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I'm dumb. Here's proof.
I was today years old when I realized I did not have some of the most important files that you need in the folder structure that Jake teaches. During today's video call with the VIP group, he went on a deep-dive rabbit trail about the ICM folder methodology that he teaches in his foundations course (free). As he was discussing it, I went to check what my root folder looked like and I did not have a Claude.md or context.md file!!! My productivity skyrocketed ever since I implemented his folder strategy over a month ago, but little did I know that I hadn't even implemented it correctly. 🤯 🤯 🤯 This goes to show that massive action beats over planning every time!
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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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🏆 WEEKLY COMP #3: THE SPECIALIST 🏆
💰 $325 CASH PRIZE 💰 That's a full year of Premium. Win this and your membership pays for itself. 📋 THE CHALLENGE You just got hired again. Different client this time. Meet Sarah, a freelance copywriter who's drowning in context-switching. 📎 Download the full client brief attached to this post. Short version: She works with three types of clients (SaaS founders, ecommerce brands, local service businesses) and starts from scratch every project. She doesn't need another tool. She needs a system. Your job is to build her a folder-based AI specialist she can drop into any Claude project. The folder IS the deliverable. 🗂️ THIS WEEK YOU LEARN ICM Up until now, comps have been "build a thing." This week you utilize the methodology taught throughout the community. 🧠 Folders as architecture. That's it. That's the whole concept this week. Your specialist is a folder with five things: - 📄 identity.md (who they are) - 📐 rules.md (how they respond) - 💬 examples.md (what good looks like) - 📚 reference/ (source material) - 📖 README.md (how to use it) Drop the folder into a Claude project. Claude becomes the specialist. Reusable. Shareable. Portable. 🎯 PICK YOUR SPECIALIST Don't pick copywriting. That's Sarah's example. Pick something YOU would actually use. A few sparks to get you thinking: - A salary negotiation coach - A meal planner that knows your dietary restrictions - A code reviewer for your stack - A real estate market analyst for your city - A technical recruiter screener - A grant writer for nonprofits in your space The more specific, the better. "Marketing expert" is not a specialist. "B2B email expert for enterprise SaaS targeting CFOs" is. 💼 WHY THIS ONE LANDS ON YOUR RESUME Real talk. Winning a comp in a Skool community doesn't get you a job by itself. But shipping a working folder-based AI specialist with a clean README and a public repo? That's a portfolio piece.
Prompt Engineering and AI Literacy Platform
Hey Clief Notes, I'm Bas, and I want to share something I built for anyone working with AI: Praxis Library at praxislibrary.com. It started as a personal reference, the kind of thing I wished existed when I was learning prompting, frameworks, and how AI systems actually behave. It's grown into a living, free, open knowledge base, and I'd love feedback from this community. What's inside - A glossary of 5,319 AI terms, searchable and defined in plain language. No jargon walls. - 175 techniques and frameworks across 14 categories, including Chain-of-Thought, CO-STAR, CRISP, CRISPE, ReAct, and Flipped Interaction. Each has examples, use cases, and tips. - A full AI history timeline, five eras from the foundations through today's LLMs, with 61 techniques placed in their original context. Free interactive tools (Works in progress!) - Prompt Analyzer: paste a prompt, get a structural breakdown. - Prompt Builder: build a structured prompt step by step. - Technique Finder: describe what you're trying to do, get matched to the right technique. - Persona Architect: design a clean, reusable AI persona. - Hallucination Spotter: practice catching common hallucination patterns. - Preflight Checklist: a quick gut-check before sending a prompt to production. - Readiness Quiz: a self-assessment for where your AI literacy sits today. - Patterns Library and an AI Safety hub. It's also built with a strict A+ Content Security Policy, no external trackers, no third-party fonts, no analytics following you around. Just the content. It's designed to be neurodivergent-friendly and WCAG 2.1 AA accessible, with a built-in accessibility dashboard for text size, high contrast, read-aloud, and screen dimming. (This is a P.O.P - Product of Passion, and to be candid, I have limited time to work with AI. which brings me to the below) Information you can trust(?) Every external citation on the site is screenshot-verified by a human and registered in a public audit log before it goes live. The audit report is open, so you can see exactly what's verified and what isn't.
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Do What You Can't.
"The haters, the doubters are all drinking champagne in the top deck of the Titanic… and we are the iceberg." — Casey Neistat A couple of days ago I rediscovered one of my favorite YouTube videos, posted 9 years ago by Casey Neistat. The premise is simple: everyone will tell you what you can't do. In life, in business, in relationships. In our case, with AI. F*&% that. When I joined this community a month ago, I didn't know what a markdown file was. Couldn't build a workspace or a system. Had no idea what "IDE" stood for, let alone how to build and deploy skills in Claude. That being said, I did the thing anyway. And now I'm building and solving things in ways I never imagined. If you're new: welcome. Do what you can't. If you've been here a while: keep doing what you can't. This is one of the best communities on the internet. Grateful to be in it.
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