The Compound Years
Five things every Sunday.
A weekly newsletter on building, learning, and the long game. Five specific things, no filler.
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Issue #14August 2026
One feature at a time
The hardest discipline in building anything is removing before adding -- because adding feels like progress, and removing feels like loss.
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Issue #13August 2026
The cost of "I'll do it later"
Most ”later” projects take a weekend if you start now -- and a decade if you do not.
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Issue #12August 2026
Ship the half-finished one
The seventy percent version that goes out beats the ninety-five percent version still sitting in a folder.
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Issue #11August 2026
The luxury of long horizons
Most success looks slow when you watch it in months -- and obvious when you measure it in decades.
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Issue #10August 2026
The two-year delete rule
If you have not used it, opened it, or thought about it in two years, it is telling you something useful.
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Issue #9August 2026
Reversible vs. one-way doors
Some decisions you can walk back from in an afternoon, and some you cannot -- and we tend to treat them the same way.
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Issue #8August 2026
The interest rate of attention
Money has an interest rate, and so does attention -- and one of them compounds harder than the other.
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Issue #7August 2026
Decisions on a ten-year clock
Most of what felt urgent this week will not matter at ten years -- and the few things that will, almost never feel urgent.
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Issue #124 May 2026
What to expect every Sunday
Starting out -
Issue #231 May 2026
The price of waiting for the perfect time
Timing -
Issue #37 June 2026
The half-hour decision that costs months
Decisions -
Issue #414 June 2026
Hire for trajectory, not pedigree
Hiring -
Issue #521 June 2026
3,535 miles is closer than I thought
Home -
Issue #628 June 2026
The second build always ships faster
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