The Braced Life: What Feeling Covered Actually Feels Like
Felt safety is mostly known by its absence: the braced posture of a life that never quite exhales. Naming the braced state — and where you stand down.
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October 20, 2026
Safety
The Gaps We Publish On Purpose
Seven things our product doesn’t do, listed on purpose. A specific gap list beats vague reassurance — and it’s a test you can run on any vendor.
Consent Isn’t a Checkbox: What Granular Sharing Actually Looks Like
Real consent is granular, revocable, and witnessed — three properties you can check in any product in five minutes. The checkbox fails all three.
What Your AI Coach Remembers (and What It Forgets)
A chatbot that remembers you is building a file on you. What our coach keeps, what it deliberately forgets, and the questions to ask any AI tool.
What an Audit Log Is (and Why Your Wellness App Should Have One)
“Who read my data?” — an app can only answer that if it built the machinery. An audit log is that machinery: what ours writes down, and its limits.
September 11, 2026
Safety
How to Read a Privacy Policy in Ten Minutes
You don't need to read a privacy policy. You need to interrogate it — eight search terms, ten minutes, and the load-bearing sentences can't hide.
Data Portability Is a Feature: Why You Should Be Able to Leave
An app that makes leaving easy is telling you it plans to keep you by being good. Here's how to check before you've given it three years of your life.
Career Change Through the Tier Lens
“I need a career change” is a prescription, not a diagnosis. Four different problems produce it, and — our reading — only two are solved by leaving.
August 28, 2026
Safety
Money, Safety, and the Line Between “Enough” and “Still Not Enough”
Two famous studies said opposite things about money and happiness. The authors sat down together and worked out why — and the answer is useful.
August 23, 2026
Safety
What Happens to Your Tiers During a Layoff
A layoff takes four things at once, and only one of them is income. Naming the other three is most of what makes the months afterward navigable.
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