Building First, What Lasts

Every institution eventually faces the same test: does it depend on the person who built it, or can it outlive them? Most do not survive that transition, because they were never designed to.

Building for posterity means making unglamorous choices early — documenting judgment instead of just exercising it, distributing conviction instead of concentrating it, and measuring success in decades rather than quarters.

This is slower than chasing the next win. It is also the only strategy that compounds.