Volume 2 · The Discipline of Hours · Essay 236

SPACE Framework

SPACE Framework gives you hooks to hang your thoughts on. Bare walls are hard to live with.

Use the framework as a checklist, not a straitjacket. The moment it starts answering questions for you, rather than sharpening them, put it back in the drawer.

Strip it to the floor and you find an old instruction: look carefully, judge slowly, act decently. The new name exists because the old instruction keeps being forgotten.

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. Tomorrow will provide the test. It always does.