Second Brain Chronicles

Second Brain Chronicles

Importing 25 Years of His Life
Building Cerebro · Chapter 3 — how to get decades of journals out of an app that owns them and into plain text you can search, including the shortcut…
 • Jim Christian
The Week My Builds Started Compounding
How to stop starting from zero: the question to ask before you build anything, and why your first attempt always costs a day.
 • Jim Christian
Two People, Two AI Assistants, One Repo
How to run a shared project through two AI assistants: the file, the five sections, and the one line at the top that makes it work.
 • Jim Christian
The One File That Teaches It Everything
A single text file, read before every session, that turns a generic assistant into one that knows your setup. Mine also went quietly wrong for two…
 • Jim Christian
Your Vault Has a Shape
Five folders and a note for today — the difference between a system you keep and a pile you abandon in a month.
 • Jim Christian
Starting From Scratch
Two pieces of software, one command, and a folder on your own disk. This is the actual beginning, and it takes about twenty minutes.
 • Jim Christian
My favourite MCPs: macos-automator
Some software you just can't reach. Well, macos-automator gets it.
 • Jim Christian
My favourite MCPs: Resend
Resend is a great tool with a free tier for automating service emails, so why not hook it into your AI agent?
 • Jim Christian
My favourite MCPs: n8n
Talk to your agent, get an automation workflow.
 • Jim Christian
My favourite MCPs: Google Docs
Get clued up on speaker notes and document comments, right from inside your AI.
 • Jim Christian
My favourite MCPs: Kit (formerly ConvertKit)
I can check all my newsletter stats, subscribers and even draft messages right from my AI.
 • Jim Christian
My favourite MCPS: Buffer
Get your AI to be your junior marketing gofer.
 • Jim Christian
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