Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This is the season finale of the CODE Challenge. The four weeks before this one were preparation. Every note Carolina, Edvardo, and Ethan have captured, organized, and distilled exists for what happens this week.
Express is the step where the method has to pay off. Where a Second Brain has to produce something the rest of the world can see, use, or buy.
Watch the full series here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVNXAaej57W4WfkckoQjuQbN-xKc2c2zA
Meet the participants:
๐ฆ Carolina Lago (Notion ยท finance trainer)
youtube.com/@CarolinaLago_TACTIC
โ๏ธ Edvardo Archer (Obsidian ยท writer & executive coach)
youtube.com/@eddy8301
๐ Ethan Kohan (Google Drive ยท entrepreneur)
youtube.com/@UCCLDNExfDwAEU2aMHHJM7JQ
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 Previously on the CODE Challenge
0:51 Step 4: Express
0:58 Carolina prepares a workshop in 48 hours
1:58 Edvardo faces the monsters
5:03 Ethan sends the first cold emails
5:38 Kansas City closes in two hours
6:14 The system fades, the work stays
7:19 Edvardo at 3am, finding the thread
8:31 Ethan installs the first machine
9:17 Day 23: the LA corporate wall
12:36 Rejections as intel
12:55 Day 30: what got built
This is the season finale of the CODE Challenge. The four weeks before this one were preparation. Every note Carolina, Edvardo, and Ethan have captured, organized, and distilled exists for what happens this week.
Express is the step where the method has to pay off. Where a Second Brain has to produce something the rest of the world can see, use, or buy.
Watch the full series here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVNXAaej57W4WfkckoQjuQbN-xKc2c2zA
Meet the participants:
๐ฆ Carolina Lago (Notion ยท finance trainer)
youtube.com/@CarolinaLago_TACTIC
โ๏ธ Edvardo Archer (Obsidian ยท writer & executive coach)
youtube.com/@eddy8301
๐ Ethan Kohan (Google Drive ยท entrepreneur)
youtube.com/@UCCLDNExfDwAEU2aMHHJM7JQ
๐ฃ๏ธ Get an extended 30-day free trial of Wispr Flow: bit.ly/4tjC0sJ
๐ฌ Join my newsletter for weekly productivity and AI insights bit.ly/4tQTspi
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Previously on the CODE Challenge
0:51 Step 4: Express
0:58 Carolina prepares a workshop in 48 hours
1:58 Edvardo faces the monsters
5:03 Ethan sends the first cold emails
5:38 Kansas City closes in two hours
6:14 The system fades, the work stays
7:19 Edvardo at 3am, finding the thread
8:31 Ethan installs the first machine
9:17 Day 23: the LA corporate wall
12:36 Rejections as intel
12:55 Day 30: what got built









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