I’ve been thinking about patterns lately. My train of thought started with patterns in software development, specifically the book Design Patterns – Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

. If you’ve never heard of it, I’ll try to explain it.

Basically, some software engineer came along and said, “Hey I notice that we, as programmers, keep running into the same problems over and over again and each time we create brand new solutions from scratch instead of reusing what we already know.” So he wrote a book that identifies pattern problems and the pattern solutions for them.

That got me thinking about patterns outside of software development. Ever since then, I see patterns everywhere. Patterns in traffic, behavioral patterns (self and others), relationship patterns, societal patterns, and more. Imagine if someone could not only see these patterns, but analyze them and come up “solution” patterns for them. That’s what I want to do. Can you imagine how rich (monetarily and otherwise) one would be if they did that? Beyond one’s wildest dreams.