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Build a budget that survives an actual month

Most budgets break in week three. The fix is arithmetic: fund the irregular stuff monthly, build in slack, and check the numbers once a week.

GuideBusinessRay Okonkwo22 Sept 20266 min

Managing people who have been doing this longer than you

Age gaps on a team are normal. The mistakes new managers make around them are avoidable, and most of them happen in the first month.

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Plan a cook for eight people

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GuideSkillsWes Dunbar22 Sept 20265 min

How to stop a dripping tap in fifteen minutes

Water off, handle off, washer out, washer in. The job is small. The mistakes are the expensive part.

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

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Startups6 min read

How to tell the difference between slow and dead

Most founders quit too late, not too early. Set your kill criteria in writing before you're too tired and too invested to read them honestly.

Poll

Where does your phone charge overnight?

GuideBusinessRay Okonkwo22 Sept 20266 min

How a Profitable Business Runs Out of Money

Profit is an opinion formed at year end. Cash is a fact that shows up on a Friday, and Friday is when payroll clears.

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.

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GuideStartupsRay Okonkwo22 Sept 20265 min

Write the breakup clause before you write the logo

Most business partnerships between friends fail quietly, and the friendship goes with them. The paperwork you avoid is the paperwork that saves both.

Quiz

Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

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

GuideBusinessRay Okonkwo22 Sept 20265 min

Read your own profit and loss in ten minutes a month

The bottom line tells you something is wrong. It never tells you what. Read the statement in this order and it will.

GuideSkillsDean Shaw22 Sept 20265 min

Iron a dress shirt properly in four minutes

The order matters more than the speed. Collar, cuffs, sleeves, back, fronts — and the shirt should still be slightly damp when you start.

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

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GuideStartupsRay Okonkwo22 Sept 20266 min

The paperwork you can't skip in your first year

Most of it takes a weekend. Skipping it turns a slow month into a business-ending one, usually about fourteen months in.

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

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GuideBusinessRay Okonkwo22 Sept 20266 min

What to file before your first employee starts

The order of operations for hiring employee number one, the forms that have real deadlines, and the mistakes that cost the most to unwind.

Poll

What was your first ever job?

GuideSkillsSam Ortiz22 Sept 20266 min

How to complain so the thing actually gets fixed

The calm, specific, written way to get a refund, a repair or an apology — and the escalation ladder that works when the first person says no.

GuideStartupsRay Okonkwo22 Sept 20265 min

Find ten customers before you build anything

The cheapest way to kill a bad business idea is to try to sell it before it exists. Most people skip this and pay for it later.

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

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GuideBusinessRay Okonkwo22 Sept 20266 min

How to fire someone without wrecking them or your team

The decision is the easy part. The fifteen minutes, the paperwork and the week afterward are where most managers fall apart.

Quiz

Is your money actually in order?

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

Skills6 min

Negotiating a car price without any of the theater

Startups6 min

How to price trade work without guessing

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Rewrite my CV so it actually gets read

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GuideMoneyRay Okonkwo22 Sept 20265 min

Your payslip, your tax code, and where the money went

Most people check the bottom number and file the rest. The other lines are where the errors hide, and they're usually yours to catch.

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

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Skills6 min read

How to do CPR now, and what changed since your last class

Most of what you were taught a decade ago has been simplified, and the parts people get wrong are the parts that matter most.

Poll

What was your first ever job?

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