Minimize Mental Velocity
A slacker in a tilted chair justifies laziness with the calculus rule that maxima occur where the derivative is zero.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-04-14-minimize-mental-velocity/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
A: "Why are you so lazy?"
B (leaning back in a chair): "I'm just maximizing the mental heights that I reach."
A: "How so?"
B: "By setting my mental velocity equal to zero."