Sketchplanations

Explaining one thing a week in a sketch

Sketches of the laws of expansion: a gantt chart shows Parkinson's Law — Work expands to fill the available time; two houses show Stuff expands to fill the available space; and a budget suitcase shows Cost expands to fill the available budget

Laws of expansion

Not the standard physics laws of expansion.

  • Work expands to fill the available time — also known as Parkinson's Law
  • Stuff expands to fill the available space — also known as Jono's Law
  • Cost expands to fill the available budget — also known as life

After grandiosely naming "Stuff expands to fill the available space" as Jono's Law, I came across "Ryan's Application of Parkinson's Law: Possessions increase to fill the space available for their storage," in Arthur Bloch's Murphy's Law Book Two, p 84, which, at least, is perhaps not as pithy.

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Anchors and tugboats illustration: a swimmer thinking negative thoughts is pulled back by an anchor and thinking positive thoughts is pulled forward by a tug. Confused fish look on.
Pillars of hope, steel starter bars or starter rods stick out of a house so that in the future it's easier to add an extra storey
Two hikers look at distant lightning and count how long it takes to hear the thunder to estimate how far the lightning is away
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