We just broke 40k Members, in less then 4 months... To say I am honored and blown away is an understatement. I feel like yesterday @Matthew Creamer quit his job to sleep on my floor and bust out 15 hour days to build out content, structure and anything else I thought you all would need to make this community worth it. But at the end of the day there is only one thing for me to say. THANKYOU None of this, and I mean NONE of this would be remotely worth it if it wasn't for you all. To list and tag everyone that have contributed so much valuable not just to this community but to me would be nearly impossible. Thank you to every single one of you. Thank you for commenting and helping out on posts Thank you for sharing the wins you have gotten both at home and professionally. Thank you for believing in me and what I am building septically those of you who have been around since the beginning (you know who you are). I cannot tell you how happy my heart is to get in front of you all and teach, talk, ask questions and even learn a lot myself. It is a dream come true to become someone that people can learn from; to share my thoughts and have those very thoughts change the way people live their lives and do their work. It's only the beginning too, I can't wait to see what the rest of the year has in store, and I promise to keep building, working and recording for you all. From the very very very bottom of my heart.....Thankyou! Thankyou to every single one of you reading this and for being part of such an amazing community.

Glad you made it in. Before you go anywhere else, work through the steps below. They will get you set up and ready to start. ✅ Introduce yourself in the comments. Tell us what you do and why you are here. ✅ Watch the Getting Started overview 📚Navigating The Course - Getting Started · Clief Notes ✅ Start with the Foundation course 0.1: Where All Of This Leads - The Foundation · Clief Notes ✅ Fill out your profile so people know who you are ✅ Join the next competition ⭐ Competitions Mega Thread - Getting Started · Clief Notes ⭐ On Competitions (and why I love them) We host a competition every two weeks. These are some of the most powerful places to learn and build here. Also Cash prices (often over $200) for the winners. Learning how to do something is one part of it. The real learning starts when you put it to work. That is what the competitions and the build sessions are for. On top of this they act as a portfolio a place to not just show us but show others (clients, bosses, your best friend) what you have been building and that you really CAN build. In order to win a competition you must be a paying member (It takes me hours to review submissions sometimes days. But if you win ONCE you can pay for a whole year of membership so I think that's only fair!) Watch the videos, then go make something.

🎟️ PRIZE: FREE SEAT IN THE LYCEUM 🎟️ Pick your cohort. Technical, Business, or Creator. Your call. ---- 📋 THE CHALLENGE You are the client this week. No fictional Marcus. No fictional Sarah. No fictional Devon. Pick a real problem in your own life or work. Build the folder-based specialist you wish you had. This is the capstone of Month 2. The challenge flips. Instead of building for someone else, you write your own brief and solve it for yourself. ---- 🎯 THE TWIST The hard part isn't building. The hard part is scoping. Picking the right problem is harder than solving the wrong one. Most people pick problems that are too small or too vague. The skill this week is treating yourself like a real client. Be specific about what's broken. Be specific about what you need. Don't pick "I want to be more productive." Pick "I waste two hours every Sunday night writing the same kind of LinkedIn carousel posts and I need a folder that handles 80% of the draft work so I can focus on the hook and the visuals." That's a real brief. Specific problem. Specific scope. Specific desired output. ---- 🗂️ TWO DELIVERABLES THIS WEEK This is the only week with two pieces: 1️⃣ Your own client brief. 250 words or less. Describe the problem you're solving for yourself. Treat yourself like a real client. What's broken? What have you already tried? What do you need? 2️⃣ The folder system that solves it. Same structure as every week: - 📄 identity.md - 📐 rules.md - 💬 examples.md - 📚 reference/ - 📖 README.md Your brief lives at the top of the repo as brief.md so judges can read it before they look at the folder. ---- 🔥 THE ANGLE THIS WEEK Anyone can follow a brief. Writing your own, then solving it, then shipping it as a usable folder is a portfolio piece that demonstrates judgment, not just execution. This is the skill that separates "AI hobbyist" from "AI builder." Anyone can prompt their way through a problem someone else handed them. Scoping a problem, designing the solution, and shipping it as a system is what real work looks like. 💪

I built a skill package that gives each AI agent a distinct thinking style, and upgrades the council skill into a forum of truly independent thinkers. The result: agents that think differently on purpose - tailored to task - for sharper, well-rounded output. First, I want to credit @Curtis Hays and @Brooke Hays for the inspiration. If you haven't watched their video in the post "If Your Specialized Agents Don't Think Differently. They Should." - please do. This is their work, I just wrote some files. They touched on something I've been trying to crack since I started messing with agents a few months ago: how do I make an agent think in specialized ways? How can I get an agent to think from first-principles? How can an agent see things in ways that no one else would? How can an agent connect the dots that I am missing? I tried assigning personalities, pointing agents at a knowledge base, etc, etc. Sometimes this worked - but often, they would fall back to whatever llm baseline was dictating their behavior. Brooke's breakdown of cognitive functions, and Curtis' brilliant idea to assign them to his agents was the spark I needed. I started by re-acquainting myself with the personality types, and building a COMPENDIUM: A reference guide to the 8 Jungian cognitive functions, the 16 MBTI types and their full stacks, and how each maps to an AI agent role. It was built from Carl Jung and Isabel Briggs-Myers' work. It's the single source of truth the other two skills read from — the "textbook" behind the system. The result: a shared, verified vocabulary for giving any agent or task a defined thinking style. Then I got to work on figuring out how I could incorporate this into my ICM workspaces. This led to making the COGNASSIGN skill: A skill that assigns the right cognitive "Mind" to one agent or task. You answer a few job-first questions (what must it do, perceive, judge, and be best at), and it picks a lead function plus a balanced partner, then writes a small procedural block telling the agent how to think — not a personality label. If a job needs too many strengths it tells you to split it into two agents; if it's pure mechanical work it returns "N/A." The result: any agent gets a fit-for-task wiring in one drop-in block, the way the video's two agents thought differently from just four letters.

Working with the EU on anything AI/systems is a headache in itself, so many rules to follow without even realizing that your VPS has to be hosted in the EU. Crazy stuff. Short story time, I had a project with a Medium sized company in Sweden, we were building a Facebook prospecting system. Now the thing is that they wanted a feature (quick note: I had already built the system with GDPR in mind, using Hetzner and all) that involved scraping individual profiles, which isn't really allowed. Now the question is, with AI giving you a workaround for almost anything, how far would you go before your morals stepped in. For me it's simple, if it even comes close to crossing the line legally or morally, it's a big no. Huge shoutout to @Tiffany Coyle for educating me on GDPR!