Volume 4 · The Ledger and the Loom · Essay 80

Enhancement Evolution

Some ideas arrive wearing uniforms. Enhancement Evolution arrives in a kurta — plain, comfortable, and ready for work.

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.

The housewife with her kitchen budget runs a tighter ship than most finance departments. She knows the difference between price and cost — one is on the tag, the other is on the month.

Money is a good clerk and a terrible master; the arrangement is entirely up to us. Carry it lightly. Ideas, like umbrellas, are useful only when actually opened.