Secret 13. Planning Saves Honey

"It's important to divide up resources in a way that improves efficiency, makes decisions clearer, and uses assets as much as possible."

-Mother Nature

Domain: Economics

Branch: Microeconomics

Pattern: Planning (system dynamics

in the local habitat)

Secret 14. Stashing Honey is Storing Work

"Banked energy is stored work. It's smart to store enough work to power life during periods of scarcity."

-Mother Nature

Domain: Economics

Branch: Monetary Economics

Pattern: Storage (preserve work)

Secret 15. Honey Saved is Time Earned

"It's not possible to work all the time. Banked work can be traded for time not working."

-Mother Nature

Domain: Economics

Branch: Financial Economics

Pattern: Buy time (trade banked work for time)

Secret 16. Future Bees Do Future Work

"It's important to optimize around periods of productivity and scarcity by matching the energy available with the capacity to gather it from the habitat. It costs time to create and train workers. Planning for energy variability, seasonality, rates of collection, and the cost to doing work is the key to survival."

-Mother Nature

Domain: Economics

Branch: Macroeconomics

Pattern: Near future (system dynamics

of the larger habitat)