Tiago Forte
The seven stages of research and development behind Life in Perspective, from 17 years of my own annual life reviews to 500 beta readers, 4,500 years of year-end rituals, and AI.
A friend who works in educational policy recently sent me a podcast, and after listening, I think it is one of the most remarkable pieces of content I’ve ever come across. It’s called Sold a Story (Apple Podcasts, Spotify). The series is produced by a small team at American Public Media, led by journalist Emily…
AI Second Brain Meetups are officially on! Between October 8 and November 28, 2026, local in-person groups are meeting in cities around the world. This is for anyone who is building what we call a Second Brain: a trusted system for curating your knowledge and enhancing your productivity and creativity. We’ve been talking about it…
On January 8, 2023, I sent the following message in a WhatsApp group chat: This message emerged from my annual review that year, completed just a couple days before, in which I decided I needed more community in my life after years of working in isolation during the pandemic. To my utter surprise, about 10…
In March, we launched the inaugural cohort of The AI Second Brain (AISB), a new immersive education program years in the making. It marked my return to teaching after three years of intensive research and experimentation with AI. I felt like an explorer returning from the wild frontier with a beacon of hope in hand…
On August 31, 1976, a fund manager named John Bogle launched a product that made him the laughing stock of Wall Street. His new fund made no attempt to beat the market. It simply bought every stock in the S&P 500 and held on. There were no star stock pickers, no fancy research department, no…
I’m incredibly excited to inaugurate a new project I’m calling Operation Gallavant: a multi-month family road trip we’re planning on taking down the length of Central and South America. This is something I’ve wanted to do for many years. Ever since I was a child, we’d regularly visit my Brazilian family via a 12-hour flight…
I’m proud to introduce a new program as part of Cohort 2 of The AI Second Brain – the Alumni Mentor Corps. We are seeking a small group of qualified “Alumni Mentors,” successful graduates of the first cohort who want to return to guide and support new (and returning) students. We at Forte Labs are…
In late 2024, Anthropic released a new standard called MCP, which stands for Model Context Protocol. We didn’t know it at the time, but this would end up being a monumental moment in the history of modern AI. MCP would spread and grow to become the universal standard used by all AI platforms as a…
I recently reached an incredible milestone – 500,000 books sold across 8 titles. That includes 5 self-published Kindle ebooks, 1 co-authored book, and 2 traditionally published books, all released from 2017 to 2023. Here’s the breakdown of how those sales were distributed: Almost every single thing I believed about bookwriting when I started turned out…
I’ve been living with my family in a Mexican mountain town called Valle de Bravo for almost two years now, and I’ve found it to be one of the most special, unique places I’ve ever spent any length of time. The natural environment, the culture, the people, and the perspectives it offers have taught me…
I recently did an experiment. I allowed files and folders to accumulate on my computer for a month – just let them pile up without organizing anything. By the end of that month, I had 222 individual items scattered across my desktop and downloads folder. The accumulated files were genuinely diverse… Financial documents: personal tax…