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Compounding Growths of Knowledge
tylor cowan on the podcast, did he learn more between in the last ten years than he did between the ages of 15 and 25? Well, i don't think compounding works generally like i think compounding is his very seductive idea. Most things have kind of regions of expedential growth and then regions of diminishing returns. And certainly for professional careers, you often need to be in the top, like, one % of a skill for it to matter at all. But there's differences. If you want to become good enough as a programmer to do a lot of your own programming for personal tasks, but maybe you're not you could easily do that in a year