About microprinciples

Once upon a time, I thought one power phrase could change a whole year.

(It couldn't.)

So I started collecting “microprinciples” instead. Think of them as local wisdom, little truths that work until they don't, ways to get unstuck, operating instructions for being human—since we seem to have lost the manual a while ago.

Why "micro"? Because these aren’t universal laws handed down from a mountaintop. At best they are notes scribbled in the margins of life. Some are borrowed from people smarter than me, or discovered in odd places (like vending machines), or earned in the messy lab of human experience.

Each Wednesday, I send out a new one. Always shorter than a TED talk, usually more useful than a fortune cookie. Consider this a collaborative experiment in finding better metaphors for living.

–V. Sri

P.S. They may be small, but like most tiny things (atoms, seeds, that first cup of coffee), they have a way of causing unexpectedly large effects.