Build the Foundation, Not the Feature
It’s January. Everyone’s thinking about the “1% better every day = 37x improvement in a year” math. It’s inspiring. It’s also not how improvement actually works. The math assumes every gain stacks on the previous one. But most improvements don’t compound. They reset. You get better, then you lose the thread. You make progress, then you can’t tell what’s working. You ship something, learn nothing, and start over. James Clear said it well this week: “New goals don’t deliver new results. New lifestyles do.” ...