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  1. 0:00You keep running out of Claude or Codex
  2. 0:02or or chat GPT or Kimmy or whatever you
  3. 0:04want and you don't do anything
  4. 0:05unreasonable to run out of tokens. You
  5. 0:07asked a handful of questions and it told
  6. 0:09you to come back in 3 hours or 5 hours
  7. 0:11or next week. On one working day, my
  8. 0:14tracker recorded 3.77 billion tokens
  9. 0:17moving through my Codex workspace. Of
  10. 0:20that, 3.59
  11. 0:23billion were reused input, almost 96%.
  12. 0:27And look, I push these tools really
  13. 0:28hard. That was 143 separate Codex
  14. 0:31threads in one day.
  15. 0:32But I did not type 3.77 billion tokens
  16. 0:36and neither did you. So, if the answer
  17. 0:38fails, the retry carries most of all of
  18. 0:41that a second time and a third time and
  19. 0:42a fourth time while you're telling
  20. 0:44Claude or you're telling Codex, you got
  21. 0:45to fix this. So,
  22. 0:48this is the core idea that every single
  23. 0:51rule that I'm about to give you comes
  24. 0:53back to. The message you typed is the
  25. 0:55tiniest part of the overall call. I'm
  26. 0:58Nate B. Jones. I'm here to help you
  27. 1:00build the life you want with AI. That's
  28. 1:02what I'm going to show you how to do
  29. 1:03today. We're going to go through all 15
  30. 1:05and by the way, if you're a beginner,
  31. 1:06this is for you. You're going to go
  32. 1:08through things you can do initially. I
  33. 1:10built a skill so you don't have to
  34. 1:11remember all of it and if you're a
  35. 1:13little bit more technical, we are going
  36. 1:14to get to a really cool multi-agent
  37. 1:16automated solution at the end. So, stay
  38. 1:17tuned for that. Your 10th message, your
  39. 1:1920th message, your 100th message in the
  40. 1:22chat cost many more times than your
  41. 1:25first and nobody ever raised the price
  42. 1:27on you. It's just that every time you
  43. 1:28hit enter, the way LLMs work, the entire
  44. 1:32conversation gets wrapped up in a bow
  45. 1:34and sent again from the top. That's how
  46. 1:36LLMs pretend to have memory right now.
  47. 1:38Watch how fast that compounds. Your
  48. 1:41first message costs exactly what you
  49. 1:44typed. That's the easy part. Your second
  50. 1:46costs what you typed plus the answer
  51. 1:49plus what you originally typed. Your
  52. 1:5010th costs what you typed plus all the
  53. 1:53nine previous conversations you already
  54. 1:55paid for. And by message 30,
  55. 1:58the thing you actually wrote just now is
  56. 2:00a tiny tiny rounding error. That old
  57. 2:03material, it has a name. It's called
  58. 2:05reused input. The part of every request
  59. 2:09the model has already seen. So, two
  60. 2:11things to call out. One,
  61. 2:13this is not getting fixed by the labs.
  62. 2:17The labs are not going to magically fix
  63. 2:19this tomorrow. It is up to us.
  64. 2:21The labs aren't going to fix it because
  65. 2:22frankly, they have an incentive to get
  66. 2:24us using the product. And if we're using
  67. 2:26that's great up to a point, right? If
  68. 2:28they run out of compute, they're going
  69. 2:29to sort of rein it back. But
  70. 2:30fundamentally, the labs want us to use
  71. 2:34their tokens. So, it's up to us to make
  72. 2:36the most of the limits they give us. AI,
  73. 2:39it's like this desk. And there's a
  74. 2:41belief going around
  75. 2:43that this is going to fix itself right
  76. 2:44now. And that our desks can clean
  77. 2:46themselves and the models are going to
  78. 2:48get bigger context windows and they're
  79. 2:50going to run longer and have more agents
  80. 2:52getting more tools. And soon you can
  81. 2:53point the thing at your work. And it's
  82. 2:55just going to run, right? We In other
  83. 2:57words, we believe we're going to be able
  84. 2:59to have a messy desk and it's going to
  85. 3:01be fine. But if I take all the stuff off
  86. 3:03of my shelves and put it on the desk,
  87. 3:05I'm not going to be very productive. I'm
  88. 3:07going to be overloaded and stressed and
  89. 3:09it's not going to work. It just doesn't
  90. 3:10work that way. I have to pick one Lego
  91. 3:12set for my desk. The more capable the
  92. 3:15tool, the more tools you hand it, the
  93. 3:17more material it puts in and the faster
  94. 3:20you hit the wall. So, ironically, more
  95. 3:21capability may end up giving you more
  96. 3:24cleanup problems. And I talk about all
  97. 3:26three in this video. But none of it
  98. 3:29really takes the responsibility of
  99. 3:31organizing your AI desk for you. And
  100. 3:34reducing your token consumption is not
  101. 3:36what any of these companies is graded
  102. 3:38on.
  103. 3:39It's your desk. You have to own it. Is
  104. 3:42it fun to clean your desk? It can be
  105. 3:43kind of boring, right? It's almost
  106. 3:45always the boring stuff though that
  107. 3:47gives you the superpowers. So, level one
  108. 3:49is for everybody. It's how you keep your
  109. 3:51desk clean. Nine habits, nothing that
  110. 3:54you need to install, will work on any
  111. 3:56AI. And some of it is advice we've known
  112. 3:59for a while, and I'll tell you when it
  113. 4:01is, but guess what? Old advice may still
  114. 4:03be something you need to hear if it's
  115. 4:04not something you're following right
  116. 4:06now.
  117. 4:07Then we're going to get to level two.
  118. 4:09Level two is kind of like hiring someone
  119. 4:11to keep your desk clean. I built a
  120. 4:12skill, it's called Token Saver. It
  121. 4:15installs into Codex, it installs into
  122. 4:16Cloud Code, and it does most of level
  123. 4:19one for you while you keep working
  124. 4:21normally, which is kind of handy. Level
  125. 4:24three is stopping the mess before it
  126. 4:26ever gets to your desk. And that's a
  127. 4:28software piece that I've been building
  128. 4:30around my Ringer Multi-Agent Framework.
  129. 4:32It's the most powerful option by far,
  130. 4:35and I will tell you exactly where the
  131. 4:36edges are and how it works when you are
  132. 4:38ready at the end of the video. Level
  133. 4:40one, clean your own desk. Rule number
  134. 4:44one, you've got to edit your mistakes.
  135. 4:46So, if you're writing something in AI
  136. 4:48and you're like, "Oh, man, I didn't mean
  137. 4:49to write that. I had a typo. I asked the
  138. 4:51wrong thing." Do not say that was wrong
  139. 4:53in the next chat. Just edit it, which
  140. 4:56you can do, and resend the message. And
  141. 4:58you may have heard of this, but almost
  142. 5:00nobody does it. The model will give you
  143. 5:02something wrong because your request was
  144. 5:03unclear, and your instinct is to just
  145. 5:05say, "No, that's not it." Well,
  146. 5:08instead, hit that little edit button,
  147. 5:11and make sure that you are actually
  148. 5:13correcting the unclear request you had
  149. 5:15before, and get it right. Rule number
  150. 5:17two, ask related questions together, and
  151. 5:21say how you want the answer to appear.
  152. 5:24Not new advice, again, but absolutely
  153. 5:26worth a minute for you to realize. If
  154. 5:28you have multiple questions from the
  155. 5:30same document set, put them all into one
  156. 5:33query, and then specify what you want at
  157. 5:36the end. What does it look like? Is it a
  158. 5:37one-pager you want? Is it 150 words? Is
  159. 5:41it just give me the bullets? Is it give
  160. 5:42me the headline? Name it and say it.
  161. 5:45Because that way you are reducing the
  162. 5:48ambiguity that the AI is going to spend
  163. 5:50tokens on to give you answers on. So,
  164. 5:52just name what your questions are all at
  165. 5:54once. Don't just string them along as
  166. 5:55multiple questions and name the answer
  167. 5:58you want in advance. Rule number three,
  168. 6:00start a clean task when the job changes.
  169. 6:04And this is this is a huge win and
  170. 6:06people seem to resist this. I know, in
  171. 6:08fact, a lot of people who believe they
  172. 6:10are in romantic relationships with AI
  173. 6:12because they didn't bother to do this.
  174. 6:14Long conversations are really good while
  175. 6:17you're focused on the same problem, but
  176. 6:18they're really terrible for trying to
  177. 6:21deal with token usage when you're trying
  178. 6:25to get specific questions answered. And
  179. 6:27we get away with this more now cuz
  180. 6:28models are smarter. And so, you can
  181. 6:31disambiguate more in that long context
  182. 6:33window, but it's really token heavy and
  183. 6:35you hit your usage limits faster. And
  184. 6:37this drove the biggest measured change
  185. 6:38when I was testing all of these out on
  186. 6:41my own Codex and Claude installs. When
  187. 6:43you are carrying a working conversation,
  188. 6:46you carry so many reused tokens with
  189. 6:49you. Like, you can carry 50,000,
  190. 6:51100,000, a million, or as I've been
  191. 6:53saying, if you're getting into the
  192. 6:54billions, it's hundreds of millions of
  193. 6:55tokens with you. Start from scratch.
  194. 6:59Now, a clean task doesn't actually
  195. 7:01report zero every time because, of
  196. 7:03course, Codex and Claude will still send
  197. 7:05their own starting instructions.
  198. 7:07But what it does is it stops the old
  199. 7:09conversation from writing along.
  200. 7:12And you're not throwing the old task
  201. 7:13away. You can keep it. Just stop making
  202. 7:15the next job that you that you want it
  203. 7:17to do carry that task. Rule four is
  204. 7:19related. Carry the answer that you care
  205. 7:22about, not the argument. Let's say you
  206. 7:24have a multi-step process. You have a
  207. 7:25research piece, you want to have a
  208. 7:27document writing piece. This was big for
  209. 7:29me. Make sure that you separate out the
  210. 7:33stages of the job and that when you have
  211. 7:35an artifact that's produced after a
  212. 7:37stage, like a research report, that's
  213. 7:39what you carry forward into the next
  214. 7:42step so that you only have that to give
  215. 7:45to your AI to start. You don't have
  216. 7:4810 million, 100 million tokens of
  217. 7:50research that you're handing, much of
  218. 7:52which is irrelevant because you had to
  219. 7:54guide the research along the way. Be
  220. 7:56precise.
  221. 7:58You don't need to stack your bad first
  222. 8:00draft and your three rounds of criticism
  223. 8:02and the sources you rejected and the
  224. 8:04model's reasoning all into the next
  225. 8:05step. You can actually just take the
  226. 8:08result you got and move on to the next.
  227. 8:10Keep your desk clean. Rule five, ask for
  228. 8:13only the answer you need. Input gets a
  229. 8:15lot of attention because it gets so big,
  230. 8:17but output costs you twice. It costs you
  231. 8:19once when it's written very expensively
  232. 8:22and again when it becomes part of the
  233. 8:23input on the next turn and again when
  234. 8:25there's a turn after that and again when
  235. 8:26there's a turn after that, you keep
  236. 8:27getting billed on it. So, remember, when
  237. 8:30when we first got like the capability to
  238. 8:33write a lot from AI, I saw a lot of
  239. 8:35people who would go tell deep research
  240. 8:37to write them 50-page papers. But, what
  241. 8:40I see a lot more of now is people
  242. 8:42saying, "Can I get it in 50 words? Can
  243. 8:44Can you please write it precisely in a
  244. 8:46way that I can understand it and give me
  245. 8:48what matters?" We need more of that
  246. 8:50because when you do that, you're saving
  247. 8:52not just on the output tokens, you're
  248. 8:54saving on every single response that
  249. 8:56comes after that. And so, ask exactly
  250. 8:59for what you need. If you need a
  251. 9:00paragraph, ask for that. If you need
  252. 9:02JSON, ask for that. If you need five
  253. 9:04bullets, get five bullets. Rule six is
  254. 9:06really simple and it's not something
  255. 9:07people understand a lot. You want to
  256. 9:10search the file yourself whenever you
  257. 9:12can and don't make the model search the
  258. 9:13file. Yes, the model can search the file
  259. 9:16now. It's a great convenience, it's also
  260. 9:18a massive token burner.
  261. 9:20You want to be in a position to say,
  262. 9:23"Hey, I searched it. I found these
  263. 9:25things. This is what you should focus
  264. 9:27on. This is what I'm including in this
  265. 9:28snippet for you. You don't need to go
  266. 9:30read this entire file." Rule seven is
  267. 9:32related. You want to send the lightest
  268. 9:34useful form of the source. In other
  269. 9:37words,
  270. 9:38if the words matter and the layout
  271. 9:40doesn't, just convert it to text. I've
  272. 9:43talked about this before. You don't have
  273. 9:45to send a PDF just cuz the source came
  274. 9:48to you in a PDF, convert it to markdown,
  275. 9:51convert it to text, and just paste the
  276. 9:54text in. It's so much more efficient.
  277. 9:57Don't just be lazy and say, I can throw
  278. 10:00a PDF and 18 screenshots in and it's all
  279. 10:02fine and it will sort it out because as
  280. 10:04tempting as it is, cuz it does sort it
  281. 10:06out, eat your token bill so so fast.
  282. 10:09Make sure that you take the time to
  283. 10:12actually get your sources in order.
  284. 10:15Clean your desk. It's common theme. Rule
  285. 10:17nine ties into those of you who have
  286. 10:19open brain. Keep your answers around
  287. 10:21somewhere you can find them. And like if
  288. 10:23you have open brain, it may be in your
  289. 10:24open brain database or you may have your
  290. 10:26own database that you use, but really
  291. 10:29really important. If you are working on
  292. 10:32a particular problem set and you're
  293. 10:33working around the edges of it, you have
  294. 10:35multiple conversations. The more you
  295. 10:37keep information about that in a place
  296. 10:39you can look it up easily, the more the
  297. 10:42AI is going to be able to look it up and
  298. 10:44not have to go recreate it and not have
  299. 10:46to go dig for it in the sources and
  300. 10:47recalculate it. It's just going to be
  301. 10:49able to get that particular piece of
  302. 10:50data out of the database and be done
  303. 10:52with it and that is so so much more
  304. 10:53token efficient. So, if you're not using
  305. 10:56open brain, you can check it out. I have
  306. 10:58a lot of videos on it. I can link it
  307. 11:00here. It's super easy to get started on,
  308. 11:02but make sure that you have a system
  309. 11:04that allows you to go and retrieve data
  310. 11:07for stuff that you would look up
  311. 11:08multiple times otherwise because the
  312. 11:10cheaper you can make that, the more
  313. 11:12you're saving tokens. Let's say you're
  314. 11:14like, "Nate, I love this. I'm lazy. I
  315. 11:17don't do this. I don't remember to do
  316. 11:19this. Please help me." That's what I
  317. 11:21built the skill for. I built the skill
  318. 11:23called token saver. One command will
  319. 11:25install it. You can get it into Codex,
  320. 11:27you can get it into Claude Code,
  321. 11:28wherever you do your skills, and then it
  322. 11:30will keep working with you the way you
  323. 11:33already work. And so, you can just say
  324. 11:34use the token saver skill for this job
  325. 11:36and it will handle a lot of the tedious
  326. 11:38parts of level one for you. It'll search
  327. 11:40before opening large sources. It will
  328. 11:43send selected passages instead of whole
  329. 11:45files. It will run exact work as code
  330. 11:47wherever it can. It saves the version
  331. 11:49you accepted and builds your next
  332. 11:51request from that result plus your
  333. 11:52change. It keeps answers to the length
  334. 11:55that you asked for and it stops
  335. 11:57pointless retries over and over. So,
  336. 11:59there's a good things about it and I
  337. 12:02want you to use it and find ways to
  338. 12:04continue to improve it. And that's
  339. 12:05something that I love about our
  340. 12:06community in the slack is that we find
  341. 12:08ways to improve each other's skills. So,
  342. 12:10I'm launching this. I've tested it. My
  343. 12:12team tested it. We love it. I'll also
  344. 12:14call out that this helps you with the
  345. 12:16next three rules I'm about to give you
  346. 12:18that are really difficult to do by hand.
  347. 12:20And so, I want you to like listen to
  348. 12:22these, understand them, but realize the
  349. 12:24skill is going to help you get there.
  350. 12:26So, rule 10, load only the tools the job
  351. 12:29can use. Now, this is something where I
  352. 12:31quite frankly in six or eight months
  353. 12:34expect the models to be good enough to
  354. 12:36solve this problem, but they're not
  355. 12:38reliably good enough at it today. Every
  356. 12:40tool you connect carries a description
  357. 12:42right now. What it does, when to use it,
  358. 12:45what arguments it takes. That
  359. 12:47description is model input before the
  360. 12:49model does anything at all.
  361. 12:51Now, Anthropic has published some work
  362. 12:54that makes this whole problem space
  363. 12:56very, very real. A typical setup with
  364. 12:58several tool servers connected like say
  365. 13:00GitHub and Slack and Sentry and Grafana.
  366. 13:03It burns roughly 55,000
  367. 13:06tokens in tool definition
  368. 13:08before Claude does anything. Now, we're
  369. 13:10starting on more advanced rules. This is
  370. 13:13stuff where the skill can be supported,
  371. 13:14but you also have to use your head.
  372. 13:16Sometimes starting clean on a thread
  373. 13:18like I recommended in the sort of the
  374. 13:20beginner section, it's not very
  375. 13:21practical. Let's say you're debugging a
  376. 13:23particular system and the model needs a
  377. 13:25decision from you and you can't restart
  378. 13:28it because it's in the middle of the
  379. 13:29task. This is an area where compaction
  380. 13:32and context editing become really
  381. 13:33important. OpenAI supports compaction
  382. 13:36for long-running work, and it carries
  383. 13:37forward the state, and it turns out it
  384. 13:40needs fewer tokens as a result, but
  385. 13:41you're depending on their native
  386. 13:42compaction capabilities. Anthropic
  387. 13:45supports context editing, which clears
  388. 13:47old tool results out and and clears
  389. 13:50thinking blocks before the next request,
  390. 13:52and that's also super helpful. And so,
  391. 13:54the skill helps with it with that, but I
  392. 13:55also need to be honest with you that
  393. 13:56this is just something you as an
  394. 13:58advanced AI user should be aware of. You
  395. 14:00should know where your context window
  396. 14:01is, and you should recognize that when
  397. 14:05you clear out old material, you are
  398. 14:07depending on a approximated version of
  399. 14:12the initial prompt, approximated
  400. 14:14versions of the initial responses that
  401. 14:17the model makers are using to enable you
  402. 14:20to continue work on a long-running
  403. 14:21thread.
  404. 14:23That is not perfect, but it's a whole
  405. 14:24lot better than just hitting a wall,
  406. 14:26which is what we used to do. So, the
  407. 14:28takeaway for you is use the skill,
  408. 14:30understand where your context window is,
  409. 14:32and then make sure that you actually
  410. 14:35anticipate in your work
  411. 14:38the consequences of hitting that wall.
  412. 14:40Put the signal early. The skill also
  413. 14:43helps when you want to figure out what
  414. 14:45model to use because sometimes a smaller
  415. 14:48model helps you get the job done
  416. 14:49cheaper, but you have to trade off the
  417. 14:51context, etc. So, what the skill does is
  418. 14:53what it looks at the at the question or
  419. 14:55the problem you're tackling, and it
  420. 14:57comes up with, at least an initial
  421. 14:59opinion on whether the model you're
  422. 15:01using is correct or not. You can
  423. 15:02obviously disagree, you can move on, you
  424. 15:04can say, "No, I want to use this model,"
  425. 15:05but at least you have a first blush
  426. 15:07approximation at what a token-efficient
  427. 15:10model solution is. I I like to say, like
  428. 15:13if you're doing a serious task, use the
  429. 15:16absolute dumbest model that will still
  430. 15:19get the work done for you. And the more
  431. 15:21you work with AI, the more you have a
  432. 15:23feel for what that line of dumbest model
  433. 15:25is. And so, the skill just kind of helps
  434. 15:27you get there, helps you take a guess at
  435. 15:29that if you're new at that. I hear a lot
  436. 15:31about prompt caching. That's what we're
  437. 15:32talking about with this rule. Prompt
  438. 15:34caching is really, really important if
  439. 15:37you're doing repeated work. It's
  440. 15:38especially important with API work. It's
  441. 15:40not something that I would recommend for
  442. 15:42people who are doing just initial desk
  443. 15:44work. It's not a clear your desk feature
  444. 15:46if you're a regular knowledge worker.
  445. 15:47It's something where it's an API
  446. 15:49feature. You're going to be in a
  447. 15:50position where you can cache a prompt or
  448. 15:52cache part of what you're sending, and
  449. 15:54that makes it much, much more efficient
  450. 15:56to send because you're not sending the
  451. 15:57whole message back and forth. And that's
  452. 15:59really all you need to know. And if
  453. 16:00you're someone who's already diving into
  454. 16:01this, you're like, "Yeah, Nate, I do
  455. 16:03prompt caching, or at least I know what
  456. 16:04prompt caching is." And you're off to
  457. 16:06the races. And if you're someone who's
  458. 16:07like, "What is an API and what is prompt
  459. 16:09caching?" Well, by definition, you don't
  460. 16:11need it. And you can focus on all the
  461. 16:13other good habits that I just talked
  462. 16:14about to keep your desk clean and make
  463. 16:15sure that you're not running into your
  464. 16:17AI limits. And this is where the Ringer
  465. 16:19multi-agent framework comes in.
  466. 16:20Everything so far shares a single
  467. 16:23ceiling.
  468. 16:24And that ceiling is that a skill cannot
  469. 16:27make the call it is inside of any
  470. 16:30smaller. Like, if you're in the middle
  471. 16:31of a conversation and you're using the
  472. 16:33skill,
  473. 16:34it's going to do its very best, but it's
  474. 16:36going to sort of work on things going
  475. 16:38forward. By the time the model reads the
  476. 16:40skill, the request initially has already
  477. 16:43been sent, right? The conversation, the
  478. 16:44standing instructions, the tool
  479. 16:46definitions, the hidden setup I talked
  480. 16:47about. A lot of that is in the envelope
  481. 16:50before the skill ever gets invoked.
  482. 16:53And so, what I want to do is think about
  483. 16:55that initial request and how we hook
  484. 16:57into that and make that cleaner. And
  485. 16:59that's the problem I'm solving with
  486. 17:01Ringer and level three. And yes, it is
  487. 17:03absolutely a bit more of an advanced
  488. 17:04solution. Don't don't be scared of it.
  489. 17:06You can absolutely do it. I'm just
  490. 17:08telling you honestly what it's actually
  491. 17:10going to take. Ringer runs locally
  492. 17:12between your AI and the model provider.
  493. 17:16And before the request goes up to the
  494. 17:18model provider,
  495. 17:19it can return an answer without a model
  496. 17:22call in some instances. It can run a
  497. 17:24fixed local recipe with no model call in
  498. 17:26some instances. It can select only the
  499. 17:28useful passages to send through in some
  500. 17:30instances, or it can forward a small
  501. 17:32request under hard limits, or it can
  502. 17:34even stop it entirely. It is not another
  503. 17:36chat window. You don't go somewhere else
  504. 17:38to use it. Instead, it is effectively an
  505. 17:42intermediary that hooks in, and it helps
  506. 17:45to constrain the size of what you're
  507. 17:48sending with all of these tricks built
  508. 17:50in. Rule number 14, the the
  509. 17:52second-to-last one, you want to make
  510. 17:55sure that you are able to enforce hard
  511. 17:57limits if you're serious about token
  512. 17:59usage. So, if you want to say, "I only
  513. 18:02want to send packets of a certain size
  514. 18:05out, or I only want to get back packets
  515. 18:08of a certain size, or I want to make
  516. 18:09sure I have a hard limit on my call, so
  517. 18:11I'm never sending 10 million tokens."
  518. 18:14That's something you can enforce with an
  519. 18:16in-between intermediary like Ringer.
  520. 18:18It's not something you can really do
  521. 18:20without that.
  522. 18:21The other thing that's important is that
  523. 18:23Ringer allows you to take advantage of
  524. 18:25what I talked about with OpenBrain. So,
  525. 18:27OpenBrain has, "Oh, if it's got an
  526. 18:29answer, we can go get it." Well, Ringer
  527. 18:31can go hit OpenBrain and come back, or
  528. 18:33your database of choice and come back,
  529. 18:35and say, "We've already had an accepted
  530. 18:37answer here. We already talked about
  531. 18:38this last week. We've got this response.
  532. 18:40Is this what you mean?"
  533. 18:42And that saves you the call, right? It
  534. 18:43saves you the entire 100% of the call.
  535. 18:45We have our desk here.
  536. 18:47The nine things that we're talking about
  537. 18:49initially are you picking up your pen
  538. 18:51and your paper and your LEGOs and
  539. 18:53keeping the desk clean. And then the
  540. 18:54skill is kind of like someone who comes
  541. 18:56in and cleans your desk for you every
  542. 18:58night. And then Ringer is really a
  543. 19:01magical system that keeps your desk
  544. 19:04clean for you
  545. 19:05before the desk ever gets messy. I'm
  546. 19:08always telling you to think big on this
  547. 19:09channel, and I don't want token limits
  548. 19:11to be the thing that holds you back. And
  549. 19:13so this video is all about making sure
  550. 19:15that you can literally 10x the value of
  551. 19:17your tokens and get where you want to
  552. 19:19go. I'm saying 10x for a reason and I
  553. 19:20was able to audit down all of the tokens
  554. 19:24that I've been using and say where they
  555. 19:26actually going, what am I wasting and
  556. 19:29how do I make sure that I'm putting my
  557. 19:30tokens toward their maximum value so I'm
  558. 19:33not wasting the dollars I'm spending on
  559. 19:34subscriptions. So better tools are
  560. 19:36coming and they will get better but
  561. 19:39you're still going to have to keep your
  562. 19:40desk clean.
  563. 19:41And everything is linked below. The 15
  564. 19:43rules are written up in full. I have the
  565. 19:45skill for you over on Substack and
  566. 19:48Ringer is there and if you want a whole
  567. 19:50introduction to Ringer, I have a whole
  568. 19:51video on that. And if you tuned out and
  569. 19:53you're the kind of person that wants
  570. 19:54Ringer, you can get that started. If
  571. 19:56you've tried any of the tools I've
  572. 19:57mentioned, if you tried the skill, if
  573. 19:59you've tried Ringer, let me know below.
  574. 20:01If you're just trying it for the first
  575. 20:02time, let me know below, too. Let me
  576. 20:04know what your experience is and if you
  577. 20:06know someone who's running out of AI,
  578. 20:08share this video with them. We don't
  579. 20:10want them to run out of AI.

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