Most of your day is not your actual job.
It's moving information from one place to another.
Finding the file.
Fixing it so it opens correctly.
Copying the note into the other system.
Updating the tracker.
Doing all the small things that need to happen before you can do the real thing.
The real work? Maybe 30% of your day.
The other 70% is just keeping things running.
Every other big problem like this got solved the same way.
People built systems so humans stopped doing it by hand.
Roads so people stopped carrying goods on their backs.
Electricity so factories stopped using human muscle to run machines.
Shipping containers so cargo moved between ships and trucks without anyone repacking it by hand.
The system did the moving.
People did the work.
That never happened for office work.
Instead we got more apps.
Better apps.
Apps that still need a human to move information between them.
So the human became the system.
This is not a people problem.
It is not a talent problem.
It is not a deadline problem.
Nobody built the system yet.
That is the whole problem.

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