Hey, it's Gabriel.
These are my private notes this week on building wealth, raising my family, and breaking the generational patterns I inherited. Shorter this week. I'm testing something.
⚡ The Leverage
My second brain wrote this issue.
Not the words — I wrote the words. But the raw material, the research, the angles, the patterns? That all came from a system I've been quietly building inside Obsidian over the last few months.
Here's the setup in plain English:
I dump every raw note into an Obsidian Inbox all week — meeting transcript, conversations, ideas, faith thoughts, market moves, health experiments
Every night, a setup agent (Claude Code running on Claude Opus) does a sweep
It routes the notes into the right folders, tags them, links them to related notes, and drafts synthesized wiki articles
I review the drafts in the morning. Promote the good. Reject the bad with a reason.
The rejection reasons become new rules. The next night's sweep avoids the same mistake.
The bot gets smarter every single night
Here's today's proof.
I asked my agent to pull the last 4 months of my newsletter performance from my email platform.
Pulled all 17 issues
Ranked them by open rate
Surfaced the 3 patterns that actually moved the needle
Built me a voice playbook tied to the data
Then I opened my vault, picked one fresh angle for each section of this letter (because it already contain all the info about me for the week)— and wrote what you're reading now in under 5 minutes. Used to take me an hour even with AI.
The Uncrowded Take: Everyone is asking "how do I use AI?" Wrong question. The right question is "how do I build a system where every execution makes the next one better and smarter " Speed is the side effect. Compounding is the goal. Read till the end if you want to get my Second Brain setup
❤️ The Partnership
I don't have a supply problem. I have a nozzle problem.
I had a quiet conversation with God this week that rewired how I'm running my life. I'll translate it for the non-believers on this list too, because the principle works either way.
Here's what I finally saw:
A fire hose is powerful because of the nozzle, not the water supply
The supply is the same whether it's a hose or a sprinkler — one soaks a lawn, the other punches through walls
I was trying to add more sprinkler heads when what I needed was a nozzle
For me, the belief is this: God is always oversupplying me. When I feel dry or spread thin, I don't have a supply problem — I'm just unfocused, and the flow is leaking everywhere. If you feel scattered, it's not a resource problem. It's a focus problem.
Look at what I was trying to run in parallel because AI made me believe I can do everything:
Two newsletters
A 1-million-follower IG channel (@BibleBrowsing)
An upcoming Skool community (One-Man Company)
Clients work in the agency
Building with Claude Code (what I've been calling "Sonny" internally)
Content pipelines
Family time that kept getting pushed to the edges
Taking care of my body
Be a husband to my wife
All real. All good. And all sprinkling.
So this week, I stopped trying to do 7 projects in one day. I picked one thing per day. (If you haven't read The One Thing by Gary Keller, that's where the language comes from. I'm finally actually doing it.)
Here's what's surprised me most — it made my relationships better, not worse:
When I'm playing with my kids, I just play with my kids (I read that 10 mins fully present is better than 1 hour with them on the phone)
When I'm spending time with Zoey, I'm just spending time with Zoey
No phone. No tab. No "one more thing." No mental edit of the next email
The kids notice. Zoey notices. I notice.
The "Uncrowded" Move: Believe the supply is already oversupplied. Pick one place to pour. Protect that pour from interruption. Everything else is implementation detail.
💰 The Portfolio
I made zero moves this week. That was the move.
Let me address the elephant in the room. Q1 has been brutal — largely because of the Iran conflict spiraling and tanking risk appetite globally. If you've been watching your portfolio, you've probably felt it.
Here's my read:
War headlines feel like signal. Historically, they're noise.
If you look at the last several major conflicts, the market typically recovers 10% within one month of a war breaking out, assuming the underlying economy is intact
The underlying economy is still strong. AI capex is still climbing. Job numbers haven't cracked.
And I still believe we're early in an AI supercycle — the kind that redefines productivity for a decade
So I'm doing nothing on the portfolio. I'm still holding my AI basket. Not adding, not trimming. Instead, I'm pouring that mental energy into building.
Signal vs. Noise: The noise is the war headline. The signal is the supercycle still running underneath it. Don't sell the supercycle to flinch at the noise.
🧬 The Protocol
My sleep stack just got an upgrade — and it's working.
I'm building 10-12 hours a day right now. My mind has been racing at bedtime. The standard protocol wasn't cutting it.
My tier-one foundation has always been:
300mg Magnesium Glycinate — baseline nervous system calming
3g Glycine — deeper sleep architecture, lower core temp
That combo is rock solid. It's been my foundation for a long time. But with the current work intensity, I needed more.
This week I added two things:
50mg Apigenin — a natural compound extracted from chamomile. Binds to GABA receptors. Quiets the mental chatter.
~200mg L-Theanine — the calming amino acid from green tea. Smooths out the "wired but tired" feeling without knocking you out.
Here's the interesting result:
My kids still come barge into my room at 7am regardless of when I fall asleep (parenting doesn't care about protocols)
So I'm still only getting 6–7 hours some nights
But my Whoop recovery score has popped anyway — even on short sleep
Sleep quality > sleep quantity, apparently, when the nervous system is actually resting
Worth noting: Apigenin is one of Andrew Huberman's two primary sleep supplements (the other being magnesium glycinate). Nice to see the protocol cross-validated.
I'll report back in a few weeks on whether I keep this in the stack long-term or cycle it.
The Uncrowded Move: When you can't fix the quantity of sleep, optimize the quality. Your body doesn't care how long you were in bed — it cares how deep the nervous system went.
See you next week,
Gabriel Judah
P.S. The Obsidian-based second brain I mentioned? I'm still ironing out what's reproducible vs. what's just the way I work. I'll be doing a video on it soon. If you want to receive it when it's released, reply "show me the vault" — that's how I'll decide if there's enough interest.