Folktaler Talks

Why Exponential Growth Looks Like Cheating

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:55:21 +0000

Exponential growth feels like cheating because our brains are wired for straight lines, not compounding curves. This episode unpacks why a quantity that doubles again and again outruns intuition — and how to spot exponential dynamics in money, technology, populations, and learning.

In this episode:

Linear vs. exponential — why the difference sneaks up on you
The power of doubling and the rule of 72
Why early exponential growth looks deceptively slow
Real-world examples: compounding, viral spread, and scaling systems
How to train your intuition to respect the curve

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Sun, 17 Aug 2025 05:08:37 +0000

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Paul Graham says Build stuff and do well in college

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 02:28:01 +0000

Paul is a programmer, writer, and investor. In 1995, he and Robert Morris started Viaweb, the first software as a service company. Viaweb was later acquired by Yahoo (Yahoo Store). In 2001 he started publishing essays on paulgraham.com, which now gets around 25 million page views per year. This essay has been picked from there.

This podcast is adapted from an Essay Paul Graham wrote after a talk he gave to young people about what to do when they are in school/college if they might want to start a startup later.

You can read my notes from his article along with added context and some illustrations at my notes