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[[Confusion entropy]] is the background level of misunderstanding and resentment which comes as a by-product of modern corporate discourse.
[[Confusion entropy]] is the background level of misunderstanding and resentment which comes as a by-product of modern corporate discourse.


Different types of activity generate more or less of this kind of entropy. [[Conference call]]s — especially [[all-hands conference call]]s — generate dangerously high levels. Especially — when considering the RWA implications of a past event that might have happened, but didn't. Add accountants in different jurisdictions, tax people and transaction lawyers to converse directly on this topic and [[infinite bafflement]] is assured.
Different types of activity generate more or less of this kind of entropy. [[Conference call]]s — especially [[all-hands conference call]]s — generate dangerously high levels. Add financial reporting folk seeking legal opinions on matters of [[balance sheet]] treatment, allow [[tax lawyer|tax lawyers]] to converse directly with anyone else on this topic and [[infinite bafflement]] is assured.


The [[Jolly Contrarian]]’s [[second law of worker entropy]] states that [[confusion entropy]] will eventually lead to the [[boredom heat death]] of the universe. There is no  formula for when or where this might happen because at that moment the [[Jolly Contrarian]] was trying to make one up he was ambushed by an officious [[management consultant]] on an [[all hands conference call]] and asked for some [[KPI]]s. He pretended to be having [[Skype trouble]] but lost his train of thought and never quite recovered it. Story of his life, really.  
The [[Jolly Contrarian]]’s [[second law of worker entropy]] states that [[confusion entropy]] will eventually lead to the [[boredom heat death]] of the universe. There is no  formula for when or where this might happen because at that moment the [[Jolly Contrarian]] was trying to make one up — you realise this is all just made up on the spot, don’t you?</ref> he was ambushed with an ambiguous request for [[KPI]]s by an officious [[management consultant]]. He pretended to be having [[Skype trouble]] but lost his train of thought and never quite recovered it. Story of his life, really.  


[[Confusion entropy]] can be cured with alcohol, but there is a curious paradox, as overdoing the sauce (which, on a [[conference call]], can be tremendously tempting) can itself lead to total collapse through the [[inebriation event horizon]] into a black hole of soul-crushing despair.
[[Confusion entropy]] can be cured with [[Schwarzschild radius of alcohol consumption|alcohol]], but there is a curious [[paradox]], as overdoing the sauce (which, on a [[conference call]], can be tremendously tempting) can itself lead to total collapse through the [[inebriation event horizon]] into a black hole of soul-crushing despair.


So it’s either crushing your soul into an infinitesimal point of space-time, or regressing to a sunless, tepid expanse having, in every direction except the one you want to go in, an infinite extension of [[ennui]].
So it’s either crushing your soul into an infinitesimal point of [[space-time]], or regressing to a sunless, tepid expanse having, in every direction except the one you want to go in, an infinite extension of [[ennui]].


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