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Not sure if serious or joking. You don't stand up every now and then to stretch your legs? You don't take a sip of coffee or tea or water periodically? You don't ever run out of ink or pens or paper and have to get new ones? You don't ever check your email or flip through math journals looking for interesting new papers being published? You don't ever turn on a computer or turn it off/put it to sleep? These are all r…
You forgot "breathing" and "peeing". Maybe a startup could solve these repetitive time wasters
If you were being sarcastic and intentionally telling me to stop being creative and thinking big-picture, please don't do that. I hate when HN just shuts down all creative thinking with sarcastic laughter.
I don't see breathing as a tedious repetitive task because it happens mostly automatically and can be done in parallel with other work quite easily. But I could be wrong and I suppose there's room for improvement there too. CO2 detectors and air quality monitors in meeting rooms - as a standard - would likely boost productivity and reduce other tedious work as employees will be able to breathe easier (with better knowledge about CO2 in the office, more efforts for improved ventilation would likely happen).