The Beginning of Systems for Second Brain

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

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.

• 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.