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> Time is one of the most valuable resources in the world. If there was something you could do to free more time for yourself, why wouldn’t you? You can automa

> Time is one of the most valuable resources in the world. If there was something you could do to free more time for yourself, why wouldn’t you? You can automate a task and thereby cause the task to happen without your involvement, but that doesn't give you more time. It just automates a task. The amount of time you have is still that which happens between being born and dying.

cinntaile 6y ago
It is defined in the article what she means by it. time gained = (time doing task manually)-(time to automate task)
- wombatmobile 6y ago
  What you are describing is experiential change. Instead of feeling beholden to a task, which in your equation is negative time, automation frees you to have opportunity for other activities that you might experience as positive time. Another way to view these experiences is that they all take place in the finite amount of time that you have here on Earth. That time doesn't change. Only your experience of it changes. You can control your experiences by cultivating your thoughts. For example, you might enjoy the time it takes you to design and build a system for automating a task. Contrast that experience with that of somebody who hates the idea of doing work to automate a task, and would rather just get the task over and done with, and never consider automation. Who is right, and who is wrong? You could calculate an answer by applying your maths, and that would be one answer, which might come out in your favour, or might not, depending on whether you could automate a task in less time than it would take to perform the task. But you already know that you're coming out ahead, even if it takes you 10 times longer to design and implement the automation than it does to perform the task manually, because you enjoy the process of automating tasks. That's because you've cultivated your thoughts.
  - samus 6y ago
    > But you already know that you're coming out ahead, even if it takes you 10 times longer to design and implement the automation than it does to perform the task manually, because you enjoy the process of automating tasks. That's because you've cultivated your thoughts. This is only true under the assumption that people automate stuff for fun. Businesses have a different incentive. They want automation to enable their pricey employees to take care of more tricky tasks, or to simply require fewer of them in the first place. A business won't give leave to their employees to automate processes just because they enjoy automating stuff.
    - wombatmobile 6y ago
      You are writing about commercial profit and loss, which is potentially infinite in duration, and reducible down to one integer. I am writing about a human being experiencing a finite life, expansively. Must these two domains be mutually exclusive, or conflicting? If business only existed for profit, they might be, but is that the only reason businesses exist?

cinntaile 6y ago

It is defined in the article what she means by it. time gained = (time doing task manually)-(time to automate task)

wombatmobile 6y ago
What you are describing is experiential change. Instead of feeling beholden to a task, which in your equation is negative time, automation frees you to have opportunity for other activities that you might experience as positive time. Another way to view these experiences is that they all take place in the finite amount of time that you have here on Earth. That time doesn't change. Only your experience of it changes. You can control your experiences by cultivating your thoughts. For example, you might enjoy the time it takes you to design and build a system for automating a task. Contrast that experience with that of somebody who hates the idea of doing work to automate a task, and would rather just get the task over and done with, and never consider automation. Who is right, and who is wrong? You could calculate an answer by applying your maths, and that would be one answer, which might come out in your favour, or might not, depending on whether you could automate a task in less time than it would take to perform the task. But you already know that you're coming out ahead, even if it takes you 10 times longer to design and implement the automation than it does to perform the task manually, because you enjoy the process of automating tasks. That's because you've cultivated your thoughts.
- samus 6y ago
  > But you already know that you're coming out ahead, even if it takes you 10 times longer to design and implement the automation than it does to perform the task manually, because you enjoy the process of automating tasks. That's because you've cultivated your thoughts. This is only true under the assumption that people automate stuff for fun. Businesses have a different incentive. They want automation to enable their pricey employees to take care of more tricky tasks, or to simply require fewer of them in the first place. A business won't give leave to their employees to automate processes just because they enjoy automating stuff.
  - wombatmobile 6y ago
    You are writing about commercial profit and loss, which is potentially infinite in duration, and reducible down to one integer. I am writing about a human being experiencing a finite life, expansively. Must these two domains be mutually exclusive, or conflicting? If business only existed for profit, they might be, but is that the only reason businesses exist?