the.com/engineering efficiency
doing more with less, until someone asks you to do it with even less.
means the practice of optimizing systems and workflows to reduce waste in time, cost, energy, or effort while preserving output quality.
from rooted in industrial engineering and the early 20th-century efficiency movement, where taylorism turned factory floors into stopwatch-timed choreography — later exported to software, energy, and every org chart with a kpi.
taylorismfrederick taylor timed workers to the second
jevons paradoxefficiency gains can increase total consumption
software ironyfaster code often ships slower, over-engineered
amazon metricwarehouse efficiency measured in seconds per pick