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The Internet is full of frequently mentioned laws. I wrote about that
[[id:2024-09-27-Internet-laws][in this article]]. For personal reference, I would like to coin some
common patterns for me as well. This is one of them. You might want to refer to it when appropriate.

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(Voit's) Law of Workflow Usefulness: anybody is able to come up with a
management concept she/he finds useful while everybody else doesn't
find it helpful.
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For reference, please do use the hashtag: #LawOfWorkflowUsefulness

***** Source/Background

Initially, I got this idea [[https://graz.social/@publicvoit/106896180703952077][with this post on Mastodon]]. This law describes a pattern I came across many times.

Fortunately, people get creative when it comes to solving problems.
Some problems or even some solutions are that niche so that other
people do not understand or are not able to profit from the very same
workflow.

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- [[id:2024-09-28-Voits-law-of-tool-usefulness][(Voit's) Law of Tool Usefulness]]
- https://xkcd.com/1172/ "Workflow": Every change breaks someone's workflow.