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Pete and Repeat were walking across a bridge. Pete fell in. Who was left? Repeat. Pete and Repeat were walking across a bridge. Pete fell in. Who was left? Repeat. Pete and Repeat…
— Traditional joke from third grade
Endless repetition gets boring. If you find you are doing the same thing every day, you might consider automating it. I ran across an iPhone/iPad app called IFTTT, which stands for “If this, then that.” In a nutshell, it allows you to automate activities based on certain events. For example:
- Email me if it is going to rain today.
- Mail me the closing price of a stock.
- Send me a neat picture from NASA every morning.
- Email me yesterday’s airport delays.
- Send me my position on a leaderboard.
None of these items alone are earth-shattering, but the ability to reduce the effort to get access to information is worthwhile. The examples above were all individually-focused items and, although they may make life a little more interesting, they were not game-changers for me. If the effort to automate a task is sufficiently low, however, then then value of the task does not have to be phenomenal.
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May 15, 2017 at 04:09PM
from Paul T. Cottey
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