@Jake Van Clief I hope you don't grow weary of all the thanks...I am extremely appreciative by nature. It's another Monday morning where I am reviewing the output I'm able to do because of the things you've given away. I am completely floored. I do not have the technical background that should allow me to have been hired as an AI consultant, or to have a SaaS I built for subcontractors, and an app on the App store for iOS and Android, yet here I am. Thank you for thinking the way you do, but more importantly, for operating the way you do. I know I am just one of many in a choir of thousands singing your praises, but I hope you know how much I appreciate you. Thank you again.

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Hello Clief Notes Family! You may have noticed that I have not been posting as much. Some of that has been intentional, I was posting a lot and being number 1 feels good, but seeing others who work so hard to bring knowledge and value to our community shining feels good also! Another big portion of why I have not been posting is that I have been chasing my dream, I have applied to many ambassador programs and I have been ghosted or I have not been the right fit for them. This does not mean I was not the right fit to be an AI ambassador! I wanted to share, that today is different, today I have won, I have been accepted as Generative AI Ambassador in the company I work for! I will be giving workshops, writing articles and sharing my knowledge with my colleagues everyday, I will be Teaching about AI, 2 of my passions in one place! Teaching and AI. I wanted to thank you all for being one of the most supportive, inspiring, and impactful forces in my life. You have all given me the confidence, the energy, and the care I needed to keep pushing for this. We truly learn, grow, and win together 🤓💪🏆 With all of my heart! THANK YOU 🙏

My dad, when you asked how he was, said one word back. "Strugglin." Most people say "good" or "fine." It's the armor we put on before we even think about it. My dad didn't. He'd tell you the truth, and then he'd watch what the truth did to the room. Some people froze — they had no idea what to do with an honest answer. Some leaned in and asked how they could help. He wasn't testing anyone. But it told you something about a person, depending on how they took it. He went to the same diner a lot. Some of the waitresses couldn't stand him for it, thought he was just a cranky old man. Others treated him like another grandfather, and he treated them like a granddaughter. He'd go to their high school games, get them graduation cards, and help fix their cars. Same man, same word, two completely different reactions. The word "Strugglin" sorted the room. It took me a long time to understand that "strugglin" wasn't him being negative. He was a Christian, and he'd read enough of Romans 5 to know what struggle was actually producing — character. He wasn't going to pretend the struggle away just to make a conversation more comfortable. That was his posture. Honest, every time, and let it land where it landed. I've been thinking about this a lot today, since it's Father's Day, and I'm thinking about where we are all spending our time. We're all building systems right now. ICMs, second brains, orchestrators, full app builds. I've been reading a lot of the posts and comments in here, and the more I think about it, the more I realize the thing everyone's actually reaching for isn't a system at all. It's a posture. A way of meeting the world that's theirs and nobody else's. The system is just where we try to put it. @Ruben Aguirre wrote two posts in here this week that got at this better than I could. He owned a hard one — scoped way more work than he got paid for and ended up with a furious client. And one of the lines that stuck with me was his: "AI without my brain on top of it is the problem." Not AI. AI without him on top of it.

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