Volume 3 · The Corner Cabin · Essay 98

Failure CV

Failure CV is a lens. Nothing in the world changes when you pick it up, but quite a lot becomes visible.

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.

Strip it to the floor and you find an old instruction: look carefully, judge slowly, act decently. The new name exists because the old instruction keeps being forgotten.

A joint family runs on unspoken job descriptions. The day someone writes them down, half the quarrels lose their employment.

An organisation is only a group of people who have agreed, for now, to pull in roughly the same direction. A word is a lamp. This one is now yours to carry.