the.com/shortcut
The fastest route between effort and regret, depending entirely on who's driving.
means A route or method that's quicker and more direct than the usual one, whether through space, time, or effort.
from A plain compound of "short" and "cut," both old Germanic-rooted English words. "Short" traces back to Old English sceort, and "cut" is medieval English of uncertain origin, possibly Scandinavian. The literal sense — a path that cuts a journey short — came first; the figurative "easy way to do something" sense grew naturally out of it, and the computing keyboard "shortcut" is a 20th-century descendant of the same idea.
- keyboard origin
- Ctrl shortcuts date to 1970s mainframe terminals
- desert lethal
- Death Valley shortcuts kill overconfident hikers yearly
- brain wiring
- Habits are neurological shortcuts saving daily energy
- copy paste
- Larry Tesler's cut-copy-paste reshaped all computing
- desire paths
- Worn footpaths reveal where designers guessed wrong