We’re wired up to think about the world in simple linear terms, because that’s how most of the things around us work. If you plant one seed, you get one carrot. If you produce one more dongle, you earn one more dollar. Your hair steadily grows by a fraction of a millimetre each day; you don’t just wake up one morning looking like the lovechild of T

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You also want to be an exponential curve yourself—you should aim for your life to follow an ever-increasing up-and-to-the-right trajectory. It’s important to move towards a career that has a compounding effect—most careers progress fairly linearly.