The Beginning of Systems for Second Brain
What is this?
Systems for a Second Brain is a weekly newsletter for those that want to leverage a second brain to improve their life through systems.
This blog will document the journey of systematizing my life using my second brain. My posts will form a continually evolving repository of the systems managed by my second brain, the scripts I use to minimize friction, and the philosophies guiding my second brain development.
Expect a post on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month.
Future posts:
Why You Should Start a Second Brain
How I Manage My Relationships in My Second Brain
Imagining the Future: Second Brain + AI Integration
A Deep Dive into How I Use my Second Brain to Manage My Projects
The Whimsical and Wondrous World of Second Brain Automation
How to use Agentic Coding Tools (Codex, Claude Code, Gemini CLI) to Build Second Brain Automations
Who am I?
My name is Matt Handzel, I’m a Masters of Computer Science student. I’ve started my second brain (containing a million words now!) two years ago. I use it to power my website and manage everything in my life.
Why?
I want to have more awesome friendships.
I talk about my systems a lot and would like to be able to point people to a clearly articulated post instead of rambling.
I want to share my second brain systems since I’ve put a lot of cognitive effort over the years into building them.
