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'''The [[JC]]’s [[first law of worker entropy]]''' (also known as the “[[meeting paradox]]”):
'''The [[JC]]’s [[first law of worker entropy]]''' (also known as the “[[meeting paradox]]”):
:(i) The probability of a meeting<ref>At any rate, a meeting containing more than one person — a single person meeting, of course, ought not, in a sensible mind count, at least since [[Descartes|René Descartes]] — [[occursum ergo es]] — proved a meeting in any meaningful sense. It is like the prime number of meetings.</ref> starting on time can never be 100%;  
:(i) The probability of a meeting starting on time can never be 100%;  
:(ii) As the  number of scheduled participants increases, that probability tends to zero.  
:(ii) As the  number of scheduled participants increases, that probability tends to zero.  
:(iii) The more participants there are the more retarded the starting time (and content) of the meeting will be; <br>
:(iii) The more participants there are the more retarded the starting time (and content) of the meeting will be. <br>
As a consequence of these axioms there is an upper bound on the total number of people possible in a viable meeting of a given duration. <br>
This is true of any meeting containing more than one person. A single-person meeting, of course, ought not, in a sensible mind, count, at least since {{otto}} proved (“[[occursum ergo es]]”) that a meeting in the meaningful sense must have two people. As a consequence of these axioms there is thus a lower and an upper bound on the number of people possible in a viable meeting of a given duration. <br>

Revision as of 09:41, 2 September 2023

The JC’s first law of worker entropy (also known as the “meeting paradox”):

(i) The probability of a meeting starting on time can never be 100%;
(ii) As the number of scheduled participants increases, that probability tends to zero.
(iii) The more participants there are the more retarded the starting time (and content) of the meeting will be.

This is true of any meeting containing more than one person. A single-person meeting, of course, ought not, in a sensible mind, count, at least since Otto Büchstein proved (“occursum ergo es”) that a meeting in the meaningful sense must have two people. As a consequence of these axioms there is thus a lower and an upper bound on the number of people possible in a viable meeting of a given duration.

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