{"id":2985,"date":"2019-10-21T01:04:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T06:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2985"},"modified":"2019-10-05T08:10:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T13:10:09","slug":"automation-and-time-to-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2019\/10\/automation-and-time-to-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Automation and Time to Think"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>There are many things we can do to reduce the time required to complete tasks. Is that always a good thing?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If we do a task each day, let&#8217;s find a way to automate it. Surely we can write a little piece of software that will do it for us at the click of a button. Then we can move on to more important things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But at what cost?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cost? There is no cost. The cost to write the software will be earned back in a week. Henceforth, it is all profit. Let&#8217;s do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But at what cost?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cost? You aren&#8217;t listening, get with it, try to keep up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Time-consuming tasks that are not mind-consuming bring benefits. Such tasks\u2014pick up the little waste basket, walk down the hall, dump it into a large waste basket, etc.\u2014allow time for thinking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thinking is usually a good idea. It requires a few moments here and there. Let&#8217;s not eliminate all those moments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips There are many things we can do to reduce the time required to complete tasks. Is that always a good thing? If we do a task each day, let&#8217;s find a way to automate it. Surely we can write a little piece of software that will do it for us at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,35,292],"tags":[172,157,295],"class_list":["post-2985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking","category-time","category-tools","tag-thinking","tag-time","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2986,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions\/2986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}