  We often associate compound growth with the Anthropocene and our overwhelming
economic impacts on the Earth. Today our actual choices for future society
appear to lie with studying the class of emergent natural systems that first
develop by compound growth, called 'new lives' here, or "natural complex
adaptive systems" (NCAS). The key to their success is first starting with
compound growth, a system for growing the system. Its self-organization needs
to shift resources from multiplying its scale to maturing and adapting its
design for its new environment, a challenging environmental coordination
process.
  We see that taking place in biological reproduction all the time, of course,
but it all needs to occur for businesses, economies, cultures, and even for
creative work and personal relationships to survive their initial periods of
compound growth. Why economic growth as a process that accelerates ever faster
still seems unlimited to some seems to come from representing growth as a
numerical rather than organizational development process. For example, all
kinds of adaptive system organization have limits to how fast they can
rearrange their systems.
  To understand the kinds of limits and adaptations that lead to a successful
growth climax and perhaps a long creative life to follow, we combine the most
notable observed milestones of successful growth found in nature, divided into
3 main development periods. Those milestones of new lives (MNL) teach us
alternative paths to follow The primary milestones include 3 critical events,
initiating 3 feedback periods, for 3 organizational development stages,
occurring in 3 environments. Together they can be called the A, B, C, egg,
nest, world, or natural growth pattern. By observing them in familiar cases, we
learn the patterns that also apply in others.
