Volume 4 · The Ledger and the Loom · Essay 189

Percolation Lattice

Some ideas arrive wearing uniforms. Percolation Lattice 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.

A rupee saved loudly impresses people for a day. A rupee invested quietly feeds them for years. The bazaar respects the first; life rewards the second.

Money is a good clerk and a terrible master; the arrangement is entirely up to us. Write it on the wall of the mind, not the wall of the house. The house already has enough instructions.