Compounding is a life strategy, not a chart

The compounding chart everyone shows — the hockey stick that bends upward after year twenty — is usually presented as a finance lesson. It is actually a life strategy, and money is just the easiest place to see it.

Capital compounds when you leave it alone. Capability compounds when you practice in public and keep the lessons. Code compounds when every small tool you build makes the next one faster to build. The mechanism is identical: small, boring, repeated, uninterrupted.

The discipline is not in the spreadsheet. It is in refusing to interrupt the curve.