Lazy Engineer
All the best engineers are lazy. It's not that they don't want to do work. It's that they realise
getting a good job done now can save plenty of time in the future.
It's that innate laziness that drives innovation, finding a solution that gets what you want with the least effort, because it's that good laziness that get shared.
MICROSOFT SURFACE MAGNETIC KEYBOARD CONNECTOR
Lazy engineering even comes to Microsoft's Surface. In the shape of its magnetic keyboard connector. Magnets are great for linking one objects to another, but while they are hard to pull apart, they are easy to slide apart. With a keyboard cover ,it's easy to twist it slightly and break the connection.
With Surface, the magnets are nubs that lock into the surface case. You can pull the two apartwith plenty of force,but you can't twist. That's why it's possible to hold a surface from the keyboard without worrying that it will plummet to the floor. Lazy engineering shares many attributes with lateral thinking. If a problem seems intractable or too complex, you step away and approach it from another, often easier angle . Making something easy for you as an engineer or designer will often make a product easier to use and easier to sell.
So if a problem seems too hard ,try being lazy -it might just make things easier for everyone.
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