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Issue of September 9, 2026

Topic

systems

2 pieces, newest first.

Partners

The Household Meeting, and Why Yours Failed

Households that run a weekly meeting report fewer arguments and better-distributed labour. Most households that start one abandon it inside six weeks, and the reason is almost never the one they give.

Tom Beckett2 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