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Decisions and the reasoning behind them, including the ones that turned out wrong. Written by the people who made them rather than by somebody asked to make them sound good.
PRODUCT · Aug 2026
Why your budget app keeps failing you
Most of them ask you to become a different person first. The ones that last ask for ten seconds and give you something back the same day.
PRICING · Jul 2026
One price for the whole house, and why
Charging per seat makes sense for companies and no sense at all for a family. Here is the arithmetic behind our decision.
ENGINEERING · Jul 2026
Offline is not a feature, it is the floor
Everything is written to your device first. What that costs us to build, and why we would not do it the other way.
VOICE · Jun 2026
What we do when the microphone mishears you
Nothing is written until you confirm it. A tour of the ladder a sentence climbs before it becomes an entry.
FAMILY · Jun 2026
Teaching children money without a lecture
Allowances, chores and a balance they can see. What worked in our own house and what quietly did not.
PRODUCT · May 2026
The month we deleted a feature nobody used
Attendance tracking looked sensible on paper. Shipping less is harder than shipping more, and usually righter.
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