Automate your busywork

Automate Your Busywork

Notes

Introduction

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Chapter 1 | Automation Fundamentals 

1. Apollo Technical. (2021). 15 employee productivity statistics you want to know [online]. Available from: https://www.apollotechnical.com/employee-productivity-statistics/, citing in part Invitation Digital. (2019). How many productive hours in a work day? Just 2 hours, 23 minutes…[online]. Voucher Cloud. Available from: https://www.vouchercloud.com/resources/office-worker-productivity. 

2. Zhu, M., Yang, Y., and Hsee, C.K. The Mere Urgency Effect. Journal of Consumer Research, 45(3), pp.  673–690. doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucy008; Bellezza, S., Paharia, N., and Keinan, A. Conspicuous consumption of time: When busyness and lack of leisure time become a status symbol. Journal of Consumer Research, 44(1), pp. 118–138. doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucw076. 

3. Sawhney, V. (2020). Why your brain dwells on unfinished tasks. Harvard Business Review. Available from: https://hbr.org/2020/10/why-your-brain-dwells-on-unfinished-tasks. 

4. Hotchkiss, J. (2013). How bad is our perception of time? Very! Huffington Post[online]. Available from: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-bad-is-our-perception_b_3955696. 

5. Galef, J. (2013). A day late and a dollar short: The planning fallacy explained. Big Think [online]. https://bigthink.com/personal-growth/why-you-cant-plan/. 

6. Buehler, R., Griffin, D., and Ross, M. Exploring the ‘planning fallacy’: Why people underestimate their task completion times.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology [online], 67(3), pp.  366–381. Available from: https://web.mit.edu/curhan/www/docs/Articles/biases/67_J_Personality_and_Social_Psychology_366,_1994.pdf. 

Chapter 2 | Divide and Conquer 

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2. Caruso, R. (2007) Why does it take so long for our vision to adjust to a darkened theater after we come in from bright sunlight? Scientific American. Available from: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-eyes-adjust-to-darkness/. 

3. Pressfield, S. (2022). If you’re an aspiring writer or artist, I’ve got good news and bad news [online]. Available from: https://stevenpressfield.com/home/. 

4. Meadows, D. H. (2008). Thinking in systems: A primer. Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing.

5. Iyengar, S. S., and Lepper, M. R. (2000). When choice is demotivating: Can one desire too much of a good thing? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79(6), pp.  995–1006. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.79.6.995; see also Iyengar, S. (n.d.). The famous jam study [online]. Available from: https://sheenaiyengar.com/research/; Alina Tugend, A. (2010, February 26). Too many choices: A problem that can paralyze. New  York Times [online]. Available from: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/your-money/27shortcuts.html. 

6. Kruse, K. (2016). Why more than one priority is already too many. Forbes [online]. Available from: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinkruse/2016/02/09/why-more-than-one-priority-is-already-too-many/. 

7. MindTools Content Team. (2022). The action priority matrix [online]. MindTools. Available from: https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_95.html. 

8. British Library. (2022). Henry Laurence Gantt [online]. Available from: https://www.bl.uk/people/henry-laurence-gantt; Lyons, T. (2018). A brief history of Gantt charts [online]. Association for Project Management. Available from: https://www.apm.org.uk/blog/a-brief-history-of-gantt-charts/.

Chapter 3 | Design and Implement 

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2. Kruse, K. (2016, March 7) The 80/20 rule and how it can change your life. Forbes [online]. Available from: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinkruse/2016/03/07/80-20-rule/?sh=6fe298313814. 

3. Abend, L. (2019, July 8). Inside Barcelona’s unfinished masterpiece. TIME [online]. Available from: https://time.com/sagrada-familia-barcelona/. 

Chapter 4 | Refine and Iterate 

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2. Pressfield, S. (2012). The war of art: Break through the blocks and win your inner creative battles. Black Irish Entertainment. Available from: https://stevenpressfield.com/home/. 

3. Twin, A. (2022). Key performance indicator (KPI): Meaning, types, examples [online]. Investopedia. Available from: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/k/kpi.asp. 

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5. MindTools Content Team. SMART goals: How to make your goals achievable [online]. MindTools. Available from: https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/smart-goals.html; see also Doran, G.  T. (1981). There’s a SMART way to write management’s goals and objectives. Journal of Management Review, 70, pp.  35–36. Available from: https://community.mis.temple.edu/mis0855002fall2015/files/2015/10/S.M.A.R.T-Way-ManagementReview.pdf.

6. Healthline Editorial Team. (2020). The human body: The human body systems [online]. Healthline. Available from https://www.healthline.com/human-body-maps. 

7. LibreTexts Medicine. 5.1: Organs and systems of the human organism [online]. Available from: https://med.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Anatomy_and_Physiology/Human_Anatomy_and_Physiology_Preparatory_Course_(Liachovitzky)/05%3A_Higher_Levels_of_Complexity-_Organs_and_Systems/5.01%3A_Organs_and_Systems_of_the_Human_Organism.

8. NPR Staff. (2011). After 40 years, grisly ‘Exorcist’ book gets a rewrite [online]. Available from: https://www.npr.org/2011/10/29/141683620/after-40-years-grisly-exorcist-book-gets-a-rewrite. 

9. Toyota. (2017). How Kaizen can power your productivity [online]. Available from: https://www.toyota.ca/toyota/en/connect/1366/how-kaizen-can-power-your-productivity. 

10. Toyota. (2017). How Kaizen can power your productivity [online]. Available from https://www.toyota.ca/toyota/en/connect/1366/how-kaizen-can-power-your-productivity.

11. Salvador, F., and Sting, F. J. (2022). How your company can encourage innovation from all employees. Harvard Business Review [online]. Available from: https://hbr.org/2022/09/how-your-company-can-encourage-innovation-from-all-employees. 

12. Jotform. (n.d.). What is kaizen? [online]. Jotform Blog. Available at: https://www.jotform.com/blog/what-is-kaizen/ [Updated November 28, 2022]; Jotform. (n.d.). What are the lean principles? [online]. Jotform Blog. Available from: https://www.jotform.com/blog/lean-principles [Updated November 28, 2022]; Lean Enterprise Institute. (n.d.). A brief history of lean [online]. Available from: https://lean.org/explore-lean/a-brief-history-of-lean/.

Chapter 5 | Design a Life Without Busywork 

1. Dillard, A. (2013). The writing life. New York: Harper Perennial. 

2. The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. (2011). How memory works [online]. Harvard University. Available from: https://bokcenter.harvard.edu/how-memory-works. 

3. Gasaway, R. (2022). Task saturation impacts situational awareness [online]. Situational Awareness Matters. Available from: https://www.samatters.com/task-saturation-impacts-situational-awareness/. 

4. Harvard Health Publishing. (2021). Forgetfulness: 7 types of normal memory problems [online]. Harvard Medical School. Available from: https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-andmood/forgetfulness-7-types-of-normal-memory-problems. 

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8. CBS News. (2015, August 27). ‘Reply-all’ email catastrophe hits Thomson Reuters [online]. Available from: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/reply-all-email-catastrophe-hits-thomson-reuters/; Taylor, K. (2015). How an accidental email sent to 33,000 people created a ‘reply all’ nightmare. Entrepreneur [online]. Available from: https://www.entrepreneur.com/science-technology/how-anaccidental-email-sent-to-33000-people-created-a/250029. 

9. Newport, C. (2021). Email is making us miserable. New Yorker [online]. Available from: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/e-mail-is-making-us-miserable.

10. Zapier Editorial Team. (2021). Meetings aren’t killing productivity; data entry is [online]. Zapier Data Reports. Available from: https://zapier.com/blog/report-how-office-workers-spend-time/; Perlow, L. A., Hadley, C. N., and Eun, E. (2017). Stop the meeting madness. Harvard Business Review, July–August. Available from: https://hbr.org/2017/07/stop-the-meeting-madness. 

11. Associated Press. (2019). AP to automate men’s college basketball game previews using Automated Insights [online]. Available from: https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2019/ap-to-automate-mens-college-basketball-game-previews-using-automated-insights. 

12. Automated Insights. (n.d.). The Associated Press used NLG to automate NCAA Division I men’s basketball previews during the 2018 season allowing their journalists to focus on writing critical, qualitative articles [online]. Available from: https://automatedinsights.com/customer-stories/associated-press/. 

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