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The rules file holding the non-negotiables: how you speak, what you never do, what always happens before a thing ships. If a rule keeps needing to be repeated, it belongs here.
A small extra you drop into a system you already have. Unlike a bundle, its contents move into your existing folders rather than sitting in a folder of their own.
The element associated with Mind. Represents thought, ideas, communication, and mental clarity. Clear air brings fresh perspective; stale air leads to mental loops.
A list of exactly who or what is permitted, with everything else refused by default. Safer than listing what to block, because you cannot list everything.
Overthinking to the point of inaction. When Mind's gift of exploration becomes a trap that prevents forward movement. The remedy is often engaging Body or Heart to break the mental loop.
The count of who visited what. Useful for seeing which pages people actually reach, and privacy-friendly options exist that do not track individuals.
The public key that lives in your web page and is safe for anyone to see, precisely because Row Level Security decides what it may reach. Public by design.
The way one program asks another for something over the internet. When your code calls an email service's API, it sends a message saying send this, and gets a result back. Every tool has one, and this is how they all talk.
Paying Anthropic per token through the Claude Console instead of on a flat monthly plan. It runs on Anthropic's commercial terms, which bar training on your content and include their data-processing agreement, which is the footing to be on for client work. For everything else a normal plan is simpler. Check their pricing page for what it costs.
The secret string that tells a service which account is calling and that the caller is allowed to. Treat it exactly like a password.
A full application built on top of your root system, with its own interface and its own users. Bigger than a skill, and the thing a skill sometimes grows into.
Going through something deliberately against a checklist rather than glancing at it: your security, your pages, your system's health. Scheduled, so it happens before a problem does.
Communicating from genuine feeling rather than performance or protection. Heart's truth spoken without armor, allowing real connection.
Two different questions. Authentication asks who are you. Authorisation asks what are you allowed to do. Most security mistakes happen when the first is checked and the second is not.
Something that happens without you doing it, because a trigger set it off. Worth building only where the thing repeats and you already know exactly how you want it done.
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A copy kept somewhere else, so losing the original is an inconvenience. Pushing to GitHub is one. A backup you have never restored from is a hope, not a backup.
The doing language: time, money, energy, numbers, health. Your dashboard, your hours, your revenue and your movement all sit here.
One of the four languages. The vessel of life and sensory experience of now. The first responder that detects before emotion or thought arise. Associated with Earth element and Pentacles in tarot.
An email that came back undelivered. A hard bounce means the address does not exist and should never be mailed again. A soft bounce is temporary, like a full mailbox.
A parallel version of your files where you can try something without touching the working one. If it works you merge it back. If it does not you throw it away.
A set of files built around one outcome rather than one module, for people who want that specific thing built without doing the whole course in order.
When passion has been spent without replenishment. The dying ember. Heart exhausted from giving without receiving, creating without rest, or expressing without being witnessed.
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A saved copy your browser keeps so pages load faster. It is also why your change does not appear after a deploy. A hard refresh forces the browser to fetch the real thing.
A line in a page saying this is the real address of this page, for when the same content is reachable at more than one URL. It stops search engines from splitting the credit.
Change directory: the command that walks the terminal into a folder. Type cd my-system and you are inside my-system. That is the entire meaning.
A network of servers around the world that keep a copy of your files near your visitors, so the page arrives fast wherever they are. Also absorbs traffic spikes.
An assistant on your site that answers visitors' questions from your own material, in your own words. Useful when it is fed your real content and honest when it does not know.
The page where somebody actually pays. Stripe hosts it, which means the card details never touch your site and you are not responsible for holding them.
Labels attached to a piece of a page so the styling and the scripts can find it. A class can be used many times, an id belongs to exactly one thing on the page.
The chat version of Claude, in your browser or as a desktop app. Good for talking, good for connectors, and it cannot see your system folder. The work in this course happens in the terminal.
The version of Claude that runs in your terminal and can read and write the files on your own computer. This is where your system actually lives and works. The chat versions cannot touch your files.
The connectors and light-automation space inside the Claude app, where you connect tools and build small automations by clicking. Useful, and separate from Claude Code, which is where your own system lives.
The bigger Claude plan, for heavy building: long sessions, large files, backend work. Move up when you keep running out of usage on Pro, and not before. Anthropic's pricing page has the current cost.
The entry paid Claude plan, and where almost everyone starts. Enough to run your root system day to day: onboarding, skills, daily work. Anthropic's pricing page has the current cost.
The filename of your root file. Claude looks for a file with exactly that name, so that is what it is called on disk. Root file and CLAUDE.md are two names for the same thing.
Any tool you use by typing in the terminal rather than clicking in a window. Claude Code is one. So is the tool that talks to your database. You do not memorise the commands. Claude knows them.
The share of those conversations that turn into work. Worth knowing because it tells you how many conversations a goal actually requires.
A group who started at the same time, tracked together. Useful because it lets you compare like with like instead of averaging everyone into a blur.
One field every row in a table has: email, name, date, amount. Which columns exist is decided in advance, which is what keeps the data usable.
One saved point in your history, with a short message from you saying what changed. Think of it as a labelled snapshot you can always return to.
What happens when a conversation gets long: the earlier part is summarised so the newer part still fits. It happens on its own, and you can trigger it. Details from early in the session can soften, which is why anything important gets written to a file.
Heart's relational capacity. The fire that warms others and creates bonds of genuine relationship. Both giving and receiving presence with another being.
The Claude app's own version of an integration, set up by clicking rather than installing. Convenient, and it assumes the tool is on the same account as your Claude subscription. When your work email is on a different account, use an integration in Claude Code instead.
Permission for one specific thing. Agreeing to a call is not agreeing to a newsletter. They are separate permissions and must be asked for separately.
The record of every time someone subscribed, unsubscribed, or asked for their data. It is never deleted, because it is the evidence that you did what they asked.
One person in your CRM, with everything attached to them: their history, their notes, their promises.
How much Claude can hold in mind at once in a single conversation: your files, your messages, its answers, all of it together. When it fills, the earliest part gets summarised. This is the real reason to keep your root file short.
Somebody moving from one stage to the next: a visitor becoming a signup, a signup becoming a client. A count of moments, not a judgement of people.
A safety check browsers do, deciding which websites are allowed to call your function. If a form breaks with a browser error mentioning CORS, your live domain is not on the allowed list. Tell Claude to fix the allowed origin and redeploy that function.
The passion and inspiration that fuels creation. When channeled with intention, it becomes controlled flame aligned with purpose rather than destructive wildfire.
State of inspired creation where Heart's fire moves freely through expression without obstruction. Ideas emerge, hands move, and something new comes into being.
Where you keep what you know about people: who they are, what you talked about, what you promised, when to come back. Not a sales machine. A memory for relationships you would otherwise drop.
A timer on a server that runs something on a schedule: every night, every Monday. This is how anything genuinely recurring happens, and it runs whether or not anyone is at a computer.
The language that decides how the page looks: colours, spacing, fonts, size. Same content, different CSS, completely different page.
A spreadsheet saved as plain text, one row per line, values separated by commas. The format nearly every tool can export to and import from, which makes it how data moves between things.
Call to action: the one thing you want the reader to do next, written as a button or a link. A page with three of them has none.
The tarot suit associated with Soul. Represents intuition, emotions, relationships, and spiritual connection. Water element. Cups hold what we receive from the depths.
Intelligence that emerges from honoring natural rhythms. The menstrual cycle as monthly practice in recognizing and working with different energies rather than forcing constant productivity.
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One file per day where the session records what happened: what you worked on, what you decided, what you felt. It is the record you can look back through when you cannot remember when something changed.
A single page that shows you your own numbers: hours, money, the week, the people you owe an answer to. It reads your real data, so it is honest by design.
The contract with a service that handles personal data on your behalf, saying what they may do with it. Most serious services offer one and you have to accept it, not assume it.
Which country your data physically sits in. It matters legally, and choosing an EU region at setup is the easy version of a decision that is painful to change later.
Structured storage for things you need to find later: your contacts, your purchases, your signups. Like a set of spreadsheets that other software can read and write reliably.
Being fully here without agenda. Like a still, deep lake with profound depths and silent knowing. The quality of attention that sees what is, rather than what we wish or fear.
Whether your email actually lands in an inbox rather than spam. It depends less on what you wrote and more on whether your domain is set up to prove the mail is really from you.
Sending your finished files from your laptop up to your hosting, so the public version becomes the version you have been working on. Until you deploy, your changes exist only on your machine.
The Four Languages assessment that reveals your current relationship with each language. Unlike personality tests, results change as you grow. Shows which languages need attention now.
A first conversation with someone who has not bought yet, to find out what they actually need and whether you are the right person for it.
The self-build path: you get the files and the teaching and you build it yourself, at your own pace. The alternative is having it built for you.
A direct message on a social platform. Where most of the real conversation happens, and where the sales that come from relationships usually begin.
The internet's address book: it turns your domain name into the actual machine that answers. When you change it, the change takes a while to reach everywhere, which is why a new domain sometimes works for you and not for a friend.
One line in your domain's settings pointing something somewhere. An A record points to a server, a CNAME points to another name, a TXT record holds text that other services read, which is how the email records above are added.
The name people type to reach you, like yourname.com. You rent it by the year from a registrar and point it at your hosting.
Asking someone to confirm by clicking a link in an email before you add them to your list. It costs you some signups and gives you a list of people who actually want to hear from you.
What happens when your files and reality slowly stop matching: a price that moved, a rule nobody updated, a skill describing something you no longer do. The reason your system gets reviewed rather than only added to.
Another word for a sequence, emphasising the spacing: a little at a time instead of everything at once.
Testing something end to end without letting it actually happen, to find what would go wrong. Anything a customer will touch gets one before it ships.
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The element associated with Body. Represents physical reality, grounding, stability, and the material world. Rich soil provides stable foundation for growth.
A small piece of code living in your Supabase project that sleeps until something calls it, does one job, and goes back to sleep. Your website never talks to your database directly. It goes through one of these, which is where your keys stay safe.
A way of turning a piece of text into numbers that capture its meaning, so a computer can find related passages even when the words are different. This is what lets a chatbot find the right paragraph.
Fully inhabiting your physical form. Treating body as home to dwell in, not a tool to use or vehicle to drive. Present in sensation rather than living only in thought.
Being overwhelmed by emotions to the point of losing perspective. Wildfire rather than controlled flame. The state where feelings consume rather than inform.
One specific address in an API that does one specific job, like the one that sends an email or the one that lists your contacts.
What someone is allowed to reach because of what they bought. When a purchase unlocks a page or a download, an entitlement is the record that says so.
The hidden file on your machine where your environment variables live: your keys and your private settings. It is deliberately kept out of version control, so it never leaves your computer. Never paste its contents anywhere.
A setting the code reads when it runs, instead of the value being typed into the code itself. Your keys, your sending address and your domain are all environment variables, so the same file works on your laptop and on the live server.
The skill that closes your day: what happened, what you learned, how the four languages actually went, and the save that writes it all down.
An optional extra tool you install on your computer only when you need what it does, like the one that makes PDFs or the one that edits video. Not needed on day one.
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A small structured file holding something that is simply true about you or your business: your pricing, your preferences, your current goals. Claude loads the ones a task needs instead of loading everything.
The simpler thing that happens when the first thing fails, so a broken piece degrades instead of taking the whole page with it.
The tiny icon in the browser tab. Small, and it is the difference between a site that looks finished and one that does not.
The being mode. Receiving, feeling, flowing, allowing. Brings aliveness, pleasure, and connection. Not about gender - everyone has access to feminine energy. Complementary to masculine.
A free tool that cuts, converts and compresses video and audio from the terminal. This is what your system uses to make clips out of a long recording.
The bit after the dot in a filename: .md, .html, .json. It tells your computer and Claude what kind of file it is. Changing it does not change what is inside.
The element associated with Heart. Represents passion, creativity, transformation, and the spark of life. Can warm and illuminate or consume and destroy.
Body's role in experience. The nervous system detects and responds before conscious awareness, before emotion, before thought. Honoring this means listening to body signals.
The same thing you click in Finder. Directory is just the older word for it, and it is the word the terminal uses.
The block at the very bottom of every page: your legal links, your contact, the things that must exist somewhere and do not belong up top.
The framework this course is built on: Mind, Heart, Body, Soul. Four ways of paying attention to a life and a business, so the system you build serves all of you and not only the working half. The framework is the thinking. Your root system is what you build with it.
Mental structures that organize experience and create understanding. Mind's tools for making sense of complexity. Useful when held lightly, limiting when mistaken for reality itself.
The small block at the very top of a file, fenced off by three dashes, holding facts about the file itself: its title, what it is for, when it applies. Your skills use it so Claude knows when to reach for them.
The record of what your code did and what went wrong, kept by the service that ran it. The first place to look when something silently did not happen.
The same journey seen as numbers: how many arrived, how many booked, how many bought. Useful for finding where people stop, and honest only when it counts real events.
One step in that journey, counted separately: reached you, came through a door, came to an event, had a call, bought. Each stage has its own count, so you can see which step is thin.
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European privacy law, which applies if you operate in the EU or sell to anyone in it, so in practice to almost every online business. In short: ask before you email, make leaving one click, know where the data is, be able to delete it, and log every change. Your setup gives you the pieces. Compliance stays yours.
The two verbs you meet most. GET asks for something and changes nothing. POST sends something in, usually to create or trigger. A form submission is a POST.
GitHub's own command-line tool, separate from git and not installed by default. It is what handles logging in and creating repositories from the terminal. The error command not found: gh means you need to install it.
The thing that remembers every version of every file you save into it. Change something, save the change, and the old version is still there to go back to. It runs on your own machine and needs no internet.
The website where a copy of your git history lives, so it survives your laptop and you can reach it from another computer. Git is the memory. GitHub is the safe place you keep a copy of it.
The file that lists what git must never save or send: your .env, your private notes, anything you do not want on GitHub. Get this right before your first push.
Anchoring in physical present moment. The practice of coming back to Body when Mind spirals or Heart floods. Feet on floor, breath in lungs, sensation in hands.
How the Four Languages framework functions - not as a fixed label but as a compass showing where growth is needed now. Results change as you develop different capacities.
A written walkthrough inside a pack, numbered so you know where it sits. It is the reference you keep after the video is over: the steps, the decisions, the things that go wrong.
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A file written for whoever picks this up next, including you in three weeks: what was done, what is still open, what to be careful of. It is what makes a paused piece of work resumable.
Reloading a page while ignoring the saved copy: Cmd and Shift and R on a Mac. The first thing to try when a deploy looks like it did nothing.
The labelled extras attached to a request, separate from its content: who is calling, what format is being sent, which key is being used. Most authentication travels in a header.
The connection language: people, relationships, conversations, your CRM, your emails, the way you sell by being known rather than by being loud.
One of the four languages. The reactor and emotional/expressive capacity. What makes life feel like something. Creates the "soundtrack of life." Associated with Fire element and Wands in tarot.
The top section of a page: the first headline and the first sentence, before anyone scrolls. It carries most of the weight.
A file whose name starts with a dot, like .env or .gitignore. Your computer hides them by default so people do not delete configuration by accident. They are ordinary files otherwise, and Claude sees them fine.
Soul's ability to contain seemingly contradictory truths. Both/and rather than either/or. The capacity to hold complexity without forcing premature resolution.
The folder your user account starts in, the one holding Documents, Downloads and Desktop. When you open a terminal, this is usually where you land, and it is not where your system lives.
The installer most people use on a Mac to add developer tools from the terminal. You install it once, and after that adding a tool is one line starting with brew install.
A small script that runs automatically when something specific happens, like a file being edited. You write the rule once and it fires without anybody remembering to fire it. This is how a system enforces its own standards.
Renting space on a computer that is always on, so your files are reachable from the internet. Your files are yours. Hosting is only the address they answer at.
A small configuration file on some servers where redirects and access rules are written. One line per rule, and a typo can take a site down, so change it carefully.
The language a web page is written in: the headings, the paragraphs, the buttons, the structure. Every page in your system is one HTML file you own and can open in any browser.
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Ideal client profile: the specific kind of person your work is for. Naming it narrowly is what makes everything you write easier.
Making sure that doing the same thing twice has the same result as doing it once. It is what stops a webhook that arrives twice from sending two welcome emails or creating two accounts.
The luteal phase of the menstrual cycle (approximately days 18-28). Energy is declining. Best for finishing, refining, detail work. The harvest and preparation for rest.
Silent knowing that exists before thought. Intuition arising from Soul's deeper awareness. Not logic, not emotion - something underneath both.
The four phases of the menstrual cycle mapped to seasons: Inner Winter (menstrual), Inner Spring (follicular), Inner Summer (ovulation), Inner Autumn (luteal). Each has distinct energy and gifts.
The follicular phase of the menstrual cycle (approximately days 6-12). Energy is rising. Best for new beginnings, learning, creative exploration. Fresh growth energy.
The ovulation phase of the menstrual cycle (approximately days 13-17). Energy is highest. Best for visibility, connection, peak performance. Full bloom.
The menstrual phase of the cycle (approximately days 1-5). Energy is lowest. Best for rest, reflection, vision. The necessary fallow period that enables future growth.
A small bridge that lets Claude Code use another tool directly: your email, your calendar, your meeting recorder, your database. You install it once, authenticate it, and then it is just there. Sometimes called MCP in technical documentation.
Listing what is already there before you copy anything on top of it. It is the step that stops an install from overwriting work you did yourself. Nothing you build should ever be replaced by a file you downloaded.
The document saying what was owed, by whom, for what. Separate from the payment itself, and it is the part your accountant needs.
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The language that makes a page do things after it has loaded: filters, search boxes, forms that respond. This page's search box is JavaScript.
A small terminal tool that reads JSON and pulls out the piece you asked for. Setup steps install it because so many services answer in JSON.
Another way of writing structured information, this one full of curly brackets and quotation marks. It is the format most tools use to talk to each other. Strict about commas, which is why a broken settings file is usually a comma.
A database column that holds a whole JSON structure inside one field, for information whose shape varies from row to row. Flexible, and it is edited by merging rather than by overwriting, or you lose whatever else was in there.
The signed token a service hands your browser after you log in, which the browser then shows on each request to prove it is still you. It expires, which is why you are eventually logged out.
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The set of your own writing a chatbot is allowed to answer from: your pages, your guides, your answers. It answers from that instead of making things up.
L
A single page built for one purpose, usually one offer and one action, with nothing else competing for attention.
Someone who has shown interest but has not bought. The word is cold and the person is not, which is why yours arrive with the context of how they found you.
The file where operational lessons go. Something broke, you found out why, and the fix is written down so the next session does not repeat it.
Your own computer, seen as a web address. When you preview a page before it goes live, it opens at localhost, and it is visible only to you.
List: the command that shows what is inside the folder you are standing in. The terminal's version of opening a folder in Finder and looking.
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Logging in by clicking a link sent to your email instead of typing a password. No password to forget, and it means the email account is the key.
Plain text with a few simple marks for formatting: hashes make headings, asterisks make bold. It stays readable as text, which is why every file in your system is written in it.
The doing mode. Pushing, achieving, solving, managing. Creates structure and moves toward goals. Not about gender - everyone has access to masculine energy. Complementary to feminine.
Knowing when and how to engage each language skillfully, with freedom. Different from control, which attempts to force or suppress. Mastery works with; control works against.
Model Context Protocol. The open standard that lets Claude Code talk to outside tools: your email, your calendar, your database. When documentation says MCP, it means what this course calls an integration. Same thing, technical name.
The files your system keeps so that what you learned last week is still true this week. Some of it Claude writes for itself, most of it you approve. Different from the root file: memory is what accumulated, the root file is the map.
Clear air. Fresh perspective and unobstructed thinking. The ability to see situations without distortion from old patterns or emotional reactivity.
Being trapped by your own thoughts. Like the Eight of Swords: believing you're stuck when freedom is actually present. The prison is made of beliefs, not bars.
Repetitive thought patterns that cycle without resolution. Thinking the same thought over and over without progress. Often requires Body or Heart engagement to break.
A numbered file that changes the shape of your database: adds a table, adds a column, adds a rule. They run in order and are kept forever, so the history of your database is readable. Later ones are often dated instead of numbered, which is only a naming choice.
The thinking language: your ideas, learning, content, strategy, the words you put into the world. In your folders it is usually where your writing, your website and your marketing live.
One of the four languages. The tool of meaning-making, creating narratives, thinking, analyzing, and exploring infinite possibilities. Associated with Air element and Swords in tarot.
The specific version of Claude answering you. They differ in how much they can hold, how fast they are and what they cost. You rarely need to choose: the default is the right one for almost everything.
One numbered part of the course: a lesson page, a video, and the pack of files that go with it. Twelve of them, in order, each building on the one before.
The skill that opens your working day: it reads yesterday, checks your calendar and your numbers, asks how you are, and gives you a plan before any building starts.
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The stories Mind creates about experience. Not truth itself, but interpretation. Narratives can be examined, questioned, and changed when they no longer serve.
The navigation: the row of links at the top of your site. Short is better, because everything you add makes everything else quieter.
Body's communication network. Detects and responds before conscious awareness. Learning to read nervous system signals is foundational Body work.
Node runs JavaScript outside a browser, and npm is how you install packages for it. Some tools in this course sit on top of it. You install it and then mostly forget it.
Staying useful to someone who is not ready to buy, so that when they are ready you are the person they think of. What most of your email is actually for.
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Connecting with your account somewhere else, like sign in with Google, without handing over your password. You approve specific access on their site, and it can be withdrawn.
A free app that reads a folder of markdown files and shows them properly formatted. Useful when you want to read or copy your content without fighting the terminal. Reading happens there, editing still goes through Claude.
The picture that appears when your link is pasted into LinkedIn, a message or a post. Set per page, and if it is missing the link looks like nothing.
The first real conversation you have with your system, where you tell Claude who you are and what you do, and it writes your root file from your answers. Run it once at the start. Run it again when the business changes.
Someone actively agreeing to hear from you, by ticking or clicking. Silence is not an opt-in, and neither is having met you.
You reaching out first, to someone specific, for a reason you could say out loud. Different from broadcasting, and it is the part that actually fills a calendar.
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The set of files that comes with one module: skills, guides, templates and setup files, zipped together and ready to drop into your system. Each module has its own.
Somebody else's code, packaged so you can install and use it rather than writing it yourself. Most tools you install are packages.
The written address of a file or a folder, with slashes between the steps, like body/dashboard/index.html. It is a set of directions from somewhere to the thing you want.
The list of folders your terminal looks in when you type a command. When a tool is installed and the terminal still says command not found, PATH is why, and the fix is adding one line to your shell settings.
The file where observations go before they are conclusions. You noticed the same thing three times. It gets logged, and later you decide whether it is real.
A ready-made checkout you can paste anywhere: an email, a page, a message. The simplest way to sell something before you have built any of the machinery around it.
The check that asks whether this person has paid before showing them the thing. Also called gating.
A file that looks the same everywhere, which is why proposals and guides go out as one. Your system makes them from web pages, so the page and the document match.
The tarot suit associated with Body. Represents physical reality, material world, work, health, and resources. Earth element. The tangible dimension of existence.
The moment Claude stops and asks before doing something to your machine. Option 2 means yes and stop asking for this kind of action in this conversation only. It resets next time you start. Nothing permanent is being handed over.
Personal data that identifies someone: name, email, phone, address. It never belongs in a public web page, in a zip you send out, or in anything a stranger can fetch.
The stages a person moves through on the way to working with you, and where each one currently sits. Its job is telling you who needs an answer this week.
The marker left in a template where your own value goes, usually written in shouting capitals so it is impossible to miss. If something behaves strangely after setup, look for a placeholder you did not replace.
Text with no hidden formatting: no fonts, no styles, nothing stored you cannot see. Every file in your system is plain text, which is why you can read it in twenty years without the software that made it.
The two ordinary image formats. JPG is smaller and right for photographs. PNG keeps sharp edges and transparency, which is right for logos and screenshots.
The number after the colon in an address like localhost:8770. One machine can run several things at once, and the port says which one you want.
The two moments a hook can fire: before Claude does something, or after. Before is where you block a mistake. After is where you check the result.
The column that uniquely identifies a row, so two people with the same name are still two different records.
The short random code that identifies your Supabase project and appears in its web address. Not secret, and you will paste it into setup steps often.
What you type. Also used for the instructions written into a skill or a file, which are just prompts you wrote once and reuse.
A sequence of steps that always runs the same way, in order, start to finish. Your morning and evening routines are protocols: not suggestions, a checklist Claude works through.
The other direction: bringing changes down from GitHub to your machine. What you do when you work on two computers.
A tool that drives an invisible browser, mostly used here to turn a web page into a PDF that looks exactly like the page.
Connection to meaning larger than self. Soul's answer to "why am I here?" Not a job title or achievement, but a quality of presence and contribution.
Sending the commits from your machine up to GitHub. Until you push, the backup does not exist anywhere but your laptop.
Print working directory: the command that answers where am I. Type it any time you are lost and it prints the folder you are standing in.
A programming language that comes with your Mac and that Claude uses for small jobs, including working out today's date reliably. Installing python3 early saves you a class of odd mistakes.
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One question asked of your database: show me everyone who signed up this week. The answer comes back as rows.
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Your computer's working memory, separate from disk space. Disk is what you have room to store. RAM is what you have room to run at once.
The cap a service puts on how often you may call it before it starts refusing. Real code expects this and waits rather than giving up.
Heart's immediate emotional response to experience. A gift when it brings aliveness; a trap when unmastered and leads to actions we regret.
The file at the top of a folder that explains what the folder is and what to do with it. Every pack you download has one, and it is the right place to start.
A printed confirmation that each step of something actually worked, listed one by one. Your saves end with one, so a step that failed is visible instead of silent.
The capacity to receive rather than only give or do. A feminine quality often underdeveloped in achievement-focused culture. Allowing help, rest, pleasure, and care.
An instruction that sends anyone visiting an old address to a new one automatically. 301 means permanently, which is the one you want when a page moves. It is how you retire a page without breaking links other people saved.
The address a login sends people back to once it worked. It has to be registered in advance, and a login that ends on a blank page is almost always this being wrong.
The download: the files, folders and templates you own and install on your own machine. Repo is the short form, the way app is short for application. Same word as the git one below, because your system is also a git repository once you start saving versions of it.
A folder that git is watching. Your whole system is one. The word also means the copy of it stored on GitHub.
The two halves of every exchange: what you sent, and what came back. When something fails, the answer is nearly always in one of the two.
The service every automated email leaves through: welcome emails, downloads, sequences, reminders. It sends from your own domain and reports what happened to each one.
A page that rearranges itself to fit the screen it is on, so a phone gets a readable version rather than a shrunken desktop one. Always check your pages on a phone.
The most common style of API: addresses that look like web addresses, standard verbs for read and write, answers that come back as JSON. Most things you connect to work this way.
The built-in command that reopens a past conversation exactly where you left it, instead of starting cold. Useful when you closed the terminal mid-thought.
How long you keep something before deleting it, decided on purpose rather than by never deleting anything. Some records, like accounting, you are required to keep for years.
Trying again automatically after a failure, because a lot of failures are momentary. Worth having, and worth capping so it does not loop forever.
A rule on a table saying who is allowed to see which rows. With it on, somebody holding your public key still cannot read other people's data. Your tables ship with it on. Do not turn it off casually.
The one file at the top of your system that tells Claude who you are, how you work, and where everything else lives. Claude reads it at the start of every session. It is a map, not an encyclopedia: keep it short and push the detail into skills.
Everything you build: the folder on your laptop, the root file at the top of it, the skills, the memory, the website and the back office it grows into. It is yours, it lives on your machine, and it grows with you.
One entry in a table: one contact, one purchase, one signup. Adding a person adds a row.
The tool most deploy scripts use: it compares your local files with the ones on the server and sends only what changed. Fast, and it does not delete anything on the server unless you explicitly ask it to.
A file of behaviour rules that loads automatically every session, so Claude does not have to be reminded. Where you put the things that must never be got wrong.
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Software you rent monthly and stop having when you stop paying. Useful, and it is the thing your own system is the alternative to.
A safe copy to try things in, where breaking something costs nothing. Payment services give you one so you can test a whole purchase without real money.
The command that writes the session down: to your database, your learnings, your daily log, your CRM and your version history, then prints a receipt telling you each step worked. Nothing is saved quietly.
The shape of your database: which tables exist, which columns they have, and what is allowed in them.
A working file for thinking that is not finished yet: a plan, a handover, notes from a decision in progress. It sits in its own folder and gets reviewed rather than kept forever.
A short saved file of commands that runs them all in order when you call it. You write the sequence once and stop retyping it.
One person's access to something, counted separately from the thing itself. Giving somebody a seat lets them in without handing over ownership.
Any string of characters that proves you are you: an API key, a signing secret, a password. Kept out of your pages, out of version control, and inside the secret store your service provides. If one leaks, anyone holding it can act as you.
A slice of your list who have something in common, so you can write to them about the thing that is actually theirs.
Software running on your own account or machine instead of somebody else's subscription. More setup at the start, and nobody can raise the price or close it down.
Searching by meaning rather than by exact words, so asking how much does it cost finds a page about pricing.
The score mail providers keep on your domain, based on how people react to what you send. Mailing people who never asked destroys it, and it takes a long time to rebuild.
Awareness through physical sensation. Body's way of knowing what is happening now. Touch, temperature, texture, taste, sound, sight - direct experience before interpretation.
Search engine optimisation: the work of being findable when somebody searches for what you do. Mostly it is clear titles, real content and pages that load.
A set of emails sent in order over days or weeks, triggered by something the person did. Written once, sent to everyone who arrives afterwards.
The private key that bypasses every rule and can read and write everything. It belongs on your own machine and inside your server code only. It never goes in a web page, a zip, or a message.
One conversation, from the moment you start Claude to the moment you close it. Your files persist between sessions. The conversation does not, unless you resume it.
The configuration file where your hooks, permissions and preferences are written down. A structured file, so a stray comma stops it working. Have Claude edit it rather than editing it by hand.
The underdeveloped or overused aspects of each language. Every gift has a shadow. Mind's clarity can become cold analysis. Heart's passion can become destructive fire.
The program inside the terminal that reads what you typed and runs it. Bash and zsh are two common ones. On a modern Mac it is zsh, and you will almost never need to care.
A temporary link to a private file that works for a few minutes and then stops. How you hand somebody a document without making it public.
How your function proves a webhook really came from who it claims. The sender signs the message with a shared secret, your function recomputes the signature and compares. If they do not match, it refuses. Without it, anyone could fake a purchase.
A file that teaches Claude how to do one job the way you want it done, saved so you never have to explain it again. You call it with a slash command like /morning. Your system ships with a set of them and you write your own as you go.
The way you run a skill: you type a forward slash and its name, like /crm or /save-session, and Claude reads that skill file and follows it. The Commands tab on this page lists every one you have.
The readable end of a URL, the part after your domain, like /your-service-map/. Lowercase with hyphens, no spaces, and worth choosing deliberately because changing it later breaks every link to it.
The old, standard protocol for sending email, still what most tools mean by email settings. You will meet it when connecting something that predates modern email services.
An audited security certification some large companies ask their suppliers for. Worth knowing the name so you recognise the question. Nothing you build is SOC 2 certified unless it has been audited, and saying otherwise is a claim you cannot make.
The meaning language: purpose, reflection, intuition, the practices that tell you whether the work is still yours. Journals, dreams, quiet.
One of the four languages. The depth beneath, unchanging awareness that anchors being. The witness, the container, the still point. Associated with Water element and Cups in tarot.
The one place a fact is allowed to live, so that when it changes you change it once. A second copy anywhere else will eventually disagree with the first.
Three records you add to your domain so receiving servers can verify your email is genuinely yours. SPF lists who may send for you, DKIM signs each message, DMARC says what to do when a message fails the first two. Without them your mail lands in spam.
Using spiritual concepts to avoid difficult emotions or practical responsibilities. Detachment masquerading as transcendence. Soul's shadow when it disconnects from Heart and Body.
The language you ask a database questions in and give it instructions with. Claude writes it. You mostly read it and press go.
A secure way to log into your server from your terminal and work on it directly. This is how you delete something from the live site, since deleting your local copy does not touch the server.
The lock in the address bar. It encrypts the traffic between a visitor and your site so nobody in between can read it. Most hosts turn it on for free, and a site without it gets flagged as unsafe by browsers.
A website made of finished files that are simply served to whoever asks. Nothing is assembled at the moment of the visit, which makes it fast, cheap and very hard to break. Yours is one.
The three-digit number that says how a request went. 200 is fine. 401 means it did not recognise you. 403 means it recognised you and said no. 404 means the address does not exist. Anything in the 500s means the other end broke, not you.
The setup page before Module 1: install Claude Code, download your starter system, and get to the point where you can actually begin. Nothing in the course works until Step 0 is done.
Where files live rather than rows: images, PDFs, uploads. A bucket can be public or private, and private is the default for anything belonging to one person.
The service that takes payments for you. The customer pays Stripe, Stripe pays into your bank, and it tells your system the moment a payment happens so the rest can follow automatically.
A file of CSS shared by many pages, so one change updates the whole site. This is why site-wide edits belong in the shared folder rather than in each page.
A second Claude sent off to do one contained job with its own fresh memory, so a big task does not eat your main conversation. It reports back and disappears. Anything that needs to talk to you stays in the main conversation.
A name in front of your domain, like app.yourname.com, that can point somewhere completely different. Useful for keeping a tool separate from your main site.
The service holding your database, your logins and the small pieces of code that run your automations. One account, and it becomes the back office behind everything the public side of your business does.
An image written as instructions rather than pixels, so it stays sharp at any size and stays tiny. Right for logos, icons and diagrams. Wrong for photographs.
The tarot suit associated with Mind. Represents thoughts, decisions, truth, and mental challenges. Air element. Swords cut through confusion but can also wound.
A generic word, and worth being precise about. When you mean your specific Four Languages setup, say root system.
Instructions that sit underneath every message in a conversation, setting how the thing behaves before you say a word. Your rules files do this job for your system.
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One kind of thing in your database, like a single spreadsheet: a contacts table, a purchases table. Each has its own columns.
A finished file with your content taken out and a marker left in its place, so you fill in the blanks instead of starting from nothing.
The app on your computer where you type commands instead of clicking. It looks intimidating and it is the plainest thing on your machine: you type a line, press return, something happens. This is where Claude Code runs.
Mind's archetypal role. The one who designs, structures, and creates frameworks for understanding. Builds mental models of how things work and could work.
Body's archetypal role. The one who senses and responds before conscious awareness. Detects danger, opportunity, and truth through physical signals.
Heart's archetypal role. The one who feels immediately and intensely. Creates the emotional soundtrack of life - the joy, grief, anger, love that makes experience vivid.
Soul's archetypal role. The one who observes without being caught. Timeless awareness that watches thoughts, emotions, and sensations arise and pass.
Claude working something out before it answers. You see it as a separate block. Longer thinking costs more and helps most on hard problems, not on simple ones.
One level of what you sell, at one price, with one set of things included. Naming your tiers clearly is most of what makes a pricing page work.
The point where something waiting gives up. Functions have one, so a job that takes minutes has to be split into pieces rather than run in one go.
The unit Claude reads and writes in, a little smaller than a word. Everything is counted in tokens: what you send, what it sends back, what your files take up. It is why long files cost more and why a tidy root file is worth the effort.
The setting in your Claude account that says your conversations may not be used to improve the models. Worth finding and worth checking, especially before any client work goes near it.
The written version of a recording. Once a call or a video is a transcript, your system can read it: pull out the follow-ups, update your contacts, turn it into content.
The specific thing that makes something else run: a form submitted, a payment made, a time reached, a word you said. Every automation has one, and naming it is how you keep control of it.
A second proof beyond the password, usually a six-digit code from an app on your phone that changes every thirty seconds. The single highest-value thing you can turn on for any account holding client data.
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User interface: the part of a tool you look at and click. Contrasted with the terminal, where you type instead.
The one-click way out that every marketing email must carry, both by law and by decency. Yours is generated with a signed link so nobody can unsubscribe somebody else.
The full address of a page, from the https at the front to the last slash. Every page on your site has exactly one.
The ceiling on how much you can use in a window of hours before your plan pauses you. It resets. Long sessions on big files reach it faster, which is another argument for smaller files.
The world's neutral clock, with no daylight saving. Servers store times in it so a record means the same thing everywhere, and your screen converts it to your own timezone.
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The visible area of the screen the page is being read in. Its width is what decides which responsive layout you get.
A free code editor from Microsoft that opens your whole system folder in one window and shows the files as a tree. Useful for looking at things. Claude Code runs perfectly well without it.
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The tarot suit associated with Heart. Represents passion, creativity, willpower, and inspired action. Fire element. Wands spark and spread energy.
The element associated with Soul. Represents depth, intuition, the unconscious, and spiritual connection. Still waters run deep; flowing water finds its way.
A message a service sends you the instant something happens, so you are told rather than having to keep checking. Someone pays, and the payment service immediately pings your function saying this person just paid. Your function reacts.
The signing secret Stripe gives you for one specific webhook, so your function can prove the message came from Stripe. Different from your API key, and both must be right.
The public record of who registered a domain. Registrars offer to hide your name and address behind theirs, which is worth taking if you do not want your home address findable.
Development across all four languages, not just the comfortable or culturally valued ones. The recognition that sustainable growth requires Mind, Heart, Body, and Soul attention.
One block on your dashboard doing one job: a number, a chart, a list. You add and remove them as what you need to see changes.
Observing experience without identification. The practice of watching thoughts, emotions, and sensations from the still point of Soul. "I notice I am feeling..." rather than "I am angry."
The folder the terminal is standing in right now. Everything you type happens relative to it. The single most common reason a Claude session cannot find your files is that it was started from the wrong one.
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A way of writing structured information as plain text, using indentation and colons. Used for the settings and facts your system reads. Indentation carries the meaning, so a wrong space matters.
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A compressed folder: one file that unpacks into many. You download a zip, double click it, and you get the folder of files inside. That is the whole trick.