Build Your Second Brain: The AI That Works Smarter For You

Tzu-Ting Wang

Building solo. ex-Amazon Sr. PM (9.5yrs)

The first mate you should hire to work smarter, not harder.

Give Your AI a Brain That Knows You, So It Works Like You.

You use AI every day, but it never really knows you. The tool is fast, but you are still thinking out loud, every single time.

In this build session, you will give your AI a brain with Claude: a small set of skills that hold your voice, your views, and your work. Then you save the tasks you repeat, so you stop re-explaining them. Then you let your AI handle one real job and bring it back for your okay.

You do not need code, a terminal, or any technical background. You bring one task you do over and over. You leave with an AI that starts from your facts, sounds like you, and gets smarter every time.

This is the difference between using AI and having an AI that works for you.

What you’ll learn

Turn AI from a blank slate into a personal assistant that knows your voice, saves your repeat work, and runs real tasks for you.

Set up a simple set of notes that capture how you sound, what you believe, and what you're building, so every chat starts from your facts.

Point your AI at your brain and watch it match your tone on the first try, so you stop rewriting everything to sound human.

Take one job you do by hand and let your AI run it, with a clear stop point where it pauses for your okay before anything goes out.

Build the whole system in plain language on your laptop. No terminal, no setup, nothing to install.

Workshop agenda

Why Your AI Forgets You Every Time (and the Fix)
Set up the simple home base that holds who you are, so you stop explaining yourself over and over.
Teach It Your Voice, Your Views, and Your Work
Answer a few guided questions and your AI captures how you write, what you believe, and what you're building.
Turn a Task You Repeat Into a One-Click Request
Take something you redo every week, a client reply, a status update, a first draft, and set it up once. From then on your AI does it your way, on command, no re-explaining.
Let Your AI Do the Work and Bring It Back for Your Okay
Hand off one real task. Decide the one moment it must stop and ask you first, so you stay in control while it handles the rest.