Tedium

Hypothesis: all other things being equal, if an activity is tedious, it is wasteful. If it is wasteful, you shouldn’t do it.

This can be articulated as the Jolly Contrarian’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.

If an activity is 25% tedious it is 25% wasteful.

See also

• The JC’s first law of worker entropy
• The JC’s second law of worker entropy
• The seven wastes of negotiation