🚀Going all-in on my AI OS, which would you build first?

Hey everyone, new here and going all-in on building my AI OS second brain. Would really appreciate any direction from people further down the road.

I've got three goals I'm trying to run in parallel:

1. A trading bot that's basically built (It has self healing loops, mcp connection to trading view, and skills saved. Still in the data-collection phase to confirm it actually has an edge before I trust it. (I copied my trading strategy that has been profitable over the last two years).

2. Grad school (UX Research starting this Spring). I want to use the second brain executive assistant, skills/agents to study, organize research, and get feedback on my writing more efficiently (keeping the actual graded work my own, obviously).

3. Eventually teaching all of this in my own community. How I built the bot and passed grad school with a high GPA, running the back end with AI agents.

I've mapped Nate's framework onto it: get the second brain populated (context + connections) → build skills (study set first, then bot-tracking) → automate last once things are battle-tested.

Where I'd love input:

- For those who've built your AIOS, what do you wish you'd done first vs. wasted time on early?

- Any skills that turned out way more useful than expected?

- For anyone using this for school or research, what worked without it doing your thinking for you?

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🚀Going all-in on my AI OS, which would you build first?