Explaining compound interest is strangely difficult. Not because it is difficult to understand technically, but because it is hard to imagine intuitively. With my undergraduate students and since AI is all the rage, we use the "savings bot" metaphor. How could there be "little savings bots" running around working for me? Well, they are! And the more you learn to orchestrate these bots, the more financial freedom you will create for yourself. Compound interest's reality wo