Making Your Second Brain Actionable with AI 🧠

There are a lot of people talking about how they use AI nowadays to help drive their business in terms of, strategic initiatives and new tactics and things like that.

even some talking about building second brains, which are essentially just repositories of working knowledge.

Could be SOPs, could be, messaging, brand, voice, you name it, different ad campaigns and the performance of those campaigns.

But the issue is that most of the time, even with a second brain, that data just becomes something that looks like this.

A huge planet of data points, documents that some are talking to each other, but more or less, this planet just keeps on growing and growing and growing and it becomes, well, just not super actionable.

And so what I did today is I basically gave Claude access to Obsidian, which it had before, which is that planet.

It's that second brain has everything that there is to know currently about me.

Well, not everything, but most things about me.

The way that I work, my, behavior and personality tests, everything that there is to know about GO First, the consulting agency I started about a year and a half ago, and Beyond the Bid, which is the podcast, the marketing arm of GO First Consulting.

So inside of that planet is more or less everything that there is to know about those three nodes, if you want to call it that.

The issue though is that for the last two years I've been a heavy, heavy power user of a tool called NotebookLM.

NotebookLM is a free Google tool that, if you're not familiar with it, you probably should be.

It's what's called a rag model, a retrieval, augmented generation model, not necessarily a LLM or a large language model.

Those are two very nerdy, acronyms for essentially two ways that AI can interact with you.

An LLM will use your information, use your working knowledge, anything that you give it.

In addition to most of the time, the extent, the whole extent of the Internet, good and bad, true and false, black and white, you name it.

tool like Notebook will only give you information based off of the sources that you provide it.

So you're limiting that context window.

You're not giving it access to the full king caboodle.

You're only limiting it to things that you need to get answers from.

What I've done in the last two years though, is anytime I.

Anytime I come across a new influencer, a new sales methodology, a new FrameWork, a competitor, a really just anything that is captivating, anything that is groundbreaking, and anything that is novel and beneficial, I will create a notebook around that topic.

And then of course in notebook, you can ask questions, get answers based off of only the sources that you provide it.

You can create deliverables.

You can see here on the left, I've created some slide decks, mind maps, infographics, a full on cinematic video.

This is using Alex Hormozi notebook.

So essentially what I've done is this is I think almost 300 YouTube videos pulled directly from, Alex's or the Hormozi playlist.

And here it sat, super valuable information, compiled, aggregated and sitting just waiting to be asked something.

The difference though is what I've done most recently, which is giving Claude access to these notebooks.

And so what it's doing right now is, and I didn't do anything crazy, you can see in the GO First project in Claude, I basically just tasked it, hey, go ahead and integrate NotebookLM library, namely all however many 300, 200 plus notebooks into our knowledge base.

So it's going through asking the questions that it needs to ask for the notebooks that it needs to reference, getting those answers, and then bringing that back over into our second brain.

So it's taking that planet and actually digesting it and making it super actionable, as well as bringing in not just my working knowledge, but working knowledge that's personalized from thought leaders, industry experts, other tools out there, you name it, and then constantly just rebuilding this second brain or this planet.

and so what this has allowed me to do though is not only, here's the answer index, 221 notebooks or 13,513 sources, but actually make that planet, that second brain, truly personalized, truly actionable.

Because now what I can do is say, you know, use the whole working knowledge to help me make decisions, use all of this working knowledge, but, the working knowledge that was gathered from referencing Alex Hormozi YouTube playlist, from Daniel Priestley, from the (MAP) selling, prospecting from Keenan, all these different thought leaders and experts can help me actually drive traffic, help me drive that strategy through using of that second brain.

So I just thought this was crazy cool.

again, very much a work in progress.

But the fact that you can now tell Claude, hey, go ahead, don't just take control of the browser, but reference and utilize these notebooks that I've already built for you.

Totally big unlock for just reinforcing and updating the way that you're driving strategy.

So I hope this was helpful.

Super cool concept if nothing else, keep going.

Thanks for watching.