I’ve been liking this thread. I think it’s great when the OP responds to the discussion, it makes it worthwhile to contribute. I’ve see plenty of threads elsewhere and someone asks for help, and you don’t hear from them again.
There’s been some good suggestions so far in general. But, I like to analyze and break things down, and maybe come up with a good individualized plan. So let’s maybe look for a small places to improve:
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You said you’re pretty even against your housemate, but it sounds like you were not satisfied with your performances at GNK’s. How were the games in the BBTL’s? If you’ve done reasonably well in the BBTL’s, then maybe your on the verge of having solid gameplay fundamentals, and just need to learn cards. If not, definitely join the next one and focus on keeping your ELO above 1525. If you just need to learn cards and the meta, then the advice that others have given you to try all the varied current top decks is a good plan.
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How much do you enjoy deck-building? If it’s not one of the biggest factors to enjoy the game, then take a break from it for a while and focus on understanding the meta and making good plays with established decks. But, if it’s the thing that keeps you playing this game, that’s a different path. (I’m not a huge deck builder myself, so others can chime in, but maybe get on the different archetype forums here and start discussing and testing different builds with other like-minded players and gaining experience that way.) Netrunner is too complex to be able to try to improve deck-building skills and playing skills at the same time.
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How’s your local community? If it’s friendly enough, maybe you can go to one of the best players there and see if they’ll mentor you? If you’ve been on these forums for a while, you may know that it’s something that not too uncommon. It’s been inactive for a while, but we even have a mentor/mentee thread:
May not be able to find a mentor there, but it does have some good guidelines and discussion on how such a relationship could function if you can find a mentor.
If you haven’t joined a regular local netrunner group (and it sounds like you do have one because there’s GNK’s), then please go and make sure you attend regularly. It’s a great way to find more experienced players consistently and even form teams for testing for big events.
That’s it for now, I’ll see if I can give you more suggestions after
P. S. - You’ve probably read this already, but just in case, here is the great article on getting better and note-taking:
https://stimhack.com/the-two-year-turn-how-i-learned-netrunner-by-noah-mckee