Long games

Almost everything good compounds: trust, skill, money, friendship. And everything that compounds is boring for a long time, and then absurd.

So the person who wins is rarely the smartest one in the room. It is the one who stayed in the same game, with the same people, long enough for the curve to bend. The friend you have had for fifteen years. The craft you have been bad at for six.

Pick a game you could play for decades. Pick people you would be glad to see in thirty years. Then stop switching tables.