8 teachings and lessons from the success of ‘The Art of Laziness’
A self-help book with one of the most catchy and intriguing titles is ‘The Art of Laziness’. While it might sound like a book about being non-productive, it is quite the opposite. Here we mention 8 lessons people took from the book and its success. #teachings #lessons #success #Art #Laziness
Eleven (11) years this sign has been broken. For a little while it said "Roo Inn" (which was cute). Then just "Roo." It has said "Poo" for at least five years.
(The other side says "Roo").
#business #maintenance #serendipity #accidentalArt #Laziness #LocationLocationLocation
"Fetterman, Often Absent From Senate, Says He Has Been Shamed Into Returning" that is, he was shamed into doing the job he is being paid to do. Poor baby:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/us/politics/fetterman-senate-absence-mental-health-interview.html
Fetterman: “It shook me that people are willing to weaponize that I got help.”
No, we just expect you to do your job.
#HeThoughtItWasANoShowJob #stupidity #laziness #politics
I don't understand #laziness and being sedentary on a physical level.
It almost doesn't even compute in my brain how so many people don't enjoy moving, and can just sit there all day.
I have the most HYPER ACTIVE brain I've ever seen in anyone but my mom, and my brother.
Even compared to others with #tourettes & severe #adhd.
Movement feels good to me so I always am, and need 2 different medications just to sleep, otherwise I go insane from sleep deprivation.
Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.
James Hilton (1900-1954) Anglo-American novelist and screenwriter
Lost Horizon, ch. 8 [High Lama to Conway] (1933)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hilton-james/76604/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #virtue #vice #error #idiocy #laziness #procrastination #sloth #stupidity #unnecessary #unusefulness #wrongdoing
:LaVarDislike: doing nothing due to powerlessness
:LaVarLike: empowering yourself through laziness
#lazy #laziness #empowering #empowerment #powerless #SelfEmpowerment #CollectiveEmpowerment #mindfulness
🎉 Congratulations! 🎉 You've single-handedly revolutionized #laziness by crafting a custom TV remote because replacing batteries was just too mainstream. 🚀 Let's all salute this groundbreaking #innovation while the rest of humanity continues to wallow in their AAA-battery-reliant misery. 😂🔋
https://www.thestockpot.net/videos/theeverythingremote #customremote #batteryfree #techhumor #hackernews #HackerNews #ngated
Apple’s bleak sales pitch for embedding GenAI into iOS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m0MoYKwVTM
I couldn’t agree more with this response from Gloria Mark:
Apple’s message is clear: this is the promise of AI—you can be your unfiltered, lazy self. Say whatever you want—AI will refine it for you, smoothing out the rough edges so you won’t get fired. The deeper message in the ad is that AI will reinterpret and align your values with the corporation’s. You won’t need to do the work to examine your inner core values—AI will convert them into something socially acceptable for the workplace.
Warren represents cognitive surrender. He’s not just using AI to fix his grammar; he is relinquishing his agency—it’s outsourced to the machine. His restlessness isn’t just a quirk—it’s a symptom of intellectual decay, and he doesn’t even realize it.
The utopian vision of generative AI is that it reduces the amount of information that we need to process, freeing up attentional resources that we can use for other important things. Perhaps there will be less need for cognitive enhancement drugs like Adderall. But will we actually utilize this newfound mental bandwidth productively, given our propensity for laziness? Or will we rather become like Warren, the individual that Apple is selling us–a person whose mind has atrophied, passively watching and allowing AI to think for him?
It’s a slippery slope. Who can resist a machine that tirelessly works for us without making us feel the guilt of delegation? And when we do have free time, will we really pick up a copy of War and Peace or will we scroll on our smartphones or binge watch TV instead? Warren’s short attention span and his distractions are not just a quirk; it’s a warning.
The real danger as we outsource more of our mental effort to AI, is that we lose agency over our own cognitive abilities. AI is a technological breakthrough, but it’s altering the very way we think. We’re speeding forward in this new world of AI barely noticing how the landscape is shifting. While concerns about privacy, ethics, values, environmental impact, and job displacement have dominated discussions on AI, I’m struck by how we have not yet talked much about how it can affect our cognition.
‘Why being ‘lazy’ at work might actually be a good thing’ – In this new piece for @ConversationUK Katrien Devolder explores what ‘laziness’ has come to mean in official settings, and how it may actually be justified effort management instead.
Read here: https://shorturl.at/6NjGf
25+ years after the Ice Storm of 1998 and almost 2 years to the day of the 2023 Ice Storm... WHY DOESN'T HYDRO-QUÉBEC BURY MORE POWER LINES?!? JUST ASKING A QUESTION! #JAQing https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/weather-lanaudière-laurentians-1.7497750 #lackofcoordination #lackofambition #twistedbusinessmodel #twistedemploymentopportunities #BS #laziness #qcpoli #polQC #assnat
🤖🎉 Behold, the pinnacle of 21st-century laziness: a #bot that applies for jobs while you binge-watch cat videos. Who needs a resume when you have Ollama AI’s JobHuntr.fyi pushing buttons like a caffeinated squirrel on LinkedIn? 🚀💼
https://github.com/lookr-fyi/job-application-bot-by-ollama-ai #AI #Job #Application #Laziness #LinkedIn #Automation #CatVideos #HackerNews #ngated
Limiting Behaviors and Traits
#Apathy #Blame #Cheating #Communication #Laziness #Negativity #PeoplePleasing #Perfectionism #SelfDoubt #VictimMentality
Winning Daily
I didn’t want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.
Agatha Christie (1890-1976) English writer
Endless Night, ch. 3 (1967)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/christie-agatha/7532…
#quote #quotes #quotation #humancondition #ambition #labor #laziness #sloth #work
People are lazy. With television you just sit—watch—listen. The thinking is done for you.
-- Roger Ailes (Founder of FOX News)
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RogerAiles #Laziness #Television
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
Very much related to yesterday's quote:
"I choose a lazy person to do a hard job.
Because they will find an easy way to do it."
said Bill Gates.
So if you want life to be easy for everybody, put lazy people in charge.
"The only people who think life should be easy, are lazy people."
says Robert Kiyosaki.
We say, that implies busy people are making life harder for everybody.
Be lazy.
@riotnrrd @n_dimension super! I also appreciate the nature (ability) of #Ai especially generating super texts in a very short period of time.
However I can't forget to say that it has promoted #laziness.... and in a very very very few moments, it provides false info.
🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:
AN 8.80 Kusītārambhavatthusutta: Grounds for Laziness and Arousing Energy
“There are eight grounds for arousing energy.…”
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#energy #inspiring #laziness #AnguttaraNikaya #Theravada #PaliCanon #RealBuddhaQuotes #Suttas #Dhamma #Buddhism #Buddha
