This is an excellent visual!

• Exponenital thinking
People think incrementally about life.
They think if you invest each month, you'll incrementally improve,
not realizing at some point compounding will drive exponential results.
Small smart choices + consistency + time = exponential results.

As effort increases, the value must increase exponentially to justify the same priority. My colleague Pierre shared this framework with a helpful visual, and even a mathematic equation: Priority = Value/Effort^2
Tore • Ruthless prioritization: A startup’s best friend
Paul Graham on how life is not linear, but rather exponential:
"Teachers and coaches implicitly told us the returns were linear. "You get out," I heard a thousand times, "what you put in." They meant well, but this is rarely true. If your product is only half as good as your competitor's, you don't get half as many customers. You get no customers, a
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