01 · Free email course
Your project knows more than you can remember.
{the brain} is a free 7-day email course for enterprise UX designers. Set up an Obsidian vault that an LLM maintains for you: every interview, every stakeholder quirk, every legacy system rule, compiled into a project brain that gets denser while you sleep.
{the brain}: free 7-day email course
Set up an Obsidian project brain that an LLM maintains for you. Seven days, one concrete action per day, 20 to 30 minutes each. Day 1 lands tomorrow morning.
No spam, no "value ladder". Seven emails, then you decide if you want more.
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02 · Why
What you are actually signing up for
- 01Built on Andrej Karpathy’s LLM Wiki pattern, translated for enterprise UX work
- 02One email per day, one concrete action per day, 20 to 30 minutes each
- 03Works with Claude Code, Codex, or any coding agent you already have
- 04Day 6 covers the part nobody else covers: consent, PII, and NDA-safe setup
- 05Free, and you keep the vault forever
03 · The seven days
One email, one action, every morning
Each day builds on the one before it. Skip day 2 and day 3 will not work.
- Day 1
Your second brain died. Here’s the autopsy.
Install Obsidian, create the vault, three folders
- Day 2
Obsidian is the IDE. The LLM is the programmer.
Connect an agent, scaffold the wiki
- Day 3
Your first compile
Ingest 2 or 3 real sources
- Day 4
Concepts, entities, and the people named Maria
Build entity pages for the current project
- Day 5
The brain starts paying rent
Ask 3 real questions, save 1 answer
- Day 6
Consent, NDAs, and keeping the brain honest
Write the guardrails into CLAUDE.md, run a lint
- Day 7
A brain stores. A system acts.
Hand off to {the system}
04 · From day one
Where is your project’s Maria?
A few years ago I interviewed a woman I’ll call Maria. Operations team, large Dutch organization, 12-year-old planning system. She knew which fields triggered which downstream processes, which combinations to avoid, the workarounds for the three edge cases the system couldn’t handle. Twenty-seven pages of notes. None of it was in any manual.
Maria was retiring in six months. The redesign wasn’t just UX. It was a knowledge rescue operation.
Here’s the uncomfortable part: as an enterprise UX designer, you are the Maria of your own projects. The stakeholder map lives in your head. The reason screen 4 works the way it does lives in your head. The thing the SME said in week 2 that contradicts the brief lives in a note you’ll never find again.
That failure was never about discipline. Maintaining a knowledge base means updating cross-references, keeping summaries current, noticing when new information contradicts old claims. That’s bookkeeping, and bookkeeping grows faster than the value it produces. Humans quit. Every time.
You collect.
It compiles.
You think.
05 · Before you start
Three things, and one of them matters most
We are not building a demo vault with recipes in it. We are building a brain for the engagement you are on right now.
- 01
A computer you can install software on
Obsidian is free and keeps your notes as plain markdown files on your own machine.
- 02
A coding agent
Claude Code is what I use. Codex, Cursor, or Gemini CLI also work.
- 03
One real project with real material
Interview notes, a research report, meeting notes, anything. We are not building a demo vault with recipes in it.
06 · Start
Day 1 lands tomorrow morning
{the brain}: free 7-day email course
Set up an Obsidian project brain that an LLM maintains for you. Seven days, one concrete action per day, 20 to 30 minutes each. Day 1 lands tomorrow morning.
No spam, no "value ladder". Seven emails, then you decide if you want more.
Hosted by Kit. Its script stores a visitor id in your browser.