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…
We gave four people on our team Recall, an AI knowledge base and Evernote alternative, for three weeks. Here’s our honest verdict.
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…
In the early 2010s, the gaming startup Tiny Speck was a darling of the tech industry. The company had raised $17 million. The launch of its first game, Glitch, was covered by international media, including The Guardian and The New York Times. Within months of launching, it had tens of thousands of active players. But…
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…
Six years ago, I attended a week-long course in Northern California called Groundbreakers. Facilitated by Joe Hudson and his wife, Tara, it was one of the most impactful experiences of my life. The experience I had there reshaped my relationship with the “voice in my head,” that is, with my own inner monologue. It helped…
In early 2023, after teaching 6,000 students over six years, I abruptly decided to stop teaching our Building a Second Brain cohorts. Even at that early stage, with the release of the first version of ChatGPT just a couple months earlier, it was clear to me the impact this new technology would have. Almost from…