Should You Spend 3 Hours Automating a 15 Minute Manual Task?

Should You Spend 3 Hours Automating a 15 Minute Manual Task?

There is a joke that goes something like “why spend 15 minutes doing a task manually when you can spend 3 hours automating it?”. While it might sound ridiculous at first, there are actually several benefits to automating tasks that would take less time to do manually. This task (or its evil twin) will show…