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Joined June 2008
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Every AI tool has the same problem: it forgets you between sessions. I spent weeks fixing this. Here’s the system I built — a Claude setup that self-briefs, self-heals, and boots up ready to work every morning. 🧵
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One word typed at the start of any session kicks off the full boot sequence: read the index, read the brief, sweep email, deliver a structured briefing. No prompting. No re-explaining. Just context, ready.
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Full write-up on Substack — includes the token cost breakdown, the email address rule you’ll want to steal, and how I built most of this with Claude’s help (yes, really). [backroadz.substack.com/p/how…] cc @EP_OnTheLine @liamottley_ @mreflow #Claude #AIWorkflow #ContextEngineering
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Each matter gets a HANDOVER.md — full current state: open actions, key contacts, what happened last session, what’s next. The problem: it goes stale. Sessions hit context limits and end without updates.
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So I built a self-healing layer. Three components: 1.Stale detection at boot — warns if HANDOVER is >24hrs old 2.Nightly scheduled task — sweeps email, patches the brief automatically 3.Transcript catch-up — reads the tail of any session that ended mid-flow
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Keep it on the Low down 🤫 #htafc
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Player Ratings from Town’s convincing victory against Manchester United u21s in the EFL Trophy this evening. #htafc open.substack.com/pub/wearet…
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normal service is resumed #htafc
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Anyone got comms on iFollow? #htafc
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Football was poor but the best thing I saw today was #pafc travelling support. Great commitment. #htafc
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Before all you hipsters throw out your cds, we have sold more cds in the past week than anytime in the past year, and more cds than vinyl for the first time in years!
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The late Christopher Hitchens described her best Margaret Thatcher was a national disaster posing as the antidote to a national disaster'. She destroyed any true progress ,equality and sense of community in the UK. Divided the nation into North & South, created huge inequality, further escalated violence in Northern Ireland. She was a curse on the land.
Margaret Thatcher was the WORST Prime Minister EVER. She forced the UK into 10 years of hyper inflation and huge unemployment, slashed taxes for the rich to nothing and sold off ALL the state assets. And achieved NOTHING. RT if you agree. Everything she did needs undoing
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3 of 5 stars to Babel, or The Necessity of Violence by R.F. Kuang goodreads.com/review/show/56…
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2 of 5 stars to Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett goodreads.com/review/show/54…
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If you think that people trying to escape whatever hell they’re in by coming to this country in boats, infringes on your welfare then you’re a cunt. I don’t care what Class you are from. Fuckin grow up and hold to ransom those you’ve vote for. They are the true fucking thieves
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3 of 5 stars to The Cloisters by Katy Hays goodreads.com/review/show/52…
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