Before the session: prepare your mini brain

Two things, about twenty minutes. Bring a few files, and answer a few questions. Your answers build your own handout, ready for the session.

1. Bring these

Tick each one when it is ready.

A paid Claude plan
The Claude desktop app, installed and signed in
A folder named Mini Brain, in Dropbox or Google Drive, synced to your computer
Inside it, a folder named Foundation, and inside that a folder named KnowledgeMini Brain / Foundation / Knowledge
In Knowledge, the files you want Claude to think fromThe files of your custom GPT, the texts you work from, your own notes. PDF, Word or plain text.
If you have a custom GPT: its instructions, copied into a text file

2. Answer these

In your own words. A first draft is enough: short and true beats long and polished. Leave empty what you do not know yet.

About you

Your first name

Who are you?Your name, what you do, where you live. One line.

How do you like answers?Short or full, plain or detailed.

What you stand on

What can never be violated in your work?Principles, values, limits. One per line, in your words.

What should every answer come through?A tradition, a theory, a way of seeing. Name it, and the texts or teachers it rests on.

Where you are going

Where are you going?A few lines.

Your projectsOne line each, and where each one stands.

This month's three prioritiesThree at most.

Your first project

Its nameThe one you will build in the session.

What is it, in one sentence?

Its visionThe outcome, and a date if there is one.

This week

How many hours do you have this week?

One thing you want made firstAn email, a page, a plan. Something real in your project.

What do you never want to explain to Claude again?One line.

Build my handout

Your answers stay in this browser, on this computer. Nobody else sees them. In the session, open this page here again and your handout is waiting.

Your mini brain handout

Every prompt from the course, in the order you use it, already filled with your answers. Tap Copy, then paste into Claude.

The three builds

The steps of the session, so you can run them again on your own.

Build 1 · 15 min

Your Foundation

Connect your Mini Brain folder in the Claude desktop app.
Save prompt 1 in the folder as Start.md.
Paste prompt 2, Set up the Foundation, with your GPT's instructions.
Answer the interview.
Read Foundation.md. Say yes.

Build 2 · 15 min

Your first project

Paste prompt 3, The big roadmap. Answer. Say yes.
Paste prompt 4, New project.
Answer the interview. Read the files. Say yes.
Type close.
Open Daily Log.md. Your first entry is there.

Build 3 · 15 min

Your first piece

Paste prompt 7, Make a piece of work.
Read the grade first, then the three options.
Pick one, by its number or its name.
Correct one thing. Claude's miss, or your taste?
Type close. Look at the playbook and the Scoreboard.

The prompts

Eight prompts run the whole brain. The Start file is the one that matters: Claude reads it in every chat. The others are typed when needed.

1

Start.md

Before Build 1

The one file Claude reads in every chat. Save it in your folder as Start.md. The first section is already yours.

2

Set up the Foundation

Once, in Build 1

Claude reads Start.md, takes your GPT's instructions and files if you have one, then interviews you for the rest. You see Foundation.md before it is written.

3

The big roadmap

Once, in Build 2, before the first project

An interview, one question at a time: where you are going, your projects, how they feed each other, this month's three priorities.

4

New project

Build 2, and every project after

An interview that creates the project's folder: its foundation, and a roadmap from the vision down to the first tasks.

5

The capture chat

The first message of a chat you pin and name Capture

From then on you only drop ideas there. Each one is filed in its project, or in Seeds if it belongs to none yet.

6

Plan the week

Whenever you plan a week

Claude proposes this week's tasks from your roadmaps, and asks before adding anything that is not in one.

7

Make a piece of work

Build 3, and every time you want something made

Claude reads the playbook, makes the piece, checks it, grades it, and shows it only at 8 or above. When the choice is taste you get three options.

8

The weekly review

Once a week, same day

Two words. Claude fixes what went wrong, folds the lessons into the playbooks and replans the roadmaps from your ideas.

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Close

At the end of every chat

One word. Claude writes the Daily Log, updates the roadmap and files what it learned. No close, no memory.

The folder

One synced folder holds everything. Every chat reads it to start and writes to it to close, so a chat on Tuesday knows what Monday's chats did.

The whole

Start.md
Foundation.md
Knowledge/
Big Roadmap.md
Daily Log.md
Seeds.md

Projects: a folder each

Foundation.md
Roadmap.md
Knowledge/
Ideas.md
Lessons.md

Playbooks: one per kind

Index.md
Taste.md
five starter playbooks
Scoreboard.md

The templates

The shape of each file, so every brain looks the same and Claude always knows where to look. Claude fills them from the interviews; nobody types them by hand.

Foundation.mdthe whole

Knowledge/Index.md

Big Roadmap.md

Projects/[name]/Foundation.md

Projects/[name]/Roadmap.md

A playbookPlaybooks/[Kind].md: Copy, Website, Design, Video, Lesson plan, whatever you make

Playbooks/Index.mdevery playbook, so every chat finds it

Playbooks/Taste.mdhow you like everything, whatever the kind

Daily Log.mdnewest on top

Ideas.md and Seeds.md

Projects/[name]/Lessons.mdtrue only in this project

Playbooks/Scoreboard.md

This week

Three chats, each one closed.

My plan

When I finish a chat, I say close.

Chat 1, closed
Chat 2, closed
Chat 3, closed
A chat pinned and named Capture, with prompt 5 as its first message
One weekly review, on the day I picked

Optional: a dashboard

One prompt turns your folder into a page that shows what is done and what is not.

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A dashboard of your brain

Optional, any time after Build 2

One page that shows every project, its components and deliverables, and what is done and what is not.

After the session: five minutes of feedback

Twelve short questions, anonymous unless you add your name. When you send them, the slides of the course open here for you to keep.

Before the session: prepare your mini brain

1. Bring these

2. Answer these

Build my handout

Your mini brain handout

The three builds

Your Foundation

Your first project

Your first piece

The prompts

The folder

The templates

This week

Optional: a dashboard

After the session: five minutes of feedback

Thank you. Here are the slides.