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The grind is the sum of all boring, tedious tasks done to reduce the consequences of entropy.

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Grind is necessary to fight against Entropy

Motivation is required to get started on the grind.

Getting Things Done is a way to organize the grind

Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Embrace the Grind^ref (original is theorizing that sometimes, just doing it is the only magic that works. Grinding against a tedious task and finishing it.
Freakonomics, in praise of maintenance^ref is presenting that maintenance is not seen as sexy but is primordial, and more important to society that net new things