4 ms·

I was cutting wood with my kids the other day and showing them how you have to pick the wood up as little as possible so you could get more done with less effor

I was cutting wood with my kids the other day and showing them how you have to pick the wood up as little as possible so you could get more done with less effort. No talk about molecules necessary - just don't do stuff you don't need to do. Sure it takes a lot of planning to achieve but its been a standard concept around getting the job done for, I would say, millennia...

jbob2000 9y ago
"Don't move it twice" was a common saying when I had a summer job contracting. Don't move the wood off the truck, cut it in the bed of the truck, bring cut pieces in. Save all the dinky, random cuts for last, do them all in one go, instead of running back and forth to the truck every time. Clean from the top down, from the back to the front, so you don't have to clean something twice. There's a lot of wisdom in the trades! I guess you care more for efficiency when it's your own energy you're spending, instead of some random computer's.