#Long Term Growth

Choose Growth Over Applause: Goethe’s Enduring Counsel

Consequently, the measures we choose matter. Goodhart’s Law warns that when a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric (Goodhart, 1975). Vanity counts—likes, downloads, applause lines—often displace learning. By contrast, compounding indicators—error rates reduced, concepts mastered, cycle time shortened, customer retention improved—track capability. As in investing, long horizons and reinvested gains, à la Warren Buffett, convert modest edges into durable advantage. [...]

Plant Bold Seeds, Grow Tomorrow’s Protective Shade

Bold seeds require the moral vitamin of courage, which is less bravado than foresight enacted. Aesop’s fable The Ant and the Grasshopper (6th c. BC) contrasts careful preparation with carefree neglect, showing how prudent risks in the present avert scarcity later. Yet Neruda’s nuance goes further: the seeds must be brave because the soil of the future is unknown. Consequently, courage here is not loud; it is steady. It looks like starting a venture without applause, learning a difficult skill after work, or voting for policies whose dividends arrive after our term of patience. Through such choices, we invite possibility to take root where certainty cannot. [...]