Order from Chaos
Welcome. This is a living repository dedicated to the philosophy and practice of Negentropic Design—the art of injecting order into software systems to reverse their natural slide into decay.
In What is Life?, Erwin Schrödinger identified that living systems persist by feeding on negentropy to stave off the drift toward equilibrium and chaos. Software follows this same biological imperative. Negentropic Design manages the underlying physics of the system so that readability, maintainability, and scalability emerge as the Yield—the natural side effects of suppressed entropy.
Architecting software as an open system that metabolizes design intent ensures that the structure remains resilient and purposeful. Here, we examine the architecture of software designed to flourish through the very pressures that typically invite decay.
Start Here
- The Manifesto: The core principles that guide our work. Start here to understand the “Why.”
- About: About the author
The Library
- (Coming Soon): Essays, patterns, and case studies on fighting entropy in the wild.