I built a fully AI-powered brain that

runs across every part of my life. It

helps me run dozens of companies, and it

gets days of my life back. So, today I'm

going step-by-step on how you can build

the same AI brain I use to become part

of the 0.0001%

of AI users in the world, starting with

going pro.

Simple, get a pro membership for your

AI. It doesn't matter which AI, invest

the money. Free versions of AI give you

the worst version of the tool, slow to

answer. They're older models. So, as

soon as you pay, you've now become part

of the 0.3% of all users in the world

that have a paid membership. But, we

want you in the 0.01%.

So, let's get into how we actually do

that. Install the brain.

Every AI conversation forgets the second

you close it. Sure, they have some tools

for memory, but it's basic things. The

0.01%

give AI a permanent place to read from.

That place has to be your files, in your

structure that any AI can read your

digital brain. So, here are three

options you can pick from. The first is

a Google Drive. Most people have this

already, and it's kind of where it all

started. But, the problem is is that

it's pretty limited, and it's not

process. The second is Notion. This is a

cloud-based data structure system where

I believe that the way it's built is AI

native. Google is a basic digital

version of a folder system. Notion is a

modern AI-powered data store. So, yes,

it has the files, but it also has the

context, it also has the data. If you

want to go to the next level, and this

is what I use, I use Obsidian. The

challenge with a lot of these AI systems

is that you can't read what it's saved

in. You can't read the information. So,

Obsidian uses what's called markdown

files. It's free, and it's visual. So,

not only is it like a big wiki that sits

on your computer, but you can also see

how the brain forms and all the

connections and links to the information

within it. And the cool part is the

graph view within Obsidian is the only

one that actually feels like [music] a

brain. At the end of the day, it comes

down to personal preference. There's

literally hundreds of other tools you

can use. These are the ones I've used

and where I'm at today. So, if you're

not sure, just start with Obsidian,

download it, and just have the AI create

a second brain. It takes 5 minutes. Now

you have a brain that's installed, but

if AI reads it, there's nothing in it.

So, how do you make sure that actually

has the information in it sounds like

you? Give your brain an identity.

Without an identity, the AI is just

going to sound like some robot.

But to have the agent act like you, you

have to tell it how to act. That's the

identity. These three files will

literally turn your AI from a tool to a

digital clone that sounds exactly like

you. Number one, user.md.

Who are you? What is your role? How do

you communicate? What are the frameworks

you live by? How you present problems to

you? Two is the soul.md file. This is

for the AI. It's kind of wild, but you

can define the voice, the tone, the

values that essentially the AI will

adopt so that it can interact and

operate like you. So, the user.md file

is how you are, the soul is how it acts,

and then the third is the identity.md

file. That is who the AI is and what

they do. For example, I named my Kai. I

actually didn't even name him. I used

him for 2 weeks and I had him name

himself. So, for example, in my user.md

file, I included who I am. You know, I'm

a founder, I'm a CEO, I'm an author, I'm

an investor. My communication style,

things like being direct, fast, concise,

frameworks over fluff, and things I care

about, like freedom, execution, systems,

leverage, some of my operating

principles, theory of constraints,

minimum effective dose, the 1 3 1 rules,

a lot of different frameworks that I've

taught you, I put those in there so it

can operate from those principles by

default. Then my soul.md includes

instructions for my AI. So, for example,

talk like Dick. I'm direct, high

conviction, founder to founder,

challenge me with love. No hedgy words.

I don't like try, I don't like hope, I

don't like maybe. Get rid of those. And

then be resourceful. Try to solve the

problem before you ask me. These are

things that are in the soul file. And

then my identity file. Kai is part

coach, part chief of staff, part

accountability partner. These are things

that we define so that he can operate

from that place. Now, here's a pro tip.

Don't write these yourself. You can get

any AI to draft them for you. It's kind

of the coolest thing in the world. You

can ask it, "Hey, I need to create this

new AI, so can you interview me about

how I work, what I value, how I like to

communicate, and what I need from an AI

assistant?" Then have it draft the agent

files, and it'll know user, soul, and

identity files. And once you have those,

now we can just save them and then point

our AI to it so we can reference back to

it every single time. Now, look, this is

great for you, but what about the rest

of your team? That's why I built a whole

AI company operating system playbook

around how to integrate AI into every

department of your business. It's got

all the tools, the workflows, the

templates, everything your team needs to

use AI to get 10x the results. If you

want it, just find me on Instagram and

DM me the words YouTube OS, and I'll

send it right over. So, the brain knows

who you are now. Cool. Now, you probably

want to start feeding it information.

Not yet. Before you do that, you have to

make sure it's organized first. Wire the

brain. AI needs a way to clearly

identify the context of the brain. No

structure means AI just drowns in noise

and eventually hallucinates. I went from

60% accuracy in asking it questions to

85% just by setting up the right

folders. So, create these seven folders

inside your vault to get your brain

organized. The first one is people. You

should have a place where every person

in your life has a people file and has

all the context on those people. Two is

projects. What's one place where all of

your projects, timestamped, are listed

and located with all the context that it

needs. Third is decisions. What are the

decisions you've made in the past? How

did you decide? What the alternatives

are? Four is companies. This is any

information on the company I'm dealing

with, the research, the competitors,

etc. Essentially, it's like another

index of companies that I might be

interacting with. Number five is

meetings, cuz that's where a lot of the

decisions are made, that's a lot of

preferences are made, that's where team

and information about people is made.

So, we need a meetings folder. Six is

daily. I use this as a daily dump to

analyze and lock in every day daily

decisions that are three to five lines

that explain what happened throughout

that day. Then seven is knowledge. This

is where I'm extracting insights,

frameworks, quotes, anything that kind

of makes me me that I could reuse in the

future, I want to save it in this

knowledge folder. Now, here's a pro tip.

I have an eighth folder. It's called an

MOC folder, a maps of content. It's a

folder that includes files that is

summaries of bodies of work. So, for

example, I could have a youtube.md MOC

linking all my scripting frameworks, all

my hook libraries, all my thumbnail

task, all living in different folders,

but the MOC pulls it together. It's kind

of like consolidating information into

one simple reference file. Now, you

don't have to build an MOC from day one,

that's why it's a pro tip, but you build

them when a topic seems to get messy.

Think of it like this, your brain has

different parts of your brain that's

responsible for different things, motor

functions, smells, vision. That's kind

of what we're doing for a AI brain

that's going to have to do things on our

behalf. That's why we've created these

folder structures. Now, you can create a

bunch more over time, but this is where

we start. Now, the brain is organized

and it's ready to be fed information,

but how do you actually feed it? Then

the next step, you have to feed the

brain.

So, what you do is you connect all your

system, then you have your AI extract

all that information into the folder

structure that your brain is structured

in, because the brain only needs the

information it needs to use to make

decisions. There is a hundred thousand

data points that are being sent to me

right now from the light to the

temperature to everything. And my brain

is filtering out all the noise, and it's

only capturing the stuff I need to know.

This system works the exact same way

because it doesn't need the raw stuff

it's pointed back to it, but it does

need to synthesize and extract the

people, the decision, the knowledge that

happened inside those meetings. You just

have your AI do it. You have your raw

files where you point it to with your

connectors, and then you just have your

AI extract every day all of the

information based on the folder

structure within Obsidian. You just

improve your brain at the speed of

links. That's where we're at right now.

Now, I use Grainola to auto transcribe

all my meetings and then extract

decisions, commitments, and actions. And

the cool part is in Grainola settings,

you can set a custom template for this

exact prompt to do the extraction. Just

write this down. Extract from this

meeting: one, decisions, what did I

decide today, by whom, and why? Two,

commitments, who promised what, by when?

Three, preferences, how people work and

communicate. And four, key insights,

frameworks, strategic shifts,

non-obvious observations. Output as a

markdown, skip small talk. Now, Grainola

drops those outputs into the meetings

folders as, again, the date, meeting

name.md. Now, this is where things get

cool. The brain is installed. It knows

who you are. It's organized and it's

starting to feed itself. But the real

brain doesn't just hold things, it

rewires itself overnight. But how do you

get the brain to get smarter overnight?

Compound the brain.

Now, I'm going to process the brain the

way my real brain works. See, when we go

to sleep every night, it takes

everything that you were exposed to,

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>> and it organizes, synthesizes, it

consolidates, it summarizes, it looks at

things that it needs to connect, and

then it even prunes things that it needs

to forget. And an AI brain works the

exact same way. And this is what

separates everything else we talked

about in the past, [music] storage, into

an actual brain. Here's two ways to

refine your brain. The first way is

manual. At the end of the day, if you

want, you can type in your AI a prompt

that's going to tell it to go into your

brain and run this process. Essentially,

you just say, "Read everything that

you've added to my vault today, and I

need you to find orphan notes, mentions

of people, projects, companies that

don't have their own files. You got to

create those files, you have to

consolidate duplicates, you have to

update the relevant map of contents with

new links. You have to flag anything

strategic for me to review for

tomorrow." It'll take 60 seconds, but

you'll wake up tomorrow to a cleaner,

more connected brain. The second, and

this is what I do, is automate it. I

actually use Claude's scheduled task to

run a cron job that runs the same prompt

I just gave you every night at 11:00.

And then, once you set this up, your

brain will constantly improve itself.

Every morning, I wake up and I click the

graph view within my Obsidian brain, and

I see it morph and evolve every night.

It's pruning, it's cleaning up, it's

essentially getting smart because the

more links that it creates, the higher

the signal is for context. So, when I

get my AI to talk to my brain, it comes

back with better answers. So, let's do a

quick recap. Number one, we went pro. We

decided to pay for real power in AI.

Then, we installed the brain. We figured

out where we're going to save it, and

then for most of you, you probably use

Obsidian. Then, we gave it an identity.

We created the files it needed to know

how to react and respond as an AI. Then,

we wired it to a brain, so it knew the

folder structure of how we're going to

save information. Then, we fed the

brain. And now, it gets smarter

overnight. You can't have an autonomous

agent unless it has context. Using the

brain is how we build that. If it knows

the meetings you were in, the decisions

you made, the people in your life, you

can say things like, "Send the invite to

John," and it knows who John is because

John has the most links in the brain for

the word John, and it knows John's

email, and it knows his cell number.

It's crazy how all this information is

available, but it's never reused in our

AI prompts. If you build the AI-powered

brain, you will start to buy back days

of your life because the AIs can

actually run your life. And remember, if

you want the AI company OS playbook for

your whole team, just DM me YouTube OS

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