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


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*[[Seven wastes of negotiation]]
*The [[JC]]’s [[first law of worker entropy]]
*The [[JC]]’s [[second law of worker entropy]]
*The [[seven wastes of negotiation]]

Revision as of 14:12, 12 June 2019

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