Introducing The AI Second Brain
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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 one day to the next, it felt like so much of what I’d built – my writing, my principles, my methods, my business – had suddenly become obsolete.
I could no longer authentically continue to teach the same methods and give the same advice in light of what I was seeing AI was now capable of. So I stopped.
In the following months, as the pace of AI advances only accelerated, it became…
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