How Michael Simmons Turns Podcasts Into a Claude Code Second Brain

TLDR: Michael Simmons, who writes for Forbes and HBR and averages hundreds of thousands of views per article, built a system that routes podcast clips directly into his Claude Code agent's knowledge vault. He uses an app called Snipd to capture, transcribe, and sync audio clips to Obsidian, turning passive listening into queryable raw material. The workflow means he can draft a Forbes piece and Claude Code can pull genuine, speaker-attributed, timestamped evidence rather than generic summaries.