Notes on compounding
Small, boring, repeated, and slightly terrifying in the long run.
The honest version of this topic is dull, and that is the point. Dull compounds.
I write the rules down when I am calm, so that I have something to obey when I am not.
Pay attention, then count.
What I would tell my past self
Most of the risk lives where the dashboard does not look. I try to list the failures I cannot see before I list the returns I want.
None of this is advice. It is a record of what I do and why, so I can argue with it later.
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