Six months ago I was doing everything manually. Waking up at 5 AM to write tweets. Spending Sunday nights drafting newsletters I never sent. Opening Reddit at lunch to find threads I could add something useful to. Closing the tab because I didn't have time to write a proper reply. I have a full-time job. When I say full-time, I mean the kind where 70-hour weeks are normal. I was trying to build a business on the scraps of time left over. Social media was the first thing to die. The automated system I run now posts to Twitter five times a day, publishes one TikTok slideshow, surfaces three Reddit reply opportunities, and sends a newsletter three times a week. It does this whether I'm in a meeting, asleep, or traveling. I check in on it for maybe 20 minutes a day. Here's exactly how it works. What "Automated Social Media" Actually Means Most guides will tell you to use Buffer or Hootsuite. Schedule your posts in advance, fire and forget. That's not what I built. Scheduling tools solve the timing problem.…