Volume 5 · The Great Indian Bazaar · Essay 169
OODA Loop
Some ideas arrive wearing uniforms. OODA Loop 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 village panchayat and the housing society meeting are the same animal in different clothes: five people deciding, fifty people complaining, and everyone leaving wiser than the minutes suggest.
Society is a long conversation; the only question is whether you are listening or merely waiting to speak. Tomorrow will provide the test. It always does.