Trades & Careers

Electrician, lineman, welder, plumber. How to get in, get certified and get paid what the work is worth.

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How to Contact Your Representative So Somebody Reads It

Bill numbers, ZIP+4, the Capitol switchboard, and the one type of request a congressional office will actually drop everything for.

GuideSkillsWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

Swapping a Switch and an Outlet, in the Right Order

The whole job takes twenty minutes once you know what to look at first, and exactly where it stops being a homeowner job.

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GuideCryptoRay OkonkwoSep 23, 20266 min

How to size a crypto position without lying to yourself

Most people pick a percentage after they've already bought, and measure it against the wrong number. A cleaner way to arrive at the figure.

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What It Actually Takes to Get Your Name on the Local Ballot

Most people who say they'd run never call the county clerk. That call takes ten minutes and settles almost everything.

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How often do you see your closest friends?

GuideStartupsRay OkonkwoSep 23, 20266 min

The first year with your name on the van

Most new trades businesses don't fold because the work was bad. They fold because of cash timing, one ugly job, and a rate set by guesswork.

GuideCryptoRay OkonkwoSep 23, 20266 min

What a central bank digital currency would actually change

Holding caps, intermediated wallets, offline mode. The proposals are public documents, and most of the argument happens without reading them.

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StoryNewsJosh HalloranSep 23, 20266 min

Why Your Local Paper Closed and What Took Its Place

The classifieds went to Craigslist, the newsroom went to the debt collector, and a Facebook group with no phone number got the beat.

Quiz

Is your money actually in order?

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

GuideStartupsRay OkonkwoSep 23, 20266 min

Hiring your first employee without blowing up your business

The real cost of employee number one, when you can actually afford them, and the mistakes that sink most first hires inside a year.

GuideCryptoRay OkonkwoSep 23, 20265 min

The Bitcoin halving explained without a price prediction

What actually changes in the code, what happens to miners the next morning, and why the four-year clock is a rounding error rather than a rule.

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GuideNewsJosh HalloranSep 23, 20266 min

How to Read a Religious Liberty Ruling for Yourself

Court opinions are free, public, and shorter than you think. A working method for finding the holding, counting the votes, and spotting what a case didn't decide.

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GuideStartupsRay OkonkwoSep 23, 20266 min

The hourly number you need before you quote another job

Most small service businesses price off what the guy down the road charges. Do the arithmetic on your own costs first, then decide what to do about the market.

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Where does your best time with your kids happen?

GuideCryptoRay OkonkwoSep 23, 20265 min

Read the token table first, then read the white paper

Most of what a crypto white paper is hiding sits in two places: who gets the supply, and who can change the rules.

GuideNewsJosh HalloranSep 23, 20266 min

How a Bill Becomes Law, in the Order It Really Happens

The schoolhouse version skips the parts that decide everything: committee referral, the Rules Committee, cloture, and the rulemaking that comes after the signature.