3 Days Makes All The Difference

“Did you ever know the childhood conundrum of working for a penny a day for a month, but doubling your salary each day?  If you started this wonderful pay scheme on New Year’s Day, you would be earning more than $10 million per day on the last day of January.  This is the part most people remember.  What we do not realize is that, using the same scheme, we would earn only about $1.3 million if January were three days shorter (i.e. February).  Put another way, your cumulative income for that whole month of February would be roughly $2.6 million, instead of the $21 million you earned in total during January.  When an effect is exponential, those last three days mean a lot.”         (Being Digital, by Nicholas Negroponte, p. 5)

We know the exponential power of three days in our lives.   

Good Friday through Easter made all the difference in the world.