# Where we do and don’t want automation | Derek Sivers

<https://sivers.org/autom>

- Host: [sivers.org](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/sivers.org/)
- Saved: October 10, 2019 (2019-10-10T19:48:42Z)
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## What Jamie wrote

I've experienced something similar to this concept specifically around automation on the personal level. Certain things shouldn't be automated because it creates an abstraction, that removes personality and emotion.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT121: Weekly Thing #121 / Oct 12, 2019](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/121/), Notable Links 📌

## Same host

- [Uncommon Sense - live @ WDS | Derek Sivers](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/5c8b29768d59/) (sivers.org, December 8, 2015)
- [Derek Sivers Interviews](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1dbbf3f80a87/) (sivers.org, March 27, 2016)
- [Why are you doing?](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/635281180f46/) (sivers.org, September 4, 2016)
- [Actions, not words, reveal our real values | Derek Sivers](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ff7955708f02/) (sivers.org, June 18, 2017)
- [Where to find the hours to make it happen | Derek Sivers](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/017084605ee4/) (sivers.org, October 3, 2019)

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## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://sivers.org/autom