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Thermodynamics

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Every system has an energy budget — maintaining order costs energy, and every transformation wastes some as heat. Ignore the metabolic cost and the system dies.

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Faster Than Normal. “Thermodynamics Mental Model.” fasterthannormal.co/mental-models/thermodynamics. Accessed 2026.

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