April 13, 2025

Guaranteed growth

The secret to evergreen systems

Build systems in a way that they give guaranteed growth.

You might think this is stupidly obvious — but there's a useful nuance here that I'd like to point out.

Checking if each part of your system guarantees growth implicitly ensures something else too. Even if it does not really result in growth.

If you do this check, you will start to see how it does or does not really hold up for the long term. Loopholes loom large and what's missing becomes obvious.

This is one of those eternal principles that shine more and more with application.

Try it and see, you'll be surprised at how easily it makes your systems evergreen!