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Free libraries you can read straight through.
9 lessons across 2 self-contained sets. No signup, nothing to buy, no earnings claims.
Educational library
Forex Basics
Four foundational lessons on currency pairs, market structure, market types and fundamental analysis. Educational only — no signals, no predictions, no advice.
4 lessons ·
Start here: How to Read a Currency Pair and a Forex Quote
All lessons
- 01How to Read a Currency Pair and a Forex QuoteIf you have ever looked at a forex quote and not been sure what the number meant, this is the piece that fixes…
- 02How the Forex Market Is Structured and Who Trades In ItForex has no central exchange. There is no single order book, no closing bell and no one official price. Under…
- 03Spot, Forward, Futures and Options: The Four Forex Markets"Forex" describes four distinct markets with different mechanics, different counterparties and different regul…
- 04What Fundamental Analysis in Forex Actually Looks AtFundamental analysis in FX means studying the economic and political conditions behind a currency rather than…
Educational information only. Nothing here is financial, investment or trading advice, and none of it is a recommendation to buy or sell any currency or instrument. Trading foreign exchange carries a high level of risk, including the risk of losing more than your initial deposit, and it is not suitable for everyone. Past market behaviour does not predict future results. No live prices, signals or performance figures are published on this site. Rules on leverage, margin and product availability differ by country and change over time — verify them with your national regulator. Speak to a licensed financial professional before risking money.
Educational library
AdSense Tips & Tricks
Five practical lessons: how AdSense actually pays, preparing a site that can pass review, writing content worth showing ads against, account setup and approval, and ad placement within policy.
5 lessons ·
Start here: How AdSense Actually Pays You (Impressions, Not Clicks)
All lessons
- 01How AdSense Actually Pays You (Impressions, Not Clicks)Before you build anything around AdSense, you should understand where the money comes from — because the model…
- 02What Your Site Needs Before You Apply to AdSenseMost AdSense rejections are not mysterious. Google publishes what it looks for, and the common failures are th…
- 03What Counts as Quality Content for AdSense Approval"Create quality content" is the least useful advice in publishing, because everyone agrees with it and nobody…
- 04Setting Up an AdSense Account and Getting Through Site ReviewThe application itself is short. The review is where sites stall. Here is the sequence as Google documents it,…
- 05Placing AdSense Ads Without Breaking Policy or Your SiteAd placement advice from the click-payment era is actively harmful now. This piece covers what the current rul…
Educational information only. ITS DAD is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Google. Google, Google AdSense and Google Ads are trademarks of Google LLC. AdSense programme policies, eligibility rules, ad formats and payment terms change over time, and Google states that keeping up to date with them is the publisher's responsibility — always check Google's official AdSense Help documentation before acting. No earnings figures are claimed or implied; advertising revenue depends entirely on your traffic, audience location, subject area and content.
Working guides
Single-sitting guides on running a one-person business with AI — written from what I actually run here, with the prompts included.
Prompt guide
ChatGPT prompts for business that produce something you can ship
Twelve business prompts I actually run — offer, pricing, sales page, support, follow-up — with the structure that makes them work and the mistakes that waste a day.
Read · 9 minPractical guide
ChatGPT for small business: where it saves hours, and where it costs you
A working setup for using ChatGPT in a small business — the five jobs worth automating first, the three you should not, and how to measure whether it saved you anything.
Read · 8 minPractical guide
ChatGPT for freelancers: proposals, scope and the admin that eats your week
Prompts and a working setup for freelancers — scoping calls into proposals, pricing without guessing, chasing invoices, and protecting the hours you actually bill for.
Read · 7 minPrompt guide
AI prompts for small business owners who do not have a marketing team
The prompts I run as a one-person business: quoting, chasing invoices, writing the listing, answering the same question for the tenth time. Copy them as-is.
Read · 8 minProcess guide
How to write SOPs with AI without producing documents nobody reads
A working method for turning a task you already do into a standard operating procedure with AI — capture, draft, test, tighten — plus the prompts for each step.
Read · 8 minStack guide
AI tools for solo business owners: what I pay for and what I dropped
An honest look at the AI stack for a one-person business — the categories worth paying for, the ones that quietly waste money, and how to test a tool in a week.
Read · 7 minWorkflow guide
ChatGPT workflows to save time every week, and how to prove they did
Six repeatable ChatGPT workflows for a one-person business — inbox, content, quoting, support, review — plus the simple maths for checking they saved you anything.
Read · 8 minAgents, part 0
What is an AI agent (and when you actually need one)
An AI agent in plain English: what separates it from a prompt or an automation, the four parts every agent has, and when a simpler tool is the better answer.
Read · 9 minAgents, build 1
How to build an AI agent without code
A complete no-code build of a research-and-summarize agent: the job, the tools, the instructions, the done-condition, and the failures to expect in week two.
Read · 12 minAgents, the patterns
AI agent examples for a one-person business
Six AI agent patterns that cover almost every job in a one-person business: research, triage, content, extraction, follow-up, and multi-step operator agents.
Read · 11 min