Unlike money, learning doesn’t compound passively. If you learn something, then sit around, you don’t automatically get more learning.

Learning compounds in the sense that the more you learn, the easier it becomes to learn new things. Therefore your rate of learning increases over time, allowing you to learn more.

As you do more things, it allows you to do new things more easily, because you’ll already have done some fundamental building blocks. For example, it was easier for me to start an online clothing brand for fun, since I already have experience with graphic design and websites from past projects.

If I didn’t already have experience with graphic design, or setting up a website, it would have taken me much longer to set up the online clothing brand.

Additionally, the more you learn, the easier it is to create novelty. This is because it is much easier to generate novelty by remixing two things together, than by generating it from scratch. The more you have experience with, the more combinations you can remix.