Bamboo growth pattern - years of invisible growth underground, then it suddenly shoots up 90 feet.

Easy to forget how long the roots were forming.

Publishing early work feels pointless until you look back and realise the later stuff couldn't exist without it. Same goes for any expressive work. Sounds like a platitude, but it really is all about the process.

The tooling problem is 90% solved. The new technical bottleneck is human judgment.