https://video.ut0pia.org/videos/watch/95291b3d-3a80-4054-b3b9-20f3cf29e51d Engineering Managers (and many other professions and roles) suffer from information overload, and AI has only increased it with the increased velocity of change. The AI second brain, when done well, is a big unlock. But there is also a lot of slop or vague ideas out there that don't really give the meat or the details of how to do it well and maintain it long term. Marlon Vidal demonstrates his unique approach, using BMad Builder to create the Tech Manager OS, his unique custom Second Brain that mixes in a bit of determinism to give it real structure and power for the needs of anyone that manages multiple projects and people. Marlon's repo is available https://www.npmjs.com/package/@marlonvidal/tech-manager-os to try, adapt, or use it as a model to help create your own second brain system for your specific domain. You can also try the BMad Builder's Agent Builder with Memory and evolve a persona for your own specific task with the BMad Builder similar to what Marlon built. Subscribe - new live session every week: https://www.youtube.com/@BMadCode Join the Discord - https://discord.gg/gk8jAdXWmj BMAD-METHOD on GitHub - the framework we use: https://github.com/bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD/ Subscribe to the blog and tools for free: https://bmadcode.com/ If this helped, buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/bmad Marlon Vidal also wrote a book about BMad - Spec-Driven Development with BMAD - find it on Packt or Amazon! QR Code also in the first few minutes. Tools mentioned: Obsidian, Claude Code, Granola, Plaud, Dataview (Obsidian plugin), Cursor. Chapters 0:00 Cold open 0:52 Welcome and guest intro 7:34 Eight meetings a day: the manager overload problem 14:23 Marlon Wrote a BMad Book! 16:30 The failed tool attempt 23:13 Ditching the GPT wrapper: everything goes local 30:54 Stop taking notes: the unlock 33:38 One inbox, AI routing: the Tech Manager OS idea 40:18 Install it in two commands and open the vault 52:41 One folder per person: members, Drive, Granola 1:00:04 Drop it in the inbox, let Claude route it 1:09:39 Transcripts vs summaries: what can you trust? 1:13:49 Profiles that write themselves (and old ideas resurface) 1:18:28 Performance reviews from six months of notes 1:22:52 Backlinks, the graph, and keeping tags under control 1:30:53 BMad's takeaways and what's next Recorded live on 2026-08-25. This is the replay, lightly trimmed (two connection drops and the pre-show countdown removed). Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:28:58 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.ut0pia.org https://video.ut0pia.org/lazy-static/avatars/0287a09a-aae7-4840-9843-b416426e7046.webp https://video.ut0pia.org/videos/watch/95291b3d-3a80-4054-b3b9-20f3cf29e51d All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.ut0pia.org/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.