JT.
I built the place. And every so often, I write from inside it.
JT is the founder of The How To Network. He doesn’t run a lane — he runs the whole thing: the writers, the standard, the long game. But on the Home side, from time to time, he writes the one thing he can’t say anywhere else.
— JTA network built on one stubborn idea — that the things that matter most can still be taught.
The How To Network started as a reaction. Too much of the internet is performance — hacks that don’t survive contact with a real life, advice from people who’ve never had to use it. I wanted the opposite. Guides written by people who’ve actually done the thing, in plain language, with nothing to sell you.
Nine editions, one network — and one rule of the house: no how-to you can’t describe to a friend at the kitchen table. I hire for that. I edit for that. And once in a while, when something in my own life refuses to stay quiet, I write for it too — on the Home side, where the hardest how-tos live.
If we can’t say it plainly, we haven’t earned the right to publish it.— JT · Founder, The How To Network
The Repairs He Did That You Never Noticed.
My father fixed things. Not as a hobby, not as a side business — just as the baseline expectation of being the person who owned the house. The gap between broken and fixed was his problem, and he solved it before I had time to notice it existed.
I own a house now. The gap is my problem.
Read the essay →Home Edition
The first of more — written only when there’s something worth saying.
I’m not a contractor. I’m just a man with a few things to say.
Let me be clear about what this isn’t. I’m not a contractor or a licensed tradesman, and nothing I write here is advice. I’m the founder. My job is the network — the writers, the standard, the long game.
But I write these on the Home side on purpose. The Home lane is where we make room for the things that are hard to say out loud — grief, fathers, the quiet work of being a person. Once in a while I need that room too.
So this page isn’t a beat or an archive. It’s just me, and mine. When something matters enough to write down, you’ll find it here.
And if something here resonates with you, I’m glad — truly. But I’ll be honest with you: this one’s mostly therapeutic for me.
If there’s someone you’ve been meaning to call — call them. Not to deliver a speech. Just to tell them one thing they got right.