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Sport, Prisons and Medicine Can't Run on a Feeling

Commentary. Sports federations, corrections departments and the FDA all worked this out on the record. The documents are public. Go read them.

GuideSkillsCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Pulling Someone Out of the Water Without Drowning Yourself

Drowning is quiet, fast, and it kills rescuers too. The order of operations that gets both of you back on dry land.

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GuideMoneyRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20265 min

Pay yourself the payment for three months before you borrow

A $12,000 loan at 12.9 percent hands the lender $3,424. Saving the same monthly amount gets you there in 36 months instead of 48, and the math is yours to check.

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News5 min read

Boys Are Falling Behind and the Numbers Aren't New

Commentary on the reading gap, the college gap, the discipline data and the one variable nobody in the district office wants to name.

Poll

What was your first ever job?

GuideSkillsCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

How to stop serious bleeding before the ambulance arrives

Pressure, packing and a tourniquet, in the order you'd actually use them, plus the mistakes that cost people the five minutes they had.

GuideMoneyRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20265 min

Pay for the wedding in cash or move the date

The guest list is the budget. Everything else is decoration, and most of it's negotiable if you run the numbers first.

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BRO TakeNewsJosh Halloran23 Sept 20265 min

What People Actually Mean by Woke and Why the Word Stuck

The word has a real history, a real definition, and a real weakness. Know all three before you use it again.

Quiz

Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

GuideSkillsWes Dunbar23 Sept 20265 min

Purify Backcountry Water Without Guessing What's In It

Pick the source, strain the grit, treat it right, and keep the dirty bottle away from the clean one. The order matters more than the gear.

GuideMoneyRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20266 min

Read your home insurance policy on a Tuesday, not after a fire

Six numbers in your policy decide what you actually get paid. Most people meet them for the first time standing in a wet hallway.

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GuideStartupsRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20265 min

The food truck costs that aren't on anybody's spreadsheet

The truck is the cheap part. It's the commissary, the generator hours and the days you don't sell that decide whether you're still open in year two.

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GuideSkillsWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

Sew on a button and mend a seam so they stay fixed

Eighteen inches of thread, a needle and a toothpick. Ten minutes of work that outlasts whatever the factory did the first time.

Poll

Where does your phone charge overnight?

GuideMoneyRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20265 min

What actually moves your credit score and what doesn't

Two things do most of the work, a dozen things do almost nothing, and one common piece of advice costs people money every month.

GuideStartupsRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20265 min

The family cleaning business runs on roles, not goodwill

Cleaning is one of the few businesses a family can start this month for under a thousand dollars. It's also one of the easiest to quit by March.

Delicious.com — Nine thousand recipes and a plan for tonight

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GuideSkillsCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

Choking rescue for an adult, a child and a baby

The hands go in three different places depending on who's choking, and the one that works on a grown man will hurt an infant.

Quiz

Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.

Money5 min

The second income is smaller than the paycheck says

Startups5 min

Buy the tool before you hire the person

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GuideSkillsWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

Replace a broken window pane without butchering the sash

The glass is the easy part. Skip one step and your fresh putty cracks out by next winter.

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Money6 min read

The phone call that empties a family's savings

It starts polite, it starts urgent, and it ends with somebody at a Walgreens buying $500 gift cards. The defense takes four minutes.

Poll

Where does your best time with your kids happen?

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