The Automated Advantage

Name three things you did last Tuesday. Most people can name one. The other six hours went to work you have done before: the same email rewritten, the same file renamed, the same five-minute check you run out of habit. This book helps you measure that time, rank it, and get most of it back. You will build a seven-day log of what you actually do, score every task with the Three-Number Test, and work down the Automation Ladder in the order that returns the most for the least effort. Deleting and simplifying come first. Software comes last, and by the time you reach it there is usually far less left to build. No tool recommendations, because tools change. No promise of a four-hour week. The honest range is three to eight hours returned, which is four to ten working weeks a year. Twelve chapters, a worked example in every one, and a thirty-day plan at the end.