I am not sure this is opposite advice, really. I make myself do an ops thing by hand, for a period of time. Eventually the repetitive parts begin to really an

I am not sure this is opposite advice, really. I make myself do an ops thing by hand, for a period of time. Eventually the repetitive parts begin to really annoy me. Then I automate the repetitive parts. But I am deeply lazy. My father made me count fish hooks by hand from bulk into those dozen boxes for his fishing tackle wholesale business. I was, maybe 8? Couple of cents per box. Couldn't stand it. So I eyeballed batch sizes, and made mistakes. Should've weighed them. Boy did he get mad. But nope, no way I was going to count every one of those little hooks. That's the way I feel about the repetitive parts of ops. It takes a while to figure out the repetitive bits though, and abstract those correctly.