. My 1 request, in lieu of compensation: @Jake Van Clief Comp my admittance into the 1st Cohort of the Lyceum. My overhead is high, and work is picking up, but the tuition, is not an expense I can carry at the moment. I need this as insurance policy for my product, as I know I have a competitor attempting to copy me, but he is far behind and not in this community. I have my profile here hidden for a reason. I guarantee the presentation to provide so much value to this community that my request will seem small in comparison. Additionally, I am working with non-profit endeavors to petition the government for new legislation to address the insufficiencies of copyright law and case law currently on the books. I do this not only for this community, but for all artists in this nation. For those of you that support me, please express your sentiments below. @Bas Rosario @Mira Bradshaw @Curtis Hays @Carla Bosteder @Alex Brown @Mordecai Obeng-Appiah @Jordan Shaw @Scott Smith @Jay Price @Matthew Creamer @Oscar Setiawan @Alexander Paschka
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