You're using Claude wrong.
Here's my (exact) setup before I even prompt:
Step 1. Download Claude and open Cowork
→ Go to Claude. com/ download.
→ Install the desktop app.
→ Click the Cowork tab at the top.
→ You need a Pro plan ($20/mo). Worth it.
→ Full guide here: https://t.co/g6oLzWSOuo
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Step 2. Select the right model (don't skip this)
→ Click the model dropdown.
→ Select "Opus 4.6."
→ Turn on "Extended Thinking."
→ Never change these. Wrong model = bad output.
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Step 3. Build your folder
→ Create one master folder on your computer.
→ Inside it, create 4 subfolders:
✦ ABOUT ME - who you are + how you write
✦ PROJECTS - one subfolder per live project
✦ TEMPLATES - your best work as structures
✦ OUTPUTS - where Claude saves finished files
→ Upload this folder. That's how it reads you.
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Step 4. Create 3 context files inside ABOUT ME
→ These replace prompting. This is the setup.
→ Create them as .md files. Plain text, saved as .md
✦ about-me.md - what you do day-to-day.
✦ my-voice.md - tone, phrases you hate, 3 example
✦ my-rules.md - ask first, show a plan, get approval
OR
Simply download my .md files here: https://t.co/psB7XxAv8w
Subscribe for free. Open my welcome email.
Hit the automatic reply button inside.
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Step 5. Set Global Instructions (once, forever)
Go to Settings → Cowork → Edit Global Instructions.
→ Paste: "I'm [Name], [Role]. Read my files before every task. Ask clarifying questions before executing. Show a plan before acting. Never delete without my approval."
→ You set this once. It runs every session.
→ Your prompts can now be 10 words long.
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Before your next Cowork session, check these:
1. Am I in Cowork (not Chat)?
2. Is Opus 4.6 + Extended Thinking on?
3. Did I point it to my folder with context files?
Set these first. Then prompt.
Top 1% of Claude users do this. Now you can too.
"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
"These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.
"And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.
"The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt.
"Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too.
Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now."
- Charles Pierce
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