I'm scared to account; scared of statements of business dealings, credits and debits, and tracking of all this money-related stuff. Scared of reciting these transaction histories, and yet reckoning with these computations and enumerations is as deathly certain as taxes.
It is silly that this problem has not been solved given fancy new technology like AI and large language models. It's also silly how much big institutions skim off the top, like 1.5–3.5% per credit card transaction, and our expanding web of subscriptions to Substacks, Youtubes and the like that become more numerous and Medusa-like the harder they are to track, aggregate, categorize, and analyze across instutitions. I'm also scared of Mint.com (I used it for many years) as they broker our data, but still need the help of software and technology to manage money. This feels like a data problem that should have been solved long ago 🤯
So the goal here was to spend a few hours on a weekend t