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Second Brain Chronicles is where I build my AI second brain in public.

A living system. I use AI — Claude Code, mostly — to build real functionality into it: apps that do jobs, agents that run on a schedule, pipelines that mine decades of my own files and surface what matters. It reads, writes, remembers, and acts, and it gets more capable every week.

Here I show you three things: the functionality I’m adding and how it works, what it’s helping me do — the work it takes off my plate and the thinking it sharpens — and exactly how you build the same for yourself.

I’m Jim Christian — a digital integrator, educator, and author. I’ve spent years wiring these tools into real work. This is where that work is on show: a real AI second brain, built in the open, with the instructions to build your own.

If you want an AI that knows what you know and does real work on it, you’re in the right place.

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