Hey, it's Gabriel.
These are my private notes this week on building wealth, raising my family, and breaking the generational patterns I inherited.
⚡ The Leverage
Build the second brain. The model swaps are noise.
A lot has shipped in the last two weeks. GPT-5.5 dropped alongside ImageGen2. From what I've tested, 5.5 is genuinely strong for agentic work — noticeably more reliable than 5.4 was. I've already moved my OpenClaw and Hermes agents over to it. (I've been experimenting with Hermes agent and considering making that my main AI Agent over OpenClaw, more on this soon...)
I'm keeping Claude Opus 4.7 for any creative work — writing, strategy, sharper judgment calls.
Different jobs, different models.
That's the game now.
Here's the part I actually want you to take from this.
The foundation I keep building is still my AI second brain — and my company's AI second brain. I've talked about it for three issues running because I believe it's the foundation that lets everything else work. And it is model-agnostic. It doesn't matter if a better LLM ships tomorrow. As the model gets stronger, so does my ability to squeeze more output from the same second brain.
Yesterday's email is the proof.
I asked my second brain to draft a pitch using my last few years of context, voice, prior wins, and current offer architecture. 20 minutes later I had something I'd normally spend a week building. My partner used that pitch and closed roughly 300K in sales.
I now run pretty much 99% of my work through my second brain — every email, every sales call, every design plan. Every output gets fed back into the brain. The brain gets smarter every single night.
There is a lot of noise right now about which model is best. The smarter move is to build the brain that benefits from all of them.
I just released my blueprint for building your own. [Click here to get yours — free.]
The Uncrowded Take: Don't bet on a model. Build the second brain that survives every model.
❤️ The Partnership
Zoey and I legally changed our last name 3 weeks ago.
You're not reading a typo. The sign-off below isn't a stylistic flourish anymore. It's what's printed on the new passport.
Wong → Judah.
You might've already noticed it from the new branding. I want to reiterate the why, because I've mentioned it in passing in earlier issues — but the reason matters more than the change.
Zoey and I have a marriage vision.
Break the generational patterns we inherited from our previous generations. Heal the childhood traumas neither of us chose, so that our kids will inherit new values & patterns.
A year ago, God told me to change our last name as we enter into our 8th year of marriage (in hindsight, 8 is the number of new beginnings in the bible...)
Neither of us came from a rich family. Both our parents split. Both of us spent years untangling things we didn't break. The name change isn't cosmetic — it's a stake in the ground. We are starting a new line, and it begins here.
Most marriages don't have a vision. They have logistics — who picks up the kids, whose family for Christmas, and what time is dinner. The relationship gets shaped by whichever voice is loudest that month.
Here's the question I keep coming back to:
If marriage is more important than business, and every business has a vision — why doesn't every marriage have one?
The Bible has the cleanest line on this — "Without vision, the people perish." (Proverbs 29:18). That cuts both ways. Companies without one die slowly. Marriages without one drift.
The "Uncrowded" Move: Sit down with your partner this week. Write down what future you're actually building together. Date it. Sign it. Everything after that is implementation detail.
💰 The Portfolio
Zero trades this week. But I already know where the next dollar goes.
I've been so heads-down on the build that I haven't moved a position. That's fine. The thesis hasn't changed — it's gotten louder.
New income is starting to flow in from the second-brain work and the deals it's helping me close. When I deploy it, it's going into two specific places:
Energy companies. Every frontier model launch is a power-consumption headline in disguise. Training clusters, inference at scale, hyperscaler buildouts — none of it runs without massive new electricity generation. I want exposure to whoever sells the power that AI is about to burn through.
Chip companies like NVDA, and the silicon ecosystem around it. xAI's 10-trillion-parameter cluster doesn't get built without someone's chips. Models get cheaper per token every quarter — but aggregate compute being trained keeps climbing.
I keep hearing "AI bubble" louder. I'm not buying it. A bubble in the model layer is not a bubble in the power and silicon layer. The dot-com crash didn't end the internet — it ended the people who confused the application layer with the infrastructure layer.
I can't time the bottom. I'm not trying to. I'm betting we're 2–3 years into a supercycle, not weeks into a hype cycle. We're still looking at the tip of the iceberg of what AI can actually do, and the slope is getting steeper, not flatter.
Signal vs. Noise: The noise is which model launched this week. The signal is who sells the energy and silicon every model needs to run.
🧬 The Protocol
My heart started skipping beats this week. The body sent a memo.
I've been running 12-hour build days for weeks. AI work is exciting in a way that hides what it actually costs. You don't notice the body clocking in until the body raises its hand.
Mine raised it this week. Heart palpitations. Random, light — but real enough to make me sit down.
My honest read: too much screen time, too much coffee, no real off-switch. I've been running on caffeine + adrenaline + the dopamine of the build loop. The heart is usually the first organ that votes.
Plan:
This week: cut coffee in half.
Next month: 30-day full caffeine cut. No coffee. No green tea. No "decaf doesn't really count" loophole.
I've done a no-caffeine month before. It was tremendously hard. Day 3 you feel like a corpse. Day 10 you start sleeping like you're 19 again. Day 30 your arousal baseline is yours, not chemistry's. I think it's time to do it again.
I'll log the data here over the next few issues — HRV, resting heart rate, sleep quality, palpitation frequency.
The honest part: the guy writing to you about leverage, presence, and compounding has been quietly overclocking his nervous system to write these letters. The work is the work. The body still keeps the score.
The Uncrowded Move: When the body sends a memo, read it. Don't push through it.
See you next week,
Gabriel Judah
P.S. The second-brain blueprint I mentioned in The Leverage — it's the same system that wrote yesterday's $300K pitch. [Click here to get it free.] No reply needed this time. Just download it and steal the architecture.