Secret 4. Time is Honey

“Life costs energy. Energy transfer costs time. Time costs energy.”

-Mother Nature

Domain: Physics

Branch: Thermodynamics

Pattern: Heat (time and energy)

Secret 4. Time is Money

“Life costs energy. Energy transfer costs time. Time costs energy.”

-Mother Nature

Domain: Physics

Branch: Thermodynamics

Pattern: Heat (time and energy)

Secret 8. Moving Honey is Work

"It costs energy to move energy. Moving energy is work."

-Mother Nature

Domain: Biology

Branch: Cellular Biology

Pattern: Work (time, effort, risk)

Secret 12. Honey Talks

"Sharing knowledge improves the rate of energy collection and storage by reducing work and risk."

-Mother Nature

Domain: Psychology

Branch: Psycholinguistics

Pattern: Communicate (share knowledge)

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)

Secret 20. It Costs More Later

"Exponential problems will cost exponentially more to solve in the future. Investing in solutions as one species is more energy efficient than fighting as individual nations."

-Mother Nature

Domain: Anthropology

Branch: Economic Anthropology

Pattern: Costs (share costs)

Secret 24. There’s So Much You Can Do

"The pursuit of energy in the absence of long term planning reduces the habitable areas on the planet. The business of making honey is identical to the business of making money. Developing and deploying regenerative business systems creates value for the world, the individual, and the tribe of all living things. It is wise to model the secrets of the bees."

-Mother Nature

Domain: Futurology

Branch: Actionable Futurism

Pattern: Act (BeeBox Regenerative Business System)