I wanted to ask is ICM about making a rule book about the job you want to do. If that is the case then the machine is not understanding the job we want to do. In 1980 a philosopher Jhon Searle proposed though experiment of a man locked in a room knowing no Chinese. He recieves something in Chinese. The man uses a comprehensive rulebook (written in English) to match and manipulate the symbols and convert them into English and then write his answers and convert back into Chinese. To the fluent Chinese speakers outside the room might think that the man understands Chinese but it's just an illusion. That's what I thought about AI but I just watched a video about this from where I came to know the following. Geoffrey Hinton proposed that today's AIs are not just autocompleting or guessing what will come next. These machines have built a model of the world which is what understanding is. He said this model is like 1000 dimensional lego blocks something like that. (sorry if I am describing it completely wrong you can check the video) That is why Geoffrey concluded that "digital agents understand language in much the same way as people do. It's not a completely different kind of system. We are like them and they are like us. They are much more like us then the standard computer code. What I want to say is according to him these digital agents are not just predicting what comes next. They are building a model of the world based on the guesses. Searle's man had a rule book these machines are making one. That's why I was thinking is ICM just about making the rule book or are we also desribing how the job should be done so it does it like you would do.

Hi everyone, not been around much for the last month my physical and mental health as not been great. I am struggling with my diabetes at the moment and it is effecting my sleep, which in turn is doing a number on my mental health. I am also noticing more pain in my legs, I have a couple of Doctors appointments coming up over the next two weeks and hoping we find a way forward to get the help I need to be on a better track with my health. I just wanted to pop on and say I have not given up and just disappeared. I have been using all my physical and social energy for my day job and caring with the Mrs when she needs me. I believe in the method Jake is sharing with us and I am going to keep coming back until I know it like the back of my hand and can put it into use for myself and then teach it to my colleagues. Anyways here to be feeling and doing better in the next few weeks, and being around to ask questions and learn. Michael

I decided to re-commit to my business a month ago, after a few years of what I call the entrepreneurial rumspringa. Now, I ask myself just one question everyday: what's the constraint? In the last 3 years I attempted to start 5 different businesses, all while listening to business podcasts, and taking business courses. This period could be summed up as an era of financially paralyzing shiny-object syndrome, since those distractions came at a cost. It's not a coincidence that I have not made any financial progress in the last several years while I've been stretched across multiple areas of interest. Thank goodness that I finally learned that the dabbling has to end if I am going to go far. Also over the last few years, I have had many conversations with entrepreneurs and non entrepreneurs about what leads to success. SO many people believe that success is largely luck, which doesn't sit right with me. There's a saying that "success leaves clues," which means it's gotta be a lot more than just luck, if clues = patterns of behavior. All people have the same 24 hours in a day, so how are some people running billion dollar businesses and others get stuck for years at a time? From what I can tell, the entire formula for success -- whether it's done accidentally or intentionally -- is to remove the constraint of the business every time it gets stuck. This holy-grail concept is simple but not easy. Success requires that one both *recognizes* what is stopping the business growth and *refuses* to work on anything else until that thing is resolved. Most people cannot handle this. I heard someone say that being in business is like sitting in your living room with a trash fire next to you and being fine with it. And it's true! And not only is it true, but it's a skill to learn. Every time I ask my small business owner friends if they know what their constraint is, they list 10 things at a time. I have yet to see someone in that category tell me outright "my constraint is x." I get the impression that small business owners, for the most part, would rather be naive to their constraint than be forced to identify it. Rather than narrow it down to just one bottleneck, they are more comfortable tackling multiple issues at once, even if that stalls their growth. The more I talk to them, the more I see how insanely common it is for this archetype to be ADD at full speed in multiple directions at once. This has helped me recognize it in myself, and I'm determined to put an end to that madness, cause I want that bag more than I want to indulge that ADD, if you know what I'm sayin'. I truly can't stand the idea that I've spent enormous amounts of time on work that could have literally just *not* been done at all, and my financial situation would not have changed a bit.

I was struggling to use ICM into my workflow of web design becuase I didn't have one (I was new in this field). After the help of @David Vogel who told me to first discover the workflow by first learning the domain knowledge, what a website is and how it works then I got the idea of what the workflow might look like. So the key that can help others in similar situation as mine. The ICM is powerful and the AI can help you only if you have the domain knowledge by which I means the language, the workflow, how the process works. If you are thinking how can I build a website, a lead gen system, SEO or anything using ICM and AI then you have to learn about the space a little bit first and understand the workflow, the ins and outs. You don't have to become the specialist and don't years in the space. Just learn from the podcasts, the conversations and even use AI tools notebooklm to point it into the youtube videos and the material that is explaining everything about that process. Then interrogate it, learn from it and apply it in your project. Don't spend months learning. Learn and then build.

I started this community in March. For months I've been reading your questions. Where do I start? What's a skill? How do I get this working on my own files? What even is an agent? So I rebuilt Foundations to answer all of it, in 11 new lessons full animated, voiced and structured to answer as many as I could. They are not just AI slop either, I spent Hours on every video, every concept.I deleted and redid lessons over and over until they finally worked, and what you see is what survived. I have been adding and spending hours upon hours adding more resources and working with others to provide value here since March. And I want to keep doing that. Now usually course creators lock up their entire community behind a pay wall at this point...I thought about it honestly. We would probably make more money if I put more behind a paywall. However, decided not only am I going to keep it free, but I'm also lowering my prices for premium as well. From $27 to $11 a month, everyone told me was a bad idea, that it was too low of a price for the hours we are putting in but I have faith in one thing, YOU. Its only a bad idea if people don't support, work together and make this worth it. I want to make info more accessible. This community has let me hire people, pay people, and build things I never could have built alone. I've got a team whose families count on this company, and a baby on the way, so I've been thinking hard about how this place keeps growing. More free lessons, more of my time, more people to help run it. I pay the instructors in my live programs $150 an hour, our mods are working hard and were working for free before I started paying and every free video here takes me hours to make. If enough of you chip in a little, all of that keeps going for everyone. So that's the ask. $11 a month, about 37 cents a day.