AI & Productivity

A step-by-step guide to building a self-maintaining knowledge base using one folder, one subscription, and one copy-pasted prompt

I spent the Labour Day long weekend building an AI second brain — the kind Andrej Karpathy wrote about, where an AI reads and maintains your knowledge base for you. I was building it to think better at work. What it gave me instead was a picture of myself I didn’t recognise.

I went to a vibecoding workshop at Google, went home, and built the most pointless app I could think of. I’ve never felt more accomplished.

What happens when crafting the perfect AI prompt takes longer than doing the task yourself? Two simple techniques I used to transform AI into a daily workflow partner.

I loved the idea of a Second Brain, but the time it took to build felt like a net-negative. Then I found a way to outsource the grunt work by using AI.

Lupe Fiasco vs AI: Who writes better lyrics?

While everyone’s using the same AI chatbots, the real competitive advantage comes from feeding AI your own personal data – but most people have no idea how to capture it properly.

Here’s an idea: Take a whole week off and just stay where you are. Don’t travel. Don’t fill it with a activities and classes and errands. Just take the time off, with no plans, and see what happens. I tried this for the first time last year, in the second-last week of December. And it