The First 72 Hours Triage Tracker
Keep one written record of the three emergency actions: stop, secure only what you're authorized to keep, and schedule the next review action.
Open toolBook Two · Recovery
Soft Landing companion tool library
Use the matching tool when the book asks you to work something out. Each one keeps its own source-tested calculations, worksheet flow, local browser saving, export, and print behavior.
No account. No email address. Your entries stay in this browser on this device and are not sent to Hard to Fire.
All Soft Landing tools
Use the tool that makes the next move clearer.
These tools are not a required sequence. Each one gives you a concrete record, decision, or plan when that particular chapter is the work in front of you.
The Severance Agreement Decoder
Identify what the company offers, what you give up, what needs a question, and what requires qualified review.
Open toolThe Severance Negotiation Prep Worksheet
Convert the Chapter 2 Decoder into one truthful, prioritized counterproposal.
Open toolThe Legal Consultation Prep Sheet
Give counsel an authorized document set, a chronology, and precise questions.
Open toolThe Partner Conversation Framework
Structure a household money conversation that produces a plan instead of a fight.
Open toolThe Runway Calculator
Calculate current household runway, identify the first unresolved deadline, and choose the next financial action.
Open toolThe Deadline Tracker
Create one dated record of each trigger, controlling source, owner, deadline, and proof.
Open toolThe Decision-State Check and Decision Card
Record the material decision, observable state, selected safeguard, and review time before acting.
Open toolThe Narrative Builder
Create truthful personal, professional, and networking versions of the separation narrative.
Open toolThe Search Strategy Matrix
Allocate weekly search time across four channels, then use observed results to change the allocation.
Open toolThe AI Research Protocol
Use AI to compare, question, and organize evidence without surrendering privacy, verification, or authorship.
Open toolThe Network Activation Workflow
Convert the Professional narrative into specific, truthful human asks that protect emotional capacity and can be maintained without pressure or neglect.
Open toolThe Interview Preparation Diagnostic
A ten-criterion preparation inventory completed before every interview. It identifies where you're prepared and where you're exposed, so you spend the remaining preparation time on gaps instead of reviewing work you already know.
Open toolThe Post-Interview Debrief
A structured five-minute reflection completed immediately after every interview. Captures what worked, what broke, what you learned, and what to change before the next round.
Open toolThe Age Bias Pattern Log
Record observable age-coded behavior, preserve context, choose a search action, and identify when qualified advice may be appropriate.
Open toolThe Independence Evidence Dossier
Build one dated seven-file dossier ending in a Go, Test, or Not Yet decision record.
Open toolThe 90-Day Soft Landing Plan
Route the first ninety days through the accepted chapter tools and their evidence.
Open toolThe Five-Part New-Job Startup Sequence
Route the first month of a new job into the existing Eight Pillars.
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