L3 — Advanced
Hard. The stuff most adults don't know either.
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DT-05L3★"A Study Showed That…": How to Actually Read a Paper→ One real paper evaluated against a six-question checklist, with a verdict you can defendLN-05L3★A New Skill in 20 Hours: The Fast-Learning Protocol→ A 20-hour plan for one real skill: deconstructed into sub-skills, the highest-leverage 20% chosen, and the first practice session doneAI-14L3AI Agents and Automation Chains→ One live automation that runs an AI step by itself: a trigger, an AI action, and an outputTL-10L3★Automation: Killing Repetitive Work with Zapier, Make or n8n→ A live automation that runs by itself: a trigger connected to an action, tested and workingAI-13L3★Build Your First Tool Without Knowing How to Code→ One small working app or tool you built with AI and can actually useMN-15L3Building a Portfolio: Asset Allocation and Rebalancing→ Your own written allocation — a target split, an index vehicle per sleeve, and a rebalancing ruleTC-13L3★Building a Project End to End: Idea to Live→ One idea taken from concept to a shipped first version — scope cut to an MVP, built, and put in front of one real userAI-15L3★Calling AI From Your Own Code: The API, Explained Properly→ A working script that sends a prompt to a model's API and uses the responseDT-11L3★Fermi Estimation: Producing a Number When You Have No Data→ Three Fermi estimates worked start to finish, each with its assumptions listed and a sanity-check against realityCR-07L3★Freelancing: Pricing Your Work and Writing a Proposal That Wins→ A pricing sheet for your service (with your real number worked out) and a reusable proposal templateAI-18L3Getting Paid for AI Skills: Portfolio, Freelance, Packaging a Service→ A packaged service offer: one clear service, a price, and a portfolio piece proving you can do itSO-11L3★Negotiation: BATNA, Anchoring and the Zone Where a Deal Exists→ A completed negotiation prep sheet with both BATNAs costed, plus two recorded rehearsalsDT-06L3p-values, Statistical Significance and Effect Size→ A concept map plus one real study read for what its p-value does and doesn't claim, alongside its effect sizeMN-06L3★Reading a Company's Financials: Balance Sheet and Income Statement→ One real company analysed from its own filing, with six ratios computed and written upAI-16L3Running a Model Locally: Privacy, Cost, Limits→ An open model running on your own machine, and a clear-eyed comparison to the cloud versionsPS-11L3Running Meetings and Panels→ An agenda and facilitation plan for one real meeting, run once, with decisions and owners capturedPS-08L3★Selling an Idea in Three Minutes→ A recorded three-minute pitch, timed, plus a scored self-review of the playbackTL-04L3★Spreadsheets, Level Three: Dynamic Arrays, Power Query, Dashboards→ A one-page live dashboard that updates itself when the underlying data changesSO-07L3Status and Hierarchy: The Unwritten Rules of a Room→ A read of the status dynamics in one real group, where you sit in it, and one deliberate status adjustment tried and loggedCR-11L3Studying or Working Abroad: Applications, Funding, Tests, Budget→ An application calendar for one real abroad opportunity: deadlines back-planned, tests scheduled, funding sources listed, and a realistic budgetTC-12L3The Limits of AI-Written Code: How Far You Can Trust It→ One piece of AI-written code audited — at least two real problems found and fixed, and written upPS-09L3The Mechanics of Persuasion: Evidence, Credibility, Pre-empting Objections→ An argument map for a real position: claim, evidence, the strongest objection, and your answerAI-12L3Video and Voice: Script → Clip → Voiceover→ One finished 30-second video built end to end: script, visuals, voiceover, captions