Field notes for the curious
Ask someone what their rent or mortgage costs and they will tell you to the last unit. Ask what they spend on food, transport or the small stuff and the answer is a guess, and the guess is almost always…
Posted by Ellis Ibarra · · 5 min
Read the article →Subscription spending hides in plain sight for a structural reason. Each charge is small, each one is individually defensible, and they all land on different days of the month. There is no moment in ordinary life when you see them…
Posted by Lena Nakamura · · 5 min
Read the article →There is a moment most weeknights where you are holding a hot pan and there is nowhere to put it. Or standing over the sink with a colander, turning in a half circle because the bowl you need is behind…
Posted by Owen Hayward · · 5 min
Read the article →People come home from a good restaurant and try to work out what was in the sauce. Usually the answer is nothing exotic. The soup was seasoned three times on its way to the bowl, the vegetables were salted while…
Posted by Alice Penrose · · 5 min
Read the article →Every rechargeable device in your house runs on roughly the same chemistry, and that chemistry wears out in a predictable way. A battery holds a bit less charge each month, and one day the phone that used to reach bedtime…
Posted by Ines Whitfield · · 4 min
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