Build what compounds

Build what accretes and grows with you, not what you babysit—does it compound in value, or just demand upkeep?

Ask this before you build anything: does it compound, or does it just demand upkeep?

Build what accretes—what grows in value and grows with you—not what you have to babysit. One kind pays you back over time. The other just keeps asking.

1 stroke · first noted june 2026 · lives in on systems
see — entropy transfers

a thought from the margin · 1 return · back to the room