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The Tips Series
Practical, step-by-step guidance you can use the same day — wrapped in a story.
11 episodes~60 min read eachBahasa Indonesia edition available
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The The Tips Series is on its way: 11 practical, step-by-step guides — how to survive the first rain, how to build the shop, how to keep the quiet — each wrapped in a story and usable the same day. Each is about an hour, each in English and Bahasa Indonesia. The first episode lands here soon. Until then, here is the reel of what is coming.
TIPS · 001 SOON
Kilometre Six
A field guide to running, for people who hate running
In July 2024, Indonesians discovered that you could pay a stranger two thousand rupiah a kilometre to go running for you. The stranger would log in to your fitness app, run your 10K at whatever pace…
TIPS · 002 SOON
Before the Phone Goes Quiet
Twelve rules for saving a parent's voice, and opening the doors a phone locks behind the dead
At 8:52 on a Saturday night in August 2026, in a phone-repair shop near Pasar Petisah in Medan, a widow puts her dead husband's phone down on the glass counter. It is wrapped in his handkerchief. The…
TIPS · 003 SOON
How to Survive the First Rain
A Field Guide for the Season That Is Coming
In the cities of Indonesia there is a moment, every year, that is more dangerous than any storm, and it is not the storm. It is the *first* rain — the first heavy downpour of the wet season, falling…
TIPS · 004 SOON
How to Buy Your First Bike
Eleven Checks Before You Hand Over the Money
A secondhand motorbike is the cheapest ticket into the gig economy, and the easiest way to buy a very expensive problem. The same twelve million rupiah that can buy a faithful Honda with five good…
TIPS · 005 SOON
How to Start a Koperasi
Nine Steps from One Counter to a Hundred
A cooperative is the oldest machine in Indonesia for turning the powerless into the powerful, and the newest one for facing down a platform. It costs almost nothing, needs no app, no licence beyond…
TIPS · 006 SOON
How to Ride the Score
A gig worker's guide to protecting your rating, your rights, and yourself
Every morning, before the first order, a rider checks a number — not his salary, not the weather, but the five-star score that a stranger's thumb can move and that no one ever taught him how to…
TIPS · 007 SOON
How to Take the Day Off
A practical guide to resting in an economy built to keep you running
The app says you can rest whenever you want. The app does not say what rest actually costs, or how to afford it, or what to do with your hands in the first hour when the fear comes, or how to make…
TIPS · 008 SOON
How to Say Enough
Practical steps to build and press your own "enough" button
You already know the word. It is the one your grandmother said at the end of every supper, the one no app has ever taught you, the one that ends a shift without asking an algorithm for permission…
TIPS · 009 SOON
How to Build the Shop
Practical steps to turn a Seed Fund into a worker-owned shop
The Seed Fund is not the destination. It is the training — the year of learning to hold a coin, and then to hold a decision, and then to hold a key. The destination is the shop: a real, registered…
TIPS · 010 SOON
How to Break the Streak
a practical, step-by-step guide to putting down the number — and starting the one that compounds
The streak, the score and the surge are not habits you have; they are schedules that have you. But a schedule can be read, and a schedule can be declined, and a schedule can be replaced — and this…
TIPS · 011 SOON
How to Keep the Quiet
a practical manual for turning the clause into a daily practice — sixteen steps
The clause is written. The charter is signed. The co-op exists, at least on paper. And now comes the part no charter can do for you: the daily, boring, unglamorous work of keeping the quiet, one…
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