Laziness is an asset – driving creativity

I really like Larkin Cunnigham’s post on the Decare Systems blog recently,

Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company in 1903, had a great philosophy. Get the laziest man to do a job and he?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ll find the quickest way to do it. It turns the negativity of laziness on it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s head and turns it into something positive.

Laziness is not a bad thing in Software Development either, it turns out. I say this because like most people, I am lazy. I don?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t like to write excessive code and I don?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t like too much of a configuration overhead in my frameworks. It slows my creative process. That?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s why I am an advocate of Convention over Configuration.

Similiarly Jim Corbett’s Post on innovation on the EirePreneur blog – Ideas are a dangerous drug.

Is it Laziness or a driving belief that

There’s got to be a better way….

Creative people are not good at steady, routine work and would fail a bank aptittude test…..

So many techies would revel in the task of “Find me a better way to do this”………. but we all need a balance