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Devote Yourself to the Cause of Your Life by Evan Armstrong
Why read this
Argues against scaling yourself out of your own work, because the meaning is in doing the labour.
The point of work is doing the labor, not delegating it away. When we focus excessively on productivity, when our biggest concern is on how to “scale ourselves,” we miss the point of work — and, really, life — which is to find meaning in the daily tasks that consume our time. Like a bike chain catching a gear, there is a deeply satisfying cachunk that happens in your brain when you go from enjoying the outcome of your labors to enjoying the process of them.
Enjoy the process of the work, not just the outcome. Don’t optimize yourself out of the labor that makes it meaningful. This reminds me of On focusing on the present