The 13 Rules of Making Money
The 13 rules of making money I actually follow, built from a decade of trial and error investing, saving, and testing strategies.
Content Is Leverage: How to Start When You Have Nothing
The first 90 days of making content from zero: one lane, a fixed cadence, a minimum viable stack, and the honest month-by-month expectations nobody publishes.
Documenting Your Journey: Why Public Accountability Pays
Why documenting a journey in public beats private goals: the witness effect, the review effect that compounds, the privacy lines, and the performative trap.
Home Gym vs Gym Membership: The Real Five-Year Math
The five-year napkin math on home gyms vs memberships: break-even tables, the used-equipment arbitrage, and the honest truth that attendance decides the winner.
Breathing, Meditation and Money Decisions: The Stress-Account Connection
Stress narrows options and fakes urgency — and your bank account pays for it. Box breathing, pre-commitment rules, and the honest limits of calm.
Is a Cold Plunge Worth It? The Honest Cost-Benefit Update
Years after my cold tub comparison, the real verdict: cost per session decides everything, and a free four-week test filters out bad buys.
Cold Plunge Maintenance Costs: The Full Year Ledger
The honest year-one operating ledger for a home cold plunge: power, water, filters and treatment, with assumptions shown so you can run your own numbers.
The Focus Audit: Where Your Hours Actually Go
A five-day time-log audit with three labels and one weekly swap: find the drain hours, price them, and reallocate without overhauling your life.
Habit Stacking for Money: Attaching Savings to What You Already Do
After X, I will do Y: ten money habit stacks that hold under real life, the payday transfer that compounds, and the honest reasons stacks quietly fail.
Morning Routines That Survive Real Life (With Kids)
Design a morning routine that bends instead of breaking: three five-minute anchors, an interruption protocol, and the rule that the evening owns the morning.
The VPN, Explained: What It Protects and What It Doesn’t
An honest capability list for VPNs: what they encrypt, what they can’t fix, and where they fit in a security stack with freezes, 2FA and password managers.
