How to be Lazy

Get more out of life by doing less. Seriously: Relax.

Lazy Information

lazy: Definition, Synonyms and Much More From Answers.com: Resistant to work or exertion; disposed to idleness. Slow-moving; sluggish: a lazy river
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be lazy on 43 Things: 4 out of 5 people (80%) think this is worth doing.
Paul Wilson - Interview with the world's laziest man: In 1968 Fred graduated sine laude whatsoever from Rutgers University as a Fine Art major. He never held a job for more than two months and is one of only five people in the entire history of the United States Government to have been fired from a civil service job. In 1979 with no money, no experience, and no knowledge of how to make ice cream, he founded The Great Midwestern Ice Cream Company. In 1984 his ice cream was judged by People magazine to be the best ice cream in America. Playboy made the same declaration in 1986. In 1989, again with no money and no knowledge or experience of telecommunications Fred founded Telegroup in a spare room in his house. Telegroup became an international long distance carrier and grew to 1100 employees with $400 million in annual sales. Fred's companies have appeared on Inc magazine's list of the 500 fastest growing companies in America four times. In 1995 Telegroup was the second fastest.
Fool.com: Lessons From Laziness [Commentary] May 7, 2004: Indolence, properly channeled, can be both inspirational and lucrative.
Quitting the Paint Factory: On the virtues of idleness: I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters.
The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment: I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of virtue. That's about the worst heresy I could propose, but I have to be honest before I can be reverent. I am doing the work of writing this book to save myself the trouble of talking about it.
-- Thaddeus Golas
Virtue of Idleness: It is a sad fact that from early childhood we are tyrannised by the moral myth that it is right, proper and good to leap out of bed the moment we wake in order to set about some useful work as quickly and cheerfully as possible.
The Lazy Person's Guide to Saving the Planet: It is not easy to be good. It usually requires time, money, effort, patience, kindness or other qualities in sporadic supply. So here is a chance to be good at absolutely no cost to yourself in time or money - easy virtue just one quick phone call away.
BrainVacation: And the award for Best Example of Laziness goes too...

"This page will be up soon... I jus haven't taken the time to type it up."

Lazy Tools

Lazy Sheep Bookmarklet: Lazy Sheep is a del.icio.us bookmarklet that auto-tags and auto-describes your bookmarks.
LazyWeb: Do you have an idea that you think others might be able to solve?
Make a LazyWeb request by writing it on your own blog, and then sending a Trackback ping to the new url: http://www.lazyweb.org/lazywebtb.cgi. Just linking to this page usually works. The LazyWeb links back to you, so make sure you have somewhere for people to leave comments.

Lazy Programming

Coding Horror: How to be Lazy, Dumb, and Successful: Philipp Lenssen agrees that inspired laziness is a desirable trait for software developers: "... only lazy programmers will want to write the kind of tools that might replace them in the end. Only a lazy programmer will avoid writing monotonous, repetitive code. The tools and processes inspired by laziness speed up production."
How To Be Lazy...or...Understanding Requirements: If you're a lazy mofo like me, there's one thing you're not lazy about, getting out of having to do a lot of work. An important skill that should be on every lazy developer's utility belt is the ability to understand requirements.