The Self-Employed Man

Be your own boss and still pay the bills: clients, pricing, taxes, tools and time for your family.

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Buy the right table saw and stop being scared of it

The blade isn't what gets most people. Kickback is. Pick the saw that fits your shop, set it up right, and work the machine with confidence.

GuideFitnessCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

Colon cancer screening starts at 45 and men keep skipping it

Three ways to get it done, what the prep actually involves, and how to fit the whole thing around work, kids and your training week.

Gear5 min

The whole beginner fishing kit fits in a shoebox

Woodworking6 min

Stick, MIG or TIG, and Which One to Learn First

GuideFitnessCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

Marathon training on four runs a week and no free time

You don't need six days and a coach. You need one protected long run, a wife who knows the plan, and the discipline to skip the hero workouts.

GuideOld SchoolNina CastellanSep 23, 20265 min

Grandma's health plan was a walk, a window and an early night

Four habits that cost nothing, worked for eighty years, and still beat most of what you'd pay a subscription for.

Woodworking6 min

Keep the span under 32 inches and your bookshelf won't sag

Fitness5 min

Eating well at 25, at 45 and at 65

GuideGearWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

Buy the pad first, then buy the sleeping bag

The number printed on a sleeping bag is the temperature you'll survive, not the one you'll sleep through. Here's how the system actually works.

GuideWoodworkingWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

The shed plan is right about everything except the ground

A good set of shed plans gives you a cut list and a roof pitch. It won't tell you how to make the floor flat, square and still there in ten years.

Fitness6 min

How to quit nicotine when you can't take a week off

Old School6 min

She Filled the Envelopes First and Never Missed a Bill

GuideWoodworkingWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

Build a picnic table with your kids in one weekend

Five boards for the top, four bolts per leg, and a job list a seven-year-old can actually do without you hovering.

GuideFitnessCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

The hearing you've got left is all the hearing you get

Hair cells don't grow back. A few dollars of foam and thirty seconds of technique will save you from asking your kids to repeat themselves at forty-five.

Old School5 min

The advice your grandparents give is the mistake they made

Woodworking6 min

Cutting, drilling and filing steel without wrecking the bit

GuideFitnessCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

Check your ears, your neck and your left forearm first

Five minutes a month in your own bathroom catches most of what matters, and nobody has to see a doctor to do it.

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What Old Men Wish Somebody Had Told Them at Twenty-Five

Ask a man in his eighties what he'd change and he almost never says the job. He says the ears, the friends, and the questions he never asked his dad.

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