Contracts are supposed to create clarity. They define expectations, responsibilities and protections. Yet many people sign agreements that feel dense, tangled and strangely hard to follow. When confusion becomes part of the experience, it can start to feel personal, as if misunderstanding is the reader’s fault rather than the document’s design. This dynamic is often […]
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Self-isolation: Day two, things I’ve learned
I think it was the piano that did it. Googling the piano like the yamaha dgx 640 digital piano, and wondering whether Amazon (or whoever) would be able to deliver it. In a dull moment (of which there have been surprisingly few) I found myself wondering about all the marvelous things we could learn during […]
Mental load: at last, a name for that thing
You should have asked. It’s the title of a comic strip in the Guardian by French feminist artist Emma. It beautifully describes a thing I’ve been clumsily groping towards for years. When you have all of the stuff for everyone in the house in your head, most of the responsibility for getting things done and, […]