Fighting Entropy at Home

Dharmesh Shah, co-founder of HubSpot, puts it perfectly: "The second law of thermodynamics, I'm paraphrasing here, is that over time, unless you intervene, everything goes to crap."

This is your home. This is your routines. This is your kid's room, your bedtime consistency, your screen time rules, your family meal habits. Without constant intervention, disorder wins. Always.

You cleaned the playroom on Monday. By Friday, it looks like a toy store exploded. You established a bedtime routine. Three weeks later, it's chaos again. This isn't failure - it's physics.

Dharmesh calls it "fighting for simplicity" - and the key word is FIGHTING. "It requires fighting for. It does not happen, and it will be a fight, because the universe is working against you."

You're not bad at this. You're fighting a law of nature. The only question is: which battles are worth the energy? Pick those. Accept entropy everywhere else. You cannot defeat physics - but you can be strategic about where you deploy your intervention.