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There's a slightly sci-fi idea I keep coming back to: what happens when second brains start talking to each other?
By a second brain, I mean a collection of the thinking, skills and workflows people in your organization can share and repeat. You add knowledge and things you've done in the past. Over time, there's more for the team to draw on.
That shared collection is interesting enough. But I think it could become the basis for a different way of sharing expertise.
Asking my brain instead of calling me
Imagine you want to ask me a question. Today, that might mean calling me directly.
The possibility I'm interested in is being able to query my second brain instead. You'd be asking, in effect, what would Alek say in this situation?
The idea depends on having captured some of my thinking in the first place. Skills, workflows and past work would give you something to ask about.
I think people may eventually hire access to these collections of knowledge in situations where they'd otherwise bring in a consultant. If second brains can communicate with each other, that knowledge could be shared through connected systems.
This is speculation. I'm describing a direction I find fascinating, not a service I'm announcing or a promise about what these systems can do today.
Something to experiment with now
I do think people who are experimenting now could be better placed to share or sell their knowledge through systems like these later. I don't know exactly what that future looks like.
You can explore the underlying idea by collecting the thinking your team can reuse: a skill, a workflow, or something you've done before that someone else could learn from. That gives you actual knowledge to experiment with while the sci-fi part remains an open question.