Volume 2 · The Discipline of Hours · Essay 76
Dirty Lens Problem
Every problem has a door labelled with its own name. Dirty Lens Problem is such a door, and it opens.
The problem persists because it is usually treated as someone else's. Once you accept that the naming of it includes you, solutions stop being exotic and start being obvious.
It is worth keeping in your pocket not because it is always right, but because it is always available. A tool you carry beats a perfect tool you left at home.
Every January, the gym fills; by March, the regulars have the place to themselves again. The calendar changed nothing. The people who stayed simply stopped asking the calendar for permission.
Time is the one currency the Reserve Bank does not print more of. Keep the name. Use the pause it gives you. That is the entire homework.