second-brain
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- My dashboard stopped showing me documents and started answering: what now?I built a window into my second brain. Then I noticed windows don't answer questions. One redesign later, the dashboard does one thing: tells me what to do right now.Jul 6, 20267 min read
- My AI Chief of Staff Used to Have Office Hours. Not Anymore.My AI chief of staff had one flaw: he only worked when my laptop was open. Here's what I built instead.May 22, 202613 min read
- The interface layer: I built a web dashboard for my second brainThe vault knows everything. Charles reads it all. The problem is that seeing any of it requires a terminal conversation. I needed a glance, not a briefing.May 17, 202613 min read
- MCP: the live data layer your AI system is missingNone of that information was in the vault. No file listed Saturday's schedule. Charles didn't remember it. He looked.Mar 28, 202621 min read
- CLAUDE.md is not a prompt. It's a Personal Operating System.I didn't build CLAUDE.md to be smarter. I built it to run rules I wrote on a day I was thinking clearly, whether or not I'm thinking clearly today. Here's the structure behind it.Mar 24, 202614 min read
- The vault: why the foundation matters before the AI doesI failed at GTD three times. The problem wasn't discipline. It was maintenance. Here's what changed when I stopped being the one doing it.Mar 18, 202610 min read
- How I promoted my AI from chatbot to chief of staffI gave my AI a name, a memory, and a set of rules. Here's what I built, and why it stopped feeling like a tool.Mar 9, 20269 min read
- How I promoted my AI from chatbot to chief of staffI gave my AI a name, a memory, and a set of rules. Here's what I built, and why it stopped feeling like a tool.Mar 9, 20269 min read
- The skills layer: what compounding actually looks likeI said 'if I do it twice, I turn it into a skill.' Here's what that means in practice, and what happens when skills start chaining.Mar 9, 20269 min read