Ideas and insights on turning expert content into actionable knowledge — for solo founders, consultants, and knowledge workers.
An MBA costs $150k and takes two years. The right newsletter subscriptions cost $0 and deliver more current, more practical business education. There's just one problem.
You listened to 200 hours of podcasts last year. You remember maybe 20 hours' worth. The audio format is incredible for consumption and terrible for retention. Here's how to fix the gap.
MCP servers are the feature that turns AI chatbots into actual tools. Most people have never heard of them. Here's a plain-English explanation of what they are and why they matter.
I've built and abandoned three second brains. The concept is right. The execution is wrong. They all require you to do the hardest part — and that's exactly where everyone gives up.
The way we've been learning from online content is fundamentally broken. Read, forget, repeat. AI changes the equation by making knowledge permanently accessible instead of temporarily consumed.
Solo founders make worse decisions. Not because they're dumber, but because they don't have anyone to say "have you considered this?" Here's how to build a board of advisors without giving up equity.
Second brain apps and AI advisory boards sound similar but solve fundamentally different problems. One organizes what you put in. The other organizes what you subscribe to. Here's how to pick.
I tried manual note-taking for years. It worked great when I did it and I almost never did it. Here's an honest side-by-side comparison from someone who's been on both sides.
I've used all three for months. They solve different problems for different people. Here's an honest comparison from someone who built one of them and genuinely respects the other two.
You're sitting on a goldmine of expert knowledge. It's buried in your inbox, your podcast app, and your YouTube subscriptions. Most of that value is going completely unmined.
You're subscribed to the smartest people on the internet. You're retaining almost nothing they say. The problem isn't the content. It's the gap between subscribing and actually learning.
You're not lazy or stupid. Your brain is just optimized for survival, not for remembering that pricing framework from last Tuesday's newsletter. Science says so. Here's the fix.
I'm subscribed to 40+ YouTube channels and can't remember what any of them said last week. Here's how I turned all those subscriptions into something I can actually search and ask questions about.
I had 48 hours to prepare for an investor conversation and zero fundraising experience. My newsletter archive had more VC advice than I realized. Here's how I turned it into a crash course.
The most valuable thing about having multiple experts on one board isn't hearing what they agree on. It's finding where they disagree. Here's how I use Adviserry Chat to cross-reference advice.
I subscribe to 30+ newsletters and read maybe 3 per week. The daily digest from Adviserry tells me what I missed in 60 seconds. It's basically a newsletter about my newsletters.
Every founder should have an advisory board. Most can't afford one. Here's how to build a virtual one from newsletters and YouTube for less than $100.
The MCP server is my favorite Adviserry feature that nobody knows about. Here's how to set it up so Claude Desktop can search your boards without you opening the app.
Alex Hormozi has published more pricing advice than most MBA programs teach. I organized all of it into one Adviserry Board and used it to price my own product. Here's exactly how.
Five minutes from signup to asking your first question. Here's exactly how to set up your first Adviserry Board, with screenshots of every step.
I cancelled my $400/month coaching program and replaced it with an AI advisory board built from my newsletter subscriptions. Three months later, here's what actually happened.
I had six marketing newsletters in my inbox and zero marketing strategy. So I dumped them all into an Adviserry Board and asked, "How should I launch this product?" Here's what happened.
When I started my first company, I learned by making expensive mistakes. Now I learn by asking AI to search through the mistakes other founders have already documented. Much cheaper.
A good business advisor costs $500/hour and is available when they're available. AI advisors cost $20/month and are available at 2am when you're spiraling about a pricing decision. Here's how to use them well.
MCP servers are the most underrated feature in Claude Desktop and most people don't even know they exist. Here are the five that changed how I work.
I've built and abandoned four personal knowledge bases in three years. The fifth one finally stuck, and it wasn't because I got more disciplined. The tool just stopped requiring discipline.
My note-taking system for podcasts was "pause, open Notes app, type three words I won't understand later, unpause." There has to be a better way. There is.
I used to spend entire Sundays doing market research for product decisions I needed to make on Monday. Then I found AI tools that do it in minutes. Some of them are actually good.
I follow about 50 content sources. I have time to actually read maybe 5 per week. Here are the AI tools that help me get the value from all 50 without the guilt of 45 unread tabs.
Lenny Rachitsky has published over 200 newsletter issues about product management. I couldn't remember any of them when I needed to. So I loaded them all into Adviserry and started asking specific questions.
I listened to a brilliant podcast about pricing strategy last month. Three days later someone asked me about pricing and I remembered exactly none of the details. Here's how to fix that.
I subscribe to 47 newsletters. I know this because I recently connected my Gmail to a tool and it told me. I did not think it was forty-seven. Here's how to tame the chaos.
I made a resolution to read a book a week. I made it to February. Here are the AI tools that actually helped me learn more without requiring me to become a fundamentally different person.
The dirty secret of second brains is they require you to do all the work. I've tried most of them. Here's what actually works when your discipline is... inconsistent.
I spent almost $5k on coaching last year and retained maybe 15% of it. So I went looking for AI tools that could hold onto the wisdom my brain keeps losing. Here's what I found.
