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Reading a pay stub can be confusing. What are all the things that get taken out before the money hits your bank account?
Let’s go through the most common line items on a pay stub and explain what they mean, which ones you can adjust, and how they affect your tax refund.
IRS withholding calculator: https://apps.irs.gov/app/tax-withholding-estimator (https://apps.irs.gov/app/tax-withholding-estimator)
(00:00) - A spreadsheet of pay stubs
(05:02) - Federal income tax withholding
(06:47) - Social Security and Medicare
(09:28) - State and local taxes
(11:57) - Other pre- and post-tax deductions
(14:06) - What percentage are you actually taking home?
(16:59) - How and when to adjust your federal tax withholding
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Steve Nay:
https://daybreaktax.com/ (https://daybreaktax.com/)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nsteven/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nsteven/)
Tyler Smith:
https://www.tylersmith.io/ (https://www.tylersmith.io/)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylersmith-io/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylersmith-io/)
8 Aug 2024
Task management is not project management
Todoist, much as we love it, is a task management tool, not a project management tool. What if we treated it that way?
Today, Tyler explains a shift he’s recently undertaken in project management that has made it easier to keep the proper perspective and get the right things done.
Steve confesses that weekly reviews are probably worth his while.
And Tyler unexpectedly falls in love with Apple Mail because of Focus Modes.
(00:00) - A list of technologies
(02:38) - Steve still needs to do some weekly reviews
(06:36) - Project management versus task management
(15:20) - Projects in a Todoist Kanban board
(22:55) - Lists of descending temporal importance
(26:43) - Tyler tried Apple Mail and fell in love with Focus Modes
Links:
Carl Pullein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJZkYNlp_bA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJZkYNlp_bA)
Slow Productivity by Cal Newport https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/197773418-slow-productivity (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/197773418-slow-productivity)
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Steve Nay:
https://daybreaktax.com/ (https://daybreaktax.com/)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nsteven/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nsteven/)
Tyler Smith:
https://www.tylersmith.io/ (https://www.tylersmith.io/)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylersmith-io/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylersmith-io/)
25 Jul 2024
A train wreck of email
This one is a bit, um, wide-ranging. And nerdy. It’s a window into the minds of your esteemed hosts.
We talk about email management and apps and workflows.
We talk about podcast management and apps and workflows.
Tyler agrees to try an experiment with Apple Mail.
(00:00) - The travails of corporate job email management
(07:28) - Newsletters and email open statistics
(11:57) - Apple Mail
(18:31) - Email before bed
(23:03) - Tyler acknowledges that he might be an "Apple person" now
(24:35) - Podcast listening
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Steve Nay:
https://daybreaktax.com/ (https://daybreaktax.com/)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nsteven/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nsteven/)
Tyler Smith:
https://www.tylersmith.io/ (https://www.tylersmith.io/)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylersmith-io/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylersmith-io/)
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