Most of the replies here seems to be restating principles behind "Do things that don't scale." I was of the similar mindset. But slowly, I realized the reality

Most of the replies here seems to be restating principles behind "Do things that don't scale." I was of the similar mindset. But slowly, I realized the reality is more nuanced and the essay needs to be taken with a grain of salt. I hate repetitive, manual tasks. It's more likely I will forgot to do them, or I will make an error in doing them, or I will put them off. At the same time, I am pretty comfortable with programming, I love hacking together different tools and APIs to build useful things. I have found creating mini tools a better use of my time, then just follow a shitty workflow because I need to keep doing things until I have reached a certain threshold. YMMV, of course.