I built a second brain using AI, and it's changed the way I work. THIS is the future of knowledge work.

Thirty years of frameworks and hard-won insight used to live only in Brian’s head. Now it lives in a folder of text files an AI reads and builds on daily.

I’ve spent over 30 years in enterprise IT. I’ve led analyst teams, done corporate strategy, built & sold companies, and now I’m VP & Futurist at Citrix. All of that knowledge—every framework, every hard-won insight, every pattern I’ve learned to recognize—lived in one place: my head. If you wanted access to it, you had to talk to me. And even then, I could only leverage what I happened to remember in the moment.

That all changed a few weeks ago. Now my knowledge lives in a folder of plain text files on my laptop. An AI reads them, maintains them, and updates them based on everything I do, continuously, every single day.