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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.
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40,000 People....I have only this to say
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.
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🎆 THE LAST SALE EVER — HELP US GET TO VEGAS 🎆
🎯 WE READ ALL OF YOUR RESPONSES. HERE'S WHAT'S NEXT (AND A BIG ASK) A couple weeks ago we asked you what you wanted Clief Notes to become. You showed up. You wrote real, thoughtful answers, some of you wrote essays. We read every single one. Twice. So before anything else: thank you. This post is us answering you. 💬 YOU TOLD US. HERE'S WHAT WE'RE BUILDING. You said you want a clearer path from learning ICM to actually getting paid for it. → It's coming. A real learning-to-earning track, plus a talent platform we're building to connect you with people who want to hire what you can do. Heads up: the talent platform will be Premium and VIP only, one more reason to lock in below. You said competitions without feedback don't help you grow. → Fixed. Going forward, every single entrant gets tailored feedback on their build, not just the winner. We're moving to two competitions a month so we can do it right. And both monthly winners get a 30-minute call with me. You said the best builds get buried in the feed. → We're building a tagged library so you can actually find "ICM setups for solo operators" or "small team, non-coder" instead of scrolling for an hour. You said you couldn't map all the pieces, Skool, Discord, the Lyceum, ICM, what each tier unlocks. → A single orientation page is on the way. One place that breaks all of it down so nobody's lost. You said you want to connect with each other. → We hear you. Meetups, pairing, and a recorded "After Tea" hangout are on the table. South Florida alone has over 1,000 of you. Let's use that. You said we've felt spread thin. → The most honest one. You're right. We're bringing on real help to run the day-to-day so the community gets consistency, and so Matt and I can keep building the things above instead of dropping balls. You called it, and we're fixing it. 📍 QUICK NOTE ON ICM: a few of you asked for "ICM with Copilot" or "ICM with n8n, Sheets, GoHighLevel." Good news, ICM already works with any model and feeds straight into the tools you're using. It's the structure underneath all of them, not a separate thing you have to relearn per tool. If that's not landing for you, that's on us to make clearer, and we will.
Bas baked the cake. Here's the one step everyone reads past.
🎂 @Bas Rosario baked a cake for us. Let's carry it to the table. If you haven't read Bas birthday cake post yet, go read that first. https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/new-to-icm-icm-explained-with-a-birthday-cake 🎂 It's the cleanest plain-language intro to ICM I've come across, and this won't land without it. Back? Good. 😊 Here's something I noticed reading it again: Bas put a gate in his cake and never told you. Look at step 05-check: "Your one job: toothpick test. Clean = go to 06-cool. Not clean = back to 04-bake for 5 more." Every other step makes something. Gather, mix, bake, frost, decorate. 05-check makes nothing. Its only job is to look at what the last step produced and decide: good enough to keep going, or send it back? That's a different kind of step. 👀 And once you can see it, you start noticing where your own workflows are missing one. In the kitchen it's a toothpick. In your work it's the step that reads the draft before it goes out, or checks the numbers before the report ships. The step that asks, "did the last step actually do what I asked, or did it just tell me it did?" A few things you get the moment you use this on purpose: 👇 - You decide where the checks go. Any step you don't fully trust yet gets one right after it. The chain stops running blind to the finish and starts stopping where it matters. - You have to define what "clean toothpick" means for your task. A cake has an obvious test. Your work usually doesn't, until you write it down. That one sentence, "here's what good looks like," is the thing most people never actually put on paper, and it's most of the value. ✍️ - You get pass, fail, and back-to-bake. The "not clean = back to 04" arrow is your first workflow that isn't a straight line. Real work loops. 🔄 And here's the part Bas already handed you in the comments. @Greg Faysash joked that you should never let the AI light the candles, never let it play with matches. 🔥 Bas's answer: "I'll be the human gate for that one." 🕯️
We’re at 40,000 now - let’s show some love to this community
What has been on my mind given that Jake posted that we’re now past the milestone of 40,000 members - what I really love about this community is how people lift each other up and support each other in here. To channel @Bas Rosario ”we grow, learn and win together”. So - do me a favour - come share in the comments about how someone in here has helped you, big or small, and give them the credit for it. (Only one rule, it can’t be me, because I’m posting this and that would just be weird). Everyone already knows I’m only posting in here because @Curtis Hays pushed me to. So I now have to tag him everywhere I go and say so. It’s like an anti-thank you. So I want to shout out some other, less obvious people: @Aaron Klein - I want to thank you for helping @Ruben Aguirre out with his post about making a baseball game with his son. I read the post and I felt awful that it was so far outside my wheelhouse, because I wanted to help and couldn’t, and then I saw what you had done. It was already handled. I was so grateful for you showing up and helping someone with what they were stuck with, especially because I was feeling out of my depth. Thank you. @Gabriel Azoulay - thank you for sharing ideas, provoking real thought and sharing publicly your understanding that my keeping the human in the loop was a judgement choice, not an oversight. Hearing what you thought meant a great deal. I see it and I appreciate it.
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