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• pkm created: ‘2026-05-04 14:40’ last_modified: ‘2026-05-04 14:40:00’ status: evergreen confidence: fact

Systems decay without active maintenance

The second law of thermodynamics applies to software, habits, and physical infrastructure: without continuous energy input, order degrades into chaos. This absolute truth is why Evergreen notes require maintenance.¹

Footnotes

1. Brooks, F. P. (1975). The Mythical Man-Month. ↩