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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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⚠️ 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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🚨 You've been asking when the Lyceum opens. The waitlist is live. 🚨
The waitlist is up and seats are limited, so this is your nudge to go lock yours in. 👇 New here? Quick context. 👀 The Lyceum is Jake's live cohort program built on ICM, the methodology 35,000 people in this community are already using to get real results with AI. The short version: folders over agents. You learn the layer underneath the tools, the one that keeps working when the next model drops. Full breakdown is on the site. Here's what's inside: 🎯 Three cohorts, Technical, Business, and Creator. Same methodology, built around what you actually do. 🎥 Live sessions with Jake and a full team of instructors. ♾️ Lifetime recordings, written curriculum, and a private cohort Discord. 📜 An Eduba ICM certification you can put on your resume. And a guarantee no course makes: ✅ You leave with a working product, or the team finishes it with you. ⏳ Seats are limited and this community moves fast, so the math is not in your favor if you wait. 💡 Pricing and start dates aren't public yet. The waitlist sees them first, gives feedback on timing, and gets in before the program opens. Everything you want to know is on the page. If you already know this is for you, get on it. 🔥 👉 https://lyceum.eduba.io
Who's here? Drop your intro.
Tell us three things: 1. What you do (job, industry, student, career-changer, whatever) 2. What brought you to Clief Notes 3. One thing you're trying to figure out right now related to computing or AI I'll respond to every single one. And read each other's intros too because the person who's stuck on the same problem as you might already be in this thread. I'll go first I am Jake, I have been working in tech for 15 Years, building with Generative AI for 3 Years straight now! Excited to teach and learn! That's it. Simple, scannable, gives you data on who's joining and what they need, and keeps the feed clear for content that retains people past week one.
Normalize giving away everything for free
This is a little bit of a rant cause I can’t post these thoughts anywhere else. At least, I’m not ready to get publicly crucified yet, so… I cannot talk to almost anyone I know about ai. They have no idea what’s going on, or about the kind of stuff we do. It’s all doom and gloom. There is something that really bugs me about it, beyond the naivety and half-glass-full mentality. It’s that, gatekeeping does nothing for humanity and is a selfish mentality at its core. So ai has access to lots of data, and artists data. So what? If you’re really good, it doesn’t matter. Great products, great services, great talent all have one thing in common which makes them in-demand. They’re great. And greatness is witnessed by all the people who consume their work. There’s no gatekeeping because it’s literally on display. From Harry Potter to Michael Jordon, Disney to Taylor Swift, Steve Jobs to Crayola Crayons. If no one is trying to copy you, then your work isn’t loud enough. Either because it’s not good enough (yet), or because you’re hiding it away from the world out of fear. Bringing it full circle… Nobody lost money cause I finally had a tool that could do work for me for free. Rather, everyone in my companies will literally make more money because of massively efficient operations. It also means we’ll be able to afford remarkable talent with the extra profits we bring in due to that efficiency. I’m SO glad I have more options to take care of the people I bring into my sphere. One last thought… a little side quest here.. Whenever I ask people about why it isn’t a good thing that robots will be able to farm all the organic food we need at extremely low costs to produce compared to what we have now, no one has a good answer. I used to be of the mindset that really rich people should use their money to fix problems like world hunger. Then I actually looked at the challenge of getting the recipients to use money the way it’s intended, and crunching numbers to see how long they could solve it for, and full stop, it doesn’t work. Complex problems require complex solutions. A billion dollars solves world hunger for how long… a day? A week? A month? And then what?
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