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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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Where've we been? Plus a quick ask
Hey all. You've probably noticed it's been quiet in here the last couple weeks, wanted to explain. We've been building something for the community, and travelling at the same time to meet with investors and a few clients. We've also been busy getting the Lyceum ready. So less posting than usual, but for a good reason!! We're announcing the thing this week, and there'll be more info on the Lyceum coming out this week too. I think a lot of you are going to be happy. We've been grinding nonstop to get this ready. Before we do, we want to hear from you. If you're Premium or VIP, what's missing for you right now and what would you want us to add? If you're not Premium or VIP yet, what would actually make you want to upgrade? Form's here, takes about two minutes: https://forms.gle/MM8PLn2f6An1dfEUA It's open until Sunday June 21. Looking forward to reading everyones answers! Back soon with the news :)
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Did Google Steal my research?
Personally. No I don't think they did, I think the researchers are discovering what I did already ! And I'm happy they are. I would love if you all could comment, share or tag Google in this though as I would love to work with them ! Video below. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/how-the-open-knowledge-format-can-improve-data-sharing
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I directed a website live, the way I direct a film set
I have directed film sets for years. Last night I directed a website the same way, and I never wrote a prompt. On a set you do not operate the camera. You watch the frame and call what it needs. Slower. Dirtier. Again. The crew has the hands. You have the eye. I ran a build the exact same way. A live page open on screen, an agent holding the hands, and me reacting out loud to what moved in front of me. One change. Watch it land. Call the next. DIRECT THE SCREEN, DON'T PROMPT THE MODEL. A prompt is a memo. You write the whole brief, fire it off, and hope what comes back is what you felt. Directing inverts it. You give one small note against a live render, you see it land the instant it changes, and the screen hands you the next note. What came out of it: a wall of twelve CRT monitors, each playing a showreel at a different second, scanlines and flicker and a teal glow. "Make the cursor knock the screens." Now a mouse sweep tears the signal, splits the colour, sometimes cuts a screen to black static, then it recovers on its own. "Dirtier." A pink and teal spark cracks at the pointer. A custom glitch typeface on the headline. None of it was written down up front. It emerged, note by note. This is not magic. Nothing builds itself. An agent built each change, I reviewed every frame, and I called every move. The taste was mine. The hands were not. The loop, if you want to run it: 1. Stand it up live and look. "Warmer" needs something to be warmer than. 2. One move per round, so your reaction maps to one cause, not five. 3. Make every value a named dial. Steer by feel, not by editing code. 4. The agent proves its own edit compiled before it says done. You stay free to just watch. 5. When a look locks, save it. The final dial values are your design system. The skill that runs this loop is open source. Take it: https://github.com/Pushing-Squares/art-direct Here is the part that stuck. You cannot write a feel down. A brief is a guess at an aesthetic you have not seen yet. The eye only knows once the live thing is moving in front of it. So stop trying to specify the feel. Build a loop fast enough to react inside.
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