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04 Subsystem Mastery Loop

Subsystem Study Card – step-by-step playbook§

(copy this card for every subsystem you have to master: Work-Intake, Time-Tracking, Daily Close-out …)

Clockify rule: Start a new timer for every numbered phase (1-9). Description format: Learn:<Subsystem>:P<phase> – <tag> • Example: Learn:Time-Tracking:P1A – System Overview • If the task isn’t a Trello card or Sheet row, paste the heading link of your Learning-Log Google Doc as the first line.

# Phase & Tool What you do Proof you paste into the Learning-Log Doc
1A SYSTEM OVERVIEW
GPT Coach
👉 Give me a 120-word overview of the entire Solo-Team OS 120-word paragraph
1B SUBSYSTEM ↔ ECOSYSTEM
GPT Coach
👉 Explain how the <Subsystem> exchanges inputs & outputs with the other subsystems Context paragraph
1C SUBSYSTEM CORE PURPOSE
GPT Coach
👉 Summarise the mission & payoff of <Subsystem> in ≤ 75 words 75-word summary
1D ASCII FLOW DIAGRAM
GPT Coach
👉 Draw an ASCII diagram of <Subsystem> showing its key steps and data hand-offs ASCII block
Move on only when the four snippets are pasted beneath the “ORIENT” heading in your Doc.
2 📚 READ
Markdown repo
Open <Subsystem>/README.md + its key SOPs. Read top-to-bottom. n/a
3 WGLL GLANCE
Gallery
Spend ≤3 min scanning the ⭐ screenshots for this subsystem. (optional) paste favourite PNG
4 🤖 DEEP-DIVE & Q-A
/deepdive <Subsystem>
• Read the explainer the bot returns.
Ask clarifying questions until nothing feels vague.
• If the bot can’t answer → start the line Gap? → and note it.
Copy the Q-A transcript and any Gap? lines
5 📝 PROGRESSIVE SUMMARY Add one 140-character TL;DR sentence for this subsystem. TL;DR line
6 QUIZ
/quiz <Subsystem>
Retake until score ≥ 80 %. Final % score
7 🎙 TEACH-BACK
voice-note ↔ GPT
• Record a voice-note explaining the subsystem end-to-end.
• Bot returns rating 1-5.
• Iterate until rating ≥ 4.
Paste the bot’s final rating
8 🔍 REFLECT
/reflect <Subsystem>
Answer:
1. What clicked?
2. What’s still fuzzy?
3. One micro-experiment I’ll try.
Three short bullets
9 📅 MOVE ON checkpoint Tick the checklist “Subsystem studied” ✓ Checklist tick + Trello card ➜ Done

  1. Highlight the relevant heading in your Learning-Log Google Doc.
  2. Copy the link to this heading (Insert → Bookmark → Copy link).
  3. Paste it as the first line in the Clockify description.
  4. Prefix the description as usual, e.g. https://docs.google.com/...#bookmark=id.abc123 – Learn:Time-Tracking:P4 – Deep-Dive.

(Use this only if the normal Trello/Sheet link really isn’t available.)


What “done” looks like for one subsystem§

  • Trello Study-Card sits in Done with every checklist item ticked.
  • Learning-Log Doc shows: the 4-pack Orient answers, Q-A transcript, TL;DR, Quiz % score, Teach-Back rating, Reflection bullets, plus any Gap? lines.
  • Clockify dashboard shows 9 linked entries (P1A … P9) and zero unlinked minutes for the session.

Repeat the card-copy process for the next subsystem until all eight subsystems are green-ticked—then you graduate to the Sim-Day tasks.