<p>Download Nick's free second brain skill -- one-click install that sets up your entire Obsidian vault and ingestion workflow inside Claude Code: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://return-my-time.kit.com/286e11f7e6" target="_blank">https://return-my-time.kit.com/286e11f7e6</a></p><p></p><p>I brought on Nick Spisak to build a complete second brain live -- start to finish, in under 20 minutes. By the end of this episode, you'll know exactly how to build your own second brain -- and you can grab Nick's free skill to do it in one click.</p><p></p><p>Timestamps</p><p>00:00 - Intro and Karpathy's viral second brain tweet</p><p>00:24 - What the second brain concept is</p><p>03:28 - Obsidian Web Clipper: scraping pages into your vault</p><p>04:41 - Nick's free skill: wizard, ingest, query, and lint commands</p><p>05:53 - Live demo: running the setup wizard in Claude Code</p><p>08:38 - How many vaults to manage: personal vs. business</p><p>10:30 - Opening the vault and exploring the file structure</p><p>12:21 - Graph view: seeing connections between your data</p><p>15:38 - Ingest command: raw data into organized wiki</p><p>16:29 - Automating ingestion on a cron schedule</p><p>19:12 - Compounding value and syncing the vault across devices</p><p>20:19 - Pruning the vault with the lint command</p><p>21:53 - Your data set as a moat in the AI age</p><p></p><p>Key Points</p><p></p><p>* Karpathy released a framework for building an LLM knowledge base. Nick turned it into a free Claude skill with a guided setup wizard, ingest, query, and lint commands -- works across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and more. One-click install, no coding required.</p><p>* The system runs on three tiers: raw (brain dump), wiki (AI-organized knowledge base), and outputs (answers from querying). Drop files into raw, run ingest, and the AI maps everything into structured wiki entries with relationship graphs.</p><p>* You can automate ingestion using Claude Code's loop feature so the vault stays current without manual work. Pair with Obsidian's paid sync tier and a note captured on your phone is indexed before you're back at your desk.</p><p>* The lint command health-checks your wiki for outdated entries and missing connections -- and tells you exactly what to clip next to close the gaps. The wiki tells you what it doesn't know yet.</p><p>* Day zero this thing is basic. Day 90 it's a company asset no competitor can copy. Your private knowledge base is the foundation for every agent and skill you build -- and nobody else will have it.</p><p></p><p>Join the Build With AI community - weekly AI implementations, live coaching, and templates built for non-technical entrepreneurs: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.skool.com/buildwithai/about" target="_blank">https://www.skool.com/buildwithai/about</a></p><p></p><p>FIND ME ON SOCIAL</p><p></p><p>X/Twitter: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://x.com/coreyganim" target="_blank">https://x.com/coreyganim</a></p><p>Instagram: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/coreyganim/" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/coreyganim/</a></p><p>LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyganim/</a></p><p>YouTube: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/@coreyganim" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/@coreyganim</a></p><p></p><p>FIND NICK ON SOCIAL</p><p></p><p>X: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://x.com/NickSpisak_" target="_blank">https://x.com/NickSpisak_</a></p><p>LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholasspisak/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholasspisak/</a></p><p>YouTube: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/@nickspisak_" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/@nickspisak_</a></p>