Don’t work hard, cut corners.
work hard, cut corners, and also salaries, and (if possible) the workforce, and-
Blue collar with forklift and trolley looking at a bunch of office dweller in suits pushing cube be like:
Huh.
Do you have a link?
Sorry not any longer. It’s gone.
Hah, love all the suits. This poster is for management. They see how smart they imagine themselves being the one whittling the sphere out of a block.
But what we don’t see is the frontline employees that queried the block, loaded it, shipped it, and did all the work of carving it. But the suit takes credit for it.
So you didn’t get that the cubes simply represent anything from products to ideas?
What we don’t see here really, is the unnecessary explanation that the ideology behind this image is to “think outside the box.”
My dude, my take was half joking. It’s a motivational poster, not Meditations… by Descartes.
But they understood a poster and are thus very smart.
Also, even if they didn’t need to specifically be cubes, he still left part of the object behind.
Does it not matter how much he brings to the end?
Is the requirement for success here solely his speed?
Why not ditch the cube altogether?
Or is it a sum of both speed and “cube mass”?
If so, how much can he shave off and still compensate by being fast?
Could you just cut a small piece of it and sprint to the end?
Is there a minimum amount you need to bring?
So many questions…
Even if what he did was legit, then cutting the cube into a cylinder would be a smarter choice. Maybe not even a full cylinder, an octagon or something like that would have roll fine and saved so much work.
The real solution is to cut a square cube than the square needed by the end of travel, cut the large cube into a sphere and then transport it then cut the sphere into the cube with the right size.
Or use wheels.
Also, the smartest response to the situation in the picture would be to work together.
Egipcian: 𓉔𓅱𓃭𓂧𓐍𓅓𓇌𓐍𓃀𓅂𓅂𓂋 (Hold my beer)
Smart people save a lot of work, in any era and civilization. Another example of ingenuity to transport of objects of many tons with only a handful of people.
https://tube.kuylar.dev/watch?v=yvvES47OdmY
or only one person to move it
https://tube.kuylar.dev/watch?v=E5pZ7uR6v8c
Everybody has a Brain, but only few use it
Holly shot! Reminds me of a recirculating linear bearing, not what they were testing and not what they’re suggesting the Egyptians did but neat parallel.
This is unrealistic, the client would never say thank you.
In my experience they’d carry on complaining, even after an apology and saying it’ll be put right.
This client is an introvert who took the entire day off to prepare for this phone call.
That’s social anxiety, not introversion.
Seems like John was trying to… cut some corners
Seriously, that seems like what this poster is actually promoting. Whoever made it/put it up in the office wasn’t working particularly intelligent that day
Also if you push the front edge will dig into the ground, the force vector you apply has a downward component.
If the employees pulled it would lift the front edge and avoid the cubes getting stuck on obstacles.
Management not providing their employees with adequate tools to do their job while also keeping them in the dark about the greater picture of their company. Ignoring their employee’s problems and then blaming those who try to solve it on their own.
Is everyone purposefully missing the point in the comments?
Move fast and break things.
Should be 1015 cubes.
Should be “work intelligently” as well.
The sphere looks taller than the cubes.
Perhaps it’s a mouldable material like clay to be re-shaped, or hard but to be cut down to a cube on-site.
You can see the pile of chips behind him from making the sphere.
If the point of the work was to deliver cubes, then it wouldn’t be working smart.
But since the original premise was that they were working smart, that means it doesn’t matter what shape the objects are delivered in.
They’re also leaving almost half the volume in bits on the ground.
Volume of a sphere of diameter 1 = ~0.52 Volume of a cube of 1 unit = 1 Volume of a cylinder = ~0.79
So not only are they not doing the required job. They’re wasting twice as much time and material than needed to make the job easier…
And you could still build a pyramid with cylinders…