Exponential Experience

There’s a famous exponential growth illustration that makes use of a chess board and grains of rice placed upon the board. Starting with a single grain, you doubling the quantity of rice on each subsequent square.

The punch line is that by the time you reach the 41st square, you’d need over a trillion grains of rice, and by the final, 64th square, there wouldn’t be enough grains of rice in the world to meet the square’s quota.

The point here is that exponential growth is a powerful thing. You s...