I know this feeling:
"Geeks write scripts to take apart dull, repetitive tasks. They'll
spend 10h writing a script that will save 11h -- because writing
scripts is interesting and doing dull stuff isn't."
... from live blogging of a 2004 tech conference, by @pluralistic:
I call it being lazy in a smart way.
It is at the basis of all progress.
There is nothing wrong with that, it makes sure you do stuff in a smart way.
Yes the very first time you invest 10 hours in something that takes you 5 hours to do manually.
But think of the time you saved on the other 51 weeks in the year.
Eugene Wallingford
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`Da Elf