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Mon, 01 Jan 2001

slacking/laziness

To slack is to exert laziness as a philosophical outlook for the purposes of problem solving. Pretty much it waters down to, "Aw, hell. Does it have to be that complicated?"

Some of the best things in the computer industry came about from this point of view: "What if I were to build this doo-hicky that would automate that whole key-punching thing because repetitive key punching sucks....?"

Course, to ponder on this any more would be too much effort. And I'm busy working on this thing....

Update 12/9/2004: Who doesn't have a blurb on slacking? I think like existentially-oriented iconoclast high school poetry, everyone goes through the "I'm a slacker--slacking is cool!" phase.

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