Every three years, Cook County reassesses your property, and every three years a wave of postcards shows up in your mailbox from law firms offering to appeal your new assessment for you. The pitch is always the same: no upfront cost, they only get paid if they win, and if they win they keep 33-50% …

My personal Gmail inbox was overwhelming, and I needed to figure something out. And since it’s 2026, I did what any self-respecting technologist would do: I asked Claude to help me. I connected it to my Gmail, and it looked through my inbox and made pretty great suggestions for what could be …