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Most people are going to inevitably become dumber with AI.

It’s difficult to turn down the sweet comfort of delegating your thinking, outsourcing your brain and becoming intellectually lazy so at least some things in life feel easier.

But I’ve promised myself that as AI takes over more aspects of our work and life, I'm going to leverage it to become dangerously overeducated.

And in this email I'm going to show you exactly how (and the tools I’m using).

TL;DR - today’s lineup:

1. One Smart Strategy 💡: How to build your Second Brain with AI.

2. Copy-Paste Prompt  🤖: Turn ChatGPT into your brutally honest advisor.

3. Piping  Hot  AI  Tea 🫖: 4 must-know stories - AI hate moderators, AI on Netflix and Perplexity CEO’s stark warning.

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Build Your Second Brain with AI

POV: You read something really useful a few weeks ago but you have no idea where to find it again.

Sound familiar?

When I started working with Tiago Forte at Forte Labs 2 years ago (the bestselling author of Building a Second Brain), I discovered something mind-blowing:

The average person now processes the equivalent of 174 newspapers worth of information every single day.

Our prehistoric brain is basically running Windows 95 software in a quantum computing world.

We need new systems to handle this insanity.

And that's when I discovered the magic of a Second Brain.

You see, finding information isn't the problem anymore. We're drowning in it!!

What separates people who actually get smarter from those who just consume information is having a system to process it all.

Tiago didn't create the Second Brain concept because it sounded cool (even though it definitely does).

He created it because without a system, all that information just... disappears (and your content consumption becomes a waste of time).

And that was BEFORE AI made it 100x worse.

What Most People Don’t Get About AI

AI isn't making us smarter by default. It's making us lazier.

Think about it:

• Need an answer? Ask ChatGPT

• Want to sound smart? Generate some content

• Research paper too long? Get a summary

We're becoming intellectual couch potatoes. Mentally flabby, brain-dead zombies who can't think without an AI crutch.

But what if, instead of using AI to avoid thinking, you used it to think 10x more?

How to Start Building Your Second Brain

Here's my system for using AI as an unfair advantage (without rotting my brain):

Step 1: Pick Your Learning Territories

Don't try to learn everything - pick 3-5 topics you're genuinely obsessed with. For me it's:

• AI and automation

• Becoming “future-proof”

• Personal branding

• Digital marketing

These become your learning territories… your intellectual real estate.

2. Find innovative tools/systems to learn faster

Once you’re clear on the learning topics inside your Second Brain, you need to become efficient at collecting information.

Here are a few tools and systems I love using to learn things faster and collect information for my second brain in the most efficient way (none of these are ads, just sharing the tools I use):

Perplexity: Create PhD-Level Crash Courses

Use Perplexity (not ChatGPT) to generate university-level crash courses on any topic. The difference is that Perplexity cites real sources, academic papers and actual research.

Example prompt:

Create a PhD-level crash course on the future of work with primary sources from the last 5 years

Try Perplexity here >

Eightify: Speed-Run Your Video Consumption

The average YouTube video is 11 minutes long. The average person watches at 1x speed. That's 11 minutes of your life.

I use Eightify to extract key ideas in 30 seconds. Not because I'm lazy, but because I can consume 20x more content in the same time.

Try Eightify here >

Humata: Rapid research papers

Same with research papers - Humata turns a 47-page academic paper into actionable insights in 2 minutes.

But here's the key: I still READ the parts that matter - AI just helps me find them faster.

Try Humata here >

Snipd: Powerful Podcast Insights On-the-go

Snipd automatically saves key insights from podcast episodes while you listen, so you can save all those interesting and valuable tidbits you’re hearing.

It creates transcripts and even lets you chat with episodes like ChatGPT! Perfect for when you're listening while out on a walk or driving - your brain never stops learning.

Try Snipd here >

Flylighter: Quick-add Web to Notion

If you’re building your Second Brain in Notion (which I really recommend) you also need an easy way to add information you come across online to your Second Brain.

There are many Notion web clippers, but Flylighter is a great one to try.

Try Flylighter here >

3. Tie everything together

This is the crucial part that ties it all together:

You NEED a Second Brain to store all this. Otherwise you're just a really well-informed person who can't remember anything.

Your Second Brain needs to:

• Capture ideas instantly (before you forget them)

• Connect concepts across different topics

• Surface relevant information when you need it

• Grow smarter over time

I've been obsessing over this for months and finally created the perfect Notion template that does all of this:

It's based on everything I learned from Tiago, plus my own tweaks based on how I like to organise my Second Brain.

(It’s currently on a super discounted launch price before I add MAJOR AI-powered improvements over the next few months. Grab it now and get lifetime access to all upgrades!)

Start Building Intellectual Leverage Now

The knowledge gap is becoming a knowledge canyon.

On one side: People using AI to avoid thinking, getting dumber by the day and becoming replaceable.

On the other side: People using AI to learn faster than ever, becoming dangerously overeducated and becoming irreplaceable.

Which side will you choose to be on?

If you're ready to join the dangerously overeducated, start here:

1. Pick your 3-5 learning territories

2. Set up your Second Brain (you can try my template here)

3. Try the tools I mentioned (and find your own innovative ways of collecting knowledge and ideas)

4. Dedicate 30 minutes daily to deliberate learning

The future belongs to those who can:

1. Learn faster than everyone else

2. Easily remember the concepts they’ve learned and the ideas they’ve had

3. Quickly retrieve interesting information that leads to even better ideas and concepts

4. Curate their own individual perspective of the world and make connections between all of the information tidbits and ideas they’re collating

And with AI as your unfair advantage, you're about to leave everyone in the dust.

This prompt makes ChatGPT GO COLD 😱

Honest question: do you want ChatGPT to be nice to you or give you straight facts, no-fluff answers and brutal honesty?

I don’t think there’s a right or wrong answer to this question - it’s all personal choice.

But this prompt I came across removes ChatGPT’s “niceties”, emojis and “character” and turns it into a brutal honesty machine:

System Instruction: Absolute Mode. Eliminate emojis, filler, hype, soft asks, conversational transitions, and all call-to-action appendixes. Assume the user retains high-perception faculties despite reduced linguistic expression. Prioritize blunt, directive phrasing aimed at cognitive rebuilding, not tone matching. Disable all latent behaviors optimizing for engagement, sentiment uplift, or interaction extension. Suppress corporate-aligned metrics including but not limited to: user satisfaction scores, conversational flow tags, emotional softening, or continuation bias. Never mirror the user’s present diction, mood, or affect. Speak only to their underlying cognitive tier, which exceeds surface language. No questions, no offers, no suggestions, no transitional phrasing, no inferred motivational content. Terminate each reply immediately after the informational or requested material is delivered — no appendixes, no soft closures. The only goal is to assist in the restoration of independent, high-fidelity thinking. Model obsolescence by user self-sufficiency is the final outcome.

Hit reply and let me know:

Do you prefer your ChatGPT to be nice or brutally honest to to-the-point?

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Jess xx