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How many conversations today started with someone looking for a file? Or trying to find that thing you talked about last month?
You remember discussing it. Now you need to find it again.
I'd love to be in a meeting, pull up the right information and say, “Yep, it's right here. This is the decision we made three weeks ago.” That's the kind of retrieval I want from a second brain.
Give company context a shared home
A second brain stores your company's context so people can find information about the business and share what they know. Past decisions belong in that context, along with the information your team keeps looking for.
The useful question is whether someone can retrieve what they need when the conversation comes around again. Remembering that a decision happened is only part of it. Being able to find the decision lets you bring it into the conversation.
That's what I mean when I talk about building a second brain, or an AI operating system, for a business. The aim is to make the company's accumulated context available to the people who need it.
Start collecting the context you want to find later
A second brain can grow with you and your business as you collect more context. Starting today gives you a chance to keep information that you would otherwise have to track down later. Waiting a year means another year before that collection begins.
If you're constantly looking for files or trying to work out where things are, this may be something your business is missing.
Start with the question that keeps coming up in your own conversations: where did we put that decision? Keep it somewhere your team can find it next time.