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The Bane
15
"Recurring, slightly changing work is the bane of my existence."
THE SPREADSHEET.
A
B
C
D
E
845
[slightly different value]
846
[slightly different value]
847
[slightly different value]
848
[slightly different value]
849
[slightly different value]
My brain will not stop looking for the system underneath.
There isn't one.
It's just the next row.
And the next.
And the next.
There are 1,952 of them.
I calculated that manually reviewing them would take six months.
THE ANALOGY.
Hiring someone whose brain finds patterns in everything
and asking them to do work that has no pattern
is like hiring a chess grandmaster to play snap.
They will not be good at snap.
This is not a finding about their chess.
It's a finding about the work they were assigned.
Those are opposite things. That's rather the point.
Row 850.