Why a tide

This site could have opened with a diagram: some companies, some projects, some systems, arrows between them.

That’s how it looks in my head, not what you need. You don’t need to understand how I organise my work. You have one question: I work this hard, so why do I keep starting over?

So it opens on a beach. Ten years of experience written in the sand, and the tide comes in. It barely needs explaining; everyone has seen words on a beach.

The tide is two things

The first is everyday consumption. Today’s quote, today’s proposal, today’s replies. It gets done, and by tomorrow nothing’s left.

The second is this wave of AI. In many industries experience used to be the moat, and now models can remember it more systematically. Industries move faster than they did. Plenty of people feel this, even if they don’t say it.

The same water can turn a mill

I like the tide mill because it’s so plain about it. It doesn’t fight the sea. Someone first spent the effort on a wall and a channel, and after that every rising tide turns the wheel for them. It’s the same water. The difference is the wall.

At night the window’s lit and whoever built it is asleep. That isn’t a claim that anyone can make money lying down. The wall takes real effort, the stones go down one at a time, and some of it gets built wrong. All I’m saying is that effort can go into sand or into stone.

That’s what I mean by a compounding life, and it’s the question I’d like you to take from this site:

What will be left tomorrow of what you did today?