Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of Farfield microphones.

I'm your friend David Pierce, and I am sitting here updating maybe the single most important

list in my life.

I'm a person who thinks in lists, if you haven't figured that out from listening to their show

in recent years.

I have a list of all of the stuff that I have to do. I have

lists for all of my like frequent flyer accounts. Everything is bullet points. Everything is lists.

It's just how my brand works. But the list that is the most important to me is one I've been

keeping for the last several years. And it's called how to be a grownup. So I'm sure I've

complained about this on the show before, but they never tell you when

you're a kid that being an adult is just like a series of small maintenance tasks.

And none of them are very hard, but they're impossible to remember to do.

And because you don't do them, things break horribly.

So over the years, as I've discovered each of these tasks, I've added it to the

list and I've added reminders so that now at intervals, every three months, let's say, I get one

that's like, hey, change the air filter in the furnace so that the air isn't disgusting in your

house. And all of these tasks are like quick and simple. It's just remembering to do them or even that they're a thing you're supposed to do is the

problem.

The most recent one, by the way, is remember to change the air filter on the dehumidifier

that I put in the laundry room because the laundry room stinks because of all the moisture.

Like there are like eight grown-up tasks that backed all the way into change the air filter.

So now, every couple of months, I have a task that is going to remind me to change the air

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