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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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🚨 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
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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. 🙏
WEEKLY COMPETITION MEGATHREAD 🏆
I’ve seen a number of people either not know competitions are going on or know how to find them so here is a quick single source thread where you can get them all. I’ll keep this updated as new challenges are released. Current Challenge* Week 6 Due Sunday 5/31 12 PM EST The Challenge 💪 - Build a research specialist in the field of your choice Rules & Submissions 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-6-the-researcher?p=fa674d82 --- Past Challenges Week 1 The Challenge 💪 - Build a brand voice document for a pet grooming business Rules & submissions 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/first-ever-weekly-competition-is-live?p=90f50bf9 Results🏆 - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-1-winner-ian-barriopedro?p=0501b57e Week 2 The Challenge 💪 - Build an artifact of a financial advisor client intake system Rules & submissions 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-2-the-artifact-sprint?p=15145a68 Results🏆 - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-2-winner-virgilio-robinson Week 3 The Challenge 💪 - Build an AI specialist of your choice using the ICM method Rules @ submissions 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-3-the-specialist Results🏆 - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-3-winner Week 4 The Challenge 💪 - Build a team of specialists using the ICM method Rules & submissions 🗒️ - https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/weekly-comp-4-the-agency?p=838a6d5b
Stop using big words
So recently I left a comment on @Curtis Hays 's live-session thread and immediately wished I'd just made it a post. The comment: "There's a lot of software engineers and highly educated tech people in this skool community and sometimes it's hard to follow just because I don't have that same level of training and education. Curtis, similar to Jake, brought it down to my level so I can understand it on the first pass." I buried it under a thank-you, it deserved its own post, aquí estamos. I'm a second-class AI citizen in this room. Not a coder. Built my company on Excel, faith, and the kind of stubbornness my wife tolerates because I bring snacks to bed at 1 AM for her and teh baby almost done growing in her tummy. This room is mostly engineers, or so it seems. I am, statistically, an extra in this movie. Or the class clown who got let in to this Harvard because brown and affirmative action. I've made peace with that. The wife is still negotiating terms as she approaches full term. What I haven't made peace with is the vocabulary you all throw around. I scanned recent posts and comments here and ranked the words that made my brain stop and Google. The Top 3, with the analogies I wish someone had handed me on day one: Orchestration 11 hits and climbing in just a few pages of posts. @Curtis Hays named his "Duke." Cool, but what does Duke do, though? An orchestrator points the AI to the floor/department/folder it needs to go to, efficiently, quickly, efficiently. It also tells the different folders/specialists you've hired how to work well with each other. Translation for the rest of us: it's the map at the mall that says you are here, Cinnabon is over there, please proceed in an orderly fashion. No judgment. I love that map. I'd marry that map (sorry, mi amor). Architecture 22+ hits. The runaway champion. Remember the mall map from #1? That only works because somebody built the mall first. That's architecture. Ari literally calls herself a Chaos-driven Media Architect, and now I get why. Her job is deciding where every room goes before anyone moves in. For the rest of us: architecture is getting really good at organizing folders, the floor plan of your house. You decide once where the bathroom is, then you stop deciding for the next thirty years. You don't tell dinner guests "my architecture puts the bathroom upstairs." You say "bathroom's upstairs, second door on the left, jiggle the handle." Same energy.
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