What we'll do today

Goal: leave having built your first skill — we do it live in the last 10 minutes.

First — what did you build this week?

Each week we go round and share what we shipped. Not to impress — to keep moving.

We build this together

• ▹The community effect. Watching each other move is what carries you through the empty days — momentum you can't manufacture alone.
• ▹Be proactive — use us. Egils & Gianluca for 1:1 chats, calls, brainstorming, real consults. Don't sit stuck.
• ▹This is rare. Future cohorts won't get this level of direct access to us. Use it now.

Ask. Share. Pull each other forward.

Same scan. Every era, less friction — now, better answers.

~1990s–2000s · FILM

You carried printed film doctor to doctor — non-urgent scans driven between hospitals by taxi.

Speed

Access

Cost

Insight

2010s–2020s · DIGITAL

Filmless — by 2007 every NHS England trust. The scan is in the system in minutes, everywhere at once.

Speed

Access

Cost

Insight

2020s–2040s · AI

AI reads the scan & flags findings. 76% of FDA medical AI is radiology; a 100k-woman trial: AI caught more cancers (81% vs 74%). And we're just at the start.

Speed

Access

Cost

Insight

We're at the "1997 of AI" — and it's arriving faster than the internet did. Build what you own now.

Sources: filmless by 2007 — English National PACS Programme · film-by-taxi — NIH/NCBI · 76% of FDA medical AI = radiology — JAMA Network Open 2024 · more cancers caught, 81% vs 74% — MASAI, Lancet 2026 · AI faster than the internet — St. Louis Fed 2025. Era-1 photo CC BY-SA 4.0 (Infrogmation/Wikimedia) · Era-3 CC BY 4.0 (Rahman et al., Diagnostics 2024).

Booking a trip. Same seat — every era, less friction.

Same trip, same seat — the people who got online early own travel today. AI is that moment again.

Sources: travel-agent jobs −70% & self-serve online — TravelPerk (US BLS) · AI agents ~30% of bookings by 2030 — CNBC 2025, citing research firm IDC (International Data Corporation) · AI adopted faster than the internet — St. Louis Fed 2025.

The ones who build don't get left behind

Radiology and travel both got compressed. We don't know exactly what 2040 looks like — but we know who wins: the people who learn the new tool early and make it theirs.

• ▹AI skills already pay. Workers with AI skills earn a 56% wage premium — up from 25% just a year earlier.
• ▹Early adopters pull ahead. In real workplaces AI lifted output +14% on average — +34% for the newest workers — and cut writing time 40%.
• ▹We've seen this movie. When search replaced the Yellow Pages, those who moved online found better service for less — by 2011 most had dropped the phone book. AI is that switch again.

Build your own AI OS → you understand it, shape it, own your future — instead of being used by it.

Sources: 56% AI wage premium — PwC Global AI Jobs Barometer 2025 · +14% / +34% productivity — NBER 2023 (Brynjolfsson, Li & Raymond) · 40% faster writing — MIT / Science 2023 · ~70% dropped print directories by 2011 — Yellow Pages (Wikipedia / industry data).

The same brain you saw — now the full 5

Constitution — who your AI is

Read at the start of every session — it's why your AI sounds like you, not generic. Four things go inside:

Lives in whatever file your tool uses — ⚙️ OpenClaw config · 📄 SYSTEM.md · 🟣 CLAUDE.md. Different tools, same job.

How to hold it

And Skills load on demand (only a short description until you use one) — so you can have many without bloating context.

Sources: Claude Code memory (lean, modular, <200 lines) · prompt caching (cache reads = 0.1× input) · Agent Skills (progressive disclosure).

Mine = 6 files, each one job

All auto-load each session. This "lean router + load-on-demand" shape is exactly what Anthropic + practitioners recommend — one canonical source per topic, no padding.

Memory — what your AI knows

Pure life data, kept in folders. Mine = 7 spheres:

7 is a starting point, not a rule — you shape it to your life:

• ▹Heavy on business? Split it into clients, offers, content.
• ▹Only about you? Drop business entirely.

In practice: tell your AI "remember I'm training for a marathon" → it writes that into Body → next time you ask about food, it already knows. Add a folder only when it outgrows its parent — each builds their own.

Your data — own the files

Principle: "File over app" — Steph Ango, CEO of Obsidian: if you want digital things that last, keep them as files you control, in formats easy to read.

Steal a structure — then make it yours

01-constitution/
02-memory/
  body/  mind/
  business/  money/
03-skills/
04-tools/
05-focus/
99-archive/

1-projects/
2-areas/
3-resources/
4-archive/

notes/
people/
projects/
archive/

No "perfect" structure. Pick one, start, adjust as you grow.

Examples & methods: PARA — Tiago Forte (Building a Second Brain). The trick isn't copying mine — it's keeping one system you actually maintain.

Skills — what your AI does

A skill is an instruction your AI follows — written once, run forever. It reads your Constitution (acts like you) and Memory (knows the facts).

My real, named skills — each is just one written instruction:

Tools — what it's plugged into

💬 Communication

📄 Docs & Knowledge

📅 Plan & Tasks

🛠️ Build & Automate

💳 Commerce & Life

+ browser, web search, databases, design (Figma)… Start with 4–6. Add a tool only when a skill needs it.

Sources: modelcontextprotocol.io (MCP = "USB-C for AI") · live popularity PulseMCP · categories from MCP.Directory + Anthropic Connectors. Logos © their owners (via Simple Icons).

Focus — what you do now

And the part that keeps it alive: the feedback loop.

On an always-on machine (a Pi or server) it runs daily on its own; on a normal laptop you run it yourself — still works, just not while you sleep.

Without a structure, every project drifts

Give the AI one repeatable process and it runs every project the same clean way. No single right one — here are three:

Goal
Research
Present
Do
Analyse

Capture
Clarify
Organize
Reflect
Engage

Build
Measure
Learn

Pick one. Name it. Hand it to your AI.

Then wire it to a task tool the AI can reach (Todoist · Notion · Asana). + PDCA, Design Thinking. Sources: GTD · Lean Startup · PDCA (Deming).

The feedback loop — what keeps it alive

Without the feedback loop, your second brain slowly disconnects from your real life.

Sources: Forte — Building a Second Brain · Allen — GTD weekly review · Ebbinghaus forgetting curve.

Theory is nice. Here's how to wire it up.

Pick a source, scan it on a schedule, let the brain digest it. Each one = a single cron job. Start with one.

One source → one schedule → one digest into Memory. That's a living brain.

It knows my body

It turns a thought into a plan

📄 Plain doc 📊 Rich doc · table + images 🌐 Web page ✨

Same content my AI generated from one message — three formats. Pick for your audience.

It researches anyone — on its own page

🔒 See a real example — a cohort member's page ↗

One message in → a private page out. Then I ask them: "can I feature you?"