Volume 2 · The Discipline of Hours · Essay 150

Likability Limit

Some ideas arrive wearing uniforms. Likability Limit arrives in a kurta — plain, comfortable, and ready for work.

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.

Every January, the gym fills; by March, the regulars have the place to themselves again. The calendar changed nothing. The people who stayed simply stopped asking the calendar for permission.

Time is the one currency the Reserve Bank does not print more of. Print it on a card if you like. Better: print it on a habit.