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.

​I often post about my wins with Claude Code or the progress on my book project, but there’s one part of the equation I haven’t touched on yet: Time. ​I’m lucky enough to be able to build a little during my work hours, but my primary focus is still being a Finance Manager. The real work happens when the house is finally quiet. ​But here is the reality: I have a 3-year-old and a 9-month-old. ​If you’ve been there, you know. My "second shift" starts after they are tucked in, but it’s always a gamble. Especially with a 9-month-old—you never really know how the night is going to go or how many times you’ll be woken up. ​The Internal Conflict: I’m a natural "A-person." I love waking up early and feeling fresh. But to get anything done on my private projects, I often have to push late into the night. ​I’m constantly trying to balance three things that all feel non-negotiable: ​Family Time: This is my fuel. I refuse to sacrifice being present with my kids. ​Sleep: As an early riser, I need sleep to function as a Finance Manager and a dad. ​Development: I have a deep drive to learn, build, and move my projects forward. ​The truth? Most days, it feels like I can only pick two. ​If I work late on a website or an automation, I’m a zombie the next morning. If I go to bed early to be a "good dad" at 6:00 AM, my projects stand still, which frustrates me. It’s a constant puzzle of trying to be "efficiently lazy" with the few hours I actually have. ​I don’t have a "5-step master plan" for this. I’m just navigating it one night at a time—sometimes winning, sometimes just trying to stay awake during a meeting. ​How do you guys balance this? For those of you with young kids, demanding jobs, and big goals—how do you find the space to create without burning out or missing the "golden years" with your family? ​I’m curious to hear how you prioritize when everything feels equally important. 👇

A few people asked about my .md based task management system so sharing it here: https://github.com/rocleemusic/TaskSystem I should also mention I have my main workspace as a github repo because I work between 2 different computers at work and home, so I have a hook command, when i type /sync on a computer it pulls from github and then runs the task system. the manual call is : What's my focus for today? I'm also still tweaking the retrospective section since it's only come up once since starting to use it. There's a full breakdown and examples in the repo, feel free to ask questions or if you find something that's broken, it might be missing some context from my main Claude.md I've also included a build-instructions.md so you can give that to claude and have it built anywhere. it's large cuz it includes the schemas for the child folder files and i wanted to make it easy to use as a single file. But it was built thinking about how I would like to interact with Claude (like Jarvis). The main entry points for me are an ideas.md at root where I can throw any idea I suddenly have, and the main chat at start of session to get the 1-3 things most important to do today. It's grown a bit to include recurring tasks and flag high-priority things. The other goal was to offload the burden of remember what's important or to figure out what I have energy to do after work. I also wanted it as pure markdown incase an online service went down, I can still view the full list or just my focus, it's just a text file on my system. The thinking behind this was largely due to some realizations after watching Jake's videos. If we think of AI as a programming language, then what is it's infrastructure? What do I need to actually build a full app for something that I can describe with plain language and have AI serve as the interpretation layer to the computer below? Any workflow is really just a program codified into a step by step task list.