Volume 5 · 309 essays
The Great Indian Bazaar
Essays on markets, crowds, and the Indian street. Every essay below is one page; they are arranged alphabetically, as in the book.
- 1$50 Magic Pill
- 21-3-1 Rule
- 310 Percent Rule
- 410% Promise Law
- 510-80-10 Rule
- 6110 Percent Myth
- 72 Sigma Problem
- 82×2 Surveillance-Control Grid
- 955-38-7 Rule
- 10Adaptive Perfectionist
- 11Agenda-Setting Theory
- 12Allostasis
- 13Amara’s Law
- 14Anti-Charities
- 15Ashby’s Law
- 16Atomisation of Misinformation
- 17Atoms Picking
- 18Attachment Theory of Religion
- 19Backwards Law
- 20Bad News Principle
- 21Basketball Politics
- 22Benford's Law
- 23BLUF
- 24Brand Extensions
- 25Break-Even Year
- 26Bright Spot Analysis
- 27Broaden and Build Theory
- 28Brooks's Law
- 29Bulldozing
- 30Bureaucrat Mode
- 31Bureaucratic Parsimony
- 32Buyback Loop
- 33Camcorder Method
- 34Campbell's Law
- 35Caretaker Status
- 36Celebrity Worship Scale
- 37Censorship Through Noise Strategy
- 38Chaos Monkey
- 39Chor-Pharn Law
- 40CIDNI Problems
- 41CNN Effect
- 42Coastal Navigation Algorithm
- 43Computational Propaganda
- 44Condorcet's Jury Principle
- 45Context Principle
- 46Controlled Hallucination
- 47Convergent Evolution
- 48Cornerstones of Change
- 49Crescendo Mentality
- 50Cultural Ignition
- 51Cultural Interregnum
- 52Culture and Performance Matrix
- 53Curiosity State
- 54Cyber-Balkanisation
- 55De-Networking
- 56Dealing with the Dis-es
- 57Democracy Hallucination
- 58Demographic Metabolism
- 59Destabilising Stability
- 60Dissimilarity Cascades
- 61Distracting Injury
- 62Distracting Rowdiness
- 63Dress Appropriately
- 64Drifting Status Quo Paradox
- 65Duduguru Town
- 66Dystopian Tale
- 67Elimination by Aspects
- 68Embedded Journalism
- 69Emodiversity
- 70Emotional Vaccination
- 71Entropy Law
- 72Eroom’s Law
- 73Evolutionary Modernization Theory
- 74Extract the Kernel
- 75Extreme Program
- 76FASTER Method
- 77Fauxtomation
- 78Finite Pool of Worry
- 79First-Class Noticer
- 80Fisher’s Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection
- 81Flipism
- 82Florian's Principle
- 83Foxhole Mentality
- 84Free Speech Paradox
- 85Freedom Funnel
- 86Frequency-Dependent Selection
- 87Freudian Society
- 88Fulfilment Model
- 89Garden's Law
- 90Gary Parker Rule
- 91Gene Autocorrect Problem
- 92Going Nonlinear
- 93Gompertz's Law
- 94Gossip Trap
- 95Grayling’s Law
- 96Great Stagnation
- 97Great Stagnation Trap
- 98Groundhog Day Issues
- 99Group Identification Effect
- 100Group Polarization Effect
- 101Hammurabi's Law
- 102Hanging Mirror
- 103Hansei
- 104Hara Hachi Bun Me
- 105Hardest Law
- 106Harnack Principle
- 107Haywood Algorithm for Success
- 108Heartlifting Program
- 109Helmet Rule
- 110Hidden Agenda Technique
- 111High-Status Synthesist
- 112Honoring Mom
- 113Hoot’s Law
- 114Horizontal Empire
- 115Horizontal Society
- 116Hot Shot Rule
- 117Ignition Intervals
- 118Illeism
- 119Imaginary Megaphone
- 120Impossible Trinity
- 121Incomplete Complex
- 122Incubation Period
- 123Injunctive Social Norms
- 124Intimate Communication
- 125Invisibilia
- 126Invisible City
- 127Iron Law of Megaprojects
- 128Journalism Field Theory
- 129Keep Moving Forward Principle
- 130Kharkiv's Panther
- 131Kwan
- 132Label Law
- 133Law of Compensation
- 134Law of Deviation From the Average
- 135Law of Initiative Fatigue
- 136Law of Names
- 137Law of Prägnanz
- 138Law of the Few
- 139Law of Triviality
- 140Learning Elimination Curve
- 141Lehman's Law of Increasing Complexity
- 142Let’s Have a Problem Tendency
- 143Level Law
- 144Lifequake
- 145Liking Gap
- 146Liking Principle
- 147Load Theory
- 148Lockdown Amnesia
- 149Looking Glass Phenomenon
- 150Marvin's Law
- 151Media Apologist Irony
- 152Meta-Norm
- 153MicroMort
- 154Miles’s Law
- 155Millers' Law
- 156Mugwump
- 157Myth of the Influencer
- 158Naive Curiosity
- 159NBD-Dirichlet Model of Brand Choice
- 160New Law
- 161Nominal Group Technique
- 162Nondecision-Making
- 163Normative Decision-Making Theory
- 164Now-Next Continuum
- 165Nutpicking
- 166Observational Selection Effect
- 167Obvious Clues Method
- 168Onlyness
- 169OODA Loop
- 170Out-Group Homogeneity
- 171Parable of the Tribes
- 172Parasocial
- 173Parking Problem
- 174Pass-Along Advertising
- 175Past Exonerative Tense
- 176Path Principle
- 177Pathology of Fame
- 178Pauli Exclusion Principle
- 179Pay Transparency
- 180Perfect Lap
- 181PHAG
- 182Phronesis
- 183Phylogenetic Inertia
- 184Planck's Principle
- 185Poincaré Disk
- 186Polysocial Risk Score
- 187Positive Indulging
- 188Possible Selves
- 189Pre-Parade
- 190Precarious Manhood Principle
- 191Prius Politics
- 192Privacy Hazard
- 193Privacy Paradox
- 194Privacy Regulation Theory
- 195Privatisation of National Imaginaries
- 196Pro-Fidgeting
- 197Pronoia
- 198Ptolemy Problem
- 199Pyramid of Clarity
- 200Q Ratio
- 201Query Theory
- 202Radical Listening
- 203Redshirting
- 204Reflexive Towel Theory
- 205Replacement Ladder
- 206Right Yardstick
- 207Rubber-Ducking Technique
- 208Rule of 95/5
- 209Runaway Selection Hypothesis
- 210Sacrifice and Stigma Theory
- 211Screen Inferiority
- 212Second Arrow Problem
- 213Select-Crowd Strategy
- 214Selection Heuristics
- 215Self-Selection Bias
- 216Selfie Society
- 217Shaggy Culture
- 218Shitification
- 219Shrinking World
- 220Sine-Wave Speech
- 221Slash Effect
- 222Small Gestures
- 223Small Man Syndrome
- 224Smoking Monks Parable
- 225Snacking
- 226Social Buffering
- 227Social Character
- 228Social Clock
- 229Social Comparison Theory
- 230Social Contagion
- 231Social Drift Hypothesis
- 232Social Facilitation
- 233Social Fitness
- 234Social Identity Theory
- 235Social Innovation Hypothesis
- 236Social Jetlag
- 237Social Media Trap
- 238Social Penetration Theory
- 239Social Prescribing
- 240Social Proof
- 241Social Swarms
- 242Society of Singularities
- 243Sociometer Theory
- 244Sperg Dunking
- 245Spin Dictators
- 246Spin-Out Syndrome
- 247Spiral of Silence Theory
- 248Squalid Society
- 249Srategic Procrastination
- 250Status Community
- 251Status Congruence
- 252Status Integrity
- 253Status Quo Bias
- 254Status Syndrome
- 255Status Value
- 256Status-Dense Situation
- 257Stigler’s Law
- 258Streisand Effect
- 259Stretch Mistakes
- 260Sturgeon’s Law
- 261Sucker Effect
- 262Swimmer’s Body Illusion
- 263Symbolic Prejudice
- 264Synergistic Mindset
- 265Table Rule
- 266Tacking
- 267Taking Ten At Two
- 268Taxicab Theory of Free Speech
- 269Taxoplasma Meme
- 270TBTF Concept
- 271Technical Surfing
- 272Technology Window
- 273Teleoanticipation
- 274The Digital Sabbath Society
- 275Therapy for the Mentally Well
- 276Thin Slice Judgement
- 277Thin Slice Judgements
- 278Third Alternative
- 279Three Columns Method
- 280Titanic Effect
- 281Tog’s Paradox
- 282Torches of Freedom
- 283Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change
- 284Triangle of Care
- 285Tribal Bias
- 286Trichotomy Law
- 287Trier Social Stress Test
- 288TTYC
- 289Tullock Voting Paradox
- 290Tutor Effect
- 291Twyman's Law
- 292Tyranny of the Shoulds
- 293Uncertainty Principle
- 294Underdog Effect
- 295Upward Influencer
- 296Vectorialist Class
- 297Verbatim Effect
- 298Voting Machine
- 299Warm Glow Theory
- 300Warnock's Dilemma
- 301Weinbergs' Law of Twins
- 302Win-Stay/Lose-Shift Algorithm
- 303Window of Opportunity
- 304Wolff’s Law
- 305Yarak
- 306Yerkes-Dodson Law
- 307Yes... Damn! Effect
- 308Zander Letter
- 309Zeigarnik Effect