Automate the Boring Middle
Apply the boring middle pattern to separate human framing and review from automated execution.
Do not ask whether the whole task should be automated. Ask where the boring middle starts and ends. The Teach Task decomposition lets you split a knowledge-work flow into framing, transformation, checking, and judgment. The framing step is where a person defines intent: what question are we answering, what inputs count, what good output looks like. The middle is where the same operations repeat: pull, copy, classify, normalize, compare, format, notify. The ending is where a person reviews exceptions and owns the meaning. The frequency-times-time matrix usually finds the middle because repeated transformation work consumes time quietly. Lean standardization makes…
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