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Yesterday, I set up an experiment. 🧪 I asked Claude to re-do my 2025 books. It automatically connected to my Quickbooks account (I had to sign in and give permission), connected to Stripe and Paypal, pulled 2,957 transactions from five bank accounts, uploaded them all, and categorized everything in the same time it took me to go upstairs and wash my skull. (Don't you hate when your hair, like, hurts???) Here's the fun part: My bookkeeper already did my 2025 books. The numbers turned out the...
Yesterday I stopped in a General Store—like, a real live General Store—and I bought a coffee and the bill was $3.16 and I handed the girl $4, and then she gave me a dollar back and said: "I'll just take the sixteen cents from the penny dish. Have a nice day!" And I looked at her like she had just flashed me. 👀 I had forgotten how things were around here. It's an innocence. Even though she probably thought I was just some jabroni from New Jersey (I wear black in extreme proportions), her...
It's the age-old question: What should I write in my emails? And, I have a freaky new answer. But first, let's back this beef train up. 🚃 Last week, I told Claude to check my email every hour and ping me about any important emails that would benefit from an immediate reply. My literary agent writes me, for example. Or a journalist wants to interview me. Or a client is having an issue. Or I've received an invitation from Phil Rosenthal to come hang out with him in New York. (Dreams, bitches.)...