Solar panel installations per year

Kim Kardashian's Instagram follower count and US solar installations, both climbing through the 2010s. Two completely unrelated forms of accumulation: one on a single account, one on rooftops nationwide. Both compounded with discipline.

Kim Kardashian's Instagram followers grew from about 25 million in 2014 to over 250 million by 2021 as Instagram's user base expanded and her brand built on the platform. US solar installations grew from about 6 GW per year in 2014 to over 30 GW by 2021 as the Investment Tax Credit, falling panel costs, and state-level mandates expanded deployment. Two completely unrelated growth stories sharing a window because the same seven years scaled both an individual's follower count and a national solar deployment.

Different rooftops. Both kept adding capacity. The decade was generous to anyone who could compound.