Volume 3 · The Corner Cabin · Essay 141
Lazy Man’s Load
Some ideas arrive wearing uniforms. Lazy Man’s Load arrives in a kurta — plain, comfortable, and ready for work.
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.
Picture the government office at four in the afternoon. The file moves only when someone owns it; until then it is everybody's business, which is to say, nobody's.
An organisation is only a group of people who have agreed, for now, to pull in roughly the same direction. No ceremony needed. Begin with the very next decision.