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What Is the World's Actual Lowest Hanging Fruit? - Pacific Standard

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It is the uncouth phrase of mid-level managers and meddling consultants: "Let's pick the low-hanging fruit." OK, sure, whatever you say boss. But unless you live on an orchard, your encounters with real low-hanging fruit don't actually come too often. Low-hanging fruit seem to be everywhere, and really nowhere at all. Should you use a metaphorical phrase without fully considering the literal specimens themselves or understanding the depths of its meaning? The seeds of this question were planted a couple of months ago within the confines of our senior editor's office, a space we often repair to in the afternoons to discuss media and other miscellany that would never reach a formal staff editorial meeting. Around that time, the Awl had published the personal account of man who claimed to have not consumed fruit for the first 26 years of his life. We were incredulous, but nonetheless intrigued. We were discussing this when we noticed an unidentifiable citrus fruit lying on the shelf of Ry

It is the uncouth phrase of mid-level managers and meddling consultants: “Let’s pick the low-hanging fruit.” OK, sure, whatever you say boss. But unless you live on an orchard, your encounters with real low-hanging fruit don’t actually come too often. Low-hanging fruit seem to be everywhere, and really nowhere at all. Should you use a metaphorical phrase without fully considering the literal specimens themselves or understanding the depths of its meaning? While standard-size apple trees may have offered the lowest hanging fruits of yore, now, most likely, the lowest fruit of all is in…

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