St. Petersburg Paradox

Here is a thing that should not be true, and is: St. Petersburg Paradox. Sit with it for a moment. It will repay you.

The paradox resolves when you notice the two truths operate at different levels. What is lost at the counter is gained at the treasury. What feels like failure in the week is often progress in the year.

Watch the Mumbai local at 8:47 a.m. Nobody in that compartment is lazy. Yet by evening, half the day's resolve has leaked out through small negotiations: one more chai, one more scroll, one more tomorrow.

Time is the one currency the Reserve Bank does not print more of. Carry it lightly. Ideas, like umbrellas, are useful only when actually opened.