OK, I’ll get into the spirit of the thing.
Whenever we have a snowfall here, I have a job to do. My job is to wait until I hear a loud thud and a scraping sound, and then get out of bed to watch the snowplow clearing out my driveway. It’s an important job because it’s the only way I can justify the cost.
Then, my work done, I get back into bed.
I don’t consider it laziness but disinterest in doing it repetitively.
If I have to build 20 object X’s I will build one object X and figure out any jigs and special tools that will reduce the time for objects 2 through 20. Assembly line techniques can usually be employed when you have these jigs and tools. Sure, the first object X takes four hours because you are also building jigs and tools. But objects 2 through 20 take five minutes each after that.
(I also read user manuals first to see if there are tips for whatever.)
Wish I could get my brother-in-law to do it but he thinks I’m nuts.
So you’re saying Bill Gate shas achieved greatness by lazily stealing someone else’s quote?
If someone else has already said this, well, I’m too lazy to read the whole thread.
What’s a four letter word for “disinterested in doing more than the least amount of work possible”?
Honestly, the only real difference between smart-person laziness and normal laziness is that the smart person will realize that they have to get the word done eventually, so they might as well figure out the way to do the least amount of work overall, rather than half-assing it now and paying the price later.
…unless they realize that they don’t have to do it later. There are a number of instances where I realized that the easiest and most efficient way to reduce the amount of work I had to do was to lower my standards. 
In Tad Williams’ “Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn” trilogy, the greatest warrior in the world was a guy who utterly hated war with every fiber of his being. So when he went to war, he made sure to so utterly defeat the enemy that he would not have to do it again later.
Ever consider moving the bed over to the window? Or a CCTV system?
The rather unsung at-least-equal partner in the Gilbreth enterprise was his wife Lillian, who took over the business when he suddenly died.
I did read Cheaper By the Dozen in the fifth grade (and again as an adult), it is still pretty darn funny.
When my husband and I designed our house (which we built ourselves, no contractor at all), we used a book called The Motion Minded Kitchen by Sam Clark to figure out the hardest design challenge, the kitchen. Really interesting book based on Lillian Gilbreth’s ideas of figuring out how to design in the least number of motions for normal cooking and washing up. It’s out of print now, but I think the author is still alive and kicking (and publishing) in Vermont.
The older and more tired I get, the more I look for even the smallest ways to increase efficiency in my daily life. Mise en place meal assembly. Creating orderliness so I can put my hand on whatever is needed where it is needed. Etc. Although I’m an orderly person anyway, this is a new level, solely driven by chronic fatigue syndrome. Sometimes if I have to sort through a jumble, or retrace my steps because I forgot something, I can’t face it and just go lie down. You can call it laziness but I bet I am not the only person who gets through their day mainly through ‘efficiency’.
My experience has been that lazy people won’t find the most efficient way to do a good job. They will find the easiest way to do the bare minimum.
I think I win twice here.
I am a naturally very lazy person which also makes me very efficient.
I put a bunch of bins in the empty cabinets in the medication room at work and stocked the bins with whatever one could need to administer a medication. (Why no one else thought of this, or if they did think of it and didn’t bother to do it, I’ll never understand.)
Need a medicine cup? A syringe? An alcohol pad? Or one of the about 15 other items that one would need to administer a medication during the course of a day? Great news, self! That item is now located right up there in the cabinet in a special bin-- a bin with a label on it to identify what is in the bin (handy for the shorter folks, such as myself).
I did spend a bunch of initial effort to go around the various supply rooms on my unit and others to “liberate” enough bins to satisfy my supply storage plans, and I also spent a bit more effort is swapping bins so that they would match in size(s) (as needed) and color. Efficiency was my goal but aesthetics is pleasing to me, too. This thievery took most of my spare time over the course of two shifts. I figure it’s a small investment of my time since I’ve been there many, many years and plan to stay for several more.
But now I don’t have to make that 100 foot round trip from the medication room to the supply room to get whatever I need to administer the medication I just pulled! That longish walk, repeated many, many times over the course of a busy 12-hour shift, is a stupid waste of time and effort that could be easily avoided with a little planning.
I didn’t tell anyone about these supplies but some of them have figured it out by now- months later.
I did this all for myself. It just makes my day better.
Every couple of weeks, I refill the bins. No one else who knows about the supplies has bothered themselves to refill them yet but it doesn’t seem as though that many have found them.
A couple of folks who did discover this stash of supplies remarked on it. Of course I laid claim to this neat innovation-- and got well-deserved props for it, the secondary benefit-- but I really did it just for myself. If others benefit from it and I get credit for making their work-lives easier, that’s just a bonus for me and my reputation as a good coworker.
I actually did consider asking the folks above me to get us some bins and put supplies in the cabinets but they so rarely do anything we ask for or want that it just didn’t seem to be worth the effort to ask. It was just easier to do it myself on the sly.
I load the dishwasher with the glasses on the side of the kitchen where the glasses are stored, and the coffee cups nearer to the coffee station. It just saves me reaching across the dishwasher. 
Wise?
Pre-heat oven? Sounds complicated. I just turn it on and immediately put the food in.
My friend achieved greatness by installing a 2nd dishwasher when he remodeled his kitchen. Not because he uses a lot of dishes. Because he never has to empty his dishwasher. He uses the clean dishes out of the clean dishwasher, then puts the dirty dishes into the 2nd dishwasher. Then washes them and does the same thing over again in reverse.
I first read about this concept in " “The Tale of the Man Who Was Too Lazy to Fail”, one of the tales in Heinlein’s Time Enough For Love. “Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
Love it.
One of my jobs at the big airplane company was testing the emergency lighting system on 737’s. This job took 2 to 3 hours to accomplish, almost all of that time was accessing the battery packs installed in the plane to verify they work as designed. My partner and I were troubleshooting an issue with the system on one plane when I pulled the specification document for the battery packs. I found a recent change to the document that allowed testing the battery packs without pushing a test button on each battery. This meant the test could be accomplished without accessing the packs. We submitted a change request to engineering to revise the test and it was approved. The 2 to 3 hour test took 15 minutes after the change. We were heroes for a day. This change also meant we had more work assigned to us each day. Win some, lose some.
When I was 12 I eschewed the bar of soap for merely rubbing the shampoo all over myself, inadvertently inventing body wash.
I remember TECO !
I was a computer operator (when that was a thing), night shift.
Took me about 3 years to work out what it was and write a “hello world” !!
My fancy oven beeps when it has achieved temperature. Then you just put the stuff in and set the cook time.
Preheating an oven is a waste of fossil fuel for many foods but do not omit it for baking, or anything with eggs like quiche or souffles. You’ll be unhappy if you do.
Sometimes “the bare minimum” is “a good job”. That’s sort of the dividing line between “dumb lazy” and “smart lazy” - the smart lazy people know that they have to deal with the aftermath of doing a crap job and that’s such a pain. So they express their laziness in a way that doesn’t create more work for them later: by doing a good job as efficiently as possible.
But yes, if lowering the standards is an acceptable way to achieve an outcome, then standards can definitely get lowered. So watch out for smart lazy people who have thoughts like “Hmm, I’m not bothered by the fact that my t-shirts are a little wrinkled. Aha! I’ll just dump my laundry from the dryer straight into a ‘clean clothes’ hamper and never have to pull open a dresser drawer again!”
(I also have different hampers for each type of laundry so I never have to bother to sort them. When a ‘clean’ hamper gets empty, I run a load of that type of laundry to refill it, without worrying about the other types. Simple as that.)