Don't Kill Your Startup With 1,000 Trivial Tasks

So dude meets $100k/day entrepreneur which tells him what he does (to make that 100k).<p>At which dude says: No, you're doing it wrong here is what you should do: outsource all that menial work and do "meaningful" stuff.<p>Anybody ventures to guess how much the dude was making per day? That's what I would REALLY like to know.

While it seems reasonable to look at your per-hour rate when deciding whether to do a task yourself or farm it out, it's often not. The cost of farming out a small task is often orders of magnitude higher then completing it yourself. Plus you know it's getting done right.<p>Naturally once you have recurring tasks, it makes sense to consider outsourcing, but your average founder is earning zero so his premise is doubly flawed.

I think one of the core traits of a "hacker" is that she/he will naturally look for ways to automate/outsource tasks that are redundant, trivial or generally unenjoyable–often even before they become a roadblock to "scaling".<p>But I don't think you can expect <i>everyone</i> who runs a business to adopt this mindset.

Rather than a post showing that it makes sense to delegate verifiable &#38; menial tasks, I wish the author would have written "How to know you're big enough that your time should be spent on XYZ instead ABC." That's an art and not a science, but tips from people who make $100k/day would make a more useful article.

What if the person enjoys it the 'menial' and 'trivial' tasks? What if it's a way for them to stay connected with what their creation? I personally sometimes enjoy autonomous/repetitive actions once in a while just so my brain can zone out and/or to let my mind wamder.<p>The title can definitely be better – something along the line of min/maxing your time/profit, instead of 'killing' companies or 'trivial' tasks.