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Don't upgrade to the $100 Claude plan (yet). These 21 hacks make the $20/month plan enough: 1. You upload PDFs raw. One page = 3,000 tokens. Fix: Paste the text into a Google doc. Download as .md format. Under 200 tokens. 2. You build files inside Cowork too early. Fix: Plan in Chat first. Move to Cowork only when you know exactly what you want. 3. You write 500-word prompts that reload. Fix: Write 29 words instead: "I want to [task] to [goal]. Ask me questions using AskUserQuestion." 4. You say "redo the whole thing" to fix section 3. Fix: "Only redo section 3. Keep everything else. No commentary. Just the output." 5. You send 3 separate messages for 3 tasks. Fix: One message, three tasks. "Summarize this, list the points, suggest a headline." 6. You type "No, I meant," stacking on the history. Fix: Click 'Edit' on your original message. Fix it. Regenerate. 7. You rewrite prompts from scratch every time. Fix: Keep a prompt library. Same structure, swap the variable. 8. You use Opus for a simple grammar check. Fix: Sonnet for quick tasks. Save Opus Extended Thinking for deep work. 9. Your about-me file is 22,000 words (too long). Fix: Trim to under 2,000 words. End sessions with "Write a session-notes .md." Paste my .md file prompt: ruben.substack.com/p/youre-j… 10. You never restart & keep stacking long chats. Fix: When Cowork goes sideways, click "Restart the conversation from here" on an earlier message. 11. You never summarize before things get long. Fix: Every 15-20 messages → summarize, copy the brief, start a fresh session. 12. You use Projects for recurring files. Fix: Use Projects. Upload once. Every chat inside references it without re-burning tokens. 13. You dump 50 files into Cowork "just in case." Fix: Only include what this task needs. Zero folders for quick tasks like email drafts. 14. You keep 3 topics in 1 chat. Claude re-reads all. Fix: New topic = new chat. Always. Dead context is dead tokens. 15. You leave search & connectors on by default. Fix: Default everything off. Turn features on per task, not per account. 16. You manually run the same report every week. Fix: Use /schedule. "Every Monday at 7am, create my weekly briefing." 17. You let Claude Code explore your whole repo. Fix: Be specific. "Build a bar chart from this CSV. Save as chart .png." 18. You skip Personal Preferences & waste setup. Fix: Settings → Personal Preferences. Set your tone and style once. 19. You type lazy prompts like "make it better." Fix: Speak your prompts with wispr .ai. Richer context in one shot. 20. You burn your whole limit in one morning. Fix: Claude runs on a rolling 5-hour window. Split it. 21. You use Claude for things it can't do. Fix: Know your tools. Images → Gemini. Real-time search → Grok. To download my exact .md files: 1. Go to how-to-ai.guide. 2. Subscribe for free. Open my welcome email. 3. Hit the automatic reply button inside. 4. Go to the Notion link in the second mail. 5. Copy-paste prompts, too.

I’ll be supporting @KamalaHarris for President and @Tim_Walz for Vice President. My full statement below.

shoot this into my veins please

Note to those trying to blame down stock market day on VP Harris: Stock markets have gone up faster under D’s than R’s.

Trump keeps talking about ramping up oil production, but it was under Biden that the US became a net exporter of petroleum & oil.

Project 2025 shifts taxes from the wealthy to the middle class— a family of 4 earning $100K would suffer a $2,600 tax hike, while a family earning $5 million would get a $325,000 tax cut. cc: @Brendan_Duke

LOL Biden's war on oil. The US is producing more oil than any country EVER.

1/ At long last, can we all stop pretending that Alito, Thomas, Barrett, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh are legitimate jurists? They are politicians who were effectively “appointed” to the Court by the Federalist Society, which has turned the Supreme Court into an unaccountable super-legislature. Their mission is to repeal and replace the 20th Century—to destroy the guardrails protecting Americans from civil rights violations and corporate predations. #Immunity

Trump’s claim that Biden only added “bounce back” jobs is simply not true — 6.2 million more Americans are employed relative to pre-pandemic levels. @Morning_Joe

This info is called "U6" unemployment. The headline unemployment number is "U3" which you are correct in stating that it (U3) doesn't account for discouraged workers. But U6 DOES account for that cohort. Both numbers are "real". They measure diff things for diff purposes.

Biden has created 8 TIMES (800%) more jobs than Trump and both Bush's COMBINED. What makes you think that Trump is going to create more jobs? Since 1989 48M out of the 50M jobs created were under (D) administrations. If you care about jobs then vote (D). Plain and simple.

When people say "we are a democracy" They are saying we are a REPRESENTATIVE democracy - which we are. STFU with this pedantic BS trope. Also in some instances (ballot initiatives) we ARE a direct democracy.

Someone you might never have heard of has tremendous power over whether people in your state get arrested for getting an abortion or for which bathroom they use. It’s your state attorney general.

This is a decades old program. Taxpayers are not paying for it. youtu.be/GVXx-gzViPk?si=qM9S…

Every government shutdown in the last 30 years has one thing in common.

"Since the end of 2019...America’s economy has grown by about 8% in real terms. [Meanwhile], the euro area has expanded by only 3%, Japan a piddling 1% and Britain not at all. America is the only big economy that is back to its pre-pandemic growth trend." cc: @TheEconomist