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I'm curious if anyone else is curious about the distinction between automation and delegation. It seems like a better description of OPs life hack is the latter. I'm not sure if this is relevant, but if you take the universe or the world or a society and the amount of work being done as a zero sum equation, handing off buying plane tickets isn't really automation because you're not reducing the total work in the system; you're just changing where the resources come from.

You could say that delegating work to "experts" means the work is done more efficiently so you save resources, and that's a step in the right direction towards automation, but not automation.

Note: I'm very interested in words and the contrast between what they mean and how people use them.




I'm not even sure it can be considered a "life hack"; it is literally a service provided by a company. At that point, is it really novel enough to call a hack?


When I buy goods and services, I am hacking my life ;)


Probably he just meant that it is in effect 'automated' for him for a cost.




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