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There are two ways to think about a multi-decade-long project, like building a company or growing a personal body of work.

There are two ways to think about a multi-decade-long project, like building a company or growing a personal body of work . The first way is to maximize value being created today . I describe this as building an earning machine . In this approach, you make decisions based on how much value you can pull out of your work. The most important thing is how much money or value your work can earn you. If you're working on a side project, it's important whether that side project can generate some revenue, and how much. If you're building a company, you want to scale up and grow quickly. If you build s

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