Volume 3 · The Corner Cabin · Essay 245

Sneaky Fucker Strategy

Sneaky Fucker Strategy is less an idea and more a recipe. Read it once, then cook.

The method fails only in one way: people read it, nod, and return to the old habit. The technique is not the hard part. The hard part is Tuesday.

The idea is simple, and like most simple ideas it is easy to nod at and hard to use. The nod is free. The use costs attention, every day, in small change.

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. Print it on a card if you like. Better: print it on a habit.