Volume 5 · The Great Indian Bazaar · Essay 92
Going Nonlinear
You may not know the name Going Nonlinear, but you know the thing. This page only introduces the two of you formally.
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.
The village panchayat and the housing society meeting are the same animal in different clothes: five people deciding, fifty people complaining, and everyone leaving wiser than the minutes suggest.
Society is a long conversation; the only question is whether you are listening or merely waiting to speak. Do not memorise it. Notice it. Noticing is the senior discipline.