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I would argue that writing the email will require just as much thought because you have to define what you want. Regarding delegation, it is a good point. Know

I would argue that writing the email will require just as much thought because you have to define what you want. Regarding delegation, it is a good point. Knowing when do do something yourself is always a challenge. In my opinion, these tasks are far too trivial for a 'hacker' to give to someone else. Personally, I have a directory named "doodles" that is full of 2 or 3 line programs that do this kind of thing.

Elessar 17y ago
The point of the article is this: There are many small tasks that you could do, but they are time-consuming and they are not your forte. Knowing when to delegate a task and when not to is something that comes from experience, and anyone working in a startup should do well to know that they are not alone in the world. So if you're great at Perl, that's fantastic. Go ahead, hack it in a minute or two. But for that guy who hasn't written Perl in a year, might need a google search or two to remind himself of the syntax, might even need to update his packages... well guess what? Maybe it's time to delegate and focus on other things you are even better at.