Volume 5 · The Great Indian Bazaar · Essay 33
Camcorder Method
A method is a promise: do these steps and something improves. Camcorder Method keeps its promise if you keep yours.
Try it for a fortnight before judging it. Most methods die in the court of first impressions, which is the least competent court there is.
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.
Stand at a tea stall during a big cricket match and you will see a hundred strangers become one family in an evening. The same crowd, given a different match, can split over a surname.
Society is a long conversation; the only question is whether you are listening or merely waiting to speak. Write it on the wall of the mind, not the wall of the house. The house already has enough instructions.