Why We Automate
What these have saved me, more than time—although they’ve saved a lot of that, too—is my concentration, exactly as Cook says.
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Another advantage of automation, one that Cook doesn’t talk about, is accuracy. No matter how simple a series of steps is, if it’s a dull, repetitive task, I will eventually screw up one of the steps and have to go back and fix it. I doubt that I’m unique in that way. Automation ensures consistency.
