The frontier of AI is far too vast, too complex, and moving too quickly for any one person to keep track of alone. It’s literally impossible to keep up, even with the help of AI itself.
So you essentially have two options:
- Narrow your focus to a small set of topics, and accept that you may lose out on advancements elsewhere, or
- Leverage other humans to learn faster and cover more ground.
Option #2 above is another way of saying “crowdsource your learning.”
Instead of trying to drink straight from the firehose that is the Internet, you tap into the curated knowledge stream of other humans that you trust to filter for what’s true, valuable, and useful.
In theory, you are crowdsourcing your learning every time you log on to a social media platform like X, LinkedIn, Instagram, or Substack. There you’ll find a litany of writers, content creators, and influencers hawking their content for you to consume.
But there’s a real problem with that approach: it’s too open, too porous.
How do you know whether any given content creator is trustworthy? How do you know if what they’re saying applies to your situation? How do you know whether there are caveats or exceptions to their advice that make it a no-go for you?
And there’s a deeper layer: you don’t really want to learn from and with a “crowd.”
You want to learn in a true community.
Full of people who keep showing up again and again. People who have skin in the game, who are committed to the same thing as you, and who share an ethos and certain values.
That’s why I’m tremendously excited to introduce the Alumni Mentors for the upcoming cohort of The AI Second Brain, who will work alongside me as a teaching faculty.
We selected them through a rigorous, competitive application process from among the most successful graduates of the previous cohort. We looked for people who not only had mastered the material, but who had other kinds of experience and expertise to bring to the table.
We chose mentors from different backgrounds, at different life stages, from different countries, using different AI tools for different purposes. We are building the whole educational experience to encompass a wide variety of perspectives and life experiences so that you’re not just hearing my individual point of view.
I’ll include their short bios below so you can get a sense of how they’re approaching AI and using it in their work and lives. Each of them will host an Implementation Lab every week of the cohort where they take that week’s lessons and help you apply them to your situation.
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Egor Sokolov
A Claude Code specialist who teaches non-developers to build real things without writing a line of code, including his own wife, who built their wedding website with it.
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Bob O'Malley
A longtime GTD practitioner who runs his Second Brain in Notion and spent two years teaching computer skills to survivors at a domestic violence charity in Texas.
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Steven Chan
An MD and MBA who trains clinicians on AI tools and knows Microsoft 365 Copilot inside and out, from government to family plans.
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Michelle Jackson
A 20-year insurance and financial services veteran in Bermuda, rebuilding a legacy paper-based department, who loves helping people go from overwhelmed to in control.
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Jens Maier
A coach and painter in Germany who's kept a personal knowledge system since 2012 and uses it to connect two decades of work in linguistics, creativity, and coaching.
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Christiana Houck
A PhD instructional designer with 25+ years of experience who built her own custom Claude skill, the Roost Rater, to speed up her work.
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Sheri Gurock
An executive coach and family foundation leader who helps neurodivergent leaders build systems that fit how they think.
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Kirk Hanson
44 years in aviation and operations research taught Kirk how to make complicated things simple, and now he helps others close the gap between knowing about AI and using it.
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AI is not a one-time project. It's a new paradigm for how we work and live, and it’s too big to navigate on your own.
This is a field in which the knowledge expands faster than any human can possibly absorb it. No matter how hard you work, you will never catch up.
So you need something more than a course.
You need a learning community, a research lab, and an incubator for new ideas. That’s what we’re building – a community where people share their insights, experiments, and mistakes openly in a spirit of collective progress.
Ultimately, what that allows you to do is expand the scope of your explorations, your experimentation, and your learning to new realms that were previously closed to you.
To scale the impact of your knowledge and expertise without scaling your time.
If you want to meet your AI Second Brain cohort early, we're hosting a Welcome session next Wednesday, Sep. 9, at 12 pm ET, for everyone who has enrolled.
Remember, enrollment closes on Tue., Sep. 15 at midnight PT.
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