How to build a second brain in Claude

How to build a second brain in Claude I built a second brain in Claude and it knows everything about me and my business two phases: capture & extract Capture Extract Claude Jen Jen Jen from Lunch Money Mar 27 For now, I've moved all my agentic tasks off OpenClaw and back to Claude Code via scheduled tasks. It's not groundbreaking but at least it's reliable. Feels like I traded in an experimental hovercraft for a Honda Civic. Jen Jen Jen from Lunch Money Mar 27 Silicon Valley makes you believe the only way to succeed is by becoming a unicorn and exiting for hundreds of millions to billions of dollars. This is simply not true. Solo founders are bootstrapping to escape that exact trap—we want to truly be our own bosses and work on our Show more Jen Yip Founder at Lunch Money Delightfully simple personal finance A few months ago, I was setting up Zapier automations for my business. Today, I've installed almost all of them with a set of custom AI skills I set up in Claude Code. It got me thinking about how people are approaching AI right now build it, borrow it, or buy it? For me, it's mostly build and borrow. Build when it's your domain. I use Claude Code to run reusable commands for my content pipeline, financial reporting, and product analytics. Then to deeply specific to how my business works. It makes more sense for me to build them myself than to spend the time explaining my workflows to someone else. Borrow when it's outside your expertise. I've joined AI mastermind groups that offer starter templates for areas I'm less familiar with, then use them as-is. I look at what tools and approaches they're using, then build a solution for myself based on the blueprint. Instagram wherever you've been posting Updates Mar 23, 2024 AI Agents for SaaS: My Setup with Claude Code and OpenClaw Jul 14, 2023 Lunch Money: Why we lowered our pricing near the height of inflation May 23, 2024 Lunch Money: The New Era - how a divorce redefined my one-person business Jan 24, 2023 On new beginnings Mar 1, 2023 Weekly #4 - 1000 paying users! Feb 20, 2023 Weekly #3 - Major milestones in hiring and marketing Feb 13, 2023 Weekly #2 - Prioritization, (more) hiring and a case study! Feb 6, 2023 Weekly #1 - Pricing, (not) hiring and my first hate mail! and tell it to scrape all of your posts you can even do email threads notes to friends whatever it is that really captures the way that you think and the way that you speak next your business feed it everything you've got A quick message from the founder: Welcome to Lunch Money! Jen from Lunch Money this.latest@lunchbag.dev Mar 15, 2024 Hi there, First of all, thanks for signing up and welcome aboard! I can't wait for you to experience everything Lunch Money has to offer. I'm Jen, the founder. Back in 2019, I got tired of maintaining a messy multicurrency spreadsheet and decided that there had to be a better way. That's how Lunch Money was born. It's a financial tracking and budgeting app that's built for solopreneurs and freelancers, and I'm expecting it to hit $100k MRR by the end of 2024, building in public along the way. If you're curious about my journey, you can read the origin story here: Life in Public: Building an app, freelance and living abroad. Now in your turn, if you get stuck as you set up Lunch Money, simply reply to this email—we're here to help! You can also pop into our Discord community and check out our knowledge base here. I'm rooting for your success, and I'm excited to see Lunch Money become a part of your personal financial journey! Jen, Founder & Chief Budgeter at Lunch Money drip campaigns pitch decks investor updates your knowledge base your website that is all things that you don't want to be repeating every single time you ask Claude to help you with your business you can even do this with design Logos Name Text Only Less Colors (no shadows) Square and transparent Vertical Logo Wordmark if you've got branding materials app screenshots anything that shows your colors and the way that your design comes through that is all very useful now put everything into separate folders personal raw-data blog-post-summaries-batch2.md blog-post-summaries.md lunchbag-tweet-index-TAGS-AND-OVERVIEW.md lunchbag-tweets-2019.md lunchbag-tweets-2020.md lunchbag-tweets-2021.md lunchbag-tweets-2022.md lunchbag-tweets-2023-2026.md brand app-screenshots assets examples fonts company announcements blog-posts emails and have Claude go through each folder Let's knock something off your list Cowork is in research preview. Learn how to use it safely. Scan all files in the personal/ folder and build a context profile about me. For each file, extract and synthesize. - Bio details: name, location, profession, interests, key life details - Writing style: tone (casual vs. formal), Sentence length, vocabulary habits, punctuation quirks, use of emoji or slang - Voice & personality: recurring themes, humor style, how I express opinions, phrases I tend to repeat - Professional context: what I work on, tools I use, my role, collaborators or projects mentioned Scan the result as a markdown file called context.md. Organize it into clear sections. Use direct quotes from my writing as examples where possible. Keep it concise - This file will be used as context in future conversations so you understand who I am and how I communicate. personal Opus 4.6 Let's go and tell it to extract rules based on what it sees when you tell Claude to write something in your voice Generated by Claude personal extended-bio.md jen-journey.md voice.md company about business.md history.md overview.md it's not loading all the context for your business as well this is gonna help a lot with your limits follow for more tips on how I use AI to run my startup