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Welcome to Clief Notes. Here's where to start.
1. Watch the intro video and introduce yourself in the intro post here 2. Start with The Foundation (free course). Concepts, folder architecture, prompting framework. Everything else builds on this. 3. Check in at the bottom of each lesson. Polls, discussion posts, other members working through the same stuff. Use them. 4. When you're ready to build real things, move to Implementation Playbooks (Level 2). When you're ready to build your own tools, Building Your Stack (Level 3). 5. Post your work. Ask questions. Help others when you can. What are you here to build?
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🌶️ CINCO DE MAYO FIRESALE — STARTS NOW 🌶️
Locked in for the next 5 days only. Ends May 5th at 10:00 AM EST. No exceptions. 🎉 Premium: $27 → $14/mo 🎉 VIP: $97 → $67/mo The closest you'll get to our original launch pricing. We're doing this because the community has shown up for us, and we want to show up back. 🤝 🔥 Already a member? Read this carefully. To lock in the new rate, you need to: 1. Cancel your current plan 2. Resign under the new price That's the only way the system can apply the new rate. We have way too many members for manual refunds, so we can't refund anyone who just signed up at current pricing. But the savings stack month over month, so if you plan to stick around (and you should 😁), the math works out fast. 🚫 A few ground rules: Please do not DM myself or Jake about pricing, exceptions, or extensions. We love you, but we're a small team and we need to stay focused on building. Everyone gets the same window. Everyone gets the same deal. If you miss it, you miss it. We'll do more things for the community down the road. ⏰ The clock: 🟢 LIVE NOW 🔴 Locks May 5th, 10:00 AM EST - Premium gets you The Vault and Afternoon Tea calls. - VIP gets you The Drawing Room, High Tea, and bespoke folder builds from Jake himself. If you've been on the fence, this is the moment. 🚀 Tag a friend who needs to be in here. Let's make Cinco a movement. 🎊 🌶️🌶️🌶️
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Jake didn't do me any favors! Please Help🙏
Quick note about Skool’s bot protection: If your comment is just a few short words, you’re better off hitting the like button instead. What you probably don’t know is that the admins are getting absolutely blasted with anti-bot warnings — and Jake didn’t do me any favors by blowing up my notifications. We’re growing extremely fast (25,855+ and climbing), so we’ve got a massive target on our backs. Short, low-effort comments are triggering the system hard right now.Help us keep this community high-quality: Only comment when you have real value to add — sharp insights, innovative ideas, or meaningful experiences. Likes 👍 are there for quick appreciation. Save the comments for stuff that actually moves the conversation forward. Do your part. Let’s protect the space we’re building together. Thanks, legends. *** @Jake Van Clief has not approved this message, he's swamped ***
The EBook the AI Couldn’t Write Alone
I’m 99% in goal with my private project: www.thewheelofclarity.com. This is something I’ve dreamed of for a long time—writing an e-book based on the teachings of a mentor. The original material was difficult to work with; it felt too spiritual and wasn't grounded enough for most people to actually use. I had a vision of making it simple and relatable, but getting there has been a long journey of trial and error. The Battle with "AI-Speak" I’ve tried to create this book several times. If you saw the first drafts and compared them to where I am today, you wouldn't believe it was the same book. The first many versions were done in ChatGPT, but I almost gave up several times. No matter how much we tried to improve it, the AI couldn't stay on track across all the chapters. I eventually switched to Gemini, and that’s where the version I have today finally took shape. But then I hit a wall with the "AI mindset." When I started looking at marketing, the AI kept insisting the target audience should be "high achievers" and "fast-paced CEOs." But that’s not what this book is. It’s for everyone—from stay-at-home parents to office workers to CEOs. It’s about understanding why certain patterns repeat in your life and how to change them. I ended up going through the book chapter by chapter to make it more human and accessible. Even after I thought I was done and created an audiobook version using ElevenLabs, I could still hear too much "AI" in it. It used words and phrasing that real people just don't use. I spent many nights listening to every single section, manually stripping out the "AI-isms" until it felt like my own. Building the Site with Claude Code The audiobook idea actually came from a colleague. I used ElevenLabs to find the right voice, and while you can still tell it’s AI, I’m proud of the voice I created and I’m sticking with it. For the website, I saw a video by Jake about folder structures in Claude Code. It sparked my curiosity, and even though I didn't fully understand the structure yet, I just jumped in. We built the site www.thewheelofclarity.com slavishly from top to bottom. We focused on one section at a time—brand voice, colors, and layout—until I was satisfied. Once the foundation was there, I added the technical side, like heatmaps and tracking tags, to help me optimize it later.
What does your workspace look like?
Just got around to watching the high tea session 2 and the discussion about workspace organization / management got me curious about what people are doing. For me I have a Top Level folder that is a Github repo, RL_MAP. I needed to work between 2 computers so I wanted built in sync and backup. Then within that only 1 CLAUDE.md at the root, and each workspace gets its own CONTEXT.md, root level just routes to each folder based on what I'm doing. All memory and context stored inside the repo, don't write to system memory and don't write system skills. This last part is evolving slightly as my needs are changing. The main global hook I have is I have claude auto-commit after each write, so I always have a backup and always can undo independent of Claude. Also makes looking at what changed very easy with Github's tools. This has worked for awhile but as you can see now its starting to get a bit crowded. The way Jake threw everything on the Desktop was kinda revelatory/mind blowing. But also as more and more of these small contexts appear in my work I'm seeing the benefit of not constraining everything to a single space. What have people found works for them?
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