Peter D. Kaufman

Bucket number one was 13.7 billion years of the inorganic universe.

This is physics, geology, chemistry, everything that isn't alive.

And this was the largest sample size in existence.

And bucket number two is 3.5 billion years of biology on Earth.

As a biological creature, this is directly relevant to us.

And bucket number three is sort of the 20,000 years or so of recorded human history.

This is the most relevant of all.

It's our stories, our species, our nature.

When a principle shows up consistently across all three buckets, when it's true in physics and true in biology and true throughout human history, you can trust it completely.

As Peter says, you see these things lined up like three bars on a slot machine, and boy, do you hit the jackpot.

Peter tested his new framework with an ambitious question.

Is there a simple two-word description that accurately describes how everything in the world works?

And Peter says yes.

And he proves it by checking it across all three of his buckets.

So let's start with physics.

Newton's third law states that for every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction.

If you push down on a table, the table pushes back with equal force.

If you push twice as hard, the table will push back twice as hard.

This has been true for billions of years.

So what's the pattern?