Letting Go of Automation (Just This Once)

I took automation out of my invoicing system on purpose.

Not because automation is bad. Not because tools don’t work. But because my brain wasn’t working with them.

Time trackers, dashboards, auto-invoices — they all looked efficient. In practice, they added friction. More clicks. More decisions. More chances to forget.

Now I track billable time on paper and submit it by email.

It’s simple. It’s visible. And it actually gets done.

This is me working with my brain, not against it.

Productivity doesn’t have to be impressive. It just has to work. Sometimes fewer tools is the most supportive system of all.