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EditorialMost advice on how to get your first clients has a step zero that nobody says out loud. It assumes you already know people who could hire you, or who know people who could, and then it tells you how to work that list. Warm […]
13 min read- Editorial
You have three or four things that are eighty percent done. A document that needs one more pass. A side project that got as far as working and never got as far as finished. Something you told people about six months ago and quietly hope […]
11 min read - Wealth
Most people have asked how much money is enough and run the number at some point. You open a retirement calculator, enter an age, a rough annual spend and a return assumption, and it hands back a figure with a great many zeros in it. […]
11 min read - Editorial
You have probably had the experience of finishing something in eleven minutes that used to take an hour, feeling briefly delighted about it, and then arriving at Friday to find the week just as full as every other week. Does AI save time? That week […]
10 min read - Mindset
It is nine in the evening, the same question is in front of you for the third time today, and you can feel yourself reaching for whichever answer ends the conversation fastest. You already know the phrase for this. Everyone does. The phrase is decision […]
12 min read - Business
You handed the thing over. It came back wrong in the small way that takes longer to explain than to fix, so you fixed it. Eleven minutes. Explaining it properly would have cost forty, and you had a call at two. Six weeks on, you […]
10 min read - Business
Most standard operating procedure examples you find online are documents nobody would ever read twice. Twelve pages, a version history, an approvals table, and a level of detail that guarantees it goes out of date within a month of being written. The test of an […]
7 min read - Wealth
Is Amex Platinum worth it? The card costs $895 a year and American Express advertises over $3,500 in benefits, which sounds like an obvious yes and is the least useful way to look at it. That $3,500 is not money. It is a list of […]
6 min read - Education
Is a business degree worth it? The honest answer is that the question is usually asked in the wrong units. People compare the tuition against an average salary, decide the gap looks favourable, and enrol. The average salary is the wrong number, because a large […]
7 min read - Education
Most people asking how to write better do not have a vocabulary problem. They write emails that get misread, proposals that get skimmed, and updates nobody acts on, and they assume the fix is more sophisticated language. It is almost always the opposite. Unclear writing […]
6 min read
