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2nd law of Thermodynamics: Entropy increases over time.

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"The entropy of a system can in fact be shown to be a measure of its disorder and of the unavailability of energy to do work."

I rather like that - where "work" is the time spent solving first order business problems, and "disorder" is a measure of the energy spent not directly solving the business problem. AKA dealing with accidental complexity.

[0] https://www.coursehero.com/study-guides/physics/15-6-entropy...



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