After 5 months of being in this community, I finally caught the ICM flu... I didn't catch it the first month--we were just having a good time back then. I didn't catch it the second month, either. Those were the "lego" days, and still long before it would really click. I didn't even catch it when I started a second company 6 weeks ago, that I built after being inspired right here in this community. For 5 months, I was vibe coding. Up late, up early, like a middle schooler with a new video game, like the internet just became a thing for the first time... I thought that was the thick of it. No. Oh no.. No, no, no, no, no, no. There are levels, boys, there are levels... I caught the ICM flu once I made a widget that an actual client used. And then it finally clicked. Software. Agents. Human. You can just build a whole foundation for any company using this method. Which, sure, yes, we know that. But, realizing that once you got it... once you've built that first widget, that first workflow tied to a piece of software you coded and an agent you made, you realize... that's the whole thing. Do it once, do it a thousand times. Recycle, reuse. We're all software developers now, baby! About 2 weeks after it finally clicked, I joined the Lyceum because I understood the value of this finally. It does not matter what you plan to do--these skills transfer to ALL SORTS of things. Software, Agents, Human... just apply it to.... anything! As a side note, I have already received value after the first Lyceum session. I finally can see how I can transform my little house cleaning company into a mega machine and create the dream vision I have for this company. FOR ANYONE THAT SAW MY ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT STARTING A COMPANY... This is going to sound nuts, I know, but Im shutting down the company I just made despite the fact that it's working. I can now see that the greatest play, and most value I can create, is going to come from the company that I have so much experience in already, and not the one that I have limited experience with. My judgements and tastes are strong where I've spent a ton of time already. Really, I have 3 lanes I've spent the majority of my life in, and I've decided I need to see those through at this point because I have way too much specialized knowledge to not do something with it. *And that's the secret sauce.*

I'm struggling to get AI to nail my voice and the voice of my clients (getting AI to write in my and my clients' tone/style for IP/positioning work/website, content, etc.). I'm wondering if anyone has any tips. There's so much out there and I'm getting a bit overwhelmed trying to figure out where to start. Would love if anyone could point me in a specific direction. As context, I am an IP advisor and architect bodies of work for my client. I can do it intuitively on my own (not an official copywriter) , but it takes FOREVER, and I know AI can do it faster, but I just keep going in loops when I try to nail mine or client's voices. I also know that spending this much time on nailing someone's voice in their content is NOT the best use of my time. Would love any tips or leads.

I've been building with Claude Chat (I call Claude) and Claude Code (I call CC) everyday. I've been providing trade knowledge and design decisions with Claude and just copying and pasting over to CC to build it, then I test in browser, take back any additions, critiques, alterations, etc. to Claude and we revise. Rinse and repeat. I've thrown a few ideas at Claude to propose additional work that can be done while I'm not available that we could use CoWork (I call CW) to build. So far it's only been prototypes of what the future model would look like on a grander scale, but nothing has gotten that far yet. My process with Claude and CC feels like it can drag on sometimes... I want to build this thing properly right from the start, so I've come to terms with the speed of it all, but I thought I'd check in with the masters and see if you can think of any holes or gaps I can fill. We'll start with a diagnosis of whatever it is we're going to add or improve to see what kinds of other things might be affected by it's addition. Then we write a spec that goes into our CONTEXT bible. Then we do a build prompt that I hand to CC, who then builds it. Now we've also built a harness for the whole thing, so before each build we also add in a layer of building on to the harness, which comes with it's own checks, both surgical checks and full run sweeps. A full run is starting to take over an hour to get through now, so needless to say some of the progress that I made early on before it got this big felt a lot better than the speed that the whole project is moving at now. After both harness and build have happened I'll do a screen test depending on what was changed. We'll commit after a full green pass, and then move on to the next step up the mountain of steps that this has shaped out to be. Without having to go into too much detail about what the project is about (I've been working full time and just trying to grind this out on evenings for a few hours a night and weekends where I spend usually >12h trying to get through this thing) what do you guys think might make this process run a little more smoothly?

Hey, I’m Eddy. Product and tool design engineer at an injection molding company in the Allgäu, Germany — automotive components, mostly CATIA V5. Right now I’m turning raw meeting recordings into a real company knowledge base before a colleague retires, and building a tool-agnostic AI workspace system around it. Two years of daily AI use. Clief’s videos pushed me from Cowork into Claude Code, and that opened a lot of doors. My question: how do I hand this off so it works without me?

I have started using Daniel Miessler's LifeOS; and found it to be very much aligned with the ICM methodology. But the system got so big and complex I find myself kind of lost. Does anyone here uses it? so we can talk about it?