16 Patterns, 05/03/07
16 meta patterns == sixteen different ways to look at the markets. Adapted from The Way Life Works by Hoagland and Dodson.
1. Life builds from the bottom up
2. Life assembles itself into chains
3. Life needs an inside and an outside
4. Life uses few themes to generate many variations
5. Life organizes with information
6. Life encourages variety by reshuffling information
7. Life creates with mistakes
8. Life occurs in water
9. Life runs on sugar
10. Life works in cycles
11. Life recycles everything it uses
12. Life maintains itself by turnover
13. Life tends to optimize rather than maximize
14. Life if opportunistic
15. Life competes within a cooperative framework
16. Life is interconnected and interdependent