If you use a linear process to react to a compounding curve, you will never catch up.

· Bits and Bobs 2/10/25
  • If you use a linear process to react to a compounding curve, you will never catch up.
    • Compounding curves are things that grow on their own, like a tree.
      • But it takes time for the tree to start growing and become big and strong.
      • If you need something big and strong right now, planting a tree will never be the thing you do.
      • But if you had planted a tree before you needed it, you'd have your own self-growing thing.
    • If you don't have a tree and are trying to tackle something that grows on its own, at each time step you will get more and more behind.
    • It will never solve your tactical problem to plant the tree, so you never will.
    • If you know you're up against a compounding force, you need to have the compounding complement.
    • Plant it early.