Law of Names

Law of Names works like gravity — indifferent, reliable, and entirely unimpressed by your excuses.

Laws of this kind are really observations that refused to go away. Enough people bumped into the same wall that someone finally painted a sign. This page is the sign.

Every colony has a notice board and a gossip channel. The notice board informs; the channel decides. Wise residents read the first and audit the second.

Society is a long conversation; the only question is whether you are listening or merely waiting to speak. Write it on the wall of the mind, not the wall of the house. The house already has enough instructions.