ICM teaches structure. · Clief Notes

ICM teaches structure.

The first week I entered the competition, I built a coach that could coach. It worked. I solved the problem in front of me and moved on.

This week I went back and saw I'd skipped a step.

I never really slowed down to think about the person I was building it for, and this is skipping a feature, not an addon.

So, I did. I sat with the plan before touching the build this week, I sat with the purpose of what I was building, I thought about the people I was building it for, I put myself in the actual problem and tried to experience problems underneath the problem.

And I found something that had been right under my nose the whole time.

It may not be a winning entry, but it is an entry that I am proud of 😊 and it changed the way I build for people. It changed the way I look at what is possible with AI and the skills we are all learning.

That's what ICM, Interpretable Context Methodology has taught me.

People see a folder system that AI works well in. What it really does is make you think. You can't use it without breaking the problem into steps, and the steps into pieces first, so you think before you act.

There are more lessons here than those held with learning about ICMs structured folders. ICM also teaches you to see the structure of the problem, the people, and the challenges we're all trying to solve, and then creating your folder structure around them.

Slow down where it matters. Plan the steps, the details, and the structure.

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