Productivity

Keeping It Simple: Why I built my own second brain instead Everyone’s talking about a second brain/chief of staff nowadays. OpenClaw and Hermes Agent meetups here in Singapore are always full and waitlisted. I chose to build my own instead. Here’s why. What everyone else is doing OpenClaw is the rocket ship of the moment. It connects your AI to your files, your messages, your inbox, and your calendar, then hands it a set of “skills” to act on your behalf — drafting emails, clearing your inbox, submitting job applications via browser automation. It’s proactive. It’s always on. It’s doing things while you sleep. ...

Data is the base of everything In the first part, I talked about why I kept the design simple and why I want to be in control of the data. The implication of this is that I will also have to curate the memories and data I feed in. Remembering people is an important part of a second brain. After all, the connections feeding the graph provide rich and valuable data. So, this means I have to curate. ...

Introduction In my 2025 in Review, I noted that 2025 was the year I switched to AI-assisted coding, and that organizations which embrace it will push far ahead of those which don’t. That was written in late December, with the ink still wet on the experience. Four months later, with a few more projects under the belt, it’s time to revisit that claim. Three projects form the evidence base: Bridge Ratings - (May 2025 - presented at Data Science SG in Jun 2025) Admissions Prediction - straightforward binary classification, but with shifting requirements Vaultshift - started January 2026, a bridge results platform that has grown from a single-session MVP into a full multi-session system integrated with automated masterpointing and ratings from above It’s interesting to see how things have changed really fast over the past year. ...