You Already Have a Second Brain. It’s in Your Sent Folder.
You don’t need to build a second brain from scratch. Eight years of sent email already holds everything you know. Here’s how to excavate it with AI.

You don’t need to build a second brain from scratch. Eight years of sent email already holds everything you know. Here’s how to excavate it with AI.

When my father passed away on his 84th birthday, I sat in the living room at 1am and asked Claude what to do next. The checklist it gave me changed the following month.

I’ve had a personal website for years. It sat there. WordPress install, Kadence theme, content I hadn’t touched since whenever I last felt motivated enough to log in. It wasn’t broken. It just wasn’t doing anything. So when I started working with Claude, I figured my own site was the perfect guinea pig. Low stakes,…

I’ve always had more ideas than skill. I can see things in my head. I just can’t make them with my hands. I started as a video editor. That scratched the itch for a while. I could take footage and shape it into something that felt like mine. But it wasn’t the same as making…