It’s not a smooth, linear line. It lurches from plateau to plateau.
I don’t think you can avoid that. Not because it’s some immutable law of nature—it isn’t.
It’s unavoidable because our progress comes from projects.
Once more for the people in the back:
The act of doing the project changes you. You improve out of necessity, not desire.
Big projects are the most obvious:
But smaller projects are everywhere too:
And these projects are made up of smaller projects:
So… success should be simple, right?
Just ship a lot of projects:
Sorry, but it’s not that simple.
To see why, let’s look at the next concept.