Volume 5 · The Great Indian Bazaar · Essay 113

Hoot’s Law

Hoot’s Law works like gravity — indifferent, reliable, and entirely unimpressed by your excuses.

What makes this law useful is that it is predictive. If you know it, you can see tomorrow morning's mistake tonight. That is as close to prophecy as ordinary life allows.

At the polling booth, the queue is the one place the CEO and the driver stand at the same height. Whatever else one says about it, that hour is a small miracle of design.

Society is a long conversation; the only question is whether you are listening or merely waiting to speak. The name is new; the wisdom stood at bus stops long before either of us.