Not all effort compounds equally. Deep creative work, genuine expertise, trust-based relationships, and revenue-generating assets compound because each year's output multiplies the prior base. Hourly service work, administrative tasks, and shallow networking merely add linearly — each hour is worth roughly the same as the last. Choosing wrong here means decades of effort that never escape the flat curve.
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