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Agreed. I spend time on it and am inefficient but it’s overall worth while taking into account the benefits. There are many critical or difficult things I wouldn’t automate myself but my goal is to reduce my requirements down to substitutable services where my counterparty doesn’t have a monopoly over me.

I’m a freelancer, and make my own documentation supported by invoices/receipts etc. As an employee, yeah, it doesn’t make sense to self-report when the government already has the information it needs. A lot of countries use withholding so only send a statement of what you’ve paid and somewhere to complain when it’s wrong, like you suggest.

I think some change is coming wrt technology. There seems to be more interest again in open source.

Certains de ces conseils peuvent paraitre insignifiants, mais je me rends compte que j’ai parfois besoin d’un petit retour à la realité. Surtout, faites vos bilans de santé!

While that’s often true, personal automation can be so freeing. It’s more like a hobby for me, but my life is much better having more agency over how things get done.

Email and media are two underrated examples of common, potentially mind-altering, timesucks but I do also automate my accounts and taxes, e.g. most transactions are automatically journalised and year end closing spits out the fields I need to file taxes.

It works for me because it’s highly personal. I love that I can nudge systems this way or that and the only agenda is one I choose explicitly.