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Small Win
Hey Everyone, Just wanted to share a small win for me today. I managed to secure my first sit down with a possible client today. I got talking to our contract manager at work today just general chit chat talking about his role and what it entailed. We got onto how late he has to work and how it was hard on the family so so forth. I said to him what if i could give you that time back through implementing software that did a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to office admin. he laughed and asked how was that I explained lv learned how to use AI to build systems we went back and forth a bit about AI talking about where it might lead and such and I'm not going to lie basically regurgitated Jakes classes stating things like how its now to have a hand carved rifle will set you back a small fortune but way back when you would of been looked down on, I spoke about the part about human desire and how that will always be there. He was completely taken back to him I was now not just a vet and a carpenter I was the future and Iv been asked to come to the office tomorrow to sit down and talk. I know its only a sit down and nothing confirmed but when i first approached them i was basically laughed out the office and given work via what's app but that small amount of knowledge might be the reason my life changes for the better. So thank you @Jake Van Clief .for giving this course away and helping complete beginners like me a fighter chance of a better future.
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@Allan Durhuus I will do 100% win or learn I’ll post
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@Jordan Shaw thanks Jordan
I had to build fences around my own brain
Six months in, I noticed I was outsourcing the thinking, not just the tasks to AI. I'd open a chat before I'd actually sit with the problem. I put the friction back deliberately: reading without it, first drafts without it, 20 minutes on a problem before I touch anything. I still use AI constantly. But I've found the line between tool and crutch is entirely about what you let it replace. Anyone else drawing lines like this? What did you fence off?
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I find they way it works for me is bouncing ideas back and forth helping evolve my understanding of the problem my idea might of been about fixing if that makes sense.
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@Alex Harrison exactly that mate. Give you the ability to look at problems from different angles
Who's here? Drop your intro.
Tell us three things: 1. What you do (job, industry, student, career-changer, whatever) 2. What brought you to Clief Notes 3. One thing you're trying to figure out right now related to computing or AI I'll respond to every single one. And read each other's intros too because the person who's stuck on the same problem as you might already be in this thread. I'll go first I am Jake, I have been working in tech for 15 Years, building with Generative AI for 3 Years straight now! Excited to teach and learn! That's it. Simple, scannable, gives you data on who's joining and what they need, and keeps the feed clear for content that retains people past week one.
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He how you doing everyone, I’m really new to all this but super excited about the possibilities it could bring to the future for me. I’m currently working for a contracting company I’d been working there for like 3 weeks and spotted that they were really struggling with the organisation of the contract. The contract is a void maintenance contract where we go in do an audit of the property flag and issues send it up to main contractor, then works would be agreed we would go back in and rectify what ever was agreed. They would print off emails as job notes and hand write things that were picked up on the job. No procurement database, no van stock, no way of showing the main contractor or the client where each job was currently siting in the workflow, no anything really. I just thought I could build out a platform on loveable.io that would help they schedule the job, assign jobs to workers, had a live job progress tracker that updated automatically when an operative completed their assignments, it also tracked costings, van stock and gave both the main contractor and the client their own portal so they could see where every job was at any time. I build an audit into the software so works could be agreed and declined instantly as the audit was being conducted. Turns out the company now see me as a threat and I’m no longer asked to come to office all work is given to me via what’s app now. 🤦🏻‍♂️ I offered to give it them for free and train anyone using it but they looked at me like I was an idiot and no way I could think of a better way of running a contract then them. But if one contractor is doing this there must be more so I’d like to see if I can build out a company helping contractors run contracts really. I think I have a skill at watching how things are done and adjusting and tweaking to help stream line. So that’s my idea, I’m super glad I found this group the teaching is incredibly. It’s so easy to absorb and follow. Here’s to a better future 🥂
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@Jake Van Clief had a breakthrough today managed to talk to the contract manager in private. In general conversation I was asking him how long he spends dealing with all the follow ups from clients and so on. His answer was I’m in the office till 8pm most nights. So I said must be hard on your family life and he was like it is but needs must. I simply said what if I could give you back your time with your wife and kids. He laughed and just said how’s that? I gave another pitch but from a different angle to last time and he was taken back and said leave it with him and to come see him in the office tomorrow 🤞 could be my foot in the door. We had a chat about my contractor OS V3 I’m working on that I’m building now (using your method ) he apologised for the way he reacted last time I approached them about my software as we don’t have carpenters coming into the office pitching systems to us so thought it was just nonsense.
New video Drop
This is a new style as well that I'm testing and I'm talking about systems thinking a little bit more in it and how I think that you can do more as a company now, especially if you're a consultancy. If you're thinking of starting your own or already have one, this video might be huge value for you! It's on my YouTube so if you can go like it there and leave a comment that would be amazing I'll probably create a text companion and make a few more videos and add this to a new series called systems thinking In the classroom! We shall see.
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Just finished. Great value as always Jake 👌🏼
🎉 New Course: Davids Corner
🎉 Meet your new admin: @David Vogel Some of you have been watching this happen in real time. David has been quietly turning his "Show Your Work" posts into one of the most useful threads in this community for months. Resource roundups, deep-dives, honest takes on what's actually working in production. No fluff. No hype. 🛠️ So I gave him the keys. 🔑 David is now an admin of Clief Notes, and he has his own classroom: 🏛️ David's Corner. Go check it out. AI Acronym Overload? Here's the Cheat Sheet - Davids Corner 📂 What's in David's Corner He started with the resource post a lot of you bookmarked last week and has been steadily expanding it. As of right now you'll find: 🔥 Must Have Resources - 🎨 Looking for design inspiration? - 🧠 AI Acronym Overload? Here's the Cheat Sheet - ⭐ Some of My Favorite Resources 📚 Learning for Everyone - 🥊 Obsidian is BLOAT! Batter Up - 💰 Flip the Script — It's all about the $$$ - 👻 Do You Have a Soul? - 🔄 My AI Workflow Evolution 👨‍💻 Developer Resources - 🕵️ LEAKED: Ten Prompts from Experts - ⚡ Introducing the Hermes Stack 🎯 David and Jakes Picks (this one's going to grow) Plus he's curating trusted YouTube channels and a running list of favorite community posts on resources inside the corner. So if you wrote something good about a tool, a stack, or a workflow, that's where it might end up. 👀 He's adding more weekly. If something stops delivering, he wants to hear about it. That's how the corner stays sharp. 🔪 💡 Why this matters The Vault and The Drawing Room give you my methodology. David's Corner gives you a second lens. Same standards (battle-tested, no theory, no marketing slides), different angle. He's been in the trenches with tools and stacks, and he writes about them honestly. ✅ What you can do 1. 🔖 Go bookmark David's Corner in the classroom 2. 💬 Drop a comment under his posts when something works (or doesn't) 3. 📨 Got a resource that should be in there? Tag him. He's curating.
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Amazing work David 👌🏼
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