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The [[JC]]’s [[third law of worker entropy]]: The very '''fact''' of an [[escalation]]—the very interposition of an approval step, ''in itself'', in which one part of the [[meatware]] shunts a problem to another part of the [[meatware]]—causes more in aggregate delay, confusion, aggravation and second-order bureaucracy than is ''ever'' solved by the resolution it promises to deliver. <br>
The [[JC]]’s [[third law of worker entropy]]: There is a 100% correlation between (i) activities that, however important they might seem, in fact have no value, and (ii) activities which are [[tedious]]. [[all other things being equal]], if an activity is [[tedious]], it is ''[[waste]]ful''. If it is wasteful, you ''shouldn’t do it''.

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The JC’s third law of worker entropy: There is a 100% correlation between (i) activities that, however important they might seem, in fact have no value, and (ii) activities which are tedious. all other things being equal, if an activity is tedious, it is wasteful. If it is wasteful, you shouldn’t do it.