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Make things better by making better things.
Frederick Taylor used a stopwatch to revolutionize car production and much more. By measuring each person’s output on the line, he dramatically increased how much a company like Ford could produce per hour.
Today, companies track your clicks and your mouse movements to make sure remote workers stay on task.
Now someone out there is trying to figure out how to make AI automate that same work for faster and cheaper.
What a waste.
There are so many more things we can choose to optimize than the stopwatch. What hurts most is how we let that bleed into so many other parts of our lives outside 9 to 5.