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How long can you work on making a routine task before your spending more time than you save?Poured4connected(Jump)
How the notebook worksEvery page answers two questions: what kind of thinking it keeps, and how far along that thinking is.What it keepsNotesmy thoughts in fluxTopicA gathering point. It collects the notes underneath it, and sometimes nothing is written in the middle.MineMy ideas, at every stage of thought.Inspiredthis oneNot fully, or mostly, original. It says whose idea it started as.StubNot enough to say in public yet. Here for the links in and out.How far alongSteepingThin and early. Written down so I can find out what I think of it.BrewingHas a shape, still moving. Most of the notebook lives here.PouredFinished, which is not the same as long. Five words can be poured.Mix kind and stage on the benchEdited

How long can you work on making a routine task before your spending more time than you save?

I love a good automation as much as the next person. However, it is valuable to think about the input as well as the output to determine the value the automation might hold. It is also useful to consider joy and creativity when automating, but if it doesn’t make you happy, scratch a creative itch, or save time, don’t do it!

2024-08-16: I recently found a new lens to view this table through. In Clear Thinking, Shane Parrish discusses “defaults”. Stopping to think, pivot and implement an improvement falls outside the social and inertial defaults. However, it can save time, money, and aggravation in the long term. In order to change the default, it is helpful to be in an environment which allows for better thinking and decision-making. I keep this table hanging in my workspace to help keep me honest about what improvement projects are worth reimagining.

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