Time is Honey: Observation 38. Biological work costs Energy. 2020

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My name is Mark Rubin, and I'm a dream weaver. I hope these widgets help you weave your dreams into reality. This is a story about time and honey, time is honey in 2020, the pandemic hit. And I got bees from my backyard. Because I was fascinated by bees and their energy efficient ways. And I thought it'd be fun to spend time outside learning something new. I got the bees on June 1 2020, put them in the hive, got all the stuff I needed all the you know, boxes and equipment, and different things be suit, protective gear, smoker, everything. And I was watching them cheer. And I was sitting next to the beehive and I would watch them come and go, I put my shed I have a shed back there too. And I put the shed in a way so that the bees when they leave their beehive have to do like a spiral, because there's a wall here and go up. So they wouldn't run into me. They don't want to run into stuff. So I would sit in between the beehive and the shed with my backup against the shed, which is only six feet two meters away, but they wouldn't run into me. It was fun to watch them come and go, I would watch a bee land on this landing board on the beehive and do a little dance a waggle dance called, which has been studied. And the waggle dance tells the other bees where the energy is the position of the flowers around the hive is strong nectar sources are a lot of energy in there, the distance of the angle the distance, and is there a lot. And based on that information, watching them, I could see that that a bunch of bees would take off in that direction. And then altogether, they would just take off and that in the direction in a direction together based on this waggle dance. And all that was so cool. They were communicating where the energy was. And so that was a super efficient, you know, communication architecture, super efficient way because the other forage or bees that are out of the hive, they know where the honey is the future honey, they know where the sugar is, today, let's get to converted into honey later. And I was thinking about it. But how this saves energy. And I was thinking about my my junk business where if a driver was driving a truck, and they went past like a garage clean out and they just saw a bunch of junk at the end of someone's driveway, or in a moving truck with a pile of junk next to it which which happens often is that when people aren't moving, they decided they'd run out of room in this truck. And then and then they pick where they want to take and they leave a pile of junk in front of their house. And it's gotta go. So what my drivers would do is they would pick up the phone, and they will call the office communicate to the office. And the managers in the office would dispatch a bunch of trucks in that direction, just like the beasts send that send the carrying capacity in the direction to go get the energy, which is called money, which we trade for work of the work of loading things and moving things. Just like the bees, I thought that was super cool. Like what is that like basically, like we're playing this same game with money that the bees are playing with honey. And this is like around I want to say like you six or 10.5 days after I got these hives, and I'm sitting there I'm just watching them and I'm like, oh time is honey. And if our time is honey. And I was like if time is honey, then the game of optimization. The bees is the same as the optimization game of business. And I thought the business of the bees is the same as the business of humans. And that's why the B business of making money is the same as the human business of making money. Because time is money. And time is money. This is after I had learned that that sugar is energy. And that the bees store this energy in a bank. And they trade it for time not working leaving behind doing work gathering it. And that's the same in a business is having money in the bank. And then using that money to buy time now working like in the slow season and stuff because my business is seasonal business was less busy in the winter, but you could lose money in the winter. We have to gather the money when there's money to gather and then bank it and then scale things up and down and try to preserve as much as possible so that you can make it through the winter. And that's what the bees are doing with honey because they're using the energy and the honey to keep the hive warm in the winter by vibrating their bodies and they form a ball around the Queen and they vibrate their bodies and that keeps her warm. And so they're converting energy On the sun, stored in the form of sugar into mechanical work through vibration, that heats up the hive, the hive in Fahrenheit might be 70 degrees Fahrenheit even when it's like 20 degrees Fahrenheit outside the hive because there's a warming it. And that costs work, which takes energy. And I was just thinking of all these things and it struck me that I could explain my ideas about energy transfer my models of energy transfer, and a way to live in harmony with the rest of nature through the secrets of the bees, and this could be related to the good thing that I was going to do. And the line from honey is money. The secret of the bees in this chapter or time is honey chapter four. Secret for the last part of it goes so be mindful of your minutes and be time full of your mind. Time costs a lot of honey and it takes time to find