Bringing order to your investments

Have you heard of the concept of entropy? I'm sure many of you have but in the context of science. The dictionary defines it as 'a way of measuring the disorder in a system'. That sounds science-ish but in a theoretical way and it's not easy to see why you and I should be interested in it in any practical sense. However, I changed my mind when recently, I read a great blog post about entropy on the Farnam Street website (fs.blog), an awesome blog about which I have written about earlier. fs.blog describes itself as 'Brain Food'. It's an online publication that is named after the street on which Berkshire Hathway's headquarters is located in the small city of Omaha in the United States. While it's not dedicated to investing or to Warren Buffett, anyone who reads it will notice a kind of connection, a commonality of themes between the ideas on the blog and the way Buffett an