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The PlainReads blog
Opinionated, practical essays about information overload, plain language, and the craft of learning fast — from the people obsessed with making books shorter.
Use a free interactive calculator with your starting balance, monthly contribution, and editable annual return to estimate how many months it may take to reach a savings goal.
Most interview questions are one of six tests wearing different clothes: can you do the job, will you stay, will you fit, how do you handle pressure, what will you cost, and do you actually want this. Learn the six and you can answer questions you've never seen before.
Open this topicMost productivity advice fails because it assumes a perfect week. A system that survives interruptions, bad sleep, and a full inbox has three properties: it fits on one card, it caps what you commit to, and it degrades gracefully instead of collapsing.
Open this topicConfidence isn't a feeling you summon before acting — it's the record left behind by acting. That's why affirmations fade and small completed actions don't. The work is fixing how you record evidence, not how you talk to yourself.
Open this topicThe gap between people whose work gets easier and people whose work gets harder isn't effort — it's structure. Linear work sells hours once. Compounding work builds something that keeps earning after you stop touching it.
Open this topicDownload a requirements gathering template with interview questions, a completed example, acceptance checks, and a method for resolving conflicting requests.
Download a free RACI matrix template, follow a complete example, and check responsibilities, approval bottlenecks, and missing ownership before work begins.
Build a workback schedule with a downloadable template, an eight-day worked example, dependency checks, and practical options when the dates do not fit.
Download a team charter template with a complete example, practical working agreements, a short workshop agenda, and a process for revising the rules.
Download a project intake form with a complete example, a practical triage process, and reply scripts that separate receipt, approval, and scheduling.
Download a project brief template, follow a complete worked example, and agree on scope, acceptance, ownership, and open questions before work begins.