I noticed my self‑assessment has jumped from comparing myself to six months ago to just three days ago, suggesting I feel I’m learning faster.
Temporal reference before 2025: 6 months.
Temporal reference in 2026 entry: 3 days.
I outlined three guiding principles—Frontier, Compound, and Creativity—to shape how I build expertise.
- Frontier: do something that has never been done before
I decided to adopt these principles because they promise unique expertise unattainable by anyone else.
- Compound: do it again and again
- Creativity: 10x every iteration
- this gives you expertise that zero other people have