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Desk Entropy

May 1, 2018

A coworker's desk buried in papers is blamed on the law of 'desk entropy.'

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-05-01-desk-entropy/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

A: "Say, do you still have your copy of last week's memo?" B: "Well... the matter still exists, but it's not in any useful form."

A: "Yikes..." B: "You can't fight the ruthless law of Desk Entropy."

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