
Asa Brown
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You keep hitting Claude's limit by 2 pm. Every day. These 21 habits make it last all day: (even if you're on the $20 plan) 1. Convert files before uploading. ☑ One PDF page = 1,500–3,000 tokens ☑ Paste text into doc .new → download as .md file ☑ 15-page PDF → 2,000 clean tokens 2. Plan in Chat. Build in Cowork. ☑ File creation & analysis eats more of your limit ☑ Think in the cheap product (Claude Chat) ☑ Build in the expensive one (Claude Cowork) 3. Say "ask me questions" instead. ☑ 500-word prompt costs 500 tokens every reread ☑ Let AskUserQuestion pull the context ☑ Clicking options costs almost nothing 4. Speak, don't type. ☑ Install Wispr Flow .ai (free) ☑ Voice = more context in one shot ☑ Fewer messages = fewer rereads 5. Fix the broken section only. ☑ Don't ask for a full redo ☑ "Only redo section 2." ☑ Targeted edits = fewer tokens burned 6. Edit your prompt, never correct it. ☑ "Actually, change…" = another full reread ☑ Hit edit on the original instead ☑ One clean prompt beats five corrections 7. New topic = new chat. ☑ Message 30 re-reads 29 exchanges first ☑ Long chats are token furnaces ☑ Restart before it eats your day 8. Use Sonnet for the simple stuff. ☑ Save Opus for deep work ☑ Match the model to the task ☑ Stop paying Opus prices for easy jobs 9. Use Projects for recurring files. ☑ Same PDF in 5 chats = 5 full reads ☑ Upload once → it gets cached ☑ Every future chat references it free 10. Turn off Memory. Set Preferences. ☑ Every fresh chat wastes 3–5 setup messages ☑ Settings → General → Personal preferences ☑ One setup, permanent savings 11. Spread your sessions. ☑ Claude runs a rolling 5-hour window ☑ Burn it all by noon = wasted capacity ☑ Split into morning, afternoon, evening The other 12 habits here: ruben.substack.com/p/how-to-stop-… (save this to make your $20 plan last all day)


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If there is to be any aristocracy in the land after this war, I hope that it will be an aristocracy of those men who have become poor while bleeding to secure liberty. 10/4/1864 (Columbia, SC) #history #ushistory #AmericanHistory #quote
















This one gets me every time lol













