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Inspirational reads

Things I go back to when a project feels like it is going nowhere. Most of them make the same point from a different angle: growth is almost invisible while you are standing inside it, and obvious afterwards. I add to this whenever something survives the second read.

2 reads · updated 14 Sep 2026

A Paul Graham post above a bar chart of monthly revenue from July 2023 to July 2026. The bars sit almost flat for two years, dip in late 2024, then climb steeply through 2026 until the last bar towers over the rest.

A crisis that needs a magnifying glass to find two years later

A monthly revenue chart running July 2023 to July 2026. The decline in late 2024 felt like the end of the company at the time. On a three-year axis it is a wobble you have to hunt for.

Two white line charts on black. The one labelled DAYS is a violent zigzag going nowhere. The one labelled DECADES is a single straight line climbing steadily.

Days look like noise. Decades look like a line.

The same progress plotted on two time axes. Zoomed to days it is a violent zigzag going nowhere. Zoomed to decades it is a straight climb. Nothing changed except the window.

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