Thread by @wolfejosh

1/ One of the MOST important concepts anyone can understand—

ENTROPY.

The concept applies not just to physics + life, but startups, relationships, geopolitics.

My eldest child, 10yo daugther, asked excellent Q last night that may seem foolish...

2/ Why do we go from WET to DRY
(say getting out of shower/bath)
but never from DRY to WET?

We talked about:
-solid ice > blob of liquid > dissipated vapor
-how eggs break but don’t go back
-how glasses break but don’t reform

How systems trend to disorder without more energy

3/
I am re-reading the incredible

“ORDER out of CHAOS”—Ilya Prigogine

who articulated beautifully how we get
structured macro state (~whirlpool)
EMERGING from non-equilibrium state (~water down a drain)

Here’s a copy (and a few of my highlights)...
…ialinvestigations.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/ilya_p…

4/ This came to mind while reading excellent Janan Ganesh column in today’s FT...

5/“For 4yrs now Trump brought improbable people together.

Those who treasure the armed alliance were as 1 with peace-sign daubers against Trump. So too cosmopolitan rich + socialists who would tax them; strict liberals + critics of liberalism as a cover for unconscious racism”

6/ “Even before his formal departure, his adhesive effect on the US left is weakening. Moderate Democrats blame the party’s mixed Congressional results on its off-putting radicals....Each one has the potential to turn Democrat against Democrat.”

ENTROPY.

7/ Commenter: “Things Fall Apart”
YES it’s as if brilliant @questlove took album title “Things Falls Apart” (aka Entropy)

and then took the drum tempo from structured hiphop beat to syncopated percussive chaos

at end of @theroots x @fatbellybella Erykah Badu “You Got Me”🤯