Planting Seeds by Visualize Value

Planting Seeds

by Jack Butcher

"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant." – William A. Ward

If you are building something, it is far more useful to focus on the work you are doing to produce the result than the result itself.

This is not to say there is no benefit to understanding the feedback loop between what you do, and what happens as a result of what you do. Of course there is.

The point here is, in almost anything worth having, there exists a long gap between input and outcome.

"The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit." – Fabienne Fredrickson 

Planting Seeds by Visualize Value

Planting Seeds by Visualize Value
Planting Seeds

If you are building something, it is far more useful to focus on the work you are doing to produce the result than the result itself.

Labor vs. Vision
Labor vs. Vision
Labor is generally a more interchangeable resource than vision.
Inspiration
Inspiration

To help understand this idea, consider the contrast between the two concepts ancient Greeks used to think about time.

Up Only
Up Only

It should be relatively simple to identify when we aren't accumulating net new experience, but in practice, it doesn't seem to be.

Descriptions
Descriptions

Language is an incredible tool. It makes it possible for us to externalize what we think and communicate it to others.

Getting Value
Getting Value

"It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price." - Warren Buffett

Buying Time
Buying Time
The extent to which anything keeps working after you stop working is how much time you earn from making it.
Problems
Problems

To make progress, we must solve harder and harder problems in sequence.