Decision Hygiene

Decision Hygiene is a lens. Nothing in the world changes when you pick it up, but quite a lot becomes visible.

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.

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.

A good librarian is a quiet revolutionary. She knows that a child with a borrowing card and a long afternoon is more dangerous to ignorance than any syllabus.

Learning is the one wealth that survives every partition of fortune. The name is new; the wisdom stood at bus stops long before either of us.