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Confidence, friendships, routines and the decisions that actually move the needle.

The BRO Code. What to do, what not to do, and a few laughs on the way.

The small-town places still worth an hour of your Saturday

Custom processors, parts counters, salvage yards and farm auctions — how to tell which drive pays and which one just burns half a day.

GuideMoneyRay Okonkwo22 Sept 20265 min

How to work out your life insurance number and stop there

The arithmetic takes twenty minutes. The hard part is refusing the upsell that comes after it.

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Rehearse the raise conversation with me

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GuideCity BroDean Shaw22 Sept 20265 min

How to eat well in a city you landed in this afternoon

Skip the hotel recommendation, read reviews sideways, and walk ten minutes in the boring direction. A working method for finding the good table anywhere.

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

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BRO Seniors6 min read

Strength training at seventy, week by week

Three sessions, five movements, and a rate of progress slow enough to keep. What to lift, how heavy, and what goes wrong in the first month.

Poll

How often do you see your closest friends?

GuideMoneyRay Okonkwo22 Sept 20265 min

An index fund is a list and a machine that buys the list

No jargon, no hype, just what you're actually buying, what it costs, and the arithmetic that decides how it turns out.

GuideCity BroDean Shaw22 Sept 20265 min

How to pay the check without making it a thing

Tipping, splitting and settling up are solved problems. Most of the awkwardness comes from deciding too late and too loudly.

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

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GuideBRO for HerNina Castellan22 Sept 20266 min

Your first twelve weeks under a barbell

Three sessions a week, five movements, and a way of adding weight that still works in month three.

Quiz

Is your money actually in order?

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

GuideMoneyRay Okonkwo22 Sept 20266 min

Do the arithmetic on your mortgage before you sign

The monthly payment is the number they show you. The total of payments is the number you actually agree to pay.

GuideFitnessMarcus Vale22 Sept 20266 min

A two-day barbell plan built to survive small children

Three lifts, two sessions, forty minutes each. Boring on purpose, and still working when your kids are in high school.

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Plan a cook for eight people

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GuideBRO for HerNina Castellan22 Sept 20265 min

What actually changes about lifting in your forties

The weight on the bar isn't the problem. The time it takes to be ready for it, and to come back from it, is.

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

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GuideBe a ManMarcus Vale22 Sept 20265 min

Keeping standards on the days nothing is due

Deadlines and bosses do most of the work for you. Take them away and what's left is the actual man.

Poll

How often do you see your closest friends?

GuideFitnessMarcus Vale22 Sept 20266 min

Conditioning without ever going for a run

You probably don't hate cardio. You hate the version of it you were taught, and there are better ways to build a working engine.

GuideSkillsDean Shaw22 Sept 20266 min

The first ninety seconds decide whether a stain comes out

What to do the moment it happens, which four stain families you're dealing with, and the one mistake that makes a mark permanent.

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

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BRO TakeBe a ManMarcus Vale22 Sept 20265 min

A standard you'll drop under pressure was never a standard

Anyone can hold a line when it's free. The ones that count are the ones you pay for, and you should know the price before you're standing there.

Quiz

Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

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

Fitness5 min

The home gym under a thousand dollars that covers everything

Skills5 min

Iron a dress shirt properly in four minutes

Ask BRO

Build me a 30-day training plan around two sessions a week

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GuideBe a ManMarcus Vale22 Sept 20265 min

The men worth copying are rarely the loudest in the room

Volume is easy to fake. A decade of keeping your word isn't. A practical way to choose who you learn from.

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

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Fitness6 min read

If you eat oily fish twice a week, skip the fish oil

The capsules aren't magic and they aren't a scam. The only question that matters is what you actually ate in the last seven days.

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