Four judgments you can make tonight that you couldn't make this morning.
You can tell scarcity from skill. The difficult expert was never protected by being good. He was protected by being the only one. That protection is gone, which is why the market is about to start paying for something it used to treat as a bonus.
You can tell an engine from a car. Fundamentals are not what gets you the offer. Their absence is what removes you from the room. So the right amount of effort to put into them is all of it, and it has nothing to do with impressing anybody.
You can tell a warning from a discomfort. When the sentence arrives about the economy, or the layoffs, or the jobs that are all supposedly gone, it's usually information about the person delivering it rather than about the market. Sometimes it's both. Either way the response out loud is two words long, and you check the rest later, alone.
You can tell having no time from having no budget. Be generous with your money. Be stingy with your time. If somebody takes ten dollars from you, they can give it back. If somebody takes ten minutes, you can't take it back.
And underneath all four sits the thing to carry out of here.
The syllabus is the only part of this that was designed to be survivable. Somebody sat down and made it work. Everything genuinely capable of ending you is outside it, unscheduled, and nobody was ever going to teach it to you on a Sunday.
Except that I just did.