To clarify this slightly (I guess I have an urge to make a speech): it has really seemed to me, that, for the benefit of an organization (medium- and long-term)

To clarify this slightly (I guess I have an urge to make a speech): it has really seemed to me, that, for the benefit of an organization (medium- and long-term), and the peacefulness & less pain for everyone involved: if anything is going to be repeated much, it seems worth making the process reliable and improving/automating it, at least a little bit each time it is performed (again, documenting, and indicating openness to peer feedback, on the path toward automating). This, to me, seems like part of the Golden Rule of working together (treat others the way one would want to be treated), as are things like not leaving useful but hard-to-maintain messes behind for others without some clarification, or having important processes that only one person knows how to do, so when they leave it is a crisis (or no one really knows how to do it so it is a crisis every time).</speech> Feedback welcome. :)