{"id":8585,"date":"2020-01-14T11:10:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T16:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=8585"},"modified":"2020-01-14T11:10:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T16:10:10","slug":"little-improvements-add-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=8585","title":{"rendered":"Little Improvements Add Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All Irreal readers, I\u2019m sure, are familiar with the power of compounding if only because they know about \u201ccompound interest.\u201d Every now and then, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paulg\">Paul Graham<\/a> (re)tweets an interesting mathematical fact. The last example I wrote about is the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=8476\">any well-shuffled card deck is almost certainly unique in the history of the universe<\/a>. Recently, he offered this fact about compounding:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A small improvement each day for a year can make a big difference<\/p>\n<p>1.01\u00b3\u2076\u2075 \u2248 37.78<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NewYearsResolution?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NewYearsResolution<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MondayMotivation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MondayMotivation<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HappyNewYear2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HappyNewYear2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uRnjOF5bJD\">pic.twitter.com\/uRnjOF5bJD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tam\u00e1s G\u00f6rbe (@TamasGorbe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TamasGorbe\/status\/1211672112219525120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Much like the size of \\(52!\\), this doesn\u2019t seem too surprising at first glance but consider: if you can improve some skill\u2014a musical instrument, programming ability, typing speed, whatever\u2014by just 1% a day, at the end of the year you will have improved 3,778%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Irreal readers, I\u2019m sure, are familiar with the power of compounding if only because they know about \u201ccompound interest.\u201d Every now and then, Paul Graham (re)tweets an interesting mathematical fact. The last example I wrote about is the fact &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=8585\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-8585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8586,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585\/revisions\/8586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}