Fun to Be with Tool

There are ideas that shout. Fun to Be with Tool is not one of them. It waits quietly until the day you need it.

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.

What this concept offers is a pause — one extra beat between what happens and what you do about it. Civilisation, someone said, is measured in that beat.

Watch the Mumbai local at 8:47 a.m. Nobody in that compartment is lazy. Yet by evening, half the day's resolve has leaked out through small negotiations: one more chai, one more scroll, one more tomorrow.

Time is the one currency the Reserve Bank does not print more of. The name is new; the wisdom stood at bus stops long before either of us.