Entropy
“Any method involving the notion of entropy, the very existence of which depends on the second law of thermodynamics, will doubtless seem to many far-fetched, and may repel beginners as obscure and difficult of comprehension.”
—Willard Gibbs, Graphical Methods in the Thermodynamics of Fluids (1873)
Like everything else in our universe, SharePoint is a system prone to entropy. I’m defining it as “the tendency for all matter and energy in the universe to evolve toward a state of inert uniformity.” Too much entropy is the enemy of SharePoint: if entropy takes control, SharePoint loses energy and eventually ceases to be useful to the organization. Ultimately, SharePoint is subject to what are known as the laws of thermodynamics: the relationship ...
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