# The Key To Going From Incremental To Transformational Results With AI The problem to solve: giving more context to AI. A conventional second brain includes: - Notes, ideas, todos - Projects & plans - Habit trackers, goals - Reflection & journaling - Research materials An AI second brain includes both personal and external sources. ![[Screenshot 2025-09-08 at 14.11.51.png]] We don't use the notes. AI uses the notes. - Summary - Action Steps - Personalized Summary (project, business) - Go beyond conversations - My blindspots and biases - What are the second order implications that weren't mentioned - Content Ideas Prerequisites - Goals - Company - Thought Leadership (articles you've written) - Projects You're Working On Where To Store Data - Create a NotebookLM of this set of classes and then interact with them. - Obsidian to host interlinked information. - Vector/RAG. High Leverage Takeaways - Identify foundational data about yourself and create it (about you, about company) - Use a built-in connector - Update your system prompt - XYZ areas are important to me. Relate your responses to how the impact those areas. (- Determine use cases - Use tools (Granola, Obsidian, NotebookLM, Plaud)) Before, we were limited by chat context and tokens. Today, the context is way higher. There are memories. And Projects. Challenge: getting information from tools 1. Pull of our data into AI 2. Using our data in workflows (series of prompts) 3. Using our data in other tools 4. Ambient memory What data could be most valuable to collect and why? - About us - Dashboards - Content - Product - Industry - In our head - Journal - About the world - Connoisseurship - Ideas - Studies - Research - People - Competitors - Collaborators - Experts Value of info: - Helps AI in specific contexts - Helps for extrapolating trends or patterns - Time horizons - Other AIs - Future - Partner - Counterintuitive - Perspective shifting - Trends - Intersection of 2 different concepts - Customer decision making - Analytics - Gaps in the market - Building relationships (new/rekindling) - Goal strategy - Finding shortest path to a goal - Directionality (vision/goals) - Find people to follow - Personality - Customer insights - Creative analogies - Generalizing Synthetic Data - Frameworks to use [[Foundational Data]] # The General AI Memory Problem Value of information depends on context. High ROI Data ROI Calculator: - Frequency of use - Life of use - Magnitude of impact - Immadiatel useful