the instinct to try to automate or speed up menial tasks is like, a thing they don’t teach you in school (I only learned it when I joined the workforce and someone actually had an economic interest in me not wasting tons of time) and it is extremely useful
(I was just helping my friend who is a teacher enter things in a gradebook, which is a spreadsheet that she manually color codes by coloring every cell with a 3 green, every cell with a 2 yellow, etc. I taught her about conditional formatting and it was great and like, how many total human hours are wasted on things like this)