Volume 5 · The Great Indian Bazaar · Essay 153
MicroMort
You may not know the name MicroMort, but you know the thing. This page only introduces the two of you formally.
Strip it to the floor and you find an old instruction: look carefully, judge slowly, act decently. The new name exists because the old instruction keeps being forgotten.
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.
Every colony has a notice board and a gossip channel. The notice board informs; the channel decides. Wise residents read the first and audit the second.
Society is a long conversation; the only question is whether you are listening or merely waiting to speak. Do not memorise it. Notice it. Noticing is the senior discipline.