Volume 5 · The Great Indian Bazaar · Essay 170

Out-Group Homogeneity

There are ideas that shout. Out-Group Homogeneity is not one of them. It waits quietly until the day you need it.

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.

At the polling booth, the queue is the one place the CEO and the driver stand at the same height. Whatever else one says about it, that hour is a small miracle of design.

Society is a long conversation; the only question is whether you are listening or merely waiting to speak. Tomorrow will provide the test. It always does.