One idea, and what to do with it Monday.
A short letter on leadership, career and finances, written in plain English by someone who spent two decades running programs across New York City. It is free, and there is nothing to buy at the end of it.
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Three subjects, and nothing else.
The same three the rest of the site is about. If a letter does not help you with one of them, it does not go out.
Leadership
- Running the room. Meetings that end with decisions instead of a recap.
- Hard conversations. What to actually say when someone is falling short.
- Handing work off. Delegating without hovering, and without the work coming back.
- Systems over heroics. Building it so the answer stops having to be you.
Career
- Getting unstuck. What to do when the job stops moving and nobody says why.
- Asking for money. How to make the case without apologizing for making it.
- The step up. What a promotion really asks of you, before you say yes.
- Reading the room. The rules an organization follows but never writes down.
Finances
- Paying yourself first. Even when the paycheck already feels spoken for.
- The cushion. Why the emergency fund comes before almost everything else.
- Getting out of debt. Which order actually gets you free fastest.
- Retirement, in numbers. Plain math, no jargon, no product at the end.
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Three minutes, start to finish.
Every letter has the same shape, so you always know what you are opening. No long wind-up, no scroll to find the point.
One idea, named plainly
The subject line is the idea and the first sentence is the point. If you only read the top of the email, you still got the thing.
Where it came from
A short story from twenty years of hiring, budgets, city contracts, and the occasional avoidable disaster. Usually mine.
One thing to try Monday
Something small and specific: a question for your next one on one, a line for your next meeting, a move for your next paycheck.
No pitch at the end.
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