Most booking platforms have been bought by online travel conglomerates, private equity firms, or digital holding companies. The names stayed the same; the ownership, pricing, and data flows changed. Here’s who owns what now, and what it means for you.
Most of us learn web app security the hard way, after something breaks. Here’s the short, honest version: the free list that names the ten most common risks, a free tool to find them, and why awareness is the real protection.
Square is the easy default for selling in person, but its conduct record is specific and some of it hits your cash flow: a habit of freezing seller funds, nine figures in 2025 regulator fines, and a big data breach. Here’s how to take cards in person without it.
A newsletter is really two jobs: holding your list and delivering the mail. Whoever holds the list controls it. Here’s how to keep your subscribers yours, and the setup we chose ourselves.
A familiar logo tells you a company spent money on marketing, not how it will treat you. Four plain questions, privacy, lock-in, labor, and independence, let you judge any tool by its conduct.
Most password advice is backwards. Length beats complexity, a password manager beats memorizing, and two-factor beats everything. Here’s the short, honest version of what keeps an account safe.
Free resources · Article We don’t recommend what we haven’t run ourselves A lot of people will tell you to leave Big Tech. Fewer have actually done it. We run Desk Ready on the same independent tools we recommend, so our advice comes with real lessons, including the ones that didn’t work. A lot of … Read more
Free resources · Guide Who actually owns your mailing list? A newsletter feels like one tool, but it is really two jobs: holding your list, and delivering the mail. Let one company do both and you quietly hand over something you didn’t need to. Here’s how to keep your list yours. Short answer: whoever holds … Read more
Free resources · Article Is Zoom safe to use? What its privacy track record actually shows Zoom works, and you don’t have to quit it tomorrow. But its privacy history follows one pattern worth knowing before your next call: ship fast, get caught, fix after backlash. Here is the receipt trail, so you can decide … Read more
The honest case for Signal from someone who advises small organizations on tech: why it’s the messaging app I recommend, the real tradeoffs, and how to start.
