people misread short-term signals and miss long-term markers.

This is a statement about everyday life — and, interestingly, about markets too.

It shows something important: the person who isn’t loud or performative (vibes), but quietly has strong long-term markers, can fly under the radar for years.

And that ability — to be underestimated while compounding — is a rare kind of superpower.

Once that bifurcation finally flips, it tends to do so in the most anti-fragile way—because it was quietly built for the next regime shift, not the last one.