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The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Internet_culture][Internet culture]] came up with frequently mentioned laws that describe common patterns.

Here are some examples you might already know:

- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy's_law][Murphy's law]]
- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law][Conway's law]]
- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law][Godwin's law]]
- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law][Moore's law]]
- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law][Parkinson's law]]
- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Schneier#Cryptography][Schneier's law]]

Those laws are named after some persons that are connected to said
laws. You can read about them on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymous_laws][the very long page on Wikipedia about
eponymous laws]]. Many are not named after persons and I won't limit
myself to that here either.

A friend of mine posted [[https://lukas-prokop.at/articles/2021-01-07-software-architecture-rules][an article with some rules on his blog]]. That
got me interested and I discovered some really cool laws myself for
the first time.

So you can find even more collections of laws on pages like:

- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Internet_culture][Category:Internet culture - Wikipedia]]
- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Internet_terminology][Category:Internet terminology - Wikipedia]]
- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Political_Internet_memes][Category:Political Internet memes - Wikipedia]]
- [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Principles][Category:Principles - Wikipedia]]

In my personal bubble, I did find some common patterns, rules, laws
myself. For personal reference, I would like to coin a few laws
myself:

- [[id:2022-11-09-Voits-law-of-workflow-usefulness][(Voit's) Law of Workflow Usefulness]]
- [[id:2024-09-28-Voits-law-of-tool-usefulness][(Voit's) Law of Tool Usefulness]]
- [[id:2024-09-28-Voits-law-of-apple-fanboy-appearance][(Voit's) Law of Fanboy Appearance]]

You might want to check them out yourself and refer to them when appropriate.