Dave Frees

He’s dead on.

ANTHROPIC JUST PROVED MOST PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO PROMPT CLAUDE. Their applied AI team dropped a 24 minute free workshop. Not a creator who reverse engineered it. Not a Reddit thread. ANTHROPIC. The people who wrote the weights. And what they showed is uncomfortable. There are 6 elements to a properly structured Claude prompt. Most people are using 1. Maybe 2. That is not a skill issue. That is an information issue. And it has been quietly costing you every single day. The outputs that felt slightly off. The responses you had to rewrite 4 times. The prompts that worked once and never again. All of it traces back to the same 6 missing elements. The people who watch this 24 minute workshop tonight will understand something about Claude that most daily users still do not know exists. The people who skip it will keep getting 30% of what the tool is actually capable of and wonder why the results never quite land. I watched it twice. Then I built a Claude Skill that applies all 6 elements to every prompt automatically. No more thinking about structure. No more guessing what Claude needs. The framework runs in the background every single time. Full breakdown and skill setup is below. Bookmark this now. Watch the workshop first. Then read the guide. This is the one that compounds. Follow @cyrilXBT for the exact prompt architecture, Claude skills, and systems I use to get outputs most people do not believe came from one person working alone.

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@jockowillink @RanaWillink @ufcbjj Outstanding

She is always my champion. It was amazing to watch my daughter @RanaWillink compete on the biggest stage in jiu-jitsu, @ufcbjj . She did everything she was supposed to do: trained incredibly hard to prepare, then in the match, she stayed calm and escaped bad positions and attacked with submission after submission looking to finish the fight the entire match. This is the essence of jiu-jitsu. Her opponent, the formidable Bella Mir did a great job defending submissions, working her own, as well as controlling positions to earn the win. She was humble and respectful in her victory. Congratulations, Bella and @thefrankmir Rana had the time of her life and will continue to train, compete, and smile. What a blessing to be inspired by your my own daughter—one of the original Warrior Kids! WIN OR LEARN. Thanks to @ufcbjj for putting on a great event And thanks to @jockofuel @ORIGINBJJ @UFCFightPass @VictoryMMASD @Legionajj

@jockowillink @RanaWillink @ibjjf @jockofuel @ORIGINBJJ Congrats @RanaWillink !

Congrats @RanaWillink Lost by advantage at her weight class and got third. Entered the absolute—open weight class. Submitted them all and got gold at @ibjjf European Champions. @jockofuel @ORIGINBJJ

We really don’t run out of resources thanks to knowledge. Perhaps it’s time to stop so many European deaths from heat and cold. Let’s help them with heating in winter and air conditioning for at least the month of August. ;)

There’s established science on the benefits of analog note taking and building mental systems (over mere goals per @ScottAdamsSays ) and evolving science on the dangers of careless prolonged use of AI.

I know that you’ve probably seen this thread by @naval many times. But like any classic that triggers you to see things from a new perspective AND to act differently, it’s worth re-reading. Many times.

People thought we were “locked-out” of these “rare” elements needed for progress OR we had to look to asteroids. But there appear to be more here on earth (but not yet controlled by the CCP). Another mental hack -always remember that when you’re out of options - you’re not.

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@KatTimpf Congratulations and let the healing begin.

An Unconventional Birth Announcement Last week, I welcomed my first child into the world. About fifteen hours before I went into labor, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.  Now, before you worry, my doctor says it’s Stage 0 and is confident that it almost certainly hasn’t spread.  Or, as I’ve explained to the few people I’ve managed to tell about it so far: Don’t freak out. It’s just, like, a LITTLE bit of cancer.  Still, it was not a chill day. I mean, to say the least! I woke up more-than-a-week-past-due pregnant, completely consumed by doing everything I could to get the baby out. By the middle of the afternoon, I was waddling around from appointment to appointment, talking about how to get my cancer out. I sat and listened as they told me that the best course of action would likely be a double mastectomy as soon as possible. I asked all the questions I could, including if I could get a copy of my tumor ultrasound to put on the fridge next to the ultrasound of my baby. Finally, by the middle of the night, I was crawling around on the floor of my apartment in spontaneous labor, before heading to the hospital to meet my baby, whom I’d learn at the time of birth was a son.  The good news? People who work at hospitals make excellent audiences for dark humor -- and, as someone whose first book was about the power of jokes to get through traumatic situations, there was really no better place for me to be. Just minutes after my boy was born, I was talking with the nurses about what a birth announcement in my situation might look like.  Should I go with “Mom and baby are doing well, except maybe for mom’s cancer, and then maybe the baby after breastfeeding is stunted by her double mastectomy,” and then shut off my phone for a week? Anyway! These next three months of maternity leave are going to look a lot different than I’d anticipated, and I’m still getting used to my new reality. Still, as I navigate new motherhood (and new cancer) I’m learning to celebrate everything I can. I’m lucky that we found the cancer so early; I’m lucky to be my son’s mom. I mean, I know I’m biased, but the little dude absolutely rules -- and not just because he might have saved my life. Thank you all for your support, laughter, and love as I embrace this wildly unexpected chapter. Here’s to resilience, to miracles in the midst of chaos, and to finding humor and hope even on the toughest days. Kat

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@LawyerTyson Now we should talk about AI as a tool of augmentation. The right mindset around AI matters no matter what specific new tool is released each week.

Cracking the top ten on my list of my 15 favorite Maximum Lawyer episodes from the last eight years is with @davefrees, a trust and estate planning attorney and an absolute powerhouse of a speaker. #9 - Intentionality in Marketing w/ Dave Frees maximumlawyer.com/intentionality…

@LawyerTyson Thanks Sir. It was a great podcast. Always looking for ways to help my fellow lawyers!

@kyl_e___ @JacquiHeinrich You know why. It’s apparently an unnecessary and poorly thought out “green” policy producing an environmental disaster for sea mammals. Either that’s wrong or …

🚨🚨NEWS: President-elect Trump's 200 DAY ONE executive actions will: -close the border to all illegal aliens via proclamation and declare a national emergency at the border -direct designations of cartels as foreign terrorist organizations -re-institute "Remain in Mexico," end "Catch and Release," and direct the military to construct a new phase of the border wall -"fully unleash" Alaskan energy, terminate Biden policies that have "constrained US supply" -return federal workers to in-person work -strengthen control over senior government officials and implement a new merit-based hiring review -suspend security clearances for the 51 national security officials who "lied" about Hunter Biden's laptop ahead of the 2020 presidential election -end all DEI programs across the federal government -establish a new Department of Government Efficiency hiring freeze -declare a national energy emergency and pause all offshore wind leases -withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord -direct all agencies and departments to remove all federal actions that increase costs for families and consumers FULL STORY: foxnews.com/politics/trump…

Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.

He’s a very smart man. Let’s commit to learning something helpful. ;)

From Professor Claude: When a single influential voice breaks through enforced conformity in a repressive system, several key patterns tend to emerge in sequence: First, there's often an initial shock effect - a sudden rupture in what political theorists call the "spiral of silence." The mere act of saying the forbidden creates a demonstration effect, proving that speaking is possible. This typically produces an immediate polarizing response: harsh condemnation from regime supporters alongside a surge of private recognition from those who had been silently harboring similar thoughts. The second phase usually involves what social scientists call "preference falsification" beginning to break down. Others who privately held similar views but feared expressing them start to recognize they're not alone. There's often a "emperor has no clothes" moment where obvious but unspoken truths suddenly become discussable. Historical examples are instructive here. Consider Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's publication of "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" in 1962 - this single authorized truth-telling about the gulag system created hairline cracks that eventually contributed to wider questioning of the Soviet system. Similarly, Václav Havel's essay "The Power of the Powerless" articulated what many Czechoslovak citizens privately knew but couldn't say about life under communism. However, the regime's response is crucial in determining what happens next. If the truth-teller can maintain their platform despite pressure, it often leads to what political scientists call "informational cascades" - where suddenly many people update their beliefs about what others believe. This can reach a tipping point where preference falsification collapses rapidly, as occurred in the East German revolution of 1989.

@pmarca @pmarca “Cascade” is exactly the right word.

We are living through the most dramatic preference cascade of my life. Every day I am hearing the most amazing things. 🇺🇸

Mr Bean talks on the wave of arrests in the UK rooted in personal expression. The unjustified restriction of free speech subverts any social order. Let’s find ways to air competing ideas rather than seeking to criminalize them and finding insult or injury in every one.