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Issue of September 9, 2026

Topic

communication

3 pieces, newest first.

Partners

The Money Conversation You Are Both Avoiding: A Script

Couples do not avoid talking about money because it is complicated. They avoid it because every previous attempt turned into an argument about character. Here is a forty-minute version that does not, taken from households where it worked.

Tom Beckett3 min

Dependents

The School Portal Problem

The average household in our reader survey holds accounts on six separate school systems, and the information a parent actually needs is reliably in the seventh place: a paper note at the bottom of a bag.

Priya Raman2 min