I Only Do Anything Once

I was walking someone through my setup this morning and caught myself saying the same thing over and over, so I might as well write it down.I only do anything once. The goal is to never have to do repeat work. And I'm talking about not just in the system, but in life in general.Here's the example I keep coming back to. How many times have you had to look up something related to Ubiquiti stuff? When you look up stuff, you're always like, yeah, go look up this, or go look up that, and you think about, okay, what was it called? It was Firewall Pro, I think. It was Ubiquiti WiFi 7 AP or whatever.You already knew that. You knew it six months ago. You looked it up then too.That's the shape of the waste.Hard problems are memorable, and you only get them once anyway. So they're fine. The expensive thing is the small retrieval you have already done a dozen times and will do a dozen more, each one costing four minutes and a thin slice of attention, none of which you ever bill to anyone.So now I…