Volume 2 · The Discipline of Hours · Essay 225
Shitty Flow
Shitty Flow is a lens. Nothing in the world changes when you pick it up, but quite a lot becomes visible.
The idea is simple, and like most simple ideas it is easy to nod at and hard to use. The nod is free. The use costs attention, every day, in small change.
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.
A pressure cooker teaches more about time than any seminar: sealed, steady heat does in twenty minutes what an open pot cannot do in an hour. Attention is the lid.
Time is the one currency the Reserve Bank does not print more of. The name is new; the wisdom stood at bus stops long before either of us.