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)

Domain: Anthropology and Progression

As collaborative species expand their populations in a habitat, long-term planning for mutual thriving is critical to ensure stability in the ecosystem. Dr. Jamie Saris and I discuss planning for the far future, optimizing resources across tribes, cooperating, and investing in solutions now to avoid larger costs in the future.

Secret 17. The Game of Survival

"All living things are just passing through space and time. The survival of future life depends on your actions today. It's not your planet. It's just your turn."

-Mother Nature

Domain: Anthropology

Branch: Speculative Anthropology

Pattern: Far future (cultural evolution)

Secret 18. Enough Honey for Everyone

"There's enough energy for all living things to thrive. It is unevenly distributed by geography, politics, tribalism, and a lack of planning for the future. Consuming banked energy that destabilizes the ecosystem reduces the habitable zones and biodiversity."

-Mother Nature

Domain: Anthropology

Branch: Environmental Anthropology

Pattern: Optimize (resource

allocation and growth)

Secret 19. Cooperating Costs Less Than Fighting

"There is only one habitat for all living things. Fighting over resources is expensive. Investing in peace costs less energy than investing in war."

-Mother Nature

Domain: Anthropology

Branch: Globalization Anthropology

Pattern: Cooperate (invest together)

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)

Secrets 21-24: Futurology and Implementation

We have the tools and technology to improve life for all living things. Futurologist David Houle and I discuss strategies for thriving, the importance of planning for future generations, implementing solutions, and ways everyone can help.

Secret 21. Honey is Survival

"The only way to do the work to improve habitat is with energy transfer. Regenerative systems create value for the world, for the self, and for the tribe. Energy must flow to create change."

-Mother Nature

Domain: Futurology

Branch: Environmental Futurism

Pattern: Strategy (regenerative systems)

Secret 22. We’re All Just Passing Through

"Social, economic, and political developments impact the collective ability to adapt to changes in habitat and energy availability. Future generations will either have advantages or disadvantages as a result of decisions made today. All living things are just passing through space and time."

-Mother Nature

Domain: Futurology

Branch: Demography Futurism

Pattern: Lifetime (just passing through)

Secret 23. Buying Time

"When habitats are destroyed or ecosystems are thrown off balance, less energy can be used for growth. The best way to buy time is to spend energy restoring habitat and investing in solutions that stabilize the planetary ecosystem. It costs less energy to play the long game."

-Mother Nature

Domain: Futurology

Branch: Longevity Futurism

Pattern: Solutions (The Long Game)

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)

Lessons from Nature Podcast. Co-host summary.