Volume 5 · The Great Indian Bazaar · Essay 290

Tutor Effect

Tutor Effect is one of those quiet regularities of human life — unnoticed like ceiling fans, until someone points upward.

This is one of those findings that improves manners. Once you know it, you judge others more gently, because you can see the machinery moving inside yourself first.

What this concept offers is a pause — one extra beat between what happens and what you do about it. Civilisation, someone said, is measured in that beat.

Every colony has a notice board and a gossip channel. The notice board informs; the channel decides. Wise residents read the first and audit the second.

Society is a long conversation; the only question is whether you are listening or merely waiting to speak. Keep it like a good key: accessible, unlabelled, and used often.