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One of the reasons it is cool to work in a startup is that you can often push your most tedious, ugliest, boringest, grottiest work up to your boss. Because all the actual working stiffs are high value IP workers, it does not make sense for them to, say, check the input data files. So on and so on up the ladder until the COO (me) ends up with a spreadsheet with 2,734 lines that need hand checking.

It’s the internet era equivalent of digging a ditch. With a chopstick. Not even a pair of chopsticks, just the one.

Before you send me an email and tell me to automate the process, let me assure you that I did not leave my IQ in the toilet bowl at New Years. These 2,734 lines are what is left AFTER I automated what could be automated. The problem is that determining “right” requires a Mark V1 Human Eyeball on each single line. Every. Single. Line.

Bummer.

I figure this is approximately 10 hours solid work, but I don’t have any project deadlines this week and everyone else does, so I’m probably the best person to do the work.

Posting may be light this week. And bitter.