The Power of Compounding in Life

The concept of compounding is most often associated with finance and investment. Money, when invested wisely, grows exponentially over time due to the power of compounding.

The funny things is not only money can be compounded. In fact, I believe that the concept of compounding can be applied to almost every aspect of life. It is possible to compound knowledge, skills, relationships, health, happiness, money and even time itself.

Take knowledge for example. To compound knowledge we need tooling that allow us to remember, associate and create new knowledge. In order to compounding knowledge you should at least not be losing knowledge. How many note taking app from the past are you already not using any more?

This starts with the right tooling. How to store notes if we still want to access them in 30 years time? HTML, Markdown, txt? Or use a SQLite database?