Subtraction beats hustle

We treat growth as an addition problem: add channels, add headcount, add hours. But every addition has a maintenance cost, and those costs compound just like the wins do.

The founders who scale calmly do something counterintuitive. They run a regular subtraction pass: which commitments, meetings, and offers can we remove without anyone noticing?

Subtraction frees the one resource you can never buy more of — attention. And attention, focused, is what actually compounds.