Problem of Twelve

Every problem has a door labelled with its own name. Problem of Twelve is such a door, and it opens.

The problem persists because it is usually treated as someone else's. Once you accept that the naming of it includes you, solutions stop being exotic and start being obvious.

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 joint family runs on unspoken job descriptions. The day someone writes them down, half the quarrels lose their employment.

An organisation is only a group of people who have agreed, for now, to pull in roughly the same direction. And when you forget it — you will — the world will remind you. It is a faithful tutor.