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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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This community is large and it moves fast. That's the good part and it's also the problem: valuable posts get buried, the same questions get re-asked instead of found, and spammers show up wherever there's an audience. These guidelines are what keeps the room worth showing up to. Read them once. You won't need them again, because most of this is what you'd do anyway. New here? Start with Jake's welcome post and the Foundation course. This post is about how we behave, not where to begin. 1. Build in public. Post the thing while it's half working. A half-finished build is more useful to everyone else than the polished writeup you'll never get around to, and you'll get corrected before you've spent a week going the wrong way. 2. Teach what you learn. The day you figure something out is the day you're best at explaining it, because you still remember exactly what confused you. A month later you've forgotten the hard part and your explanation gets worse. If you cracked something this week, that's a post. 3. Ask good questions. Specific beats polite. "How should I structure this?" gets three vague answers. "I have a 40 file client folder, the model keeps loading the wrong context file, here's my CLAUDE.md" gets a real one. Say what you tried, what happened, and what you expected instead. A more in depth guide: https://dontasktoask.com 4. Give credit. If you built on someone's skill, template, folder structure or comment, tag them. It costs you nothing and it's the reason people keep publishing their work here instead of keeping it. A lot of the best material in this community started as somebody's reply on somebody else's post. 5. No spam, no pitching. Sharing a tool you actually use and explaining why you use it is fine. Dropping a link with no context, cold DMing members, or treating the feed as a lead list is not. Networking is genuinely welcome (there's a Connection Hub for exactly that: https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/new-the-connection-hub-is-live) but networking and pitching are not the same thing, and everyone can tell the difference immediately.
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Gather round, Clief Notes crew — we’re opening The Legends: a classroom on the Frontier built around two gunslingers who deliver real systems, not hype. Each legend has a dedicated folder packed with signature builds, frameworks, and battle-tested wisdom. Start where the dust is thickest for you. 📐 Bas Rosario – The Wise Architect’s Library Master planner and blueprint boss. Bas designs for deep understanding and human–AI collaboration so you stay in control — frameworks, systems thinking, responsible AI, and work that still feels human. 👷‍♂️ Don Roy – The Master Builder’s Forge Hammer in hand, fire in the forge. Don turns ideas into working tools: automation, quality control, content systems, Remotion + AI builds, and anti-slop standards that keep what you ship durable. These two are the heartbeat of this classroom — grinding, growing, and lifting the whole crew. Your move: Pick a folder. Open it. Start forging. https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/classroom/b5143824?md=61c684c877384eefbd11c804f83aac05 Who are you riding with first — Architect or Builder? Drop a 🤠 below and go make something that lasts.
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How to scale the ICM method to a large multi-domain system?
Hi all, Before I get to my questions, I want to thank Jake for such a valuable resource in his ICM / F&F method. I am an AI and coding newbie, and this has definitely put me on the fast track. I knew I needed something like this, I just didn't know how to even start looking for it, and then the YouTube algorithm served it up for me. The moment I saw what Jake was teaching, I knew it was my next step in the journey. Thank you! On to my questions. I have gone through the Foundation Course, and I have the full Workspace-Blueprint template. The three-layer method (Map, rooms, tools) has become how I actually work, and I have been running it for a little while on smaller projects. Here is my situation. I am building the operating system for a multi-industry business group, and it has grown into several distinct domains: - an identity and philosophy layer: governing principles, values, and leadership and management philosophy, synthesized from a body of books and courses, - a knowledge layer: a large reference library plus custom tools that extract and organize knowledge from books and transcripts (several thousand files), - a research layer, - an operations layer: SOPs and playbooks for running the businesses, - a learning layer that captures lessons and feeds improvements back in, - a governance layer that holds the enterprise map. Right now this lives across roughly ten separate Claude projects that grew organically. Some began as tools, some as libraries, and each became its own project. Many are stages in a workflow. So, work completed in one "stage" needs to move into another. Most of this was built before I discovered Jake. I am fairly certain I need to reorganize what I have already built, and I am also considering turning some, if not all, of the skills I have created into file-based workflows. The method is taught at the scale of one folder with a few rooms, and mine is well past that, so I want to be sure I am applying it correctly rather than drifting into the "too many workspaces" problem at the project level.
Why it's been so quiet from my crazy loud corner of the world
Okay, so. Yesterday I said the next post would explain where I've been. Grab your coffee. Or the whiskey. This one earns it. I'm usually the loud one in here. The 1 AM experiments, the folder systems, the posts that run longer than some of your contracts. Then about a month ago I went quiet, and quiet is not my natural state. My natural state is "please, someone make him stop." June 24 was the day the wheels came off. That morning I sat down and let our project manager go. If you've never had to do it, no amount of business books prepares you for the part where there's a real person on the other side of the screen and you're the one changing their whole year. One of those conversations you rehearse in the shower for a week and it still comes out sideways. We handled it with as much care as we could, offered the strong recommendation he honestly earned, and it still sat on my chest the rest of the day. Except the day wasn't done. A few hours later, the strongest CMO on my team gave me a 30-day notice. Same. Day. Two seats gone before dinner. Every founder in here knows the math that starts running in your head at that moment, and none of it is about marketing. ******************************************* Then it got personal. ******************************************* My wife was two weeks past her due date with our newest baby. If you've lived a two-weeks-past-due house, you know the whole family walks around holding its breath. When labor finally started, the plan was a peaceful home birth. What we got was a chaotic ambulance ride and four days in the NICU. Not because the baby needed it. Because the medical system is run by insurance companies and litigation attorneys, and "healthy baby" apparently isn't a discharge criteria anymore. Four days of asking strangers for permission to take home our own healthy kid. When we brought up leaving against medical advice, the not-so-subtle response from the doctors included the words "child protective services." We're not talking about a sick baby.
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