Guides, explainers and notes on the tools we build.
There’s a 250-year-old French phrase for the perfect comeback that always arrives after it’s too late to use — and the fix for the replay it leaves behind has little to do with finding a better line.
Overpacking isn’t about willpower, it’s loss aversion at work on a wardrobe you’re guessing at from memory. Here’s why it happens, and a lighter way to pack.
13 October 2026
In a well-known 2014 study, people left alone with their thoughts for fifteen minutes chose to shock themselves rather than sit through the boredom — a decent clue about why none of us can just be bored anymore, and why the usual fix doesn’t actually work.
12 October 2026
The best part of a ‘treat yourself’ purchase is usually the ten minutes before you buy it — here’s why the good feeling rarely survives the unboxing, and what to do with the urge instead.
9 October 2026
Studies suggest most of us wear only about half of what’s hanging in our closets — and that’s exactly the half you end up rediscovering, bin by bin, every time the season changes.
8 October 2026
One Australian survey found roughly a third of online shoppers had simply let a return window close on something they meant to send back — here’s why receipts and warranties quietly fail the moment you actually need them, and the small habit that fixes it.
7 October 2026
Most subscription audits stall after the bank statement because that’s only one of the three or four places these charges actually hide — here’s the sitting that finds the rest, and why the list never stays accurate on its own.
6 October 2026
There’s a reason a five-minute scroll never actually feels like a break: it keeps the same attention systems firing that you were trying to rest. Here’s what attention restoration theory says actually resets a tired mind during the day — and why a quick, low-stakes game can do it better than a feed.
2 October 2026
Small annoyances don’t dissolve on their own, and venting about them to the nearest person rarely helps as much as it feels like it should — here’s why a private, low-stakes way of putting them down tends to work better.
1 October 2026
The obstacle between you and sleep usually isn’t the light from your phone, it’s the feed itself: a machine built to give you just one more reason to keep going.
30 September 2026
The anticipation of buying something usually produces more pleasure than owning it does — which is why a short, deliberate pause before checkout tends to work better than willpower ever does.
29 September 2026
Most outfit decisions aren’t really decisions — they’re a scan of the same five pieces and whatever wins by default. Wear It fixes that by photographing your wardrobe once and suggesting a weather-aware outfit each morning from the pieces you haven’t worn in a while.
28 September 2026
