The Token Efficiency Mindset - Why Your Claude Conversations Cost More Than They Should
If you’re paying attention to your Claude usage, you’ve probably noticed something: your token bills don’t scale linearly with your productivity. Sometimes a conversation that feels quick costs three times more than expected. Other conversations that took hours feel suspiciously cheap. The difference isn’t randomness. It’s a mental model problem. The Problem With “Just Ask” Most people treat Claude like a search engine with a long context window. You dump information, ask a question, wait for an answer. If you don’t like it, you ask again. Iterate until satisfied. ...