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The sunglasses fit test that beats any face shape chart

Three numbers printed inside the temple arm tell you more than every "round face, square frame" chart on the internet.

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Heart rate zones without a coach, a lab or a guess

Your watch invented your max heart rate. Here's how to build zones you can actually trust with four hours a week and two kids at home.

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Pressure-test my business idea

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GuideTools & OrganizingDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

Hand Tools Worth Buying Once and Handing Down

Where to spend real money, where the $9 version is genuinely fine, and how to keep steel alive for forty years.

Names.com — The name is the first thing you sell

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Style5 min read

What to wear on a first date without overthinking it

One reliable outfit, four venues, and the small fixes that matter a lot more than the label on your collar.

Poll

Where does your phone charge overnight?

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

The added sugar hiding in your lunch and how much is too much

Two numbers on the label, one of them matters, and most of your day's sugar is probably in three things you'd never suspect.

GuideTools & OrganizingDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

The Three Saws a Home Shop Needs and What They Cost

Buy them in this order, spend the money where it changes the cut, and know the one saw you should rent instead of own.

CancerDefying.com — The research, protocols and reading in one place

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GuideGroomingTobias Reed23 Sept 20265 min

The first haircut, the first deodorant, the first shave

A stage-by-stage plan for handing a boy the job of taking care of himself, plus the three mornings he'll remember for the rest of his life.

Quiz

Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

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

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

What the people who kept the weight off actually did

Losing it's the easy part. The habits that hold the line are smaller, duller and far more repeatable than whatever you tried in January.

GuideTools & OrganizingDean Shaw23 Sept 20265 min

What to Spend on a Drill and Impact Driver, and What to Skip

A brushless two-tool kit for around $200 does 95 percent of what a homeowner needs, and the bits matter more than the badge.

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GuideGroomingTobias Reed23 Sept 20265 min

How To Find A Barber Worth Driving Past Three Others For

The right chair saves you five minutes every morning for a month. Here's how to audition one, and how to keep him once you've got him.

Coconut.com — Tell us when. We find where the sun is.

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GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

Training in your fifties without wrecking your week

Strength doesn't fall off a cliff at 50. Recovery does. Change those two things in your program and keep almost everything else.

Poll

When did you last ask for a raise?

GuideTools & OrganizingDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

The 20 Tools Every Homeowner Needs and What to Pay for Each

Spend where your hands go every time, save where they don't, and rent the rest. Real brands, real price ranges, and the four you shouldn't buy at all.

GuideStyleTobias Reed23 Sept 20266 min

Short men should buy for the shoulders and hem the rest

Height isn't the problem. Rise, hem, jacket length and a tailor who picks up the phone are the whole fight.

GermProof.com — An invisible germ barrier on your skin for hours

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GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

Tell your pharmacist what's in your gym bag

Fish oil, creatine, ashwagandha and that pre-workout tub all talk to your prescriptions, and the counter is where you find out how.

Quiz

Is your money actually in order?

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

Tools & Organizing6 min

How to Pick a Cordless Tool Platform You Won't Regret

Gear6 min

Kids' Outdoor Clothes That Make It to the Third Kid

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Build me a revision plan that I will actually stick to

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GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

Why the streak broke and what the next morning is for

Nineteen days off isn't a character flaw. It's a scheduling failure, and the repair takes twenty minutes and one honest conversation.

Dude.com — 16 advisers who listen, talk and pray with you

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Health5 min read

What to wear in the sauna and how long to stay

Shower first, sit on a towel, cap it around fifteen minutes. The rest of sauna etiquette is just not being the guy everybody remembers.

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What was your first ever job?

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