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The Venn-diagram of lazy people and efficient people is not a circle, my friend. There is some overlap, but not entirely overlapping.
The trick is to be lazy enough to seek a better solution but not lazy enough to actually implement it.
So if I implement it I’m just efficient and not lazy?
Conserving resources has always been a survival strategy across every form of life since evolution began. Laziness is a refusal to waste resources on things not perceived to matter or make a difference.
The kicker is that if you start thinking about what “matters” you will soon find nothing actually really does except the things we choose. And it would be a shame to waste life never making any choices.
So here we are, called upon by the universe to come up with things that matter, even though we know that not one bit of any of it will endure. It’s enough to make you sit back down on the couch to think.
Depends.
Lazy people who automate their own tasks so they do less work - efficient.
Lazy people who pass off work to other people, causing them to get snowed under no matter how efficient they are - garbage shitsacks.
If I got things done, maybe. When I have to pay fees because I was too lazy to pay a bill in time, I don’t see how that’s efficient.
Is that laziness or forgetfulness? Like, did you actively decide not to pay your bill on time because you just couldn’t be arsed to do so?
Adhd, I always think I can just do it later and then suddenly it is too late.
I’ve trained myself to do important stuff like paying bills as soon as the task comes up because otherwise I would do the same.
“Oh I can do that later.”
Later
“What was I supposed to do? Eh probably wasn’t important.”
Really sucks when a thing comes up and I really can’t do it right away because I’m in the middle of something else, or am away from where I need to do it. 😮💨
This requires defining an additional separation between “lazy, but productive” and “lazy but NOT productive”
That also requires defining what you mean by productivity.
Productivity = At least 3 shitposts per day on lemmy shitpost
Humanity advances because of laziness.
The same can be said about math notations.
So what you’re saying is… Math notations are lazy? 🤔
You’ve described my entire IT career.
No, I am a lazy people and I know it is not.
Except for the lazy ones.
Thats like saying kevin is 300 lbs because he is efficient, not lazy.
He’s efficiently increasing mass.
I’m so efficient I liked this post and moved on. Came back to brag about it, though. ;)
I am exceedingly efficient then
Stupid and wrong. Lazy people who can continue to be lazy in a highly monitored, high productivity environment are very efficient. But lazy people can just be unproductive lazy ducks as well.
One of my first bosses noticed me doing a job in a particular laborish way when there were power tools available that would make it much easier. I remember him taking me aside and suggesting that it is better to use all the tools available if it makes the work easier. Better for me and better for him.
I have since become the boss and I often repeat similar advice to employees. I tell them I appreciate when they are working hard but I even appreciate it more when they work smarter but less hard. If there is a hole to dig, don’t grab a shovel when there is an excavator nearby. I am more impressed by the work you get done and even more so if you do it with minimal labor.
Nobody’s lazy, we’re just reserving the best part of our time for ourselves.
According to studies, the human brain is hardwired to be lazy.
I used to put far more effort into reasons for not doing work than the work itself would have taken.
Phenomenal, really .
