One sentence at a time over the course of last ten months has led to 250 blog posts. To think that the ten months before that I wrote fourteen. Compound interest has to be one of the most fundamental concepts ever. I only used to think about it in terms of money, but it works wonders on anything it touches. A one percent improvement over the course of a year leads to a 37x improvement. It's just pure magic. It's the magic of being a dynamic growing creature. We do glorify the end results too much. I think it leads to a lot of people including myself thinking that it was always that way. It takes away the focus from the small dominos you have been lining up over the course of your life. It's not a grind either. I don't like that word too much. It's just a little bit done consistently, to the best of your abilities in the moment. Done this way it becomes enjoyable. I've been streaming for a few months now and I try to do it everyday. Few times people say that they appreciate the grind, but I do it because it's a surefire way to building something I've always wanted a little bit at a time. There is no grind involved. It's just the effort of showing up.
I've let go of the results to a degree. The focus is on enjoying the process. I've noticed that the more my focus shifts towards the reward the less I tend to do it. I become impatient. So a reorientation is required quite often. More often than I thought it'd be. I've lost my way a few times along the way, progress has halted to a stand still quite often too. The beauty of it all is that, it's not a zero sum game. You can start again and far exceed where you are already. I'm too sleepy to read this a second time. Most days I am too lazy to re-read what I've written. I don't care. The goal is to write. Not to be read, not to convey some grand secrets of the universe. The goal is the act of writing. Just like I stream for the act of writing code.
Here's to another 250 more. Goodnight.