CosmicCommon
Cosmic, Common.
uncommon creative consulting · Columbus, Georgia
In another life, I was a creative director at a marketing agency.
In learning how to write a book, I learned to do a lot of other stuff, too. Some of this stuff looks like content. This content behaves like a business, so that is what we'll do here.
What have you learned?
What kind of stuff do you make?
How does your content behave?
Stare at anything long enough and you start to see a story.
All we need is a little focus.
Yes, I use AI tools where they earn their place. I'd rather hand you the whole bill than pretend I don't — so here is what our tools cost, a band never a point, every figure sourced. You had to go looking for this, which is exactly the point.
A heavy working day — measured
12 July 2026 · 1,168,478 tokens across four autonomous sessions
| Low | Central | High | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy | 117 Wh | 584 Wh | 2,337 Wh |
| Carbon | 46 g | 230 g CO₂e | 921 g |
| Water | 126 mL | 631 mL | 2,524 mL |
≈ 10 hours of a running laptop · 0.6 miles of driving · 2½ cups of water. The high end is 20 times the low end, and that width is the most honest thing down here.
Inference only — it excludes model training, my device and the hardware, because I can't yet measure those honestly. Method: FinOps GenAI Cost & Usage Tracker — live usage export · four-tier Scope-3 Cat-1 inference methodology (2026) · figures regenerated from live usage · last updated 2026-07-12. Read it, argue with it, hold me to it.