Eliminating Grunt Work One Automation at a Time
Ten minutes of learning and setting up new shortcuts can pay major dividends over the course of a project.
Automation and modern technologies are core tenets of the Racket ethos. Long story short: New tools can minimize or even eliminate some of the manual work involved in any project—including writing a full-length book.
You may have read that last sentence and been unimpressed. After all, doesn't every organization constantly try to up its game?
Sadly, and as I know from years of experience, many don't. Most relevant here, legacy publishers typically resist change. Employees tend to rely upon dated stalwarts to manage their writing projects, including:
- Attachments (along with the resulting confusion over which version of a file is current)
- Microsoft Excel instead of a proper project management tool
Well, it's no longer 1998.
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