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the invisible logic deciding who goes first, last, and never at all.
means The act of arranging things in a particular sequence, or of requesting goods or services be supplied to you.
from From 'order,' which entered English through Old French 'ordre,' from Latin 'ordo' — a word that originally meant a row of threads on a loom, the warp lined up taut and parallel before the weaving begins. From that image of threads in their proper rank came the wider senses of arrangement, rank, command, and request. The '-ing' simply makes the noun-of-action: the ongoing work of putting things, or people, or dinner, in line.
chaos tollDisorder always increases unless energy is spent fighting it
alphabet biasA-named authors get cited and hired more
menu trickFirst and last items get ordered most often
queue mathSingle lines beat parallel ones for fairness
sorting featComputers spend vast effort just arranging things