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We underestimate the cumulative effect of work. Writing a page a day doesn't sound like much, but if you do it every day, you'll write a book a year...
We underestimate the cumulative effect of work. Writing a page a day doesn't sound like much, but if you do it every day, you'll write a book a year. That's the key, consistency.
People who do great things don't get a lot done every day. They get something done rather than nothing. This is my monthly reminder to stick with something.
Don't bounce around like a ping pong ball. Opportunity to opportunity. Opportunity.
The opportunity that you have in front of you right now is fine. Please stick with it. What I am reading to you is from Paul Graham, the legendary founder of Y Combinator.
In his essay, how to do Great Work, he continues, if you do work that compounds, you will get exponential growth. Most people who do this do it unconsciously, but it's worth stopping to think about. Learning, for example, is an instance of this phenomenon.
The more you learn about something, the easier it is to learn more. Growing an audience is another. The more fans you have, the more new fans they will bring you.
The trouble with exponential growth is that the curve feels flat in the beginning. It just feels so slow in the beginning. But it isn't.
It's still a wonderful exponential curve. But we can't grasp that intuitively. So we underrate exponential growth in its early stages.
Something that grows exponentially can become so valuable that it's worth making an extra ordinary effort to get it started. But since We underrate exponential growth early on. This, too, is mostly done unconsciously.
People push through the initial unrewarding phase of learning something new because they know from experience that learning new things always takes an initial push. Or they grow their audience one fan at a time, because they have nothing better to do. And this last line brings it home.
Please. This last line takes it all the way. If people.
People consciously realize they could invest in exponential growth, many more would do it. When you start, it's day by day. You're just going up and down and up and down.
Months, you flatten out. Years, you start going up and up and up. You're.
You're going. You're. Years.
Years are going. Well, you're gonna like what you're seeing.
If you stick with something for years and decades, is that honestly before decades? But you start to hit that hockey stick curve. If you just stick with something.
Please, just stick with it. You can do it.
Business execution improves when operators stay close to users, shorten planning loops, and convert repeated work into visible compounding progress.
Define a concrete operating loop: customer exposure, short planning cycles, focused work blocks, and weekly proof of what compounded or changed.
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Writing a page a day doesn't sound like much, but if you do it every day, you'll write a book a year.