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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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🇬🇧 GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON! 🇬🇧
Jake and I made it across the pond. We're here for London Tech Week all week. We got invited out for this one, which still feels surreal to type. We've got multiple pitch slots in front of investors over the next few days to talk about what we're building at Eduba and where this community is headed. Big moments lined up. Big rooms. Big swings. 🚀 If you're at the conference, DM me! Would genuinely love to meet anyone from the community in person. We'll be all over the Techscaler booth and floating between sessions. Even if it's just a hello and a handshake, hit me up. 🙏 And if you've got a second, send some good energy our way this week. We're about to walk into some rooms that could change the trajectory of what we're building. Wish us luck. Light a candle. Whatever your version of that is. We'll take all of it. Now to the real reason you're here. 👇 ---- 👇 🏆 7-DAY LEADERBOARD WINNER: @Bas Rosario 🏆 🔥 Bas just won it AGAIN. Back-to-back. Last week he won as a Premium member and we converted him to free Premium for life. This week he's already Premium for life, so we're bumping him up. ✨ Free VIP for life. ✨ The Drawing Room. High Tea. Bespoke folder builds with Jake. All of it. Forever. No charge. ---- ⏰ The 7-day clock just reset. Next Monday we crown the next winner. Could be you. 🎯 How it works: - 📝 Post bad ass stuff - 💬 Help people in the comments - 🛠️ Share what you're building, what's working, what's breaking - ❤️ Engage with other members' posts The leaderboard tracks all of it. Whoever sits at #1 next Monday wins. ---- 🎁 The prize, depending on where you're at: 🆓 Free member? You get lifetime Premium, free ⭐ Already Premium? We convert your Premium so you stop paying 👑 Already VIP? We convert your VIP so you stop paying Either way, you stop paying. Forever.
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🏆 WEEKLY COMP #7: THE OPERATOR 🏆
🎟️ PRIZE: FREE SEAT IN THE LYCEUM 🎟️ Pick your cohort. Technical, Business, or Creator. Your call. ---- 🇬🇧 We're back. Good morning from London. 👋 Thanks for the patience last week. Jake and I needed a few days to breathe before London Tech Week kicked off, and you all responded with nothing but support. We don't take that for granted. Now let's get back to building. ---- 📋 THE CHALLENGE Build a folder-based AI operator that handles ONE operational workflow end-to-end. You pick the workflow. This week's deliverable is one operator folder that someone could drop into a Claude project and use to handle a real business workflow without babysitting. ---- 🎯 PICK YOUR WORKFLOW The workflow is yours. Pick something specific. Pick something you'd actually use. A few sparks to get you thinking: - 🎫 Customer support triage (which tier handles this ticket?) - ✅ Content review and approval - 📨 Lead intake and qualification - 💸 Refund request handler - 🤝 Partnership pitch evaluator - 🎙️ Podcast guest pitch sorter - 💼 Freelance project intake - 📄 Resume screen for one specific role - 📅 Meeting request triage (book, decline, delegate) The more specific, the better. "Customer support" is too broad. "Refund request triage for an ecommerce store doing under 200 orders per month" is right. 📎 If you want a fully written client brief as a reference, the attached PDF walks through one example. Don't build the example. Use it as a template for how to think about scoping your own operator. ---- 🗂️ 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 operator is a folder with five things: - 📄 identity.md (who the operator is and what workflow they own) - 📐 rules.md (the decision logic: criteria, edge cases, escalation rules) - 💬 examples.md (decisions in action, including at least one edge case) - 📚 reference/ (checklists, templates, rubrics) - 📖 README.md (how to use it)
AI IPO
If any of you are following the news... Open AI, Anthropic and SpaceX are going public. This rush to IPO has me downright depressed... Investors want the return that they aren't getting. Companies are starting to tell their employees to stop using ai to complete tasks as token usage and API costs are going through the roof without the productivity they were sold. They'll need to cut costs in order to incentivize companies to use their models, but in order for investors to get their money costs have to go way up. Data center investment is crazy. I work for a company that supplies electrical/construction supplies and services to build them. Sparks/Reno is exploding with California investment. Original investors want to get out via actual liquidity supplied by the most unprecedented IPO we've ever seen, otherwise they'll default on years of deals. All the insiders are rushing to the doors while regular people are hoping to get a piece of the pie of these "trillion" dollar companies.. who is going to be left holding the bag if the financial institutions plan on using 401ks and pensions to fund these insane IPO's, and funding the investors ability to cash out? Are we on the precipice of the largest bubble pop in history? Sorry for the doom and gloom, I've had the most fun I've ever had building with these tools, but this forum is all things ai, right? I can't help but think our access to these platforms will change drastically very soon; and the bigger picture is much more bleak.
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Obsidian better than rolling your own folders?
Hey guys, I'm trying to figure out if Obsidian is worth adding to my stack. Been seeing it everywhere for a while now, everyone's using it as memory for Claude, which makes sense, it's just markdown folders. Thing is, I feel like I've already got my own version: one HQ folder of markdown files Claude reads at the start of every session, memory file, context file per project. Curious what you guys are doing. Anyone running Obsidian over an already decent folder setup? Any value add I'm missing? Cheers
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