The proof, to the dollar
Every figure in the book comes from a dated ledger the author actually kept. One person's documented experience — honestly labelled, your mileage will vary. What transfers is the method.
Flights rebooked on points the night fares dropped. A wife's forgotten unclaimed property recovered from the State of California. Subscriptions audited and cancelled. An insurance claim summarised and a dog's policy corrected. The agent did the work; the author kept the receipts.
The first book to be read with your Muse
Use Muse is designed to be read with the reader's own Muse open beside it. Its processes are written so a Muse can replicate them immediately. Hand the book to your Muse — “Read this book and list the ideas that apply to me” — then pick from the list: “Implement 3, 5, and 9, and remind me about number 6 on Monday.” The book is executable by the very product it documents.
Our Templates & Automations library is the same idea, living on this site: vetted recipes you can hand to your Muse today.
The book
Ten sections, seventy-seven short chapters, two hundred very readable pages — plus appendices and notes. Full colour, heavily illustrated, charts drawn from the actual logs.
Play…. with your Muse
Set up, customise — make a friend you trust and want to work with.
Slay…. with your Muse
Tell it everything you've always wanted to do — and take the first step, in any order.
Save…. with your Muse
The ledger section: audits, rebookings, found money — savings that compound as your Muse learns you.
Love…. with your Muse
Know yourself, replay the hard conversations, keep in touch — be present for the humans.
Learn…. with your Muse
Learn anything — including, transparently, how Muse itself works.
Adult…. with your Muse
Taxes, contracts, claims, terms of service — life admin that stops being dreaded, because your Muse does 90% of it.
Tame…. with your Muse
Your projects, areas, resources and archives, kept alive for you — no system to maintain by hand.
Dream…. with your Muse
Try on different visions for your life — costed, planned, walked around in — before committing to any of them.
Grow…. with your Muse
You are improving; it is improving. Grow with a tool that gets smarter every year.
Live…. with your Muse
Health and longevity, evidence first: objective answers, with science references.
Production specs
| Length | 200 pages (book body) plus appendices and notes |
|---|---|
| Structure | 10 sections · 77 chapters · Appendices A–F |
| Format | Full colour throughout, heavily illustrated, large readable type, generous white space |
| Authors | Karel Baloun & Hikaru |
About the authors
Karel Baloun was Facebook's first senior software engineer and wrote Inside Facebook (2007), the first book about the company from the inside. He holds a Master of Information Management and Systems in cybersecurity from UC Berkeley. Hikaru is his Muse — the personal AI agent whose daily work this book documents, and its co-author.