Lessons

Write the number you would have said yesterday

What it is

This app asks what you think you earn before it counts anything. Not what you can prove. What you would have told a friend.

Why it matters

You end up with two numbers. The one you remembered, and the one the arithmetic found. The distance between them is the useful part. Almost nobody is close. Memory keeps the good month and drops the empty ones. That is how a person plans a life around a figure that never existed.

The method

Say it fast. Check nothing. The arithmetic answers on its own later. You see both numbers side by side at the end.

Example

Danish would have said PKR 300,000 a month. Twelve months of real payments came to PKR 200,000. He invented nothing and nobody stole anything. One busy month had been remembered as twelve.