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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]]