Growth Rates to Die For

Growth rates aren’t always exponential

Sometimes they look like piano keys

Only those that are either above 1% per a reasonable iteration

Or those that can somehow keep the fire going

Will eventually “see” the results

The results are actually belief only for a long time

Belief remember is simply singing that is beyond “seeing”

In some languages the act of success is even tempered to fire terminology

English for example says “caught on”

And kurdish we say “girtee” meaning to catch fire

True exponential growth only recently began to be described

Through mathematics as numbers so large were hard to fathom and describe with language

Mathematics modelled it perfectly

Now we simply describe growth like this as “exponential”

Simply put it means a non zero non negative growth rate sustained for a prolonged period of iteration to the extent that the items multiplying begin to be “experienced or seen”

Not necessarily compounding.

You see compounding is a subset of the exponential.

Not all exponential growth is necessarily compounding.