> By accounting for every moment of their working lives, and defining each moment as either “billable” or, regrettably, “non-billable”, lawyers were being tugge

> By accounting for every moment of their working lives, and defining each moment as either “billable” or, regrettably, “non-billable”, lawyers were being tugged inexorably towards an unhappy, unhealthy attitude to the way they spent their time. Not all lawyers, of course. And not only lawyers, either. We fetish precision at the expense of humanity. Organic life is messy, sloppy, and imprecise. Wisdom is understanding that diminishing returns sets in at the 80% solution. We don't need to Automate All The Things until the Orwellian social credit system leads to complete demographic cratering and the human race dies off. As XKCD points out[1], you're OK at around four significant figures. Breath. [1] https://xkcd.com/2170/ https://xkcd.com/2170/