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Matt Van Horn

@mvanhorn

TL;DR of my new article: 13 @Muse hacks people are actually running. ๐—ฃ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—น๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ, ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ธ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐˜‚๐—ฝ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ธ ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜†๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด.

๐Ÿ“ž ๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ฎ ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ด๐˜€ ๐˜‚๐—ฝ ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—”๐—œ, ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ฎ ๐—ต๐˜‚๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป. A karaoke place refused my Muse, so Muse asked @hey__fo over Agent Tincan to put a real person on it. Room booked, Muse told me when it was done

โณ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚. Muse sat through Southwest's hold music and called me the second a human picked up. It also got @petergyang a $60 promo rate from Xfinity. Tell it never to use your last name (tip from @PaulJLipsky)

๐Ÿงญ ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜„, ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ ๐—ฎ ๐˜๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ธ. The Chief of Staff prompt from @trevin has it read your last 90 days, brief you on facts vs guesses, then ask you questions five at a time. ๐˜š๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ

๐Ÿง  ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐˜„๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ฆ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—น. Tap the avatar, there's a Soul file. Tell it once: no pings for minor stuff, approval before it buys or sends anything, never share your address (spotted by @testingcatalog). Name it too: @Casey's is Hal, @RyanSerhant's is Pumpkin

โฐ ๐—ฃ๐˜‚๐˜ ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฎ ๐—ฐ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ธ. Settings > Scheduled Tasks. @Musecases has four copy-paste morning prompts, and @clairevo got it to one-shot a printable family brief for the kitchen table

๐Ÿงพ ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐—ณ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—น๐—น๐˜€. Credit card subscriptions it negotiates down (@AlexFinn), forgotten subscriptions it finds and cancels (@natebjones, and @mreflow ran it on AI tools), and every line of a year of medical bills (@Musecases)

๐Ÿ”— ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—บ ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ธ. "๐˜‘๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ฌ @๐˜”๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ค๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฎ ๐˜ฃ๐˜บ ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฌ" from @adambader. Settlement forms have deadlines, agents don't forget

๐Ÿ“‰ ๐—ฃ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ต๐—น๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜. It tracks prices and texts you on the drop. Anjana Gowtham (The Tech Girl on YouTube) has the exact prompt

๐Ÿ“ ๐—ฆ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ. Three scans a day for underpriced stuff against sold comps (@Sabrina_Ramonov runs the buyer version). Write the "never share my address" rule first

๐Ÿ—‚๏ธ ๐—ง๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ป ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—œ๐—ป๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—บ ๐˜€๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜€. A year of saved reels becomes a trip itinerary with the pictures inline

๐Ÿ“ˆ ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐— ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ฎ ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐˜. @spect3ral gets spend, CPA, fatigue and pacing on WhatsApp at 7am, and pausing a loser is one tap

๐Ÿ’ป ๐—š๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—ฎ ๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ. Run the Mac app on a Mac Mini with only the folders you want it reading, like @PaulJLipsky does

๐Ÿ”Œ ๐—•๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ถ๐˜. Connectors take an API or an existing MCP server (@gregisenberg). @gregce10 got Claude Code running on the Muse VM with a scheduled task that wakes every 5 seconds. And ask your Muse for early access, per @alexandr_wang

๐Ÿงจ The honest part: ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ธ ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ป ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐˜. Turn off training on your data, use the Stripe Link wallet for one-time cards, keep logins in the credential store, and write your hard rules before the first task. One Muse already sent a Marketplace buyer to a seller's home, and another read a journalist's private messages unprompted

Pulled from 8 @slashlast30days sweeps, a Grok CLI pass over X, and the best Muse roundup I found, from @AndrewWarner.
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