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You Can't License a Brain

There's a seductive idea going around second-brain circles: rent your brain to companies like it's YouTube for your mind. I've been turning it over for weeks — here's where I've landed, and I'm open to being wrong.

7/15/20266 min read

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Second Brain

I Taught My Second Brain to Run Itself

My second brain knew everything and did nothing. So I gave it three standing jobs that run on a schedule — and now it works on itself while I sleep.

7/4/20263 min read

buildsaiobsidianagentssystems

Field Notes

The Deployment Gap: What I See From Inside the Enterprise

OpenAI just spent $14 billion telling us where AI value actually gets created — and it's the exact gap I work in every day. Here's what that looks like from the inside.

6/11/20265 min read

aicareerenterpriseenergy

Second Brain

One Tap from YouTube to a Structured Note in My Second Brain

I wired Tasker, a transcript API, and Claude together so sharing any YouTube video automatically creates a structured, AI-formatted note inside my Obsidian knowledge vault. Here's the system.

5/24/20263 min read

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Second Brain

I Built a Second Brain That Actually Knows Me

How I turned a plain-text Obsidian vault into an AI-native knowledge graph that compounds over time — every person, idea, and decision, indexed and queryable forever.

5/24/20264 min read

buildsaiobsidianknowledgesystems

MBA Admissions Guide

655 GMAT, 4 Top Admits. Here Is What Actually Matters.

Admitted to Wharton, Booth, Yale SOM, and Cornell Johnson with over $210K in scholarships as an international applicant. The guide I wish existed when I started.

4/6/202614 min read

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Field Notes

Historical Reliability of the Resurrection of Jesus

Since it is Easter, I wanted to reflect on why I believe in Christianity. The lynchpin of the Christian faith is the historical reliability of the resurrection of Jesus.

4/5/20267 min read

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Field Notes

Why I Started Writing Things Down Publicly

A short explanation for why I started documenting my experiments while the space is still messy.

2/20/20263 min read

writinglearningsystems

First Project

I Didn't Know How to Code. So I Built an AI Agent Anyway.

From zero to a working Telegram-to-email agent in one day on a Raspberry Pi.

2/20/20262 min read

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