A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of A Better Life for Half the Price and The World’s Cheapest Destinations. See past editions here, where your like-minded ...

Adulting—the (seemingly never-ending) process of becoming an adult—is something I think and write about a lot. This concept connects most topics that interest me: From productivity and self-management ...

A Contract with God: And Other Tenement Stories by Will Eisner, Scott McCloud W.W. Norton & Company 2017, 224 pages, 7.3 x 0.9 x 10.3 inches, Hardcover ...

A few years ago we decided to join the growing backyard chicken movement. We knew zero about chicken raising. We were ...

Our subscriber base has grown so much since we first started seven years ago, that most of you have missed all our earliest recommendations. The best of these are still valid and useful, so we’re ...

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A cool tool can be any book, gadget, software, video, map, hardware, material, or website that is tried and true. All reviews on this site are written by readers who have actually used the tool and ...

Six years ago I celebrated my 68th birthday by gifting my children 68 bits of advice I wished I had gotten when I was their age. Every birthday after that I added more bits of advice for them until I ...