'Guys, We Have a Problem'
• Jan Volny • 4 min read
'On Jordan Klepper, Andrew Tate, and the overlooked option (The Forge Letter #14).'
Faith
Articles focused on Faith.
Are YOU Experiencing the Silent Male Isolation Epidemic?
• Better Bros • 5 min read
Male isolation is the unspoken crisis stealing men’s health, strength, and brotherhood. Here’s how to spot it—and fight back.
5 Brotherhood Habits Every Father Must Master to Lead His Family With Strength
• Better Bros • 5 min read
Daily disciplines for dads to crush weakness, build trust at home, and lead with fitness, family, and faith.
Being Prepared
• Better Bros • 5 min read
A practical minimalist preparedness guide—cash reserves, food and water, fitness, medical kits, heat, security, awareness, and home safety—so your household stays resilient when it counts.
Break up D.C.
• Better Bros • 3 min read
Decentralize federal agencies across the U.S. to lower costs, improve quality of life, reduce risk concentration, and spread economic opportunity beyond Washington, D.C.
Declutter Your Life
• Better Bros • 3 min read
Reduce overwhelm by clearing physical clutter, pruning draining relationships, and training your mind to let go — so your time and energy go where they matter most.
Discipline is a Superpower
• Better Bros • 3 min read
Why discipline beats motivation, how to build it step by step, and how to protect your time and relationships while you pursue what matters.
Do Hard Shit
• Better Bros • 2 min read
Confidence isn’t found in a book — it’s forged by doing hard, punishing things until you prove to yourself who you are and what you can do.
Intentional Parenting
• Better Bros • 3 min read
Don’t just get through the day — parent with intent. Model order, teach deliberately, and shape character with praise, bravery, leadership, and love of learning.
Lead By Example
• Better Bros • 3 min read
Kids copy what they see — from you and from others. Earn their admiration, model the mindset and habits you want them to inherit, and make fitness and food choices a living example.
Negative Energy
• 3 min read
Practical ways to cut negative energy—from social media and draining relationships—by setting boundaries, unfollowing, and keeping positive momentum.
No One is Coming to Save You
• Better Bros • 3 min read
Stop waiting for a rescue. Take radical responsibility, stop blaming, and start executing on what you can control to change your body, money, confidence, and life.
Real Friends Challenge Each Other
• Better Bros • 3 min read
Good friends want you to win — and push you to do it. Build circles that encourage action, set higher standards, and hold each other accountable.
The Empty Vessels
• Better Bros • 4 min read
How to spot “empty vessels,” decide when to engage, and lead by example to spark change without wasting your time or energy.
The Fine Line of Selfishness
• Better Bros • 3 min read
“Selfish” isn’t always bad. Protecting sleep, diet, training, relaxation, and fun keeps you stable — and lets others get the best version of you.
The New 1%
• Better Bros • 3 min read
Redefining the one percent as men and women who handle their financial, physical, mental, relational, and spiritual business — and pull others up.
Turn Off the TV
• Better Bros • 3 min read
Swap mindless consumption for creation, connection, and capability. How turning off the TV compounds your time into skills, confidence, and real momentum.
You Are What You Tolerate
• Better Bros • 2 min read
Draw your line in the sand. If you tolerate decay in media, parenting, fitness, and standards, you’ll live below them. Lead by example and raise the bar.
Why We Built BETTER
• Better Bros • 1 min read
What we stand for and why this brotherhood exists.