Saturday, 22 September 2007

Simple principles

So many disciplines are defined or run by simple principles that form great and often complicated systems, that it seems amazing. Some of them are making rules that generate systems.
I have compiled a list of these and perhaps I will set up a web page for these.

  1. Newton's three laws of mechanics
  2. Thomson's five assumptions of thermodynamics
  3. Einstein's three postulates of relativity
  4. Seven subjects of a business plan
  5. Ten axioms of a field of mathematics
  6. Ten Commandments/Ten precepts
  7. Eight fold path of existence (Buddhism)
  8. Five types of programming patterns (Fowler)
  9. Five rules of stock trading
  10. Ten rules of refactoring software code (Fowler)
  11. Six forms of diplomacy (Kautilya)
  12. Six types of government (Aristoteles)
  13. Seven Virtues (Christianity)
  14. The Beautitudes(Bible)
  15. Six Perfections(Buddhism)
  16. Six excellences (Taoism)
  17. Seven causes of aging (SENS)
  18. Four phases of meme propagation
  19. Four basic freedoms
  20. Ten types of patterns of profits (Slywotzky)
  21. Three laws of logic(Aristotle, separately in China)
  22. Five principles of forming definitons
  23. Five principles of arguments
  24. Axioms of geometry(Euclid)
  25. Four forms of Idea(Plato)
  26. Ten Categories(Aristotle)
  27. Five principles of aerodynamics
  28. Five methods of Analysis(Freud)
  29. Nine states of awareness(ancient Yoga)
  30. Twelve types of connections(Buzan)
  31. Five exercises to balance whole body musculature()
  32. Eight concepts of innovation (Altshuller)
  33. Five causes of suffering
  34. Five types of wisdom(Buddhism)
  35. Twelve types of intelligence
  36. Twelve patterns of evolution (of concepts)
  37. Four tempers ()
  38. Four types of character(Jung)
  39. Four control dramas(J. Redfield)
  40. Four games people play ( Eric Berne)
  41. Twelve principles of living systems(Chris Alexander)
  42. Nine points of a storyline
  43. Five forms of Art(Schopenhauer)
  44. Three sources of profit (Smith)
  45. Twelve techniques of memorisation
  46. Seven Perspectives (Psychoanalysis)
  47. Seven layers of Internet Protocol (OSI)
  48. Seven states of matter (EB condensate, superconductor, solid, liquid,superfluid,gas,plasma)
  49. Three patterns of aging in tissues
  50. Four fundamental components of cellular biochemistry (proteins, glycans, lipids, nucleases)
  51. Three necessities of happiness (friendship, autonomy, analysis)
  52. Four sources of wealth for nations (taxes, tolls, tariffs, tributes)
  53. Four forces
  54. Five types of Capital (Green, Financial, Human, Infrastructural, Social)
  55. Seven Archetypal stories
  56. Ten universal emotions (Ekman)
  57. Twelve methods of persuasion
  58. Six biohacks (Dave Asprey)
  59. 6 rules of thinking
There are more complicated systems
  1. 40 Principles of invention (TRIZ)
  2. 38 Stratagems of argumentation (Schopenhauer)
  3. 20 Basic Plots
  4. 36 Dramatic Situations (Polti)
  5. designthroughstorytelling.net
  6. 38 Signs of lying (Ekman)
  7. 209 drum patterns
  8. 214 Radicals For Japanese kanji (writing)
  9. 185 piano chords
  10. 52 periodic-table-of-bodyweight-exercises 
  11. 40+ patterns of profit

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