The Best Engineer Is A Lazy Engineer

Who wouldn’t want to be a couch potato for a living? Imaging, the overstuffed cushions, and piles of blankets and pillows. The softness of the sweatpants. The collection of remote controls arrayed around the empty bottles and bags of chips on the coffee table right in front of you.

As fun as it may sound on the surface, some people would have a hard time enjoying this lifestyle for long periods of time. Yet the description above certainly checks all the boxes for the Hollywood definition of the word “lazy”.

This image is highly contradictory against the backdrop of a busy office and the flurry of activity around a hardworking and focused Engineer. These two images could not be further apart in terms of activity levels, but the people at the center of these two scenes have a lot of things in common.

The best Engineers excel at being efficient. They achieve massive amounts of work in small time spans and seem to get things right the first time more often than not. This is not due to luck or chance. The lazy couch potato expends enormous amounts of energy to prepare for not having to move for interminable periods of time while binge watching the latest season of some new show in the most comfort possible.

Both the Engineer and the couch potato excel in reaching their objectives. Both take the time to…