What is the simplest form of automation?

The simplest form of automation is a checklist or playbook.

If there is something you need to do more than a couple times that involves multiple steps, a checklist is a great place to start.

Then we no longer have to dread doing a multi-step task because it is easy -- all we need to do is go through the documented steps.

Checklists are surprisingly effective at reducing friction and mistakes. Many of us do this personally for things like travelling as it is easy to forget something if we don't.

And the beautiful thing about checklists is they can easily be turned into more advanced forms of automation (scripts, continuous delivery, etc) because you have already thought through and debugged the process, which is often the hard part and where we get stuck.

Checklists can turn into scripts, which can turn into continuous delivery.

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