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Over the years I have been kind of lazy, thinking my talent alone can do it.
Sep 11, 2025
Lazy thinking is not creative or productive.
I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that more people had respect for the English language.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy thinking but in theory a benign ideal. In Washington, however, a community in which the management of news has become the single overriding preoccupation of the core industry, what 'fairness' has often come to mean is a scrupulous passivity, an agreement to cover the story not as it is occurring but as it is presented, which is to say as it is manufactured.
What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do
Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
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