… of making everything move more slowly, somehow, and also of obfuscating the sources of errors and inaccuracies.
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My experience with assistants in academic contexts is that they save you between 40-50% of the most tedious work, but then managing them and dealing with their production is a 20% cost; and moreover that their proliferation has the strange effect …
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Sounds like bureaucratic delegation at work, too....
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Administrators in business are the same. In sales, my job is to provide product that solves problems. Ideally the administrator can take the mundane paperwork away from me so that I become more effective. Instead I must give paperwork to her perfectly or she won't process it.
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I can relate. I realized that by the time I optimized the data for my assistant to parse, corrected his errors after he was done, etc. that I wasn't much better off than before. I fired him, and convinced my boss to give me a raise because I'm now doing the job of two people
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