Threshold Rule

A good rule does not argue with you. Threshold Rule simply waits for you to break it, and then presents the bill.

Notice what the rule really does: it converts a daily negotiation into a settled fact. Settled facts are restful. A mind with enough settled facts can spend itself on things that matter.

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.

An old house being emptied for sale teaches more than a philosophy seminar. Every drawer argues that things were never the point; every locked trunk disagrees.

In the end, life asks only whether we were awake while it happened. The name is new; the wisdom stood at bus stops long before either of us.