What is a term for doing a job that eliminates a job or chore?
Similar to automate but much broader to include other methods such as just removing the thing?
Is there any word from any culture that means this? Feel like Japan has a word for this?
Also… what if it’s a lifestyle?
eg I spent the whole weekend doing X, now I never have to do Y ever again.
What is this called?
Progress? That's the only word that comes to my mind. 🤷♂️
Haha, certainly feels that way!
Termination?
Kaizen and kata come to mind but I feel like there’s another that starts with an ‘i but I can’t think of it and might be completely wrong.
Innovate?
You could create a new word. If it becomes trendy and widely used, it could be added to Webster’s dictionary. 🫂
These are all good suggestions none of them really cover it.
Some around-the-home examples:
• Get robot vacuum, no more vacuuming your house.
• Lay stone around your borders, no more weeding.
• Install hydrophobic glass windows, no more window cleaning.
• Get dishwasher, no more washing dishes (this is partial as you still have to load the thing).
• Get a car, no more carrying groceries.
• Get washing machine, no more handwashing bedding.
Basically where you make an investment of time or money, to remove a time sink from your life whilst still keeping the benefit of the thing.
I feel like most people would be 5x happier if they did more of this, but how to articulate it?
You could actually make an algorithm to calculate Time Returned on Time Invested and then rank all the opportunities in your life to create more time for yourself.
Do I need to write a book? 🤣
The phrase “Low time preference” comes to mind. Doing extra work now to have less work later.
Doing extra work could mean putting in more effort to save for a capital good that will produce for you. Weather it produces another good or spare time.
I call that successful backup procrastination, historians call it civilization (the tech dev part if you wish).
