Adam Wolf

Plain-English guides for the moments when there is no expert in the room.

Adam Wolf writes plain-English guides for the moments when an ordinary person has to get one important thing right and there is no expert in the room. Each book takes a single problem, follows it from the first worried question to the last practical step, and cuts everything that would not help on the day. He is not a lawyer, doctor or financial adviser, and every book says so. He builds each one the same way: reading what the people who do this work actually publish, checking every claim against a source a reader can find, and testing the steps for clarity with people who have never faced the problem. He lives in the United States and writes under a pen name.

Companion tools

The Roster Planner

For readers of Eat by the Roster: enter your shift, wake time and sleep time, and get your eating window, caffeine cutoff, post-shift call and rotation plan — the book's rules, applied to your roster.

The Profit-to-Cash Bridge

For readers of Profit on Paper, Broke in the Bank: type in last month's profit and the cash movements the P&L never sees, and the bridge shows where every dollar went — plus your break-even month.

The Off-Grid Countdown & Load Planner

For readers of Off Grid by Winter: your closing date, your county's first hard freeze and the lead times you are carrying become the latest start date for every clock — and the minimum-viable load worksheet becomes array, battery and inverter sizes.

The Switch Finder

For readers of Not a Discipline Problem: type in your seven-day log, answer each row's tie-break questions, and the page sorts your week into the six switches and names the one chapter to read — plus the floor line and the ninety-day tally.

Books