Field
Notes.
Field notes, references, and dispatches from the first 72 hours after a layoff, and the systems we're building to make those days survivable.
72 Hours.A guide from the other side of the call
The First 72 Hours. For the days that don't make sense yet.
A small, careful guide to the moves that matter in the first three days, and the ones that can wait, written by people who've been on the other side of that call.
Open the Kit →Latest from the field.
"It is the difference between choosing and being caught."
When Health Insurance Stops Being a Given
Four doors, four clocks, and the one timing rule that decides whether you end up with a gap. The whole map of coverage after a layoff, sourced line by line.
I didn't need AI to apply for jobs. I needed a sounding board.
Over 40, pink-slipped into a market run by machines, and told the fix was more machines. He took a hard pass. What he needed wasn't a shortcut. It was a sounding board.
Teaching them the unknown is survivable.
A psychologist on how to talk to your kids about a layoff, without handing the fear down the table.
Unemployment Benefits. Car Insurance With Worse Branding.
What to know when you don't know.
When Your Old Job Shows Up in Your Feed
The Badge Debate Nobody Should Have to Have in Week One
The job posting and the real need aren't always the same thing.
You only get one layoff post.
The algorithm cannot witness you.
Severance, decoded. Line by line.
Why I started this after getting laid off twice.
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