Latest essay · Essay No. 2 · October 2026
What year is the house for?
Every line on a household balance sheet can explain itself.
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- 01The Reframe · August 2026 · 7 minute readRead
The Question You Were Handed
Most of us inherit a single financial question, how much, and spend decades answering it. There is a better one, and it changes everything downstream.
- 02The House · October 2026 · 7 minute readRead
What year is the house for?
The house is often the largest number on the balance sheet, and the only one with no year on it. What it costs to leave that line blank, and how to write the year in.
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