Lazy people are just very efficient people - eviltoast
  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    The Venn-diagram of lazy people and efficient people is not a circle, my friend. There is some overlap, but not entirely overlapping.

    • fox_the_apprentice@lemmynsfw.com
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      1 year ago

      That’s why they often make good developers.

      Good developers don’t just write easy-to-write code. They write code that is easy to maintain and efficient to run - and oftentimes that requires forethought, a willingness to rewrite when a misstep is made, and above all else the willingness to tinker/learn effectively.

      Source: I am a terrible developer and a very lazy person, and I have had to maintain lots of poorly-written code (some of it my own).

  • empireOfLove@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    This requires defining an additional separation between “lazy, but productive” and “lazy but NOT productive”

  • Adramis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    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.

  • scarabic@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    I suppose it depends on just how lazy you mean… Like someone could go to work and accomplish what they’re meant to be doing in the laziest way possible, versus being so lazy that they just call in sick and skip work altogether

  • Phen@lemmy.eco.br
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • doublejay1999@lemmy.world
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    I used to put far more effort into reasons for not doing work than the work itself would have taken.

    Phenomenal, really .