Having a funny convo with my Nurse/MBA wife. She ran a non-profit, took a break with kids, went back to school and became a nurse. Has (4?) degrees. Is doing a Secret Santa thing at work. I suggested Office Forms to feed into Excel, then a Mail Merge. She wanted them to just email her manually, but was willing to try this “new fangled tech.” Dozens of replies collected neatly in Excel, now we make make the Dear {FIRST}, template, and send. She’s insistent that “no one but programmers use (1/2)
office like this.” I was doing this in ‘95, but she’s not been an Office user since 2005. I’m sure most admins and MBAs do stuff like this all day but she’s convinced it’s “programmer bias.” I reminded her iPads didn’t exist 12 years ago and that lots of cool office innovation has happened in the last 10-20 years. Maybe we are both right? (2/2)
Normal people: spend a day doing something manually once
Developers: spend a few weeks automating something they do once
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@thomasfuchs @shanselman
And how long documenting it?
What’s documenting?
