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Compact or new session?
Not sure if there is a right answer here or if it's a preference thing but my question is do ya'll compact a session or take that as a hint to wrap up current work and start a new session? I'm using VS Code and when I see the auto compact about to set off, I ask claude to update the respective .md files in the workspace to wrap up the session. Is that less efficient than just compacting? I suppose my thought process was if the .mds inside the workspace are lean enough then a new session would be more token efficient than compacting.
Ari’s Space: Your 24/7 AMAAi Hotline
Welcome to Ari’s Space. Think of this as your always-open support thread inside Clief Notes. If you have a question, feel stuck, need direction, want feedback, or just need a little clarity, drop it here. This space is for: - Questions about Clief Notes or ICM - Help applying what you’re learning - Feedback on your ideas, content, offers, or next steps - Accountability nudges - “Am I thinking about this the right way?” moments - Anything you’d usually wish you could ask me directly No question is too small. If it matters enough for you to ask, it belongs here. I’ll be checking in regularly and answering as much as I can. Use this thread like an AMA that never closes. Drop your question below whenever you need support with. Welcome to Ari’s Space. <3
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I think I get the basics ICM structure for a single workspace but I’m trial and erroring my way through a “business_OS” build right now. I’m up to 8 workspace folders inside. Everything from marketing, website manager, lead management, data, etc. Those workspaces have stages inside. Data stages like aggregation, enrichment, etc. Marketing is dependent on data’s final output. I guess my question or struggle is when to split to another workspace? is there a test to know if you’ve got too many sub folders stages in each workspace? Or as long as context is short and sweet just keep splitting off into workspaces and stages? Feel like I’m in the movie inception but with file folders 🙃 I originally was looking at this like an org chart with positions and jobs but that didn’t work very long and had to switch to production line output thinking and dependencies between workspaces.
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@Ari Evergreen wow thanks! Super practical and actionable advice. Looks like I was trying to keep too many production lines inside a workspace folder by looking at that workspace folder as a department. Hard to shake the org/distro structure as I build things out but this certainly helped clear things up. I appreciate your time for the detailed response!
ICM Audit skill
I'm a build the parachute on the way down kind of guy. Unfortunately a needed trait for entrepreneurship. I try to follow the process on the front end for a clean ICM setup but I catch myself wanting to just jump. I tell myself, we've got enough altitude, parachute is decent enough, let's just build the rest on the way down! Project starts great then it starts to lose steam. Working inside the workspace feels less efficient. Some context is sticking. Others aren't and harmony is out of sync. That's why I built this ICM-audit skill. Just ran it now mid way through a build. It basically scores your ICM compliance and recommends restructuring. Hopefully this is helpful for my fellow ready, fire, aim folks.
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📊 You've probably seen this chart floating around LinkedIn and Twitter Each dot is 3.2 million people. ⬜ Grey is the 84% of humans who have never used AI 🟩 Green is the 16% who have used a free chatbot 🟨 Yellow is the 0.3% who pay for one 🟥 Red is the tiny sliver who use AI coding tools Most of the people sharing it have not actually said what it means. So here it is. 🔁 We live inside an algorithm. Mine shows me AI all day. Yours probably does too. Every reel, every post, every podcast clip, every ad. The feed makes it feel like the whole world has moved on without you and you are sprinting to keep up. Inside Clief Notes that feeling gets louder. You log in and see people building agents, shipping side projects, automating their inbox, talking about Claude Code and MCP servers like it is normal. In this room, it is. Step outside and almost nobody is doing any of it. 6.8 billion people have never opened a chatbot. Plenty of the ones who did opened it once, asked it something dumb, got a dumb answer, and decided the whole thing sucked. They are not coming back this year. Maybe not next year either. 🪖 When I was in the Marine Corps I never felt like I was doing anything special. I was surrounded by other Marines. Everyone around me could do what I could do. The standard was the standard. It was not until I left and stood next to people who had never served that I understood. The thing I thought was ordinary was rare. I just could not see it because I was inside it. That is what is happening to you in here. If you feel behind in this community, that is the right feeling to have. It means you are standing next to the people pushing the edge. Step outside this room and the thing you are calling behind is so far ahead of where most of the world is sitting that they cannot see you from where they are. And do not forget. The thing you built last week, the workflow you set up this morning, the conversation you just had with Claude. A version of you from two years ago would have paid good money to do any of it.
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@Jake Van Clief Amen to that. I joined at 19 left at 34. I didn’t realize until I left that I took for granted the standard that every held and exceeded so casually.
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@Omondi Okumu Linux will probably drive you mad if you try to daily it. I burnt way too many tokens than I care to admit trying to get Claude code to fix Bluetooth issues with my headphones… However, I look at my Linux laptop as a test lab. If it burns down or malware gets introduced it’s trapped to that machine. So I just use it for building and testing. Not daily driving. That’s all separate on my personal laptop.
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