• GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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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.

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    With external pressure to get something done and a full description of what needs to be done, lazy people will find a solution with the least possible amount of effort. That’s why they often make good developers.

    Problems arise when there is no immediate external pressure, or when the task isn’t well-defined. In that case, lazy people will put it off until it becomes immediate (at which point the effort required may be much higher), or they will do the bare minimum to satisfy the requirements of the task according to the definition. If the definition of the task wasn’t complete, the task won’t be done completely.

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      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).

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

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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.

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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.

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    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.

        • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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          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. 😮‍💨

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    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.

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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

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    Except for the lazy ones.

    Thats like saying kevin is 300 lbs because he is efficient, not lazy.