Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
📅 5 episodes. 5 Tuesdays. One step per week: Meet the Method (May 5) → Capture (May 12) → Organize (May 19) → Distill (May 26) → Express (June 2).
Watch the full series here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVNXAaej57W4WfkckoQjuQbN-xKc2c2zA
🧠⚡ Can the CODE Method hold up under real deadlines and real pressure? In Episode 1 of The CODE Challenge, you will meet three Second Brainers who put it to the test for 30 days.
Three projects. Three breaking points. One shared system: Capture, Organize, Distill, Express. This episode sets up the 5-part series. The next four episodes go deep into each step of the CODE method.
You'll meet Carolina, a Basel-based finance trainer with less than a month to architect a 4-day AI workshop in Notion. Edvardo, a writer in Fort Lauderdale, is using Obsidian to finish a manuscript on burnout while battling his own perfectionism. And Ethan, a 27-year-old founder in Los Angeles, is building a Pokémon card vending business out of Google Drive at an 18-hour-a-day pace.
The CODE Challenge. Coming Back Home.
Meet the participants:
🏦 Carolina Lago (Notion · finance trainer)
youtube.com/@CarolinaLago_TACTIC
✍️ Edvardo Archer (Obsidian · writer & executive coach)
youtube.com/@eddy8301
🚀 Ethan Kohan (Google Drive · entrepreneur)
youtube.com/@UCCLDNExfDwAEU2aMHHJM7JQ
📬 Join my newsletter for weekly productivity and AI insights bit.ly/4tQTspi
Chapters:
0:00 The Challenge
0:39 The CODE Method
1:31 Meet the cast
3:39 Three breaking points
4:38 Inside Ethan's hustle
5:29 Inside Edvardo's manuscript
7:09 Inside Carolina's deadline
8:32 Day one starts now
📅 5 episodes. 5 Tuesdays. One step per week: Meet the Method (May 5) → Capture (May 12) → Organize (May 19) → Distill (May 26) → Express (June 2).
Watch the full series here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVNXAaej57W4WfkckoQjuQbN-xKc2c2zA
🧠⚡ Can the CODE Method hold up under real deadlines and real pressure? In Episode 1 of The CODE Challenge, you will meet three Second Brainers who put it to the test for 30 days.
Three projects. Three breaking points. One shared system: Capture, Organize, Distill, Express. This episode sets up the 5-part series. The next four episodes go deep into each step of the CODE method.
You'll meet Carolina, a Basel-based finance trainer with less than a month to architect a 4-day AI workshop in Notion. Edvardo, a writer in Fort Lauderdale, is using Obsidian to finish a manuscript on burnout while battling his own perfectionism. And Ethan, a 27-year-old founder in Los Angeles, is building a Pokémon card vending business out of Google Drive at an 18-hour-a-day pace.
The CODE Challenge. Coming Back Home.
Meet the participants:
🏦 Carolina Lago (Notion · finance trainer)
youtube.com/@CarolinaLago_TACTIC
✍️ Edvardo Archer (Obsidian · writer & executive coach)
youtube.com/@eddy8301
🚀 Ethan Kohan (Google Drive · entrepreneur)
youtube.com/@UCCLDNExfDwAEU2aMHHJM7JQ
📬 Join my newsletter for weekly productivity and AI insights bit.ly/4tQTspi
Chapters:
0:00 The Challenge
0:39 The CODE Method
1:31 Meet the cast
3:39 Three breaking points
4:38 Inside Ethan's hustle
5:29 Inside Edvardo's manuscript
7:09 Inside Carolina's deadline
8:32 Day one starts now









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