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Your Second Brain Is Half Empty
It knows your customers, payments, documents and history. But what does it know about the market outside your business?
Sep 15
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Stepan Aslanyan
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Half a Million Rows in a Spreadsheet That Wouldn't Open
I wrote in July about lead lists going stale the day you download them.
Sep 1
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Stepan Aslanyan
4
August 2026
I Stopped Building Scrapers for Half My Data. Google Already Had It.
10 Google Search scraping patterns that pull phones, prices, salaries and deadlines straight out of the results page.
Aug 28
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Stepan Aslanyan
6
Second Brain Now Answers Questions About Itself
Months of telling people to put their important information somewhere AI can query it, and we had never done it for our own product.
Aug 17
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Stepan Aslanyan
9
Scanned Documents Now Import Into Second Brain
Your answers are only as complete as what made it into the database.
Aug 9
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Stepan Aslanyan
7
Point Second Brain at Your Documents Folder and Let It Run + Interactive Tour
The hard part of Second Brain was never the queries. It was the hour before them.
Aug 4
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Stepan Aslanyan
5
July 2026
Second Brain Update: Bigger Imports, Faster Pages, and the Cowork Question I Keep Getting
New build is live. Changelog is at the bottom. First, the question I keep getting about Claude Cowork: if Claude can already work through my files, why…
Jul 31
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Stepan Aslanyan
6
Your Second Brain Remembers Everything and Knows Nothing
You spent months building a second brain.
Jul 21
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Stepan Aslanyan
4
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Your Lead List Was Dead the Day You Downloaded It
Anyone can scrape Google Maps now. The money is in what happens after the export, and almost nobody does it.
Jul 14
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Stepan Aslanyan
7
You Can Hand AI a Whole Project. It Still Decides Which Parts to Actually Read.
I did everything the right way.
Jul 7
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Stepan Aslanyan
6
June 2026
Web Scraping for Competitor Research and Market Intelligence: The Complete Playbook
The research use cases that move revenue, and the two approaches that cover every one of them.
Jun 29
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Stepan Aslanyan
6
The Only AI Edge Left Is the One You Already Own
Two years ago, knowing how to build a financial model or read a market was a skill that set you apart.
Jun 24
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Stepan Aslanyan
5
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