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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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
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.
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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