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When a video doctor visit works and when it wastes your day

Telehealth is great for the decisions that hang on your story, and useless for the ones that hang on somebody's hands.

GuideStyleDean ShawSep 23, 20265 min

Build a whole wardrobe for two thousand dollars in twelve months

Take the tailoring money off the top, buy coats in February, and stop shopping for clothes you already own.

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GuideMen's GroomingDean ShawSep 23, 20265 min

Fine Hair Looks Fuller With A Blunter Cut And Less Product

Most thin-hair advice sells you a shampoo. The actual fix is three inches of length, a blunt line and ninety seconds with a dryer.

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Fitness6 min read

A CBC is three tests stapled together

Red cells, white cells and platelets each answer a different question, and one of them will lie to you if you ran ten miles yesterday.

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How many days a week are you actually training?

GuideStyleDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

The rise is why your pants keep sliding under your belly

Fix the waistband first, then the shirt hem, and a midsection stops running the whole outfit.

GuideMen's GroomingDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

Buy The Motor, Not The Attachment Count

A 22-piece kit and a bare clipper both cut hair. Only one of them is still cutting hair in year four.

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GuideFitnessCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

How to choose between urgent care, the ER and waiting for Monday

A working parent's triage system for 9 p.m. injuries and 3 a.m. fevers, including the stuff urgent care can't do and the symptoms that skip the line.

Quiz

Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

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

GuideStyleDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

Your trouser hem is probably an inch off, and it shows

Break isn't a style opinion, it's a measurement. Get the back hem and the leg opening right and the front takes care of itself.

GuideMen's GroomingDean ShawSep 23, 20265 min

Beard oil, balm and wash, and which one you can skip

Two of the three earn their shelf space. The third depends on how long your beard is, and nobody selling it's going to tell you that.

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GuideFitnessCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

Read the prescription label before you leave the parking lot

The sig line, the fill date and the warning stickers tell you most of what the doctor didn't have time to say. Ninety seconds, in the car.

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GuideStyleDean ShawSep 23, 20265 min

Build a whole wardrobe for five hundred dollars, line by line

Eleven purchases, one tailoring budget, and the order to buy them in if you only have a hundred bucks this month.

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How often do you see your closest friends?

GuideMen's GroomingDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

The Beard Itch Peaks Around Day Ten, Then It Quits

Ninety seconds a morning and three cheap things fix the worst month of growing a beard. Most men quit right before it ends.

GuideFitnessCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

Chronic pain and what works when the pills stop working

Pain that's lasted months doesn't respond to the same playbook as a sprained ankle. The stuff that actually moves the needle is smaller and more boring than you'd think.

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GuideWoodworkingDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

Build a cedar sauna bench and a backrest worth leaning on

Every fastener goes underneath, every edge gets rounded over, and nothing gets a finish. The rest is just careful ripping.

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Is your money actually in order?

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

Men's Grooming5 min

Shine By Noon Is A Product Problem, Not A Washing Problem

Fitness6 min

How much walking actually counts when you've got kids

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GuideTools & OrganizingDean ShawSep 23, 20265 min

Shed Kit or Build From Scratch, and What Each Costs

The foundation isn't in the box, the door is always too small, and one of these two routes will cost you a month of Saturdays.

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Men's Grooming5 min read

Round face, long face, square jaw, three different beards

Your beard's shape is decided by two lines, and most men cut both of them in the wrong place.

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When did you last ask for a raise?

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