JT
Founder, The How To Network
“If we can’t say it plainly, we haven’t earned the right to publish 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. He is also, by his own cheerful admission, no kind of tech expert — which is more or less why this edition exists. Every so often, from the Tech side, he writes from inside it anyway.
A network built on one stubborn idea — that the things that matter most can still be taught. Even to someone like me.
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 actually had to use it. I wanted the opposite. Guides written by people who’ve genuinely done the thing, in plain language, with nothing to sell you.
The Tech Edition is the one I needed most. I’m the guy who reads the setup steps twice and still gets it wrong, who’s been quietly outpaced by his own devices for years. So I hired people who aren’t — and asked them to explain it the way they’d explain it to me. If a how-to here makes sense to me, it’ll make sense to anyone.
I’m not an expert. I’m just the guy who built a place full of them.
Let me be clear about what this isn’t. I’m not an engineer, a developer, or anyone’s idea of a power user. Nothing I write here is expert advice — the experts are the people I hired. I’m the founder. My job is the network — the writers, the standard, the long game.
But I write from the Tech side on purpose. Tech is where most of us quietly feel a little dumb and would rather not admit it — and that feeling is exactly what this edition was built to fix. Once in a while I need it fixed too.
So this page isn’t a beat or an archive. It’s just me — the founder who still texts his nephew screenshots of error messages. When something’s worth writing down, you’ll find it here.
And if something here makes you feel a little less alone in front of a glowing rectangle, I’m glad — truly. But I’ll be honest with you: figuring it out in public is mostly therapeutic for me.
If there’s a device sitting in a drawer because it beat you once — dig it out. You’re smarter than it is. You just needed someone to say so.