Bottom Up.

Bottom up vs Top down.

Bottom up starts with proximity to the work.
Staying close enough to something to really see how it works,
what changes matter,
and what doesn’t.

Proximity removes guessing.
It replaces assumptions with small, concrete observations
that only show up when you’re inside the work.

Progress doesn’t arrive all at once.
It builds slowly,
through repeated decisions and adjustments
that only start to make sense after you’ve lived with them for a while.

Step up comes later.

Not as a statement.
And not because you force it.

It happens when what you’ve learned through proximity
starts asking for a next move.

When the work feels ready to be shaped
into something that can carry further,
without losing what made it work in the first place.

Thinking about it this way helps explain how impact usually forms.
Not suddenly.
Not cleanly.

But through depth,
accumulation,
and staying close to the system as it grows.